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iff I r'' ' .-y-- rrp, , -T IV. J. YATES, Editor and Pbopbietoe. Terms of Subscription $2. 00, b advance. , . f. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1878. TWENTY-sttra vouraErimBkinmi. I I ;:,;;; : the ;"..r. -i Charlotte Democrat, . PUBLISHED BT - ' ' WILLIAM J. YATES,' Editor and Proprietor o ' Tebms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar arid Twenty-fire Cents for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Advertisements -will be inserted1 at reasonable rates, or in accordance with contract. . Obituary notices of over five lines in length wll we charged for at advertising rates. LAW-SCHOOL. "We purpose opening a Law School in the city of Greensboro on the cm Monday m Aiarcn next.. . Our object will, be, to prepare. young men to prac tice law ip the State and federal Courts. ' , Our terms will be the same as those of the late Thief .Tnatice Pearson, and we will endeavor to nursne his olan of instruction. ; ' ' i . We think this city is well suited for our purpose, as it is healthful and easily accessible, and a place where Courts are frequently held. u Boaid can be obtained, at very reasonable rates. ' JOHN H. DILLARD. . ' ROBERT P. DICK. Feb. 8, 1878.. : tf DrJOHN-H-McADENr Wlioldsalo and Betail JJruggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, ! ftas on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE 'DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Family Kn.i;:, Pamta Oils Vm ishes ' . Dve Stuffs. . b-rtipv anrl Toilet Articles, which he i9 determined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1875. J. P. McCombs, M. D., Offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both Tiio-ht a.nf dav. Tromttlv attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the i Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 18, 1878. .. : ; DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. IS, 1878. i ' Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. ALLEN, Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street,"! Charlotte, N. C, PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER, Repairing of Jewelry, Watches and Clocks done at short notice and moderate prices. April 17, 1876. y R. BT. MILLER & SONS, Commission' Merchants, and 1 WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Provisions and Groceries, College Street, Chael ottb , N. C . Flour, Bacon, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Molasses, and In fact, all kind of Groceries in large quantities always on hand for the Wholesale trade. Jan.l 1875. j. Mclaughlin, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, &c, CottEos Street, Chaelotte, K. C, Bells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. ,D.VM. RI G L E R Charlotte, N.Vc. Dealer in Confectioneries, Fruits, Canned Goods, -Crackers, Bread, Cakes, Pickles, &c. JSf Cakes baked to order at short notice. Jan. 1, 1877. ; ; , B. N. SMITH, Dealer in Groceries and Family Provisions of all sorts, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Consignments of Produce solicited, and prompt returns made. Families can find anything at my Store in the Grocery line to eat, including fresh meats. Jan. 1, 1877. E. S. BURAVELL. 1878. E. B. SPRINGS BURWELL & SPRINGS, Grocers and Commission Merchants, Charlotte, :N. C. Jan. 4, 1878. LEWIN Wv BAR RINGER, (Son of the late lion. D. M. Barringer of :N. C.,) Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 436 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prompt attention to all legal business. Best references giren as to legal and financial responsi bility. Commissioner for North Carolina. References. Chief Justice W. N. H. Smith; Raleigh Natieual Bank ; 1st National Bank, Char lotte; Merchants and Farmers National Bank. March 15, 187H - , ly-pd DR. RICHARD H. L"! is, Raleigh, N. c. (Late Professor of Disease of tho Eye and Ear in theiSarannahiMt-dical College,) Practice Limited to the EYE and EAR, Refers to the State Medical Society and to the Georgia Medical Society. Oct. i Central Hotel BARBER SHOP. GRAY T00LEr, Proprietor, keeps the best Workmen employed, 'and guarantees pleasure and atisf action to customers. - Shop immediately in tear of Hotel office. : June 8, 1877. Miller and -Driver Kepudiated in Connecticut. According to a new law in Connecticut, divorces can henceforth be granted by reason of adultery, fraudulent contract, wilful desertion' for three years seven years' absence and not heard from, habitual intemperance, intolerable cruelty and imprisonment for infamous crime in the State prison. Lands for Sale, Rent, fcc. . Mortgase Sale. , By virtue of a mortgage made by Wm. R. Sears and wife Eliza J., Registered in Book No. 7, page 316. for certain pui poses therein mentioned, 1 will sell at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Mon day the 8th day of April, 1878, a portion of the Tract of Land on which said Sears now resides, containing five acres more or less, on which is a small Dwelling, and out-houses and a Grape Vine yard, adjoining the lands of W. P. Phifer and Dr, M. M. Orr. Terms, Cash. ' v : , ROBERT GIBBON, ; March 22, 1878. , 3w. . Mortgagee, t,,, - A RE-SALE Of Lot No. 3 (129 Acres) of the Jno. P. Patterson LANDS, near Davidson College, will take place at the Court House in Charlotte, on Wednesday, the 10th of April. Terms Cash and balance on 6 and 12 months credit, with interest, and title reserved until full payment. H. P. HELPER, ' RUFUS BARRINGER, March 8, 1878 5w Commissioners 1878. HARDWARE. 1878. KYLE & HAMMOND, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Hardware, Cutlery, Nails, Iron, Steel, . BUGGY AND CARRIAGE MATERIAL. A large and well selected stock of first-class Goods and the lowest prices will tell. The steady increase of our business is positive proof of this assertion, and after thanking our customers for their liberal patronage during the past year, we would say to all, Merchant, Farmer, Mechanic, That we are determined to sustain our reputation for low prices and fair dealing, and to keep the best Stock of Hardware in the State. Don t fail to call on us. KYLE & HAMMOND. Jan. 4, 1878. FRESH GARDEN SEED. We have just received a full supply of Fresh Garden Seed, which we are offering at both Whole sale and Retail prices. WILSON & BURWELL, Jan. 25, 1878. Druggists. Garden Seed. A full assortment of Buist's Genuine Garden Seed, just received. We warrant all seed to be fresh and genuine from the crop of 1877, at J. 11. JVicAJJJUN'a Drug Store. Feb. 15, 1878. The Rising Sun's Attractions. The Earth hdd in its orbit by the attractive powers of the SUIt, And bathed in the light of its controlling Lumin ary, sweeps onward and upward in its swift career, until it comes back to the point where C. S. HOL TON, has laid in a. fresh lot of Fruits, comprising in part Bananas, Oranges, Apples, Canned Peaches, Pears, Pineapples, Blackberries, &c. Also, a lot of Canned Vegetables, Fresh Candy, Cakes, Pies and Light Bread, Coffee, Teas and Spices. Soda and every other variety of Crackers. Toys for all sized children, without regard to sex. All kinds of GKOCERIES to meet all demands of the general housekeeper, put down to equalize the coming remonetized bilver Dollar, a bright luminary of "Ye Olden Time." Feb. 15, 1878. C. S. HOLTON. E. G. ROGERS, FURNITURE DEALER, Next door to the Post Office, CHARLOTTE, N. C. I have opened a full stock of FURNITURE, comprising all grades, Common, Medium and Fine, Iu the building next door to the Post Office. This stock is entirely new, and bought at bottom pi ices, rwui sen low, and all goods will be round as represented. Special care will be taken in packing in connec tion with the Furniture Business. Charlotte, N. C, Dec. 14, 1877. Family Provisions Of all sorts Sweet Yam Potatoes, Eggs, Dried Fruit, Fish, &c. at low cash rates. Saur Kraut a nice article. March 8, 1878. B. N. SMITH. NEW BUGGIES. At my Shop in the rear of Wadsworth's Stables, 1 have a few nice new Buggies for sale at low rates. I also make and repair Wagons, Buggies, Car riages, &c.,- and do all sorts of work in my line. Give me a call. W. S. WEARN, In rear of Wadsworth's Livery Stables. Aug. 31, 1877. . Cigars. 10,000 Cigars, selected for the retail trade, just received by WILSON & BURWELL. Feb. 22. 1878. To the Wholesale Trade. We desire to announcenhat our large Spring pur chase of DRY GOODS is now open for your in spection. We have purchased a large Stock and will offer greater inducements to the trade than ever before. Having an experienced resident buyer in the market, our facilities for offering bargains are unsurpassed by any firm in the State. Give us a call, or send us your orders, and we promise satisfaction. ELIAS & COHEN. March 22, 1878. i County Surveyor. Having been appointed County Surveyor, I beg to announce that I am prepared to execute work in any part of the county. I can generally be found about one mile from Charlotte on. the Providence road, or parties can leave any message with Wm. Maxwell at the Court aouse. v - - ' A. SHORTER CALDWELL. March 15, 1878 lm Land Grants to Corporations by the United States. " 1862. Union Pacific Railroad, 12,000,000 acres. ' Central Pacific Railroad, (Union Branch,) 245,000 acres. ' 1864. Kansas Pacific, 6,000,000 acres. 1869. Denver Pacific, 1,000,000 acres. 1 862. Central Pacific Railroad, 8,000,000 acres. Central Pacific, consolidation with West Pacific, 1,100,000 acres. 1 1864. Burlington and Missouri Railroad, 2,241,000 acres. Sioux City Pacific Rail road, 45,000 acres. Northern Pacific Rail road, 47,000,000 acres. 1866. Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad, 100,000 acres. Oregon Branch Central Pacific, 3,000,000 acres. Oregon and California Railroad, 3,500,000 acres. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, 40,000,dd0 acres. Southern Pacific Railroad, 3,750,000 acres. . 1871. Southern Pacific Railroad, to point on the Texas Pacific Railroad, 3,000,- 000 acres. 1867. Stockton and Copperopolis Rail road, 100,000 acres. 1870. Oregon Central, 300,000 acres. 1871. Texas Pacific, 17,000,000 acres, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad, 1,600,000 acres. A Billion Dissected. Mr Henry Bessemer, under the heading "A Billion Dissected," tries to convey to the ordinary mind some idea what a billion "a modest 1, followed by twelve cyphers" really is. He does this by means ot lllus trations drawn from familiar obiects of thought and sight. The result is such as will surprise many. Attention is thus call ed to a billion, as a measure of time, dis tance, and weight. When we speak, for example, of a billion of seconds, we, per haps, suppose that since the commencement of our era, such a number has long since been measured out. Arithmetic shows ue, however, that "we have not even passed one-sixteenth ot that number in all these long, eventful years, for it takes just 31,687 years, 17 days, 22 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds to constitute a billion seconds." ExchanQe. President Lincoln, in one of his annual messages, made the mistake of using the word "billions" when speaking of the na tional debt. Losses at Sea. There have been fifty six Atlantic steamers lost during the past thirty-seven years, in which 4,430 perished. Nine vessels were never heard from after leaving port, four were burned, thirty wrecked, five lost through collision with other vessels and two by collision with ice bergs, two foundered, and two were lost in fog. Of nationalities, forty-two were Brit ish, five American, four French, four Ger man, one Belgian. E3f A good name is best won by good deeds. There is no surer way of being well thought of as by deserving well. "You have a little world around you," wrote Daniel Webster to an early friend ; fill it with good deeds, and you will fill it with your own glory." FOR SALE. Two Burkshire Boars, 3 months old, inferior to none, price $ 15 each. Burkshire figs, b weeks old, $10 eacn. Also, a few South-Down Buck Lambs, well grown, out or imported stock, and ine naraiest Sheep for this country, f 10 each. Apply to J. S. DAVIUSUIN, March 29, 1878 lm Hopewell, N. C. Spring Calicoes, Of new styles, just received and on exhibition and for sale by 13AKKlJNtiJi:U & TKUTTJfiK. March 29, 1878. SPRING GOODS. I have received complete lines of Spring Goods. The latest novelties in Millinery and Dress Goods, CLOTHING, Most elegant assortment ever offered m Charlotte. S. WITTKOWSKY. March 29, 1878. COTTON YARN. fef) BUNCHES COTTON YARN from Glen roy Mills, N. C, manufactured from seed Cotton by E. C. Grier & Son, for sale by j. Mclaughlin & co. March 29, 1878. DR. T. C. SMITH, Offers all goods in the Drug line at bottom prices to Cash customers. March 29, 1878. FLOWERS! FLOWERS!! For One Dollar I will sell one dozen of any of the following plants. (If sent by Express enough plants will be put in extra to cover Expressage) : Abut lion, Achiranthus, Begonias, Coleus, Can n as, Dusty Millers, Dahlias, Fuchsias, Geraniums (fish) Uak, Nutmeg, Hose and other sweet scented Gera niums; lian tanas, Lemon V erbenas. .Pelargoniums, Wax Plant and others. All orders accompanied with the Cash promptly attended to. No charge for box or packing. HENRY LANYON, March 29, 1878 7wpd Florist, Danville, Va. Aladden Security Oil And Denslow & Burhe's Premium Safety Oil both warranted to stand a test of 150 degrees. For sale in any quantity by WILSON & BURWELL, March 29, 1878. Druggists. Send Your Orders For Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Toilet arti cles to DR T. C. SMITH, Charlotte, N. C. The Prettiest Lamps and the choicest Flavoring Extracts are found at DR. T. C. SMITH'S Drug Store, opposite Central HoteL Silver Dollars Taken in exchange for goods and in payment of accounts at March 29, 1878. DR. T. C. SMITH'S Drug House. , ? Results of jBorrowiriK. " l Jennie," Baid Mrs. Jones to her daughter, the other morning, "go over to Mrs. Simp son's and borrow her flat iron.7 The girl went and returned without it. ; : -1 WelL why didn't you get it ?'? . :"She said when yon sent; her washboard home she .would see . about it,'! whimpered .."She did?, The ungrateful I tiling ! Til pee about it too." ' . .-. :j ., Putting . on her : husband's .old hat, and gathering up her dress in both hands, Mrsv Jones tramped across the street, growing reader and madder at every step. , j .How do you dare, Mrs. Simpson' she yelled, as she pranced into the kitchen, "how do you dare . to send me any such word as you sent me by my daughter? "Send your wasnooard home I You've forgot about them potatoes and flour you've never paid DaCK. - - ; . . . "I ain't forgot nothin', Mrs. Jones," said Mrs. Simpson, "but don't you go to puttin' on mghlalutin airs about me. 'Old wash board I' It was bran new when I lent it to you, but I'll warrant it's old enough now. iou had Detter pay back them three draw in's of tea, that cup of sugar, and that wood l let you have when that drunken, worthless husband of your'n was starvin' and freezin' you to death." "You're a lyin' huzzy, Mrs. Simpson. I wouldn't brag of husbands. That one of your's is a reg'lar still tub, and you know a. mi 1 . "WW m m ii. ne oia Hypocrite. lie can drink a barrel and not show it on that old red face of his, and everybody knows you're a slat tern." "Slattern yourself. Who's got a filthier. dirtier kitchen than you have, I'd like to know ? Where's that gamblin' brother of your's 7 In jail, I'll bet." vv nere s tnat sister oi your s, that was no better than she ought to be ?" "People that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I ve heard tales about that gadabout daughter Julia of your'n, who tries to cut a big shine with her fine duds and feathers and sich like and her under clothes blacker than a cloud. The traipesin' trollope; she's after old man Baxter's boy, but his mother is got too much sense to let him make a fool of himself by marryin' her. iou hear me, Mrs. Jones? lour cakes all dough there." "You know a powerful sight about my business, Mrs. Simpson, and about every body else's in this neighborhood. I'll be glad when you leave, for you keep us in an uproar all the time, and when you get to abusin' your neighbors and betters and re fusin' to do by them as you'd be done by, it's time for every decent woman to cut your acquaintance. I'll send that old ten cent washboard home, and won't leave any soap sticking to it, as I've been in the habit of doin'." Mrs. Jones jammed her hat down over hei eyes, and was half way across the street when this parting shot from Mrs. Simpson reached her; "Anybody could tell that you was a wo man without one particle of shame by seem' you hold your dress above your knees in broad daylight." How Fleas are Educated. An humble and reverential seeker after light approached the man in charge of the educated fleas and put the following ques tion : "Why did you select this particular insect and consecrate the labor of a time to its education ?" "Because of the inveteracy of its disposition to hop," was the somewhat enigmatical reply. "VVould you be kind enough to be more explicit?" was the next request. "Most certainly," replied the philosopher. "I desired to solve the funda mental question of education, in the flea, knowing the tremendous odds with which I would have to contend. You are aware of the nature of a flea ; it is almost an impossi bility to concentrate its attention on any particular subject. No matter what was done, he would hop, and my only chance was to drive this inclination out of his head. For years this completely baffled me : there seemed no possible way of accomplishing my desire. One day it flashed upon me ; I shouted with joy as my ambition seemed attained, and it was a simple thing after all. took a little paper box and inserted a piece of glass in the top and bottom, and in that I placed a flea. The limited experi ence of a flea would not permit him to dis criminate between the transparency of the glass and that of the atmosphere. So hop he goes, and down he comes completely stunned. He rubs his head a little and thinks there must be some mistake about that, and away he goes again. Down once more, and then he apparently gets very mad, for he hops and hops with a succession of knock down blows until by night he is evidently in an exhausted condition. He awakes in the . morning refreshed with his sleep and resumes his operations, which prove equally unsatisfactory. Thus five days are occupied, until the lesson is learn ed forever. The relations between knock down and hop are absolutely established, and from that time forth that flea can never be induced to hop again, and the first steps in his education are accomplished." Killed by a Puff of Tobacco Smoke. On Sunday afternoon, while John Con nelly, of 206 "Van Buren street, Brooklyn, was playing with his little son, aged tour- teen months, who was in his lap, he play fully blew a pun of tobacco smoke into its ace. The child coughed, gasped tor breath, and fell back unconscious. In a few min utes it died from suffocation. iv. X. San. J5f A correspondent furnishes the Rich mond Dispatch with a recipe for curing what is known as ,poison-oak.,vv It is as ollows : "Take the inner or green bark of the elder bush and fry it in lard, and anoint the eruption until it is healed. Two or three applications will generally cure it." . s v -. The Surplus Women. If they cannot secure Husbands, they should Husband themselves. - BT 'A "WOMAN. , . i There is nobodv in this life so terrible as your statistician. He digs down among the dust heaps of humanity, and now he nods out that all people who drink cider have weak eyes. - First,' he finds that American women . .are , degenerating in health ; and sense;: .that they and the whole native American race are dyinff off by inches. - No sooner have we got over being scared about buai. nu4u your lernoie statistician ci a ws out another fact from his human dust heap, which makes us feel even more shakv than the other, and that is there are no longer Jmsbandato go round for us alL -We must either go shares in a man or go without, and moreover, the shares will be getting smaller and smaller as the world gets older. : Shall a woman put up with the eighteenth or twentieth, or after awhile may be even the hundredth of a man, or shall she paddle her own canoe without any man at all ? If this state of things goes on, says our terri ble statistician, men will consequently cease to worship women, and treat them so chival rously in America as they have always done, since, of course, American men prize woman so highly only because she is scarce. Some of us have never observed that men hurt themselves being chivalrous and wor shipful toward women, to be sure, but that only makes it so much the worse. If a man is not going to be even as nice a he has been any more, what will become of us, sure enough ? Are women going crazy because men are scarce ( it is not altogether flattering to our vanity to admit it, but even if it is so, going crazy won't make men plentiful. Whining does no good in the most desper ate cases, least ot all going crazy, lhere is a prejudice against polygamy in our age of the world, and the only thing which seems possible is for the surplus woman to summon a mighty resolution and go on and hoe her own row. Not plving the imple ment either as one who looks forward to being married and laying down the hoe- handle in the middle of the row, but hoeing on with strong, steady stroke till the long shadows coming to meet her tell of the end of the row and the going down of the sun. Then the surplus woman will become a producer instead of a consumer, and will cease to be a surplus woman. In truth, the prospects of a surplus woman are a theme for anything but jesting. Those prospects, silted out from considerable nonsense, are the real point of this discourse. The widen ing of occupations for women, and the thoroughness and economy among working women, are subjects in which the State and the whole hnman family are interested. The best way of disposing of the surplus woman on the hands of the" community is to make her earn her own living, and to give her every facility for doing it. It certainly seems to be approaching in thiscountrv the condition alreadv reached in England, wherein society dose not know what to do with the superfluous woman, and the superfluous woman does not know what to do with herself. Already there are thousands of women in America who are on the verge of despair, because they have their own living to make, and no way of making it. I don't know why it is, but it sometimes seems to me that I hear more sorrowful and tragical stories than other people do stories of infinite suffering and infinite despair sometimes, too, ot in Unite wrong and error. I've thought it over for a long time, and it does seem to me that widened occupation is the first thing to give the surplus woman. Fling all the doors of work wide open to women, wide as heaven itself, and let the surplus go in and take hold. Let her choose her own work, unrestricted by so-called "workingwomen's" regulations, contempti ble trades' unions, or a stupid public senti ment. The very largest liberty of choice of Occupations ought to be given freely to the surplus woman, because it is very cer tain that women won't do what they can't do, and" they will be the first to find it out, too. There are so few things comparatively that women can do, that after they have filled every avenue of employment possible to them, there will always be manly work enough left for men on farms, railways, in machine shops and other places. A woman has as much right to work tor her living as a man has, and merely because sne is a woman, has no claim to be snnnorted either by father, brother, or husband. The surplus woman might follow a hun dred occupations more than she now does in this country. In France workingwomen are everywhere clerks in telegraph offices and railway stations, and book-keepers m vast wholesale houses." It came about orig inally so because the French Government wanted all the men lor soldiers ; but what ever the cause, it proves that the surplus women in our country can do a vast num ber of things they don't do. Half the flor ists in the country ought to be women. Nearly all the coloring and retouching of photographs ought to be done by woman, and yet 1 have never known of very many women who did these things. It seems, as though floral decoration and bouquet making belonged by natural right to women. The Woman's Society of Decorative Art in New York was organized by a number of benevolent ladies to encourage working women to "master thoroughly" one branch of. industrial art. To "master thoroughly" what she undertakes is the grand secret of success for the surplus woman. She would much better starve to death than to attempt anything, and "merely enlarge the society of wretched incompetents. -Both she and the; world would be better ott if she were dead, than if she lives and whiningly and grudgingly dabbles into this or that occu- tion, and with eyes and mind off her work, spends her time gaping' around: here and there for the coming ma&P It is only' when the surplus woman does; her work: to well that by it she can lay up'at competency for her old age, that the worlds wfc fcegin to think she is somebody. When she can do that the world will cease to wag it head and say, oa;cant get l husband!, yoa can't 1" .because the comfortable ;' surplus woman will be able to retort :,. Who wants a husband?" ; , 1 The most fatal mistake the surplus woman of our time makes is in ; spending :all her money for clothes.' . It was certainly not so with workingwomen formerly. I have seen the jbortrait; of a working woman who lived in Cincinnati thirty years ago, a noble looking woman, with. : the: face of a clear thinker. She was a widow, with two chil dren. She looked about her and found that the work nearest her , hand was tbe;proaio and not very hifalatin occupation lot dress making. So at it she went with all her might, doing her best.' saving what she could as she went , along, .investing it shrewdly. She lived comfortably, but not extravagantly, and went on attending strictly to her work, and when she died the property she had accumulated was sold for 60,000. Sixty thousand dollars just at dress-making was not so bad. . .The excel lent lady's portrait was taken in' a rich black silk dress, but she didn't have the silk dress when she started out in life. No more did this woman take the first money she earned ana ouy me silk aress. it aid not come till after the lady had become the owner of something which wouldn't wear out like a silk dress. Among the weary sad-hearted women who tell their forlorn stories, are very often those who have known good times in their lives. They had silk dresses in plenty, and servants and carriages at their, command. They could have saved enough while the sun shone to last them all the rest of .the rainy days of their lives, but they ' thought their good times would last forever. : Good times, though, do not last anybody forever. They come iu showers, and when the shower is once past, the chances are that it will hardly ever overtake the same individual again., lhese unhappv ladies . who have had good times spent their money with a royal hand while they had it, and saved nothing, and now they have nothing left to live on but some bitter regrets. "If I only hadn't been a fool when I had money," is the one cry of them all. To put by a few savings from time to time while she has it is the bitterest and most necessary lesson for a workingwoman to learn. . I have asked the , question, I am sure, fifty times, of women, clerks, school mistresses, house servants, or seamstresses, and women in all occupation!",' "Do you save any of your earnings?" and with only one exception that 1 think of now. the an swer is invariably, "Not a cent.! v The one exception I think of is a wise schoolmis tress, so full of determination and electric energy that in ten years' teaching , she bought and paid for with her own sayings a neat home for herself and parents : This proud and happy little schoolmistress takes more comfort in decorating and improving her home than any rich man's' wife, T ever saw did in her palatial mansion. ; - ; What this one teacher did ; every other woman teacher m the land can do, u only she has the will and the good sense. ; But thev don't do it. Thev soend everr cent of their wages as they go along, nearly all for clothes. You frill notice that : women clerks and teachers go to chnrch. . and the theater dressed like a duchess, or a soap and tallow factory man's wife. It's all very nice to have pretty clothes, but it does not gain them a friend the more in the world, and what'll they do when they get too old to work? - - I know three young workingwomen two sisters and a cousin who live alone with the mother of the two sisters. t They are comparatively well paid, and the united wages of the three amount to perhaps $150 month The mother is a- hale .vigorous woman, amply able to do the housework or them alL and a woman who was not too proud to hoe corn and milk cows in her youth. Well, instead of living in Tour rooms, or a neat cottage a little outside the heart of the city, and consequently less ex pensive, ana their mother doing tne mtie housework in a neat, dainty way herself, these foolish women rent a 135 bouse, quite twice as large as they need, keep a wasteful servant gin, ana in au respects uve as people with twice their income ought to lve. Ask them if they save anything, and ,he answer is the old one : . "Not a cent." They have apparently no : thought that this sort of thing can't last forever. Re monstrate with them for spending all their income, and they confess . privately that they are doing it in hopes to entrap a rich husband I have yet to see tha first friend gamed by extravagance m dress. A wo man who dresses neatly. and prettily, if ever so cheaply, will have just as many friends, live just as long, hare just aa jolly a time in the world, and be just as hand some, as the silly creature who spends every cent of her earnings upon her back. . . So I say it is the first duty of every work ingwoman to lay np part of her little earn ings. The girl who earns $10 a week can save two of it and never miss it, and women with less wages can save in proportion. The teacher with $700 a year can save $200, and never miss that either. v ! ; So, if at length, as the years roll on, and gray hairs begin to sneak isi among: your French twists, as they .will, yon mind, if then the irrepressible statistician taps at your door and tells yon, yon are to be -one of the doomed surplus women yon will not then be caught by him a sour, sallow, shal low, penniless, surplus woman, but can snap your fingers in his face and show him youf bankbook. : If we must be an old maid, let us be a comfortable, jolly old maid, with ft bank account.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 5, 1878, edition 1
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