The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-02-28

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all-Ncw York Times.
crgs' The woman without Capital
The woman quoted In this column
yesterday has suggestions as well as
complaints 20 make aprop0s OF The
wage.carning women and the woman
who wishes she was a wage-earner. .
As the women who don't have to
work are not yet hanlshcd from tho
field. other ways Of relieving the con- .
gested condition Of the labor market
must be considered one remedy IS
the extension OF the profitable fields
OF activity wholly suitable to women
"Many suggestions says this WON
an. "glven to me from time to time as
TO new openings evince n singular
want OF common sense and practical
/ foresight. The other day l was urged
to recommend women to take up archi-
lecture as a paying profession But
apart from the difficulties and costly
nature of the training, rendering IT,
/ like medicine, impracticable for any
woman unproylded with an adequate
income for the first FIVE or six years
OF her career, surely architecture,
which involves the ascending Of scat
folds, the inspection OF drains, under
ground supports etc, is not particu-
larly fitted for women, so long as
skirts remain their traditional gar
ments.
mo such objection can be raised
to artistic dressmaking, which offers
wide and varied fields for the capa-
billtles Of clever women Of taste and
education There is scarcely a single
town, country district or suburb where
really expert woman would not be
welcomed and assured of a good liv-
ing within n couple Of years. The
wealthy woman who is clothed by an
expensive dressmaker getting her
models from Paris is we'll catered for
to-day: but the average woman with
good taste, willing to pay fair price
for her dresses, has no alternative to
the average tasteless, incompetent
! dressmaker, whose sole notion Of the
= are of dress is derived from the fash.
! ion plates, who knows nothing OF the
laws of line and color and fitness, and
l. cares nothing for individuality and
: that harmony between dress and wear
{ err which is the secret Of beautiful
dress. There are hundreds Of wOmeT
Of taste who detest the hard tailor
} made costume and would gladly anC
e gratefully see evolved a graceful, femi
u nine, yet serviceable workaday dress
- for SIS or 500 There is simply an I'm
mense continent here; but the artistic
- dressmaker must be a woman Of real
" artistic ideas and feelings, with al
u unerring eye for color and personality
- and she must be trained.
~ "Then, again, most Of the sugges
u lions for employment for women ne
70 cessitate too much capital. In min
- cases out OF ten the would-be wage
Garner has no capital at all, and, hay
~ ing no security, can get none. So a
g kinds of excellent little enterprise
have to be left aside by capable, II
2" liable women for want of few hui
- dred dollars 1t seems to me that
~ the organized charities can get thol
90 sands yearly for the purpose Of il
y yesti -ating the genuineness of case
81 of distress there ought to be a suf
40 cient number Of rich men and womel
or, indeed of women only who woul
NJ create loan fund and make it avail
% able, so far as it would go, for ente
- prises that seem likely to be success
" full. So much is done to-day for IL
~ industrial classes, so little, practice
1t" ly nothing, for the educated midd
class, which cannot easily avail itse
u, of the same advantages. Witho1
;. some capital the artistic dressmak
~ would have to compete with the fit
~ rate dressmaker working for 10
LII prices and able with a different stan
ard of life to live comfortably; al
iel she would have too many dlsadvaI
i ~ ages even to be a successful rivi
ny whereas, with a few hundreds +
ne rent and wages Of workgirls, she cou
Iu create her market and, am convince
eau make an excellent income."-Ne
York Commercials Advertiser
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