The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-17


Women are TO be taken into account
as important factors in the labor mar
kets oG the world. Wherever there is
an important commercial industry, let
its nature be what It may. women are
employed in its production. its buying
and Its selling Women bind shoes,
stitch gloves. make corsets. stand be-
side the lcom day after day, in
cotton mills, woolen mills, silk mills
and paper mills, women make ar
titcial flowers and feathers. paper
boxes and safety pins. Women are
employed in tobacco factories, candy
factories. soap and perfume factories.
and, IN reality, very few things that we
eat. drink or wear have not passed un-
der the shaping hand OF the finishing
touch Of a woman.
The labors OF wage-earning women
are confined 10 no locality. Thousands
of women work in shops and factories
in Bombay and Calcutta, just as they
do In New England and the south and
the middle west. Everywhere around
the globe women work hard and long.
support families and take their share
In the worlds work Although there
are labor unions OF women, they ap-
pear to get on as a rule with fewer
strikes and less friction than their
brother-workmen
in some localities at morning and
evening. the streets are filled with
long PROFESSIONS of women, young and
old. going to and from their places OF
daily toll In the great department
stores saleswomen outnumber sales
men. They are equally as gifted In
selling goods as their fellow clerks oi
the other sex Notwithstanding the dis.
abilities OF the feminine organization
they lose little time and make no fuss
about the hardships incidental tc
standing behind a counter.
Women set type, read proof. e
about as reporters to gather news, ant
sell newspapers on the street II
a very few cases, women occupy i'm
portrait editorial positions, and in {
great number OF ccSea they fulfil ever,
possible requirement as sub-editor
or managers OF fashion departments
Women are prison inspectors and ma
irons at police stations. The traine,
nurse Is a familiar figure An army o
stenographers and typewriters finds IL
way into the great thoroughfares an,
brightens business Offices by It's cheer
ful presence every day. Il may al
most he said that woman's opportunit!
20 earn money Is limited only by he
ambition. her skin, her industry ant
her needs.
Young girls. It would seem, Nigh
find an appropriate avenue for wage
earning IN domestic service. but thi
field OF labor is still left 70 our foreigl
population. At one time the Irish mo
nopolized It, and they were followed b.
Germans, Danes, Norwegians AM
swedes. Al the moment the competi
tion has yeered from these toward tn
increasing number OF colored womel
who accept the kitchen as their sphere
and the constantly augmented imml
grafton from Russia and Poland
Wome1 OF Slavonic origin. for tn
most part ignorant and totally un
trained, are becoming recognizable
feature In the labor market as It al
fects our homes.
Il used 10 be said that women crowd
ed men out Of the ranks This nee
not much be feared. There still re
mains plenty Of work that women ar
not llkely TO undertake in very !arg
numbers The great railway syster
throughout the country employs me
as engineers. fremen, brakomen, pol
ters ana conductors; the motormen o
the electric cars and the more or les
civil conductors and guards are mel
Although house decoration enlists man
women, particularly in lines wher
brains are required. yet the actu'
building, the work that taxes muscle
: and back. legs and arms, Is done b
. men
Occasionally a woman financier ere
ates a ripple Of astonishment by he
audacity pluck and success BUT HI
{ great hnanciers of the modern worl
the great railway kings. and the man
= ayers GENERALLY OF big affairs, are mel
Broadly speaking women bring to N
labor market patience. dexterity quicl
ness ard perseverance, they have a
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