The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-02
WOMAN IN MANS FIELD.
COMING RAPIDLY TO THE FRONT
IN MANY PROFESSIONS.

Woman and the Ledser-Where Wo-
men Excei--Woman for the Home
/ Initiating the Lower Order Of crea-
tion.
| Women are coming to the front rap
IDLY as bookkeepers and accountants,
writes Victor Smith, in the New York
! Press In 1890 over $4,000 filed those
, responsible positions in commercial
houses of the United States, and in
| 1900 their number had increased to
nearly $4,000, or over 80 per cent.
| The number of men in the same bust
ness in 1890 was 131, 900, and in 1900
| it was 10000, an increase of only
about SO per cent. Bookkeepers re-
ceive salaries varying from 81 week
to $4,000 a year. Chartered accounts,
or certified public accountants, are
very handsomely compensated for
Strengthening out the books of involy-
ed corporations and commercial part
nerships. They have way of max
ing figures speak most eloquently on
whichever side of the fence they are
required to fall.
Woman in mans field is a study. Do
| you know that 100 women have been
found in this country who are expert
woodchoppers and make their living
with the ak? There are 100 lumber
women, as tough and stout as oxen.
There are $50 female carpenters and
joiners, 40 brick and stone masons,
so plasterers, 2 roofers and skaters
and, merciful Providence, $50 female
plumbers! There are other fields OF
heavy labor in which women are found
earning livelihoods. For instance,
there are 200 female blacksmiths,
Read on: 600 machinists, $500 iron
and steel workers, steam boilermak-
ers, 10 wheelwrights, lis coopers, 49,
900 book and shoe makers an repair
ers, 400 planning mill employees, $50 en-
,gineers and firewomen, 500 brick and
tile makers, LOO leather tanners and
curriers', 300 brewers and masters, So
distillers and rectifiers! Yet these
creatures are not unsexed.
In dressmaking there are $4,000
women. against 1000 men; but there
are more male than female hat and
cap makers. There are 100000 tall
ors, against 10000 tailoresses. There
are IA, 600 seamstresses and 5000
seamsters Bookbinders-women 49,
900, men $4,000. AS for teachers and
professors in colleges, women are
away ahead-328.000 against $4,000
men. AS musicians and teachers Oh
music women are also in excess-o3,-
900 to 10000. In laundry work-wo-
men $4,000, men, mostly Cinnamon,
$4,000. Servants and waiters-women
1885. 900, men 277,000. This is sur
prising. There are no female soldiers,
sailors or marines, but We have 900
petticoated watchwomen, policewomen
and firewomen.
Every man who is loyal to his moth
er and sisters is bound to believe
that women should be kept out OF the
shop and the factory. Then great
many men cannot be loyal, because
there are 100000 mothers, sisters.
wives and daughters engaged in the
United States in gainful occupations,
not only supporting themselves, but as
sisting in the support of their male
relatives Nearly 40 per cent. more
women are working this year at mems
labor than worked ten years ago;
i while the increase of male workers
is only a trife over rs per cent. At
this rate we are travelling rapidly
back to the days when all women were
slaves of toll and men were drones.
If woman's contact with the worka-
day world is not degrading, 1t surely
is not elevating.
To initiate the lower orders of Gre
alton is not advancing in civilization.
Among the wild beasts of the forest
and the birds of the air the male is
a grand seigneur in gross-that Is,
he is a lord without a manor, but en-
Toying superiority and services. He
is Of gorgeously marked skin or gay
plumage; while the poor little mate is
a plainly dressed domestic servant,
hardly fit to be seen in public. she
is a home body, a splendid iousekeep-
er and devoted wife and mother. Are
we getting ready to wear the fine
| clothes and put our women in bond
age?
In the professions women take high
rank, and statistics show that they
are encroaching, as elsewhere. There
are 1000 actresses, in round numbers;
over 1000 female architects, designers
and Daughters; 1900 artists and
teachers of art, 3,400 women preach
ers, 100 petticoated dentists, 400 cleo
tricians, "a surveyors and civil engl-
neers in skirts. over 1000 Portals,
1900 journalists who can't sharpen a
pencil, 5000 scientific and literary
feminine geniuses, 5000 doctresses,
5000 female Government officials. l.
900 female commercial travellers and
$4,000 women who sell merchandise at
retail and 300 at wholesale. There is
practically no industrial o. CONNER
cial field in which women have not
gained a secure footing. There are
over 300 bankers and brokers OF the