UNSKILFUL WOMAN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1976, 24 June 1880, Page 4

UNSKILFUL WOMAN.

The " incapables" (says an English woman's journal) are a great fact; and as things are at present, they are a legacy whioh has come down to ub as a result of the notion that women ought to be always in adepondent position. We think and hope that that notion is passing away. Women of the poorest classes have never had it; they have knowp always that they must know how to earn their bread. Women of the highest classes are vary often, by their position and connections, forced to develop an administrative capacity ; and their rank in life prevents them, if " incapable," from becoming an utter burden on strangers. The middle-class women, to whom " incapableness " means starvation if they are poor and unmarried, or poor widows with children, are slowly beginning to learn that they must get such business faculties as they are possessed of developed properly, if they are not utterly to fall behind in tbe race for existence. It may be that the nature of women is such that the "incapables " among them will never cease, any more than the poor, out of the land ; but it is the clear duty of every father and mother, and of every one who has to do with the education and management of girls, to do their beßt to eradicate this '• incapableness," and to make women fit -to bear their part earnestly and capably in the work of life.