Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-19

| terms of such transactions and the
| media of exchange are legitimate mat :
ters of contract A rate law which at
tempts to prevent such contracts is In
tended to stop favortism and enforce
| equal opportunity for all in using a
| If the common carrier chooses to pur-
| chase the goods of the special class the
! particular provision of the law fails.
| altho no discrimination is necessarily
| practised.
WOMEN IN "GAiNFuL OCCUPATIONS"
| A magazine writer has dug out of
the United States census reports. the
| gainful occupations in VIII oh women
appear and the numbers engaged. 1t
| is a highly interesting exhibit. or
Ss5 "gainful occupations" only eight
lacked women workers. no women
serve as soldiers or in the navy as
| sailors or marines or in the municipal
fire departments In this country. tho
| 1t is noted that women are frequently
| enrolled in fire department in Swed"
en-. There are no women listed as
| street car drivers, as apprentices 10
roofers and skaters. None are helpers
| to brass workers or steam boiler max
ers, tho there are women brass workers
| and boilermakerS and in 1900 two mo-
| .orwomen on electrically driven cars.
| The total number of women engaged
In .gainful occupations" in 1909 was
5,s19s97 This was an enormous aa-
Na.,oe over the number Of women sim
.!a..y employed in 1890. II the same
.s.e of progress has been maintained
since 1900. there cannot be the slightest
leaut that at the present time there
are fully six million women at work IN
various trades and occupations IN the
United States of America.
What this means it is impos ,ibie &c
realize unless the total number CT wo-
men in the United States is taken into
consideration. In the year 1900 there
were some 2S,000,000 American wo-
men over ten years of atse. Many OF
these women were Of fourse mere chill
dren. Many Of them were so old as to
be boynd the working age. 1t is esti-
mated that in 1900 one out of every
five women was earning money.
Just about 100000 of Americas s.
800, 1000 .gainful" women in 1900 We're
engaged in what the census calls "agri-
cultural pursuits Among these 1,00o,-
600 women agriculturists, there We're
665,791 farm laborers and 307.7sS
farmers planters and overseers."
There were also 100 women lumber
men and raftsmen. and 11S women
wood choppers.
In the professions, women are ac7
cepted more as matter Of course than
they are in agricultural pursuits"
And among all the professions, that OF
teaching is the most thoroughly femin-
lied. 1t is not surprising, therefore, to
learn that in the United States in 1900
there were more than $4,000 teachers.
1t is decidedly surprising, however. to
wake up to the fact that there were
only GALS actresses. There We're 3,405
women clergymen in the United States
in 1900, and they We're actively en-
gagged in the religious life of many
different denominations.
Forty women were civil engineers,
thirty mechanical and electrical and
three mining engineers fourteen wo-
men veterinarians were in practice,
there were 1926 women librarians, o.
OS6 women saloon keepers and 440 wo-
men bartenders. 1t is gratifying to
know that it required more women to
catalog books than to mix and serve
drinks.
In 1900, besides the 100 women ar.
chitects, who come more properly UNI
der the professions" there We're $50
women builders and contractors in the
United States, 167 women masons, $40
women carpenters, As women plaster
ers. 1859 women painters, glaciers and
varnishers, 1876 women plumbers, 241
women paperhangers, and two women
skaters and roofers. A complete struct-
IRE in honor of the sex might be erect
ed by these Representatives of its
modern ingenuity. and activity.
The most notable advance made by,
women in the decade from 1890 to 1900
was in stenographers. In 1890 there
were 1920 stenographers and type
writer's. In 1900 there were S6,11S. This
was an increase of more than 800 per
cent.
The only occupation in which women
are going backward, compared with
men. are those in which they might be
expected to go forward - namely, sew
ing, tailoring and dresmaking. There
were fewer seamstresses, tailoresses.
and dressmakers in proportion to the
number of men in these occupations in
1900 than there were in 1880. Work
with the needle seems to be becoming
too feminine for women.
Last of the Bad Man
(Kansas City Times)
The "bad man" is making his last
stand in Indian Territory and is get
ting killed every day with the regular