The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-03-28
Career For Women

employed at home prefer to Worl
in stores, offices and factories. t.
doing domestic workP
Again the anwer usually made il
that women have distaste for do
Dssticity; that thsy are mad fol
careers; that they like the exotic
msut of working in crowd.
And again the answer is wrong
Women as a sex have no dislike to
domestic duty. The yearning for
a career when sifted down to the
bottom. would be found. 80 times
ont of 100, to be nothing but a
plain hsnkering after enough
money to buy a new dress.
The msjority of women would
far rather work at home than work
abroad if they could earn the same
money.
For women are not fools. Tney
know that the domestic woman,
however hard she tolls, has hours
when she can rest, hours when she
can sit down. hours when she can
slight her work without danger of
losing her job, that no business
woman has.
The real answer to the conuu
drum why almost 9 cry woman in
the land, old and young, married
and single, is frantic to get away
from home to work, is because men
make domestic work slave work.
NO PAY ENVELOPE.
The mother, the wife. the daugh-
ter, who cooks and sweeps, and
sews, ard mends. and patches. gets
nothing for her labor but her board
and clothes
There is no pay envelope for the
woman with the broom on Satur
day night.
Her work is the only work in
the world that has no market price,
and yet it is the labor above all
Others that is priceless.
It all the women who are cook
ing, and washing, and mending for
their families should lay down their
cook pots and brooms and needles
today, and walk out upon. a strike
the industries of the world would
be paralyzsd, because, at the bot
tom of what every man can do is
what soms woman does to make
him comfortable.
OF course men will urge-and
they have urged it since time i'm
msmorial-that when a woman
gets her board and clothes provid
cd for her by her husband, or her
father. she has received all that
was coming to her as the reward
of her labor, and more than she
could earn herself. for the women
who have made startling financial
successes are few and far be-
tween.
BOARD AND CLOTHES
Very likely, the woman could
earn no more than she gets in food
and rsiuent, but that is not the
point.
Precious few men in these dsye
have any money left from their
salaries after they have paid their
living expenses. yet there is prob
ably no man in the world so poor
spirited, with 80 little independ-
enoe of character. and 30 little am
bition that he would bind himself
to serve another man all the days
of his life for nothing but his
board and clothes, even if the other
man would board him at the st
Regis and clothe him at the most
fashionable failors.
Women feel exactly the same
way. They are willing to work,
they prefer domestic work, but
they want to receive actual cash in
their hand for their services.
Whenever men will face about
and revise their ideas about how
domestic service ought to be paid
they will see a wholesale emigrs
tion of their womankind to the
kitchen.
In my professional experience
nothing wrings my heart as do the
continual requests L have from
married women to help them to de-
something to make money.
They want to be told how to ge
into the newspapers, and the maga
zines, how to go on the stage, how