El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-30
Girls Should Learn Trade
Then They Can Support Themselves
Il Necessary; If Not, They
80 Help Husbands.
NJ
BY Dorothy Dix

By Dorothy Dix--
II VERY girl in the world should be
taught some way by which she
can make an honest living, If it
DO~Omes necessary for her to earn her
! bread and butter. Even if a girl does
marry, that doesn't guarantee her
cakes ana ale, and pretty clothes for
I the balance OF her life. Husbands die
ana 4eaEe their wives without a penny,
and with a hOuseful of children to sup
/ port Men become invalids and their
wives have to take care of them in
: stead OF being taken care Of by them
1uSDanQS are often mere drunken loaf
ers, or no account spineless creatures
VINO were born too tired to work and
II IS case Of hustle or starye with
their wives.
Woman Forced to Turn Breadvyinner.
w hen woman is forced by circum-
stances TO become the breadwinner Of
a family the tragedy of ii is because
she has not been prepared for the
emergency. 1t is nothing less than
criminal for parents not to have their
girls taught some occupation that will
lit them to support themselves. This
applies to the rich and welltodO, as
Wei as the poor, but the practical dir
uculty IN the way OF doing this is
that IL is hard 10 get q girl TO take up
seriously the study of a business or a
trade that she doesn't intend 10 follow
al the time and the fact that most
girls OF the welltodO class DO marry.
The Salary OF Bank President.
To my mind the problem of teaching
q girl good trade and something that
she VIII nave use for every day of her
life, whether she marries or not and
yet by which she can support herself
II she ever needs to, is furnished by the
courses in domestic science that are
being taught to limited degree in the
public schools, and as a profession in
the colleges.
Here a girl may be taught to be an
expert cook Not So or So a week
ignorant, buugling Singer of pots and
pans, but a chef, an artist, who can
ask and get the salary of a bank presi-
dent.
The girl who has mastered the sci
ence OF cookery has fitted herself to
become wife who is q jewel above
price She knows how to preserve her
husbands stomach, and thereby render
MIN as mild as sucking lamb, in
stead OF making him as cross and
grumpy as a sOre-headed bear with
dyspepsia and If she is ever thrown
upon her own resources she has got
at her fingers ends the best trade in
the world Tor woman to follow If she
has a family to support. In any city
or town she can open a boarding house,
and not only make q living but a
fortune, if she knows how to keep it
right
But if a girl does not care to spec
1alize on cooking, let her take up dress
making or millinery. and master the
art OF one OF the OLueE or DOLn OF them
Whether she marries or not, she will
always have to have clothes, and her
ability to have beautiful ones depends
on her knowledge along this line.
What makes a wOman's hats and
gowns cost is not the material it's the
making. A clever woman can pick I'd
bargains here and there in lace and
silk and velvet and if she knows how
to put them together herself she can
have toilets Tor a few dollars that
would have cost her hundreds if she
had bought them Of a fashionable shop.
Woman Who Can Make Own Gowns.
In being able TO make her own gowns
and hats a woman has an art that
she can apply to her own pleasure and
adOrnment, and the saving Of her hus-
hang out her single as dressma ker or
time, to make money, she has only to
hang out her single as dressfaIer or
milliner and other women win do the
rest The poorest and the most in
competent dressmaEer makes a living
I urge all girls, when in doubt about
what to study to study cooking and
dressmal1lng and millinery. The
knowledge Of how to do the practical
things Of life is what people are will
ing to pay for in a practical age, and
what women need to know.