PRO I I . SSIO XS FOR WOMEN. 6 1 



It would seem, while there is so ranch to be done on this continent with 

 her railroads, oil-wells, mines, farms, and wheat-fields, her numerous in- 

 dustries and requirements, that no man need be poor. Our sons can find 

 something to do, something to turn a hand to. 



The teaching of home should be in this particular age of the world to 

 inculcate " plain living and high thinking " in our sons. That is what they 

 need to be great and good men, and useful citizens. 



PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN, 



IF the commercial distress which visited this country between the years of 

 1 ^7.S and 1879 had brought us no other benefit, amidst the vast deal of 

 suffering and ruin which occurred to a people who had been living too 

 fa-t, it did this immense good: it taught women that they could work 

 and could earn money. It has been no uncommon thing for the wife 

 and the sister to support the family during those dreadful years, now 

 happily past. 



Men are broken and discouraged when the ordinary business of their 

 lives fails them. They have not the versatility of women, they have not 

 woman's hope. It probably seemed to many a ruined father that there 

 was little hope in the accomplishments of his daughter. She could paint 

 a plaque very prettily, perhaps write tolerable poetry ; " but that would 

 not pay the butcher." The fact remains that it did pay the butcher. 

 One delicate woman during these dreadful years has supported seven 

 men seven discouraged, ruined, idle men, and she has done it very well 

 too. 



The Decorative Art Society could tell a very good story of woman'.* 

 work, and the sister societies lor the aid of women have a noble record on 

 their bonks. \Vood-carving, embroidery of a very high class, drawin-. 

 painting, music-teaching, authorship, engraving on wood and modelling, 

 are all now well and profitably done by women. To be reporters for 

 newspapers, law n-porters in the courts, and even lawyers and doctors are 



i-'d on. 



The traioing-sohoolB form I a new and beneficent field for 



cultivate!, COnscientiotll girl, who is willing to devote herself to the 

 M now do her \\-<>rk under a certain direction of 



law and authority, which give it dignity. To lie an artist, and a suc- 



13 a career whirl ing more and more to women. To 



paint, to illustrate books, to to the world with her brush 



