The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-14
Position of Women in Germany HAr.r I.

act as assistants The best position as
a teacher opened TO women is in the
gymnasia for girls; very few are &C
cupying this, but there are many in
the girls high schools; and iB private
schools, there are many lady principals
In the public high schools a man Is
always director under the state or
municipality and woman is appointed
by the state as assistant TO the di-
rector Many women have gone into
Journalism and others have become
sCulptOTs and public speakers There
is Wonan's Lecture bureau in Mann
HEINZ Women are engaged in horti-
culture In bookkeeping, as directors of
laundries, as confectioners- in pharma-
cies and in clothing establishments.
W men women have entered the profess
sions of medicine dentistry and phaT-
macy. they have had to pass the same
examinations as men. Business col
legeS have been established for the
training of women for commercial puT-
suits I'm many schools. girls are
taught book binding porcelain making
and weaving agriculture. bee culture,
bird breeding and dairy work There
are women who are travelling agents.
The founder Of the WOmeus movement
in Germany was Fraulein Louisa Otto
Peters. who was also the first woman
lecturer in that country Her first adj
dress was delivered in 1873: in the same
year. she took an active part i'm the
revolution. Her famous declaration
was that the women who work should
not be forgotten. Her real, great tffort
was the organization Of the German
W0meuS union in 1860. whose purpose
was to omen doors for women That
was the starting point OF the whole
womeu'S movement in Germany. The
union still exists and has its head
quarters in LeipSic. Next to FTaulein
otto Peters. the woman most loved
Lange. who was also a pioneer in the
cause of WOmen's advancement. She
is distinctively the admiration of the
conservatives and, in her estd bliShment
of the SymHasia for girls, she has
placed all German women under a debt
of gratitude
DR.. Alice SaIomon's Splendid Work.
Among the younger women of SPLEEN
did brain power and brilliant future is
Fraulein DR. Alice Solomon, who is
president of a union for social enter
pTises i'm Berlin Its object is to get
all the girls and women Of the working
classes to give part of their time to
social work They are sent to the
ity organizations to schools for the
blind and to working girls clubs. At
these places the number of helpers de-
sired is Earned The union eduCates
the younger women by sending them
out with the older ones. by course of
lectures on social questions and on
political economy. laws for the Door
and social pedagogy. The work is
done by those who offer their services
without remuneration As many as
500 women have volunteered under Dr.
Solomon and gave certain days out of
each week. They range in age from 16
UP. At one meeting during the Wo-
mems International congress held in
Berlin in 1904. there were over 1000
girls present Among the agriculturists
the women workers form relatively q
very large proportion. While labor de-
creases I'm this line among men, that
Of women Increases The men leave
their places on the farms to enter in
Industries in the towns and cities. and
these vacancies are filled by women.
A great part, too, Of the male pOpUla-
ton is absorbed by the army and their
places have TO be supplied by women.
Generally when an agricultural labOTer
leaves his home, he enters a factory
The lowest paid workers among the
Industrial class are the women: par
tiCularly in the textile establishments.
which furnishes the most favOra BILE
field for the sweating system The
reason why women are given smaller
wages than men is due TO their lack of
education. They constitute what IS
called the uuschOoIed class. they DO
the unskillPd labor. they have 10 class
feeling If a man belongs to a certain
trade. he has class pride. but this is
unknown 10 the woman There IS a
large tradeS-Uniou in the entire cOuu-
try OF women clerks. Of whom there are
man thousands in Germany most Of
them belong to the middle class.