Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-10-07
A Greed Of Work for Women.

Il believe that every woman needs
a skilled occupation, developed to the
degree of possible self-support.
She needs it commercially, for an
insurance against reverses.
She needs it socially, for a COM
pretending sympathy with the worlds
workers.
She needs it intellectually, for a
constructive habit of mind which
makes knowledge usable.
She needs it officially for courage
Gus Willingness to do her share of the
worlds work.
She needs it aesthetically, for an
understanding of harmonious relation
ships as determining factors in con-
duct and work.
/ believe that every young woman
should practice this skilled occupa-
ton up to the time of her marriage,
for gainful ends, with deliberate
aim to acquire therefrom the widest
possible professional and financial
experience.
] believe that every woman should
expect marriage to interrupt, for
some wears, the pursuit of any re-
gular gainful occupation; that she
should pre- ARRANGE with her husband,
some equitable division of the family
income, such as will ensure a genuine
partnership, rather than position of
dependence, ION either side); and that
she should focus her chief thought,
during the early youth of her children,
upon the science and art of wise
family life.
| believe that every woman should
hope to return in the second leisure
of middle age, to some application
of her early skilled occupation, =
either as an usalaried worker. in
some one of its social phases, or, if
income be an object, as salaried
worker in a phase of it, requiring
maturity and social experience | be-
lieve that this general policy of
economic service for American women
would yield generous by-products of
intelligence, responsibility and con-
tentment. = Laura Drake Gill in
American Magazine.
Granting that every woman. every
girl, needs a skilled occupation
developed to the degree of possible
self support, the real place to begin
the shaping of a career is in the
y,raDorafOyvy or bitrh school
Within the past few years much
has been done to assist girls in
choosing their fields of work. This
is big step in the right direction.
Not all girls are fitted to enter
puOlic or professional life, and the
field of home would make its appeal
to them if they were made to feel
its Importance and it's fascination.
The test of an education now is
recognized by the measure of ones
ability to do. Unskilled labor is as
poor as it is common, and is re-
spOnsible for most of the poverty and
ineficiency of our times. There are
other considerations however that
6lL6r mere. Inc uuIldn OOuy - al
engine (of flesh and blood to be sure)
but if it is only 333B per cent efficient,
we must look to the cause.
There are no students of this sub
iect who are more interested than
capitalists whose fortunes are being
built and added to, by these human
machines, their employees.
Miss Ida Tarbell, whose reports
on industrial conditions, are recogniz
ed as authoritative, says Tin Ocotber
American) 81 found often that in
terest in the comfort and safety of
men did not end at the shop door.
The intimate relation of life outside
the shop, to that within, was
recognized. | have had as hard
hearted Observation-Disclosures as Il
ever saw, tell me that if a mans
Iood is poor, his habits irregular,
his wife and child sick and neglected,
that man is a poor and unsafe work
man.
To correct the cause of his undoing
as far as possible, by giving him
decent home, by teaching his wife to
cook,-this is being recognized
as truly an industrial function as
putting guards on belts and wheels.
One of the most important ideas |
found employers experimenting with
was that the only cheap working man
is the well paid and well nourished