omen in all.

My own observation adds to this list phonographers, house and
sign painters, fruit-hawkers, button-makers, tobacco-packers,
paper-box makers, embroiderers, and fur-sewers.

Perhaps I should say haymakers and reapers; since, for three or
four years, bands of girls have been so employed in Ohio, at
sixty-two and a half cents a day.

In New Haven, seven women work with seventy men in a clock
factory, at half wages. If the proprietor answered honestly, when
asked why he employed them, he would say, "To save money;" but he
does answer, "To help our cause."

In Waltham, a watch factory has been established, whose
statistics I shall use elsewhere.

In Winchester, Va., a father has lately taken a daughter into
partnership; and the firm is "J. Wysong and Daughter."
[Applause]. Is it not a shame it should happen first in a slave
State?

Then come registers of deeds and postmistresses. We all know that
the rural post-office is chiefly in the hands of irresponsible
women. Petty politicians obtain the office, take the money, and
leave wives and sisters to do the work.

[Here Mrs. Dall read an interesting letter from a female
machinist in Delaware; but, as it will be published in another
connection, it is here withheld].

Is it easy for women to break the way into new avenues? You know
it is not.

[Here Mrs. Dall referred to the opposition shown to the
employment of women in watch-making, by Mr. Bennett, in London;
to the school at Marlborough House; to the employment of women in
printing-offices--substantiating her statements by dates and
names].

When I first heard that women were employed in Staffordshire to
paint pottery and china--which they do with far more taste than
men--I heard, also, that the jealousy of the men refused to allow
them the customary hand-rest, and so kept down their wages. I
refused to believe anything so contemptible. [Applause]. Now the
Edinburgh Review confirms the story. Thank God! that could never
happen in this country. With us, Labor can not dictate to
Capital.

But the great evils which lie at the foundation of depressed
wages are:

1st. That want of respect for labor which prevents ladies from
engaging in it.

2d. That want of respect for women which preven