Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1885 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL SUNDAY JIOllNING, 31 ARCH 22 1S85.

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ntal3tca2M thattheae colnani ihall record T work la all theraricS telii et tuefalnesa, XtZztX eplnlon respecting worsen, aal roioe iht Ttm tad ttoujlita o! women. Ills hoped .that tlry C17 la wne xaearare enconrase rr..? trenjlnca woaea In yrery wortüj erort,aijr;"r lai fej the problem of leif-iuprort, pro tec tnml knowledge of forma of tmilnesa and Uw tirplre Iheta to attain to ttelr rünUul petition, ftl tanj toronja en:igntenea, derated '.womanj ttsd ennoble the borne, tbe race, the Nation. Wonaa't World1 !g wide. At wife, aa xaotbar, C3 Boae-maker. aa worker. s educator, aa pbllan txoplf t, aa comrade, as cltizeu. and aa a human;be tZZ woman U everywhere buiiJlai for bcrteli and Lcr feneration. From an acctiona of tnla wond, hxttt reporti of IndlTidaal an organized woii, cm Item Mhos zbu. uz-estlont and laqnlriea Are InTlted !-z tfcese con tens. A&ärtu ail isch coTamunica'lom to FtoeaNca M. Arlii. !&" Ein St., Indianapolis, la J. Mm. L. O. Uobinson, of this city has bea holding rrvirai cervices ia Caicago daring the psst wei. Dcrlr.;; tb past week a bill for the reor gtLlrationof the Kni?httown SoMiera' OrlLanV Ilome was ta-sed by botii branches cf tfce Indiana Legislature. One of the pro:aioc3 is that one of the three traetees siall beawori,an. This ia a wise measure and is In the interests of decency and humanity. The W. C T. U. ba? ben holding a series cf aucc?jirul nieetins at New Orleans, with .Miis Willatd, Mrs Latbrop. Mrs. Well and other Northern lthta,with Mrs ilerrick.Mrs. Chtf in and otfcera of the South. A grand reception was tendered Mi Willard on last Mot day, at the W. C. T. U. department in the exposition. ilies Scfan B. Anthony has ben holding woman uflragj meetings in New Orleans dniing the past week willed ware largely atterdfd and courteously reported. The Da'Jy States" publishes 'long intervi8W with M:ia Anthony who says ehe ha3 been talking for the cast two weeks with evary Petit hern woman the has met, acd every BsTjtheni barn woa&an ha? declared ia faror pf woman su" Miss Bertlia . Clauioa, formerly atenograiher, correspondent and notary pabiiu lor the Indianapolis Telethons Company, lsnow lecated at Cedar Il.tpids, Iowa. whre be has a geed position as assistant editor on the Railway Conductor's Monthly. The January number contains an excellent ketch or ttory from her pen entitled Conductor Bob." Mits Clauson has a work of unique character under way. Upon f htets of paper of suitable i!zs and quality ehe is making India ink iketches of rloweri from natura, one flower on a osee with a verse bsntath of from four to eight lines personifying the flower. The collection will cotisiat cf forty well-known and favorite flowers, and ths title pace will contain a boquet and a poetical diteertaticn on the floral kingdom. In addition to this flower eerie?, aha hai a ncabr of other roems illustrated wUh Ird:a Ink ik?tshings; the verses are all printed with ihe typi writer, and when the collection is complete, she will page it with a iagir.g me came, i ne'er it with the type wraer and bind it in antique svle. TLuj abe will have a bsok, composed, illcsttnted. printed, indexed, pagtd and b?and hy her own work, a happy posse-sion of vrhich few can boast. With talent supplemented by persistence aid indus ry, and a willingness "to labor and to wait," a brilliant future may be expected for our young townswoman. The Dakota woman suffrage bill was vetoed by Governor Pierce. lie feared ttat if the till besame the law it would delay the admission of the Territory, and he doubted wr. ett er a majority ot the women of Dakota wanted the franchise. Ha raised two objections to tfce provisions of the bill, which were tenable, one debarring women from the right to hold cilice and the other failiog to remove the word "male" from ths qualifications of electors as given in city charters, thereby leaving the disability a till standing against women in citlfs. March 1-, tha Wisconsin Senate papsed a bill to submit tha questfua of school suffrage for dornen 10 the pular vo!e in 18S7. and on the 17tb, defeated a municipal suffrage bill, j'aicb is, tte Aesembly onlered a joint woman snfTrnga amendment to the tJ:'e CVitEtitution to a third readine. March 13. the Connecticut Iluse atea a bill by a vote of i)2 0 'it to permit women tu Y3?e a school district meetings and to be e!c edon school toarde. On the 19, the fctHie rejected this bill by a vote of 12 to5. lu th iNi-w York Assembly, on 3 larch 19, woman sutTraga bill came up as the tpcc'al order and after debate waa ordered en.rtsud for a third reading. The Women who Writ?. Mrs. Fanny Hogon Burnett, the novelist has returned toWahington with restored health, and wdl soon finish a rewstory for tha press. Tha editorial work on Alien's Juvenil Gem is done by Mr?. Amelia. D. Alden, wife of Dr. Joseph Alden, formerly President cf the Normal School at Aloauy, N. Y. Mary Hillock Focte is at Bo-ae City, I. T., at work cn a new novel descriptive of Western Ufr. The text volume of the Eminent Womn terics will be devoted to Susannah Wesley. Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke writ's it. lira. Emily P.'eiCer has recovered eufS cientiy from the fauguea of her recent trip io this ccuntry to resume her nsual literary work, and has ccmoleted an article on Wo nan's Suffrage" f jr the Marci narnoer of tte Contemporary Review Wr. Kcceevelt Is collecting for publication information relativ to the life and wölk cf Guitave Dcre. The volume will contain over fifty illustration from unpublished pen and ink sketches by Dire, beside many other characteristic Illustrations sslesud from his published works. Mrs. Hepworth Dixon is writing a ihort biosraphy of the late Mr. Hepworth Dixon. Hits Edith Healy. daughter ot Mr. O. P. A. Ilealy, the well-known American artist, is about to publish a volume entitled "Painters of the Italian Renaissance." It is com pet ed of blrgraphical efcetciei of the great xsaaters of tee various Italian icaooli, from Cixcshue and Giotto down to Guido and Domenichino, together with brief descriptions of ttelr principal works. An introdnctorr chapter supplies a succinct account of Greek, Roman and medfr val art Mile. Gnillaumin, who ha just died, was cne of tha meat remarkable women in Paris. Fhe edited fort wenty six years La Revue des Ecorcmiatee. the most solid of French pericdicala. She could make the hardest of hard bargain?, entertained her staff men and wo-mm-onea av wk. and was chieSy remark able for her power of estimating the Tains ot a mancrrript IlrauAlicaLe Ploneeon wboae recent ar ticle in Barter's magazine upon "The New and Old in Yucatan" will be rexeaiberd, ia tow New Orleans. She has accompanied J er husband in all his travels, and Is a devoted and learned archaeologist. She is an Englishwoman, quite youDg. with a spintcal rather than a handsome face. Daring their journ7 in, Yucatan forests Mrj. Le Picngecn woie alwajs a bloomer ostume and tarried her n lie and revolver. She ia a dead shot and expert hunter and horsewoman, and can ccok quit as well as she can talk, write or make photogranhs. She is in dinner thy. modest, but with that ad antra tla and sdorabla telf-pcssesaioa without TrLica tha chirms of the mot charming trcrsxn imperilled. At tha time Dr. L rirrpccn and his wife. discovered the buried ctilzacf Chncnal,norr in tha musaum of tlo Clij ci llzzicoy their Indien gnrrd i ra-

toltcd being superstitions, and did not want tte atatne t ! removed from its hiding place. Mrs. 1x5 PJonKeou, with rlfic and reolvr. kept the Indians at bay cntil 'hslp cculd be summoned. Mis Ritchie (Miis Thsckeray) has writVn the article on Mrs. Browning for the new biographical dictionary. A very otMnal calender, an offering ct gratitude, prttented by Elizabeth Stuart Ptelra to a friend, has written in it short )fciioE8, admireblv chosen, on tine parchment paper, four inches by two. The leave, tajs ILe Beaton Commonwealth, were made in'o a tinj book, with Ruala-leather cover, width were fastened by binds of ribbon on a t.-.'ü n a 1 plush rat e .n tb top cf which burg a butch of tit) fii end's favorite lloaer. A f ix. Jar unique gift lien within the reach of any lady whose penmanship and needlework'aie pleating. Mr?. Custer, the widow of the gallant Genera , has written a book desrribim hf-r Hf era aivettuies oa the plains. It is called "Bcot and Saddle " Harper it Brothers will ptblitb it this month. Mi?s Rebtcca 8 Clark, known the world OTer by her peetdooymn o! "rfDpise Ma." mas brought Into notice by the lirra of Te ar.d Shepard Her first book was ' Ii'Io Frudy," of which Colonl Llieginson nid: 'Genius cornea in with RittIe Prudy.' Compared with her, all other book-children are cold creatures of literature only ; ehe alone is the real thin?, a'l toe quaintness of childhecd. its crigicality, its tenderness and its teifiicg, its inCnite utconscioaa drollery, the serious earnetneis of lis fun, the fun of its sericnanM?, the natural religion of its plays ard the delicious eddity of its prayers all thtte waited for dear Little Prudy to embody tfcem." This first volume was followed by otters in which "Little Prudy," ' Dorothy Dimple" and '"'Flaxie Frizzle" were charming creation?. Inspired by her remarkable sccctts in this line, the author ha3 written several volumes for older reader?, which have aho proved successful. A lovely Easter gift port-folio, entitled 4 Faste r Bell&" fcai been issued by White, StckeK it Allen, of New York. It contains teautif ul desigt s of eaily spring rioter?, true to nature in form and color, executed by Susie B. Skelding. The poem, by Helen Hunt Jsrkscn, is duplicated in type and in fsc timile cf ber manuscript. Mits Sutan Warner, anther Ot "The WiJe, Wide World" e.td "Jueechy," and nnmeroas othrr novels, died a fe- days ago, at tha are of (7. ILe pretty alliterative rs2udonvmn?, Grace Greenwood' and "Fanny Fern," wLl always remain associated together in the iniLd3 cf tte women who in girlhood were delighted with the writings of these two author. Tfcey came bfci9 the public at about the tame time, and their style had many pcints of resemblar ce. 4 i anny Fern" was mere vigorous, "Grace Greenwood" rrore blytha. Both were He apo-tle? of

heme, and honce atlccuocs, of chcerfulnes, futtbitc atd the Golden Rale. "Fanny Fein" has long ben numbered with the "leved and lost," but Grace Greenwood's' pen btill charms with new creations, and her Stoiica fcr Heme Folks. Young and Old," forces with the well-remembered piquancy, with touches of humor acd pathos and bits cf philosophy. It contain twenty-nine graceful, entertaining stories, beginning with "A Tree Story of President Lincoln." There are stories of travel, of famous people, cf personal reminiscence, and of five hoaeehold taints, married saints of toe ma3caline petder. It ia published in good tyle by that benefactor of impecunious book lovers. Jchn B. Alden, of New York, aud bold for fifty cents. Writ cn for the Sunday Sentinel. Sod In the Wieda. FY ELIXAEETH YATES RICHMOND, And if ;cd tendeth a song in the wind. On the lolemn winds in the hush of the night, Think, you It Is cot ours to tins, To give it a voice, and to echo aright? Whether It te liks the battle's boom. Or a Eong of the sunshine fre-"h and. clear, Oronlr the plaint of a broken heart That teeth a grave shroud everywhere. The great Kray eagle among the clif. Answers the thunders :n monotone?, But the wee brown lark 6klinining over the grtsa Caroleth joyously tune on tune. Life's surf are waves chafing alons the coast. And frighted with songs that no man sln0'?, With anthem and charms, waiting just Fora master hand to a weep the string, For a vain that should thrill through our Inmost lives, Fora strain that should ring through the deathless yeara. For suns that should live while the old earth throbs And palpitates with its hopes and fears! A Woman Kingdom. Eostou Traveler. I Among the colonial dependencies of Hoi land there is a remarkablo little State, which in its constitution and original customs of its inhabitants, surpasses the boldest dream9 of the advocates of women's rights. In the island of Java, between the cities of Batativia and Samaran, is the kingdom of Bantam, which, although tributary to Holland, ia an independent State. The sovereign is, indeed, a man, but all the rest cf the government belongs to the fair sex. Tbe king is entirely dependent upon his state council. The high ett anthcritits, military comccandera, and eoldkrs are. without exception, of the female tex. These amezocs tide in the mascuüne tyle, wearing sharp steel polnt3 inttsad cf epura. They carry a pointed lance, w hich they swing very gracefully, and also a ir.ttket, which Is discharged at fall gallop. Tte capital of this little state lies in the ms: picture.Mjue part of the island in a fiuitful plain, and is defended by two wellkept fortresses. A tu r Iran Women aa Uremlfvlniiers. IKead tj Miss Ada C. sweet, before the Chicago Woman's Club. The decline of physical strength and brute force in me government of the world aad the JutstMntion of intellectual and moral power in their stead, as moving forces, are prominent marks ot car civiiiziti:n. The iaege deptnds upon the might of his arm to defend himself from wild b?asts and to wrett from the closed hand of nature his subsi8tetce. Upen his strength alone he counts to protect his life and his scanty hoaid cl necessities hidden away in cav or wigwam from other tavacta as cruel, as icedyardas desperate a3 he is himself. Tne ftndal robber, the castled noble, the crowned kii g, were all made and defended by the haad of mail and the hand of might. Tbcy have had tha'r day. The relgu o violet ce and terror draws surely to a cloie. Cur poets and seers no more incite the worst pasiions of men, urging them on to bloodshed and pillage. 1'he foremost singer of our tongue calls to the swinging New Year's tell: Hin? out the thousand wars of old, IUug ia the thousand years of peace." The peculiarities of a man are sometimes unaccountable until the circumstances of his boyhood are taken into consideration. Civilization also bears some marks of its Infancy. To understand the preient one must take a thoughtful look: at the past. The history of woman bean in humiliation. She was a chattel, dependent npon her owner for all she had, for lifs itself. In return for protection she gave all her energies in one continuous round of hard asd menial Hbor. She had no rights that any oce was bound to respect, but her master's right wis respected, and through him alone couM the claim consMeratioa. From him the bad no defence. For herself she had no aa bition, and althougn her days were passed in dr edgery for her master, work f or any one but him or at the command of any one else sr. e was exempt irom, and such work was considered disgractial and degrading. S.'owly and painfully the relation of master and a'are has been raised to those of father and daughter, husband and wife. Yet we reccnlis ertn sow tome faint traces of

he old habit ofboodaee, to chanced, prlapr, esto require study, but revealing npon c'oe attention their origin. The marrlags ring is a survival of an M and t.i'larous custom; bet hallowed low by a thuosand fancies, sacred with the idea of endless love, its old import Is all forgotten. But the inherited ar.d trained disinclination to st ir.il ui n her own feet, protect, provide, and care for lielf. work for hertelf, out frara under the dominion or shelter of asterner power, is a survival of the nnüttejt, a legacy from the past, carried by the woman of tjday to her hindrance and d sadvantage. The world is changing fast, however, we are luled by ideas. "Tne pen ii migritier than the sword." The constant tendency is to t qcalize the chances of the weak, phytically, with those cf the strong; and woman with liberal education and useful work ithin her grasp, hol 's in her hands the forces that move the world. A little while andere will no longer beg protection aud sap pr rt. She will protect herself and be har on "v;sibl meats of support." Ore na on that what is called the"Woan ','aeaiicn" is to persistently misunderstood ib that worcn are looked upon too much, tudied, criticised, and advised too much, w ith reference solely to one or two of thsir rtlaticns cr duties In life. To regard woaieu aa wives and mothers only, taking for granted that all their interests asd emotions, .11 their hopes, fearp, aspirations, ambitions, struggles, triumphs, and defeats are connected with the:r interests in men as wives and mothers; to confine the observation to one phase of wom n's ex'stence.and conclude that it is ell cf that existence, Is to make sure the way fcr errors and misunderstandings. This r arrow, and often sentimental view is what makes some cf the moot chivalrous n.eri the rroat potent enemies to the real, practical well being of the mass of women. A recent writer raises some very partineut conjectures as to the fate of the novel hero's mother, after he has married the heroine, and is gone from home. She can not indulge forever in her former constant occapat'.oD, that cf sighing and weeping oyer her son's blockings and shirt buttons, for another ha3 contracted to undertake that tender duty. It is impracticable and unnecessary for her, after her ton's weeding, to steal into his rccm, after ha is asleep, and run the risk, nightly, of giving him an influenza, by her favorite practice of bedawing his pillow with he k&r?. What Indeed becomes of the fond and devoted EQyel hero'a mother, after the ringing cf the iLcvlttblS wedd; bells? The question ia et ßily answered". Boy, stockings and shirt buttons being properly cared for, the mother vanishes Into thin air, having no lorer any excuse for being. However real and true the life of the heroine may be, the mother leaves npon the reader the impression arrived at by Sairy Gamp about Mr?. Harris, that "there ntver wis eo sich person," The commoaEime, every d.iy Lot:on if, that men rule the

wcr'd, t o its wOrff, make its laws, and take pcod care of their wives and children as in duty bound tod. the wives and children being llieir most precious possessions. No attentive observer can Tail to see that such a theciy of life is false, but our whole social structure is built on tho assumption tint the men of the country will support its women. When ever a weman applies for work, avowedly for her bread, the first of all apologizes for the abatnee of a man to sunport her. No one who receives a largs number of applications for work cao fail to notice how much time is consumed ly the women applicant", in tedliDi: the pilif il story of the jo? of ia her, husband, or brother, upon hem they were all apparently jntent to defend as long as life remained in tits poor u:au. How dillerent ia a man's application ! He wants work, gives his experience and references, and is very respectfully jars. No apolcies frona hini' No regrets, no cooopiaints. He hs always, if an American, expcctdtnearn h e own living, and ss the world has always expected as much be would be ash raid Lot to do to; but the vtoaüan has never expected to work, and from under ihe shelter of her father's or husband's roof the world has never expected it of her, and in many cases she Is ashamed to do it. No hiDg short of a revolution could shake the iceas of the mass of women iu regard to woik, hut the revcluticn is being accomplished, with no explosion, no grand upheaval, but by the patient lacor of hundreds of thousands of women, quietly and firmly treading the read that leads to independence. Necei sity has taught her stern and wholeacme lesson in these latter years, to many a bungling and faint hearted pupil, and to some of tbi-mlet us look for a view of women, not a!one as wives and mothers, although many cf them are such but also aa bread winners for their families, as well as for n i mselve 8. Bifoie we give our attention to wage workers, there is a word to say of a class cf wemen the most useful in eociety, but who do not figure for iheir work in the pages of industrial ttatisiics. They are the hardest wo! king, most care-laden members cf every community. 1 refer to the homo makers ard home keepers of the country. In the United States there are, according to the last census, 8 0o" 812 dwellings, and 9 Ü4V1C families. It may te assumed that in every cne of ths s,iöö,81 2 dwellings there is a woman who has charge of its domestis arrangements and work, if she does. not herself perform the labor. The number of wemen employed as domestic servants, accordlLg to the 18S0 census, is ICS U10. The number of men so engsged is 130.745; total. 1,075, Gör; to that, allowing that in 1,075 G35 dwellings ot our country there is one servant for household work a ico liberal allowance there remain 70,157 women who do the work of their own hon?e. To do one's own l ov tework in the United States entails more work than such an undertaking in any Faropean com try. 'fhe American housewife who undertakes dornest' c werk must irate and bake tte bread, scrub, cook, wash aal iron for hertelf and family. She must be tbe nurse and constant companion of her children, the makes her own clothes, those of her children, prepares the bomenoid linen, ard often in country districts cuts, fits and tews her hustaud's garments. In older countries, where tfce divs on of libor has been perfected, tte houe wife ia relieved fro in the taking of bread, aud often froat our preai national institution of the Meek y wr. Here the housekeeper wio has no servant must roeet every task aing'e handed and alone, and if tneio is any day's work more hard, varied aad exhausting that f an Anerican farmer's wife, with no assistants, it is beyond ordinary experience. Thee 7,S0,157 Auuricu wonen, seven tweifihs of all of wnom are over eighteen yeais of age lead live of liar -t JaKr, and often rivation. They recsive no vages, Lut they pmdec ranch and make a large gartet the wealth of thecountry they ait tco often overlooked and forgotten. How ridiculous in the presence of tuis ttreat army, counted ty mlllioce. are the shallow and tilly remarks current everywhere on the frivolity and pleasure-loving idleness cf American women. Worten cf ajhiccab'e dltsipatioi ae to the rxas of women what tbe spray that rises above Niagara is to tin mighty body of water that pears its vast majestic current in ceae less might and pwer, unbroken and unfretted over the Horseshoe Fall. The rainbow gleam in the mfst may catch the eye fcr a moment, and delight tne fancy when the sun is shining, but the grandeur, the volume, the power and reality is below in ths roar and rush, the steady onward leap and swing of the unimaginable wealth and weight of waters! Forty years ago few American women went oat from their homes to earn tunr bread. The scanty necessaries demanded by the plain living then almost universal could ha obamed by ths uumarr'el daughters at their father's hearth stone. The spinning-wheel stood in every house and tbe loom for weaving "home span" was ever Duty. Tbe spinning, knitting and weaving of teat day kept busy thousands of hands, and the head ot tbe family easily exchanged the product of his daughters' industry for the needed commciditiei at the n euren, m r. IkeL The widow, left to the care cf herK, expected little, and that little she earned, CTiaMuhlcg bzrtelf in the family of some

relative, andiettitg dilieently to work at Ja m cr wheel. Occasionally a woman ttiht school in heroncr a neighboring d strict, and the few dollars thus earned werea welcome addition to the slender means of tte hcctehold. The introduction of machinery silenced tte family wheel and loom. It soon becan an ex ravsgance to spin, weave, or knit by band. The tewing machine put an end to tte bctinets of the family seamstress, w'nh her etdlcssdays over two folds of c'oth. Ttcusands of women kept on needleesly ipinnirg that was better than idleness, echcol-teacbing became tha great woman's Irdn.'tiy, end wcmn and girls began to Icok for werk in the f reat factories that tprurg up cn every t:'de. The pressure of necessity forced them frcm under the home rcof, but it was tlowly and with reluctance ttat they went. F.ven now many women live lives of dependence and privation, brckm in spirit and devoid of hope in the Louse of some grudging relative lather than take cp the burden, fach one, of her own lii'e, and ?o forth brayly into the world to earn bar own bread, It is because so many weiten have never known the delight of ir.t?epf ncence that tome cf them are willing to f ccept the conditions of life under the h:f sccrcful toleration shown them by thesa upen whom they depend. Tte wsr of Rebellion came. In four year3 2X0O.CCO men enlisted in the army ot tha North alone. Hundreds of thoßsands were withdrawn from tte f8rm, the forge and tha mill; the factories, f teres and counting rooms were draw upon. The farmer stood upon the field of battle and hi3 wife and daughters must needs till his fields cf corn. The country store had behind its counter the wife cf its oviner, who had marched away with hlsfellow-townamen. The blacksmith's wife found that she could, if she must, thee a horse, and tha daughters of business men found that they could keep books and act as clerks in their father's cfiicif, in place of the young men who were cairyirg the musket on unaccustomed ShCUJc't 13. The thettrps becan to give day performances so that women could enjoy the play unattended by men. Hotels aad railways rctdo i-rovisionp fcr respectable women traveling alcce. The churches began to look to their true supporters, hitherto unrecognized; the men were at ''the front" in tbe field, and the women came to the front at home. This wai the ecLooI in which American women learned what tnsy coold do. LTcrö thn half a million men were killed or disabled for work, and at the close of tha war when the cost in money came to be counted, and the pressure of hard times was felt in evtiy family, exc ept those of a few rich men, labor claimed its feminine bands by thousands and hundreds of thousands' and to-day re have in the United States an array cf worsen breadwinners greater than the whole army of lucn called up by the North to put down the Rebellion. Tte census of 1SSO gives the number of wemen and girls working at "gainful occupations"as 2 C 17,157. 5C4.UC0 of thee wemen are agricultural laborers, 529, 1 bcirg employed In the old slave Slates, working in cotton and rica fields, and on corn, tobacco, rice and cane plantation?. These agricultural laborers in the South are all colored women, and besides them there aie G2 colored women wcikicg incctten factories, sorghum miJlp, tobacco curing and manufacturing estab

lishments and in all stores, warehouses in the South where heavy manual labor id needed. To tte American a g'ance at these du3ky thcuEßcds tugeests many thousands and many a bard i rob!em. In te North there are 5CC women employed as agricultural laborers working In fields end gatdens at farming, beekeeping, dairy werk, fruit and berry raising.and vineyards and hopjards. There are 1CS,19 laundresses, and as before stated 938,910 domestic servants. The cotton, si. k and woolen mills employ 152,203 omen. Boot and shoe factories. 21.C07. Clerks, ra'ee-women and accoantantj in stores number Ü3 -31. Dressmakers aud milliners are given as numbering o81,02'3. Under tlis bead doubtkss many plain sewing worr en are counted. In a great many branches of manufacturing, women are employed in large numbers. Thousands work in establishments for making agricultural implements; in book binderies and in printing offices. Thousands work for carpet makers, cigar-makers, clock and watch-makers, confectioners, or?etmekere, glove-makers, harness and saddlemakers, geld and Eilver workers, hat and cap nakers, straw werkers, and restaurant keepers. There are 5 805 swirg machine operators, 8;i;0 shirt, cud end co lar makers. Wemen are acting according to the censu?, as "C3 stermen" ana "fishermen," a3 gun and lock smiths, as "canal boatmen;" a papvrbangers iron ani steel wcThcra and nrners. One woman, at least, is the active captain of a eteemtcat running on the Alississipoi River. In ceaily all factories the workwomen are paid "oy the I iece." This maaes ths earnings depend very much upon the vorker. In this country the large mills generally provide quite light and decently ventilated quarters for their employe?, but not enough attention is yet paid to the health and comfort of working bancs. However, with all the faults cf f.tops and factories, the condition of wrmcn Tho work in them is far better Uan that of those who take their work to their rooms to do. No class of people In our conntry ork for such small pay, ana uuceriuch disadvantages as the women in our cities who fake "piece work" home to do tin re. Bad as is the air, limited the space of a se wing shop where women are crowded trgeth r as close as possible, such a piece is cheerful, compared to the tarifn room, cold, untidy, with bed, ciokirg stove, or lamp, and all the debris of nurritd and careless housekeeping, scatteied about in confusion, in which the t6wing woman lives who takes her work ton e Tl e condition of c'y neeilevomea is a standing evil and shame. Tat terrible comt lair t iu the "song of ihe shirt" still sounds in cur ear?. The final to'.ution cf the cl i Hi -cnlty mu t b for won en to stop such work al!i.yfcib-r. Most of tbe sewing will be done by mach'cery, aüd manufactorars mnst nov de rciitn for workers on the necessary hat I work ot the garments they make, and ray the few women needed on such work a decent price. The women who are now Biarvirg in cur gatret?. working for rich n:tru(tcturers at 21 or 25 cents a day, one can but with should either starve at once or throw down the needle and 0 forth into the world to find the work ttat is waiting fcr them in the factory, ths kitchen, lh9 nurs ery or family sewiDg room, on ths farm or in Le gaidtn, or in many of the trades where even unskilled labor would be paid more than the starvation prices they have been accustomed to. Women are at work by thousands as bookkeener and accountants, and as operators in telegraph and telephone otikes. Worr en are- acting aa commercial trave'e;, and as bcok agents as commerc'al brokers, bankers, railway oßicials, and empley er?, bakers, manufacturer and cfhclatp r' manufacturing companies. There are 14 4f'." commercial dealers and traders, 12 21 '4 i.nnes. 12.C00 boarding house-keepers, and 2.1C0 htel keepers. Women are archi tccts. cteu.V.s, assay ers, dentists, designers, draughtsmen, engravers and inventors. .One thousand six hundred and fifteen are emphyerscf charitable Institution?, 23S are professional journalist?, G20 are authors, 2 CGI are artists nd teachers of ar -1,820 are actntses. a: d 13,182 are professional musicians and teachers of mHs:c -',104 are government clerks and 2,171 are oflkers of the government. There are 2.4."2 women physicians and anrzeens. reventr-tive lawyers, and 1G5 ministers of rellgioD, 21G stockraiters, and 56 09 free and ladependeat farmers and planters. There are 151,375 women teachers. 8 000 more women being engaged in teaching than men. It is useless to continue the catalogue of trad?, manufactures. Industries and profession in which women are finding a meant

of livelihcod. Tha gates are wide opin, and any woik that any individual woman think hertelf capable cf, she ia at liberty to try and prove a successor a failure at it, even as men are trying themselves continually, and tbes prov ng iheir p:wers or limitations. This great change in tbe outlook aud opportunities of women has not been accomplished without great difLculty. The young wtrxtn who goes out into the world to earn ter Ibicg cow, tree's few of the trials and discouragements that hindered every step of the weruan cn a similar errand intimes within tte men ory of many people living, ard net yt o d. The women bo Srst went to work in ths United Slates trefsury department as clerks, wilked cery noiniug and afternoon through a crowd of gering loungers, who collected st the door of the tieasury building to see them coaie and go to and from tteir v ork. In Besten when women wero first introduced into printing c ilices as type setter?, tte printers formed an association, of which one of the Jtihs wss that to member should work in any establisbment where women weie employed. From the nri;:, men aseried their ovn saI er.ciity to evf ry possible or impossible won an, t y decreeiEg thatshe honld be paid when her Mork wts tolerated at all, at half, cr & little more than half the wages received by the n ore fortunate members of the most tih and worshipful ruling sex, and to this day wcrxen are working under the disadvantages of small and unjust wages, in all departments of industry, fioru sewing shoes to teaching scho 1, the oiily exceptions to the rule beii g in cat s vbere fro.u tne nature and charnv ter of 1 er werk a womaa is occasionally able ib fix h r own corupenfation, or where tome weman ho'cs a place originally inUi.dtd for a n an, and where the compensa tion is lixed by law, and so can not be lowered during the woman's incumbency. A witty artist Las said that talent can i aint a picture, but geniu3 alone can sell it für what it is vorih. WTe may say that all women can work, but i takes a woman of trat tc indent genius to d aw her rightful pay. Sympathy is precious. The woman who taSts her plscs in the ranks of breadwinners rxay expect kiüdness and consideration, and she will j are ly be disappointed. Bat justice? Ahl that is a different matter. The g;eatest need of our country is ths trained, intelligcntlabor of men and women. Skilled later is in demand in every department cf life, from the kitchen to tue chemist's lato: atory, trcm the kindergarten school to the President's Cabinet. There are thousands of unskilled hands Ard untrained mind?, so many that a really competent man cr woman is of great value in any rlce he or the 13 fitted for. No time ccr opportunity should ba lest for saying to yourg women, as well as yonn? men, learn icrxe one thing to do, and to do it well, ilake yourself iudiaper.sable somewhere, and just, or at least reasonably fair cempensatitn, is sure to be yours. The pecuniary independence of women, however moderate might be their carniog.if eesuredtoall would help to settle some of the very gravest problems of sccial life. A.t preEsnt, every year is adding thousands to the ranks of working women. "The clinging ir6"isfelt tobe not exactly an apt conij amen when an American woman ia in question, and tbe future but it Is needless to piophesy. We stall tee tte new forms of life nd of experience when tbey are forc?d upen cur tight. May thev be graciou?,sweet 8Ld pentl. as should be the itroig. helpiui, and biave! UOUSEIIOI.O HINTS.

Ten ten peEny nails dipped in gold varnish are boutd together by a crimson ribbon Ld n ake an citistic paper weight. When the burners of lamps become clogsed wr.h char put them in aetioag soft-soap sees, tnd to 1 awhile to clean them. Boiled starch can te muc h improved hy the tdditicn of a little sperm or a litt'e calc, or both, r a little dissolved gumar&bic. A little borax put in the water in which scarlet napkins and red-bordeied towels are to be washed will prevent them from fading. Fainting the lower panes of windows in oil colors is an amusement just now fashionable with English girls who are "artistic." Fut five drops of chloroform on a little cctton cr wool in the bowl of a clay pipe, then blow the vapor through the stem into an aching ear and instant relief will bo affcideo1. Bug-t Eitting has superseded stcckingkijitUEg wun midd.'e class Kcglisn old ladt 8 of industrious habit?. The rues are of do j articular detign and are called Oriental. Crpetp, after ttodust has been beaten out, rx ay be I Tightened by scatterirg upon them coru meal mixed with salt, and then sweeping it oft; mix salt and meal in equal projizier 5. Pictures hung on the wall look well with a piece ot Indian siik carelessly draped ofer tbe top ard hanging down at one side. Some people are brineing out their oldfashuned silver case baskets, and filling them with flowers and ferns, and silver decanter stands as flcwer-pot stands. Wien roasting a chicken or small fowl there is daneer of the legs browning or becoming too hard tobe eaten. To avoid this take strips of cloth, dip them into a little nit-Jted lard, or even just rub them over wita lard, sr.d wind them around the legs. Remote tr em iu time to hllow the les to trcwL deli:a clv. FASHION AS IT FLIES. The fashionable bows of velvet ribbonfor trim mi rg are made in two ways: Ch first is of ribbon two inches wide folded double at d in several erect loops, with three or four ends sharply indented; the second requires two tows, each made of ribbon only an inch wide, witn a long icop and forked end on each tide, tightly strapped together. The front hair ii etiil arranged in light curls cr wave?, in tbe style most becoming lo the fsce, tte prevailing style being Unify curls on the forehead, extending about three inches to meet the tact: hair. Combs and pits n ade cf shell, crsilter and gilt, studded with Phine atones, in endlefs variety, will be used i s ornaments iu hair dtessicg. West useful skirts for Epring wear and for traveling are made of plalu grey, or black sattceD. The black are particularly cod for wear with black 6llk and wool dresses, and are pleasant wear in summer with grenadines. A f-retty way of making them is with hem ard tucks in fron: and at the foot, knife kiltirgs at tbe bsck. the upper part pain; as the material lies fiat, and thoxd ba worn with a roti'ied skirt underneath. A pretty dress fcr a yourg girl is of blue cssbmere. The polonase is die s:ed with a few folds over the hip3, showing a golden brown elvet band oa the bottom of the underskirt The lower end o! tho bodice is cor cea'ed beneath a broad scarf cf mitre ribbon of the same shade as th velvet fss'ened at the tack with two long bows and ends. Tbe V shaped front opens over a plaited silk chemisette fastened round the threat with a band of velvet. Yellow, in any number of tints, ranging from primrose to citron ysilow, with a tine of green in it, will be included during this and tte coming season among the list ot colors popular in dress fabrics, bonnet trirnmirg?, gloves of both silk and kid, and in house adornines. r Daffodil yellow, in silk or summer satin, will be a favorite in tbe formation cf prince te slips under-dresses of black lace and net, TiDT sachets cf orris root and viole. powder, if aid among the articles of dress ia the wardrote, and inside the muff or wrap when cot in use. are far more agreeable than any eudden shower or dash ot the extract used fcr tbe time being. Bunches of natural violets, after they have become a little faded, if left to dry for a little time, and are then placed in the wardrobe, impart a faint bat delicious odor of the flower for a lone time after tbe blossoms themselves are scentless and dead.

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