ss generally.

In the Business Colleges of Mr. Curtis at St. Paul and
Minneapolis, many women are teachers, and many more are educated
as shorthand reporters, telegraphers, and book-keepers. These
have no difficulty in finding places after completing their
college course. Nearly fifty young women are employed in the
principal towns of the State as telegraphers alone. Miss Mary M.
Cary has been employed for seven years as operator and station
agent at Wayzata, for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba R. R.
Her services are highly valued, as well they may be, for during
her absence from the station two men are required to do her work.
By her talents and industry she has acquired a thorough education
for herself, besides educating her two younger sisters. Mrs. Anna
B. Underwood of Lake City, has for many years been secretary of a
firm conducting a large nursery of fruit trees, plants and
flowers. Her husband being one of the partners, she has taken a
large share of the general management. The orchard yields a
profit of over $1,000 a year.

From the list of names to be found in the Appendix, we see that
Minnesota is remarkable for its galaxy of superior women actively
engaged as speakers and writers[452] in many reforms, as well as
in the trades and professions, and in varied employments. One of
the great advantages of pioneer life is the necessity to man of
woman's help in all the emergencies of these new conditions in
which their forces and capacities are called into requisition.
She thus acquires a degree of self-reliance, courage and
independence, that would never be called out in older
civilizations, and commands a degree of respect from the men at
her side that can only be learned in their mutual dependence.

FOOTNOTES:

[431] The names of the young women who applied for admission to the
classical course of the Michigan State University, in 1858, were
Sarah Burger, Clara Norton, Ellen F. Thompson, Ada A. Alvord, Rose
Anderson, Helen White, Amanda Kieff, Lizzie Baker, Nellie Baker,
Anna Lathrop, Carrie Felch, Mary Becker, Adeline Ladd and Harriet
Patton.

[432] See Appendix, Chapter XLVII., note A.

[433] For further account of Mrs. Swisshelm's patriotic work in
Minnesota see her "Reminiscences of Half a Century": Janson,
McClurg & Co., Chicago, Ill.

[434] The three wo