type--why should not they be type-setters? The printers joined
together in bands and swore by all the gods they knew that women
should not be printers. They joined together in a body and
printed in a book that they would not work for any man who
employed women as printers. They thought it would degrade the
labor of man. The reformers asked for what was honest, good, and
true, and found a response in the business interest of men, and
the way was opened for women printers. Instead of brothers
talking of supporting their sisters and making themselves poor
they now worked side by side. A paper which they would have here
for subscription--the _Woman's Journal_--came from an office
where all the printers, with two exceptions, were girls; and the
man who managed the office said it was an advantage, because the
girls are always sober and never go on a spree. He could always
be sure of having the paper out at the right time. The steady,
honest, little women printers are always there. They asked why
the women could not go into the stores and sell shoes, cloth, and
dry goods, and why should not men build cities and sail ships and
do what larger muscles fit them for? and they quoted the words of
King Solomon, who spoke of a good wife sending out ships and
dealing in merchandise. Women entered stores and became not only
clerks but merchants, and some of the best stores she knew to-day
were owned by women, who do not look to the time when they are to
go to the workhouse or some worse place even, but were laying by
some means to give them comfortable maintenance in their old age.
Fathers who had daughters looked forward with more courage,
because there were more avenues for woman's industry and better
pay to reward it.

When Chicago was burned, the telegraphic dispatches most promptly
forwarded and accurately worded were sent by women, and a
generous public appreciated the fact. In medical matters they
said, "Here is a department--here is a field for which women are
peculiarly adapted, and to which they would be welcomed in the
hour of peril." They were laughed at and called "she doctors" by
those who thought women would be scared by their vulgarity; and
some young doctors threw stones and mud, literally, and tried to
prevent women being physicians. But gen