| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER THE WAIL ABOUT UTAH WOMEN otmen CH icaco august 2 1886 editor deseret news from time to time one bears thi the most lugubrious wailing about the women of utah how they are ard worked trampled on and tyrannized tyrannised sed oed over suppose we dwell awell a moment or two on the current literature pertaining to woman in america the extracts quoted are from writers of national tame lame or from journals of what is called the best standing let impartial and disinterested observers judge for themselves and above all let utah the A good lesson can be learned both in the social and political economy of the matter but bat it is to religious and political philosophy by the lesson should be applied it it may be good econ to makes make a ane coat for two dollars and sell gell it for fifty jt is also good economy to skin a tewkesbury pauper and mike make boots boats of the hide but I 1 would not recommend the system to utah bior would I 1 recommend the system ot of economy mentioned below iff mr wakemans Wak emans letter as practiced vy by american housewives it will be wea iteen thattie that the extracts relate to diversified phases of womans comans life the domestic extract is from mr wakeman twell known journalist and literary literak y nan man the fashionable and industrial and criminal extracts are also from well known persons whose letters obtain wide circulation NaU OF ANTI MORMON PUBLIC OPINION mr edgar L wakeman writing from fro in havana cuba july 12 to the chicago news hews july 24 1886 confines himself entirely to an analysis of domestic ind and social life in cuba and c this with the same phases of iron IKe inthe the united states travel and have liberalized mr wake mn compared to what he was when editing the chicago current it will be S bared that in tae headey of the curent some cur curious ous productions r re e allting to 10 mormonism were published or ot perhaps to be more correct were advertised the anti mormon societies for the manufacture of public adinion hostile to utah patronized the orrew and had bad much of their trash inserted das as literary matter by reason ol 01 contract to purchase aase and distribute several editions of the paper the same plan was adopted with re pra to the suit a paper which has recently disappeared altogether can it that miss cleveland dees fles the editing of a periodical ex gt phe has supreme control of its isemena columns as well as of s li literary but this is too much of a pesi won flon to be eon consonant sonant with the at communication on sociology TO CUBAN WOMEN hr r wakeman approaches the dis tion of life in cuba in a manner aich ich visitors to utah would do well follow he says he writes only liter ran an earnest endeavor to think alth their cubans thought and disease as approximately from their dod point as possible had haa he be anti mormon rubbish which his bis paper and made him an etile dile to be written after this manner would have made a better record for consistency and for honesty wean chereb an extract from mr wake marletter man letter which religionists and educators will do well to peruse care fully n od this whole subject here naturally i ri about the cutian cuban woman alto er r I 1 believe her to toe be one of the most by V women in the world she may not so BO much soul as some american Amer icah wol kl but some of these american women travel on soul are veritable devils in homes they arle are great artists these with soul soui in church and society utters to and especially if they may have tied themselves within the outskirts of we literary coterie through the wedge of we MM other persons brains and elferts 5 mold their own a bit by exuding but god help the servants the cami lathe husband the public is interested ate contortions of soul for a little the uta and family suffer the husband aneus e up the other fellows get the or whatever such females have to sell ajr homes A home is broken and id and the sneering world rings up the km tor for another fool with soul to cavort beit IL but in this fortunate land wives UK wild id with devilish ambition for per Lg cial ocial and other notoriety nor in become anything and overy everything thing gres s they seem to continue to re as it were that they really have a haf this is the result of the education ruining g of the church though every graat writer upon these people pebie lias has a fc the e catholic church I 1 say all honor y ita is noble attention of that venerable miss kate field Is called to aping it may explain why she gibben n left out in the tae cold and doom alo solitude mr wakeman i the other fellow gets eta the whatever such females female slave have to their homes how is this for the household perhaps this ahe average man of the period koia marrying one mr wakeman with protestant is not very com neary y to protestant education m of the kate field type ike be zes as hermaphroditic al ai demale ale beings who howl in bad any nd and worse prose plastering I 1 ea like kate upon every slime w lue organizing themselves like old lena for social plunder and assassins ott in conclusion mr wakeman pictures the cuban wife as ati an angelane geland an au in one a devil in religion like a lay brother to mer aftel here is ia another clipping which will way to explain the RELIGION AND AD SHAM PHILOS OPHY sa clife life in america this cutting Ves klor itself it is being re leading papers of 40 connoy diw go 1 14 A f most inoel interest interesting ilig places to a men and things says bays a writer in W ork times is asbary park which StOlE fhe sano five ave miles south of 0 long liong BITO iceie M yon an go you yon find evidences af q 8 tendency valency ot 0 the place on the en coBon ane wp i on 94 the sides eides of houses arauto r annb aft tp to campt cono and in spite of au all theses these things they do say that this thia is one of the wi wickedest wick edest st places in the world and one of those who naho say it olt ott enest is no other than bradley the foien fou n dar and encourager ot of the place his latest outbreak was an article in his own kirk private ate and particular organ tile asbury park Jo journae urnah in which he said that the drugstores drug stores in ia the place were al all dens of inequity inqui ty containing private rooms where were young girls were taken drugged and ruined the alilee place is alleged to be a temperance stron stronghold gho 0 and temperance m clings of great warmth are held daily yot a man mail treat has as nothing to do but walk into a drug store and ask for soda with a stick in it to get a whole telegraph pole it if he wants it of course there is plenty of true and earnest religion here and there are arc lots of people who are walking the straight path but the shams are so mixed u up with the genuine that it is hard to make distinctions distinctions in this strain the new york times writer goes on describing other peculiarities lia liari ritie ties of the place H he particularly dwells on the admired lady of the place she had bleached hair of a reddish yellow tinge a face fairly buried in liquid white and rouge aud a dress cut so low in the neck that it left very little to tile the imagination and he might have added she had a form which would evoke from a utah preacher out outbursts burAs of admiration it is said here that utah preachers are connoisseurs of the nude in art and that political preachers are enthusiastic aver blonde hair and painted faces naked shoulders and abbreviated petticoats ti athe new york vail lail and express describes the process of making costs coats for men the description is exhaustive and elaborate in detail WOMAN AS USUAL IS THE VICTIM her lot in this branch of business seems on a par with the rest here is an extract which will give an idea 0 of f the process of making the hardships of the workers and the profits of contractors and merchants merc nants think of this you bearers wearers of fine coats but dont let the che matter disturb your digestion it is only poor girls who are used as slaves to 0 make a man of you for the nowadays makes the kanand there are plenty of poor girls in this country and as sidney dillon used to say there are plenty more coming over here is the extract the cutter and inspector sire are well paid but tho those s e who do the work piecemeal only earn a bout about 35 to 40 cents a day working constantly and giving half a day da to take the work and get more in one tenement house lives a woman who supports herself and three small children by finishing fine overcoats she hems the tha satin linings and sews in the i sleeve linings and the velvet collur collar and puts in several stays in all setting from to stitches on each and earns at most 35 cents a aay out of this she pays 5 a month fo toy rent Frent she works sundays too she sends her babies to a kl aldei kindergarten dei barten where they iliev are arc fed but in the summer the school is closed ano and how I 1 she lives and keeps them in im clothes and me file none but those who live in the same way know just now another woman with one child is sti sharing aring her room and her rent which relieves her a little the man she obtains work from has a factory also a fine tailoring establishment and the fhe class of work these women do is for overcoats which cost 40 and 50 allowing each of the ten workers on each coat lu cents for what she does and the cutter and inspector each 50 cents the cost of f making a mans fine overcoat is about 2 it is just the same saine story with a all 11 other branches of mens wearing apparel the writer sums the whole hus business very tersely the result seems to be always the same just enough pay for slavish toil to KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER in one trail frail tenement these women are to be the mothers of future american citizens what wonder if a murat or a aThe The de Merl court spring from the them olive harper a new york world correspondent devoted a long article to the MYSTERIES OF NECK TIE MAKING and the condition of the workers all of whom whoa are females in this as in all theother the other trades in which women are employed it would seem that th the e supply of labor amounts to even a glutted market and it also appears that when a woman has authority she can be as cruel and avaricious as any of the opposite cosite esex sex here is an extract from olive H harpers alpers letter which will explain the power and authority of fore women as well as the condition of the female slave market in new york city in those and second class and in fact all the other the he forewoman forewoman has all the power and she can give more work to one less to another or none at all just as suits her and there are many of them who exact of the girls a small percentage on all the work they gi give ve on an condition that they areto are to be kept constantly employed and so many an eager searcher archer sp lor for work is turned away in slack time and the others othen got a full complement where there should be a f fair air division when girls and women are waiting for work they have to stand in a 1 tile line and ana the tit bt ronger ruger ones force the weaker back when the bundles arrive and they frequently leave the most needy no chance to get a few dozen ties when perhaps the little liale amount would ha e kept them troll stara in ing g in one onea L place a bac basement ement there is ii nearly early always a card out stating that they want more help and there is a crowd there always seeking work this firm makes the boxes also that hold the ties and they keep many girls working on machines 1 he woman told me that she stood in line one day from 9 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon before she got to the forewoman and had her work examined and got lier her money and other work the best part of a day every week when every wor working ang hour counts jt it may be supposed that this labor is we well ll 11 paid for and of a very delceta ble kind when such competition as this la is caused by it but let ohve apt k on i tute tills jim are arc the words of tho the letter the labor of making these would he fie light evere w ere it not that it is so badly paid as to render it necessary to labor constantly cind and the amount of work is always uncertain for some unexplained cause the hall handling in ot of the satin seems to wear wc araway away the skin on the buds of the lingers and many ot of those who make satin ties have the ends of their lingers so sore it is torture to work they have to keep beep bowls of strong alum water to dip their lingers fingers in to harden them and tile the work is also very trying to t the bc eyck and the nerves there ire are about 2 2000 a omen men and girls who make their living by etnis trade but it is a very poor one the price ranges tor for the work from 45 cents and some even declare they get but 35 cents per gross grosh up u toa to 25 per dozen forthe for the very finest wort work for the best houses but the average average earnings for a day dav of t ten ell hours is not over 4 a week the dealers deal rs and manufacturers will it if asked point out thor tho extreme highest prices tha that are earned by the most expert workers as the standard price never mentioning those who work equally hard for 3 a week so alarming and so widespread wid spread is the demoralization AMONG WOMEN AND GIRLS in our eastern cities becoming that institutions are springing up to check the body and soul dt d straying ying evils of idleness and vanity which produce this laxity of morals in 1 n chicago industrial schools are aar already c ady in operation it is said that by training girls in domestic and culinary accomplishments they are not as likely to go astray as by making musicians vocalists shorthand writers and bookkeepers of them this is commendable but it is labor in vain I 1 in a our present social condition what use is it to a girl t to 0 become an expert cook an efficient laun dress or a cleanly house girl when all this will only gain for her a cartoon in a comic newspaper or a heartless joke from a sneaking humorist our young men will not marry a pot wallo perlo as the poor hard bard working eirl is called when she is not called bridget or paulina this is why the girl who reads the papers seeks a whorehouse who rather than work in sa a kitchen read what mrs G W woodward chairman ot 0 the executive committee of the industrial school for girls says in her latest report it is reading calculated to stimulate thought in the dullest minds here it is one statistic is offered for the consideration of all thoughtful members of the socie ocie tv the record of the general superintendent ent of police shows that 1385 feigal t es between the ages aged of ten and twenty years were arrested in in one year in this city of these were between the years of ten and eighteen how many anany of tins this awful number thick you were ever again to lead an honest life pil in endless ever increasing procession pass those young girls crowding each other as on on with hurried quiel quick steps they rush to their dreadful end give industrial schools one half the money expended upon these girla after they have run their voule cou and havo become hardened abandoned criminals and wo we will save pave them ave them from a life of sin and sha shame me will save an inmate from tile ilie erring errin comans womans IN omans refuge from the 13 lying ing in hospital or other hospitals from the foundlings home from the orphan asylum from the home of the friendless the bridewell the penitentiary t i a ry perhaps the gallows and the potters F field ae an appalling ar appalling palling sequence the history of one young life ife JUNIUS |
