Show WOMAN AND HOME the whole treatment of children has changed and the idea of severity toward them especially while they are little has become even with people of harsh character utterly abhorrent whipping which even an in the forties was the regular and proper method of discipline is considered an almost diabolical cruelty sending to bed which was really a method of inflicting 13 solitary confinement to is entirely disused and standing in the corner is condemned as inflicting humiliation there is in truth in a majority of comfortable for table households no way left of punishing a child beyond a reproving look a lecture which must not be too protracted and in extreme cases a deprivation of some promised and greatly desired indulgence childrens health too is looked after with even more care than that of grown grow n ups upa sometimes indeed with a sedulousness which degenerates into coddling education is postponed by at least two yean yeam lest it should press too severely upon up un formed minds and a perfect science ha ba grown up among us of devising ways foi preventing the little things from iiii ii from ennui or from the restlessness wit which bright children are tormented sometimes sometime with this odd result that tin tb little men and women grow blase anu betray the anam ness of which thi countess du barry complained in loui lou XV the little children are in affe tion until the air of ordinary life hardly blows on them and are in certain clas classes classed sek especially those classes which can afford to live lire the happy double life in town and country the happiest of all created beings they are liberated for all the earlier years of their lives from care have ceased alto gether gather to fear their parents for whom they invent pot pet names usually tinged with a comic irreverence and have nearly lost not quite for even good nurses are on an that point a little unmanageable those grotesquely tes quely terrible superstitions about policemen li cemen sweeps and bogie pen men generally which forty or fifty years ago terrorized half the nurseries in the country they have hav a brownin grown grow nin in their pride of security skeptical of all those things and have been known to treat even supernatural menaces with a calm 1 I dont believe you god half so bad as that 11 o lon condou mom totor W helpmeets Help meets indeed I 1 the wives of members of the sacred and medical professions have hake a different carew career from those of their sisters who marry mairy th man and not his vocation these women are expected to do much that to is not exacted from any oher boaen and the wife es ep pec fally of the cle clergyman alves always tu tn that fierce light which bests beats upon a throne for she and her family we are claimed as the property of the congregation as thor hughly an ever sovereign became amethe bec the pow pos of a nation the mistress of the manse manae needs to be a woman of rare char actor and strong health to fulfill all that Is in expected of her and it would be aou mo were she also endowed endow a with that serenity of temperament which is the best beat armor of defense and which forbids the use of tave sire weapons the physicians wife has also unusual claims upon her time though in a lesser de a gree and the imperative telephone and the charity patients often absorb her precious moments while in addition she has the wifely anxiety of seeing her poor tired hua a band awakened from his belated slum slumbers berns to go co on maud muller sighed for the silken gown and other luxuries which would be hers as the bride of the judge she did not look forward to the high vocation of sharing his hig legal duties nor does any lawyers fiancee dream drew of pa playing a ying the part of portia and assuming to be learned in the law the editors wife seldom uses her pen for the public and officers of the navy or army expect only the military virtue of prompt ness to be practiced in their households but doctors of divin divinity ity and medicine alike when they marry feel that they are defrauded if the chosen young women fail in any of the requirements imposed by their louried dignities harpers bazar women and library work three hundred and eighty women axe are employed in twenty four prominent libraries receiving from to 1500 an average age salary of the average is greatly reduced by the large number required to do mechanical work in comparison with the few needed for supervisory and independent work thirteen women of recognized ability trained as apprentices in large libraries or in the school of experience receive from to 2 2000 an avera average g e salary of 1150 the thirty seven women trained in the library school once of columbia college but nonattached now attached to the state library at albany which was opened in 1887 receive from to 1800 an average salary of at SM the thirteen highest salaries paid to library school women seven women ag a librarians of state libraries receive from to 1200 an average salary of 1000 the twenty four foar men filling similar positions receive an average salary of 1450 A woman occupying a subordinate position in a library where faithfulness aa accuracy and a fair knowledge of books are the only essentials can expect from SOW to A good cataloguer or a librarian with average ability and training can expect to receive from to A woman with good ability and fitness with a lib oral eral education and special training can aman expect 1000 at the head of a library or of a department va in a large library with possible increase to 1500 or 2000 women rarely receive the same pay as an men for the same work now new york sun |