The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-02-16

Women and men are not natural
enemies, they are not set over
against one another in opposing
camps. On the contrary, their inter-
ests meet and mingle, and such a
thing as conflict and antagonism based
on the score Of sex is supremely alb
surd.
Yet We constantly Hear the assertion
made that women should not enter
certain professional vocations, lest
their presence should crowd out men
who have secured the right of way,
and by tradition and training are es-
tablished in their callings. The same
objection has been urged times with
out number against women in busi-
ness, the feeling being that there is an
unfairness to men in, the ease and fa-
fcf}fty With which women slip i1eto po--
sitions. hitherto filed by their fathers
and brothers. "a T.
AS everybody knows, there are lines
of work peculiarly adapted to wom-
ans quick wit, quick sympathy and
mental culture. Very few men choose
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of-,Women turn to the education of the
young as their proper sphere. Our
public schools enlist an army of splen-
didly endowed and fully equipped
young women who fulfill every require
ment from the high. school to the kind
'ergarten, throughout all grades includ-
ing;not only the most difficult and alb
struse scientific and. Intellectual stud
les, but as we'll the domestic and man
ual training that are now insisted upon
as necessary. i.
Here and there: one finds a man or
two engaged, in special work and the
superintendent and principals are usu-
ally men, but this ,is not because wom-
en- have: crowded men out but be-
cause men have never monopolized
this avenue. They have not sought
nor cared for it. Very unfairly, when.
ever they do enter this particular
field, ithey ask and receive larger SAL
aries than women for precisely <hs
same work. Where woman thank
fully accepts from $500 to $1,000 a.
year for her services as principal of
Eas4 school, a man doing perhaps less
work receives from $500 to $1,000 as
an annual salary. It might perhaps
be thought, and it. may be partially
true, that the possibility of getting
good: work for less money here acts
as factor in the employment of
woman rather than of men, but the
truth is that the average man prefers
to put his talents to almost any other
use than that of teaching. He is not
sufficiently patient, sufficiently unset
ITO like this day by day task of guild
fish, and sufficiently fond of children
ing the next generation in the way it
should go. There is no reason to re-
gret the numerical superiority of
women as leaders in the schoolroom.
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Women certainly have not percepta-
bly, crowded men in the professions of
law and medicine, and a woman in the
pulpit is a novelty and so exceptional
that she is usually explained or ac-
counted for by some special pleading.
Thus far, the woman lawyer has not
appeared as counsel for great corpora
tions, nor does she reap the magnf1-
cent harvest of gold and fame accru-
ing to the successful lawyer of the
other sex. Admitted to the bar, in
many states, She generally confines her
practice within narrow limits and
often finds her peculiar work in sort
of. ethical and humanitarian lance
breaking for the poor and oppressed
who are defrauded i: Of their rights.
The woman lawyer has not as yet been
taken 80 seriously anywhere that she
is a compe to be feared or reck-
foneds with by brother lawyers. ! !" 3"
AS, for heEwoman doctor, It remains
to be seen what the next 20 years may:
show.in her case. She Is Hats present a
lfavorite In many towns and IN large
Icities she Is consulted on equal terms