Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1875 — A Girl’s Chance in Nevada Territory. [ARTICLE]

A Girl’s Chance in Nevada Territory.

We have a very pretty letter from a lady in the Green Mountain State asking us to inform her what her chances would be in Virginia City to get a situation as a teacher, or, if possible, what encouragement an accomplished housekeeper would probably receive in this city; one who would come bringing the highest recommendations as a scholar and a lady. As we are frequently in receipt of such letters, we have concluded to answer this one through the Enterprise: Miss B.—Your note is under reply. We need not waste space in extolling the good taste of your letter. The fact of your writing to the Enterprise is sufficient evidence of a most sound discretion. Teachers here command from SIOO to S2OO per month in gold coin. Board costs about $35 per month, and lodging from sls to $75, according to the caprice of the lodger. Female domestics command from $35 to S4O per month, with board included, of course. Whether you could obtain a situation as teacher we cannot say. It would depend on many things. In the first place, our present'teachers are probably the best teachers in the world. - If you were to come you would have to wait for a vacancy; and then if you are not fine-looking you could not pass the examination of our Superintendent, who is a single man; and if you are very beautiful, the apprehension would be that you would get married before you learned- the names of your pupils. We do not think • a private school would succeed, except behind it was the capital to build tine structures and furnish them with the apparatus of the modern school-room. About getting employment in private families there is but one difficulty. The confidence of our families has been so often abused that they are demoralized, and have settled down to believe there is nothing reliable but a Chinaman, and he cannot be depended on about the time of the Chinese New Year. The difficulty lies in the fact that there are more of those brutes here called men than there are of those angels called women, and the men have away of coaxing which, generatly, in about four weeks, transforms an Eastern girl—who came here with the best of intentions to "work faithfully, lay up a great deal of money, and go back and support her mother —into a wife, with her time divided between presiding over her own home and hunting around town for a Chinaman to do her housework. If this last suggestion is of any interest to you, you may depend upon the miners living here, and may know in advance that any one of them has more reverence for and appreciation of a ■worthy woman than a thousand of the youths of Vermont, who, being brought up among so many women, never realize that they are really angels in disguise.— Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise.