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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
force are such, as well as considerable physical endurance, that women shrink from it, although the demand for skilled stenographers is daily greater. The United States census of 1870 shows that only three had thus far established themselves as such. One of the most expert of this class in the country gives it as his opinion, that “ constant employ therein would inevitably break a young woman down in a short time.” It certaiidy is significant, that an employment whose general characteristics, associations, and pecuniary return may be said to be so enticing to women should not have attracted to its ranks larger numbers, when the field is so wide. Were it not that its effects, and the difficulty of securing success therein without incurring them, have become recognized, it certainly would seem that its labors would have been far more widely adopted.
SEWING-MACHINE LABOR
The several branches of industry hitherto considered have all been such as have their