Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 12 | Women Wage-Earners

. . s ; ; ; fine apparel. It is an instinct with them. It comes from an honest desire to please the opposite sex. There are a great many poor girls in the country. They need.more money than they can get from their fathers and brothers, hence it is perfectly natural , for them to seek honest employment where they can rriake the most money. There is no probability of this j changing. The occupations which Tiave been open to women in the last forty years have enabled tens of thousands of them to improve their conditions,-and will enable tens of thousands to do the same thing in the future. There is more probability of young men hiring out to do housework than there is of young women giving up positions where they can wear neat apparel ap-parel and earn their honest living. WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS. Not long sincea learned professor in the East made the prediction that women would give up their various semi-public occupations, which they have been following for several years, as clerks, stenographers, stenogra-phers, etc., and-would return to the home circle. The argument is that the independent class of . women who receive salaries in occupations not un-pleasant un-pleasant to Jill, would have taken from them even-'. even-'. tually the peculiar charnt which attaches to women in the domestic circle, and that in self-defense, the women themselves would give up what has been an innovation in their lives, and seek for the: higher charm which comes of a retired and refined life. -We' think that will probably be true when women wo-men in their own right become riA enough to live : , without work, but not before. . Society in America is very exacting. "Women love t