Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — A Place In the World for Every Woman. [ARTICLE]

A Place In the World for Every Woman.

Harper’s Bazar. The woman who complains that she has no place in the world has only to open her eyes, and in most instances she will readily see what is waiting for her. The fact that she does not like that particular field is no argument against its usefulness far her. Patience Strong, detained at home by an untoward accident when the long-wished-for European tour was about to become a reality, found opportunities by tho score for useful service. If ho home duties cgll, the sign is plain that in some broader field there is, in a happy sense of the word, a career to be sought. The cultivation of some talent may be destined to bring pleasure and profit. The student has a boundless field before him. To many a secluded one the Chautauqua reading courses have proved sources of untold, almost unending delight. IF the necessity of self support exists, there is a large place for the single woman. Good nurses, teachers, artists, musicians, writers, dressmakers, and workers in a dozen more lines of industry are always in demand. None but the inefficient or the unfaithful ordinarily need complain of lack of employment. With some there is great unwillingness to accept the place for which they have special fitness. The adept in the womanly art of needle work who, despising her talent, aspires to the rewards of an artist's skill, while lacking fitness for such a position, has reason to find herself without a position. Success is to be expected in the line of one’s abilities, not always in the line of one’s desires. Discontent because genius or great power has been deuied is simply an impious fault finding with the Creator's plan. If all women were great musicians, where the needle workers? If all excelled in ministering to the sick, where should we seek our works of art and tasteful decorations? Willing to be placed where one can accomplish most, always means happiness and contentment. The oft quoted apothegm, “There ir always room at the top,” is worthy of. the author of Proverbs. “Place oux dames” is the watch word of the century. The single woman, better than her married sister-because,or-dinarily. she has greater freedom is in a position to reap the advantages of the hour. Let her exult in her heritage, and not allow a complaint pass her lips, in this closing decade of the nineteenth century, that there is no place for her. ' * “I say, boy, stop that ox. ” “ I haven't got no stopper, sir. ” “ Well, bead him then, ” “ He’s already headed, sir. ” “Confound your impudence—tarn him. ” “ He’s right side out already, sir." “Speak to him, you rascal you." “Good morning, Mr. Ox. ”