In a New-Haven clock factory, seven women are employed among seventy men, on half-wages; and the manufacturer takes great credit to himself for his liberality. At Waltham, also, a watch factory has been lately started, in which many women are employed.[24] In the census of the city of Boston for 1845, the various employments of women are thus given:-- Artificial-flower makers, Boardinghouse-keepers, Bookbinders, Printers, Blank-book makers, Bonnet-dealers, Bonnet-makers, Workers in straw, Shoe and boot makers, Band and fancy box makers, Brush-makers, Cap-makers, Clothiers, Collar-makers, Comb-makers, Confectioners, Corset-dealers, Corset-makers, Card-makers, Professed cooks, Cork-cutters, Domestics, Dress-makers, Match-makers, Fringe and tassel makers, Fur-sewers, Hair-cloth weavers, and Map-colorers. I think you cannot fail to see, from this list, how very imperfect the enumeration is: not a single washerwoman nor charwoman, for one thing, upon it. Yet here you have the occupations of 4,970 women. Of these, 4,046 are servants,--a number which has, at least, doubled since then; and which leaves only 924 women for all other avocations. In New York, Mr. Jobson, formerly surgeon-dentist to Victoria, offers to instruct women in the duties of a dentist. I do not know that he has a single practising pupil; but he asserts that some of the most distinguished dentists in Europe are women. A few years since, the town of Ashfield elected two women and three men to the duties of a School Committee,--duties for which women are greatly to be preferred. A letter from the senior lady shows that one of them at least never attempted to do the actual work to which she was called, considering it _out_ of her sphere! Does any one in this audience suppose that those women felt incapable of the duty? We know better; but they were not of the stuff of which martyrs are made, and, deferring to popular views, set aside a sacred opportunity. They might have so done that work as to have secured the election of women for ever after. The occupations of which the census takes no account may be classed as-- Professions, Public Offices, Semi-professions, and Arts. Under the Professions come-- Physicians, Lawyers, Ministers, of which there are increasing numbers. Under Public Offices we find-- Postmistresses, Registers of Deeds, The few calculators at Washington, and School-committee women at the West.