There Is In The
States, No Doubt, A Sort Of Hankering After Increased Influence, A
Desire For That Prominence Of
Position which men attain by loud
voices and brazen foreheads, a desire in the female heart to be up
and
Doing something, if the female heart only knew what; but even
in the States it has hardly advanced beyond a few feminine
lectures. In many branches of work women are less employed than in
England. They are not so frequent behind counters in the shops,
and are rarely seen as servants in hotels. The fires in such
houses are lighted and the rooms swept by men. But the American
girls may say they do not desire to light fires and sweep rooms.
They are ambitious of the higher classes of work. But those higher
branches of work require study, apprenticeship, a devotion of
youth; and that they will not give. It is very well for a young
man to bind himself for four years, and to think of marrying four
years after that apprenticeship be over. But such a prospectus
will not do for a girl. While the sun shines the hay must be made,
and her sun shines earlier in the day than that of him who is to be
her husband. Let him go through the apprenticeship and the work,
and she will have sufficient on her hands if she looks well after
his household. Under nature's teaching she is aware of this, and
will not bind herself to any other apprenticeship, let Mrs. Dall
preach as she may.
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