Show WOMEN IN THE FIELD LET her adorning adorn ingi be ithe workman ship of ler own hands and lee let her own works praise her in the gates 12 such is the injunction fn an thel the good book whether the gentler sex se have been reading eup up on subject and resolved resola e d to profit by the or whether they have beel beba goaded info action by pointless editorials shall we do with our girls certain it is if we may credit reliable reports from all over the land that while the sterner sex are afflicted with annually annual lr increasing labor troubles and strikes the gentler sex are gradually yet let surely extending t h X of their aper aidus until they are almost abreast their former formek lords and masters in nearly every vocation intact ints c t their encroachment upon what has been coll considered the exclusive domain antoan of man in thi the various arts and professions has been so rapid and extended of late that it iss isa wonder some sand lot orator has bas not formeca for meda a platty party for their suppression pian with toe tae legend inscribed upon his banner the women must go the latest de elopement developement dev ament in this lime Is reported from chicago and if the eh enterprise itera rise proves successful which there tere is blittle fi little reason to doubt and the example is followed lets as it most probably will be w many generations will not pass away before the leading question will be not what shall shah we do with our girls but I 1 what shall we do with our boys an eastern exchange has the follow ing edg arti y I 1 sixty chicago women b ato p widows mature maidens and looming damsel s th have ave organized zeO and ancl established what at they are pleased to call our girls cooperative co operative clothing manufactory 11 all alf these women belong to a i ladies assembly of toe tae knights of labor and are very enthusiastic members of that organization last september when all the trades turned out in rand parade to celebrate be national labor holiday several of the girls offender their employers by turning out in the procession A number of them were discharged and others mons seeing that the contractors who do the manufacturing for the large wholesale houses were discriminating against them the eirls concluded to start a factory of their own they organized a coop co op win company any placed the he shares shades at 10 ea each bowing allowing no individual to hold more than one share of stock rented the upper floor of a building and fitted it up with twenty nine bew sewing machines and ill all the appliances necessary yio botke the business those of the girls who are unable to pay 10 down are permitted to pay alve cents a week theli their wages until the full amount il 4 ite girls will receive the e same wages every week which they receive from the coa contractors tractors and dividends wl be declared at the end of each year ye yeartie arthe the profits to be divided in proportion 0 to th the 1 e amount O u t of work grop done one by each T they h eya employ 0 p lo 10 six or eight men to do the pressing and other work which is too laborious for women land and have all the work they eau can 10 do lo tie the has a lull full staff of competent off officers leers and the entire institution Is under the superintendence of miss mary me mccormic a woman of experience band and superior intelligence nce the institution has just settled own down to active bustness business nass and its future wal be watered wate hedl with interest 1 1 |