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; i:. v ! -:- r - ... 1 ' .? . V ' J y ' ' - . j - -. . , l- .. . ' ' iff T - ' (J. ' -f? ) - '' " ' r'j .' -f V' . ' " - -T;.., ,nnQr"p R(pj)T TV AIR 1RTTT T Uw II NTTT VOL. XXXV. NO. 31. BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1900. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 Per Year Till WORKING WOMAN Dr. Talmage Sp?aks Words of En couragement to Her. Kallh and Tru.t In God Afford Com fort for Tboc Who Are Op prmnril and SirnBKllne for Lltrllliood. Copyrlsht. 1 hy Louts Kl asliintoa, This discouix of Dr. Tuluinpre is an nppal fof nuT' v in behalf of opprrsscu woinanhorxl, anl offt-rs rrc-ourairement to those .-trup for a livelihood; text, Kt-cU'siahtfs iv.. 1: hold the tears of ?uc-h as i-o oppre;-s'l, and they had no .::; loi ter." Very long1 apo the r.cedle was busy. It was considcrt-d honorable for wom en to toil in tlden times. Alexander the (ireat stood in Lis plaee sLowin frarments made by his own mother. The finest tapestries at Hayeux wer made by the q'ieen of William the Con queror. Augustus, the emperor, would net wear any frarmcnJs except those that were fashioned by somp member cf his royal family, o let the toiler everywhere be respeeted! The needle lias slain more than the sword. When the sewing- machine was invented, some thought that invention vouid alleviate woman's toil and put an end to the despotism of the needle. Hut no; while the sewing machine has been a p-reat blessing to well-to-do families in many rases-, it has added to the stab of 11k- needle the crush of the wheel, and multitudes of women, not w ithstanding the 1 een forcement of the sewing; machine, ran only make, work hard as they wiil. between two nnd three dollars a week. The greatest blessing that could hae happened to our first parents was be ing turned ou of IMcn after they had done wrong. Adam ami Kvc in their perfect state might have got along without work or only such slight em ployment as a perfect garden with no weeds in it demanded, but as :oon as they had sinned the lest thing for them was to be turned out where tbev would have to work. We kr.ow what a withering thing it is for man to have nothing to do. Of the IX" ) prosperons and honorable men that yon know '.J had to work vigorously at the begin ning. V-nt I ; m now to toll you that industry is ju.-t as important for a woman's s;ifey and happinep. The most unhappy women in our -onim uni ties to-day are thos who have no en gagements to c;ill them u in til-" morning, who er.ee having risen and breakfasted lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down ;it the heel and- with disheveled hair, reading Hi last novel, and who, having dragged through a wretched forenoon and taken t heir afternoon sleep and hav ing passed an ho:i' and a hal f u t t heir toi let, pick up their eardense and go out to make calls, j-r.d who pass their even ings waiting lor somebody to come in and break up the monotony. Arabella Stuart rever was imprisoned in so dark a dungeon as that. There is no happiness in an idle wom an. It may be with hand, it may be with brain, it v.ay be with foot, but work she uiilI or be wretched forever. The little girls of our families must be smarted with that idea. The curse of American society is lhat our young women are t night that the first, sec ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, iiftie'J'. thousandth thing in t heir life is to get somebody to take care of them. Instead of tkr.t the first lesson should be how under Cod they i;iy take care of themselves. The sim ple fact is that a majority of them h li ive to take care of themselves and that, .too. after having through tin false notions ef their parents wasted he years in which thev ought to have !earuoel how successfully to maintain themselves. We now aud here eleelar the inhumanity, cruelty ami outrage of that faiher and meilhcr who pass their daughters into womanhood bar ing given them no facility for earning their livelihood. !me. tie Stael said: '"It is not these writings that 1 am proud of. but tho fact that I hare facility in ten oe-e-u-pations in any ore of which 1 could make a livelihood." You say you have a ."ortune to ieave them. () man and wo nan! Have vou not learneel that. like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings an. el fly away? Though you shouhl be successful in leaving a competency behind yon. tin trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some officials in our hut ches mav get up a mining eom pjny ami induce your orphans to put their money into a hole in Coloraelo jmel if by the most skillful machinery the tunken money e-annot be- brought up again prove to them that it was eternally elecrecd that lhat was t!ie way th:y were to lose it and that it went in th" most orthodox and heav enly style. OK the damnable schemes that professed Christians will engage in until doe! puts His fingers into the ollar of the hypocrite's robe nel strips it clear down to the bottom! Yon have no right brcause you are well off to conclude- that your children are going to be well e ff. A man died leaving a lr.rgv foitune. His son fell dead in .i Philadelphia greg-hop. His old com tades came in and saiel as they bent over his corpst : "What is the matter with you. r.o?:gsey?" The surpeo.i standing over him said: "Hush, yel ITe i deadl" -Oh. he is dead!" they taid. -Cot"e, boys, let us go and tak" r. drink in memory of poor Poggsey!" Iltve yen nothing better than money to leave your child re ti? Jf yon have no, but ser.d your daughters into the world with empty brain and unskilled har.el, vo'i arc guilty of assassination, homi cide, infan'icide. There r.re women toiling in our cities fcr two or ihre dollars a week who were the daughters Dncce&. iccsa tumeric would be glad to hare the crumbs that onec fell from their father's table. That wornout, broken shoe that she wears is the lineal descendant of the ?i- gaiter in which her mother walked, and that torn and fadeel calico had an cestry of maenifieent brocade that cwept Pennsylvania avenue anel l.road way clean without any expense to the .street commissioners. Though you live in an elegant resi-de-uce and fare sumptuously every day, lot your daughters feel it is a dis grace for them not to know how to work. I denounce the ielea prevalent in society that, though our youngwom en may embroider slippers and crochet and make mats for lamps to stand on without eiisgnice, the ielea of doing anything-'for a livelihooel is dishonora ble. It is a shame for a younar woman be longing to a large family' to be in efficient when her father toils his life away for her rupport. Sei far as I can understand, the line of respectability lies between that which is useful anel that which is use less. ' If women do that which is of no value, their work is honorable. If they do practical work, it is dishonor able. That our young- women may es cape the censi.re of doing elishonora ble work, I shall particularize. You may knit a tidy for the back of an arm chair, but by no means make the money wherewith to buy the chair. You may with a elelicate brush beautifv a man tel ornament, but die rather than earn enough to buy a marble mantel. You may learn artistic music until you can squall Italian, but never sing "Orton ville" or "Old Hundredth." Do noth ing pract'eal if you would, in the eyes of refined society, preserve your re spectability. 1 scout these finical no- tmns. 1 tell you a woman, no more than a man, has a right to oe-cupy a place in this world unless she pays a rent fer it. In the course of a lifetime vou con sumo whole harvests ami droves of cat tie anel every day you live and breath 4') hogsheads of good, pure air You must by some kinel of usefulness pay for all this. Our race was the last thin:,- createel the birds anel fishes on th fourth day. the cattle and lizarels on the fifth day and man on the sixth elay. If geologists are right, the earth was l.ncj.ot'J of years in the possession of the. insects, beasts anel birels before eur race came upon it. In one sense we were invaders. The cattle, the lizards anel the hawks had preemption right The question is not what we are te ilo with lizarels anel summer insects, but what the lizards anel summer insects are to do with us. If we want a nlac; in this world, we must earn it. The pa'rtrieTge makes its own nest before it occupies it. I he lark bv its morning song earns its breakfast before it cats if, and the Hible gives an intimation that the first duty of an ieiler is to starve when it savs: "If he will not work, neither shall he eat." Idler.es ruins the health, and very soon nature says: "This man has refused to pay his rent. Out with him!" Society is to be reconstructed on the subject of wom an's toil. A vast ma joriiy of these who would have woman industrious shut her up to a few kinels of work. Mv juelgment in 1 his matter is that a worn an has a right to elo anything- she can ele well. There should be no depart ment of merchandise, mechanism, art. or science barred against her. Jf Mis.1 Ilosuier has genius for sculpture, give her a chisel. If llosa Uemheur has a fondness for delineating- ni oals, let her make "The Horse Fair. ' If Miss Mitchell will study astronomy, let he: mount the starry laeleler. If Lydia will be a merchant, let her sell purple. If Lucretia Mott will preach the Oospe let her thrill with her womanly elo qnencc the (Quaker meeting house. Years ago. one Sabbath night in the vestibule of our church, .after service, a woman fell in convulsions. The eloc tor said she neeelea medicine not so much as something to eat. As she be gan to revive in her delirium she said gaspingly: "Eight cents! Eight cents! 1 wish I could get it done. I am so tireel. I wish I could get some sleep, but I must get it done. Eight cents! Eight cents!" We found aft ervvarel that she was making gar ments for eight cent apiece anel that she could make but three of them in a day. Hear it! Three times eight arc 24. Hear it. men and women who have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villains of our cities are the employers oi" these women. They beat them down to the last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must eleposit a elollar or two before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is elone it is sharp ly inspeeteel. the most insignificant Haws pickeel out and the wages re- fuseel anl sometimes the dollar de posit eel not given back. The Women's Protective union reports a case where rone of the poor souls, finding- a place where she could get more wages, re solved to change employers anel went to get her pay for work elone. The employer saiel: "1 hear you are going to leave me?" "Yes," she said, "and 1 have come to get what you owe me." He rnaele no answer. She saiel: "Are you not going- to pay me?" "Yes." he said, "1 will pay you," anel he kicked her downstairs. Oh, that Women's Protective union! The blessings of Heaven be on it for the merciful and Divine work it is do ing in the defense of toiling- woman hood. What tragedies of suffering are presented to them day by day ! A parngrnph from their report: "Can you make "Mr. Jones pay me? He owes me for three weeks at $2.50 a week, end I can't get anything, nnd my child is very sick." The speaker, a young woman lately widowed, burst into a flood of tears as she spoke. She was bidelen to come again the iiext afternoon and repeat her story to the attorney at his usual weekly hearing" of frauds and imposi tions. Means were found Ly which Mr. port: "A fortnight had passed, when she modestly hinteel a desire to kiow how much ber services were worth. 'Oh, my dear,' he replied, 'you are get ting to be one of the most valuable hands in the trade. Y'ou will always get the very best price. Ten dollars a week you will be able to earn very easily. And the girl's fingers flew on with her work at a marvelous rate. The picture of ten dollars a week had almost turned her head. A few nights later, while crossing the ferry, she overheard the name of her employer in the conversation of girls who stood near: 'What. John Snipes? Why, he don't pay! Look out for him every time. He'll keep you on trial, as he calls it, for weeks, and then he'll let you go, and get some other fool!' And thus Jane Smith gaineil her warning against the swindler. Put the union held him in the toils of the law until he paiel the worth of each of those days of 'trial.' " .Another paragraph: "Her mortifica tion may be imagineel when told that one of the tvyo five-elollar bills which she Lad just reeeiveel for her work was counterfeit. Put her mortification was swallowed up with indignation when her employer denied having paiJ her the money and insultingly asked her to prove it. When the Protective union had placed this matter in the courts, the judge said: 'You will pay Eleanor the amount of her claim, $3. S3, and also the costs of the court.' " How are these evils to be eradicated? Some say: "Give woman the ballot. What effect such ballot might have on other questions I am not here to dis cuss, but what would be the effect of female suffrage on women's wages? 1 elo not believe that woman will ever get justice by woman's ballot. Ineleed women oppress women as much as men do. Do not women, as much as men, beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Ar; not women as sharp as men on washer women anel milliners and mantm makers. If a woman r.sks one dollar for her work, eloes not her female em ploy er ask her if she will not take Ofl cents? You say: "Only ten cents dif ference." Put that is sometimes the difference between Heaven and hell. Women often Lave Ices commiseration for women than men. If a woman steps aside from the. path of rectitude, man may forgive; woman never! Woman will never get justice elone her from woman's ballot. Neither will she get it from man's ballot. How then? Cod will rise up for her. Ooel has more resources tha.n we know of. Put there is something for women to do. Let young people prepare to exce l in spheres of work, anel they will be ible after awhile to get larger wages. Unskilled anel incompetent labor must take what is given; skillcel and com petent labor will eventually make its own standarel. Admitting that the law of supply anel demand regulates thesi things, 1 contend that the demand for :.killeel labor is very great and the sup ply very f inall. Start with the idea that work is honorable anel that you can do some one thing-better than any body else. Pesolve that, Goel helping, vou will take care of yourself. If you are after awhile calleel into another elation, vou will be all the better qualified for it by your spirit of self- reliance. er if vou are calleel to stav as vou are vou can be happy and self supporting. Poets are fond of talking' about man as an oak anel woman the vine that of roerchsx.l I Jones was induced to pay the S7.50. izg oaes tow Another paragraph from taeir re- climbs it. but I have seen many a tree fall that not only went down itself, but took ail the vines with it. I can fell you of something stronger than an oak for an iw to climb on, anel that is the throne of the gTeat Jehovah. Single or affianced, that woman is strong who leans on Goel anel elocs her best. Many of you will go single-handeel through life, and vou will have to choose b( tween two characters. Young woman, 1 am sure you will turn your back upon the useless, giggling, irresponsibh nonentity which society ignoimniously acknowledges to be a woman anel ask Goel to make you a humble, active, earnest Christian. What will become of that womanly elisciple of the worlel? She is more thoughtful of the attitude she strikes upon the carpet than Low she will look in the juelgment; more worricel about her freckles than her sins; more interested in her apparei than in her redemption. The dyinj actress whose lite liad been vicious said: "The scene closes. Draw the cur tain.' Generally the tragedy comes first anel the farce afterward, but in her life it was first the farce of a use less lite anci tnen the tragedy or a wretched eternity. Compare Ihe life and death of such a one w ith that of some Christian aunt that was once a blessingto votir house hold. I elo not know that she was ever askeet to give tier hanet in marriage. She liveel .single, that, untrammeled. she might be everybody's blessing. Whenever the sick were to be visiteelor the poor to be provided with bread she went with a blessing. She could pray or sing: "Rock of Ages" for any sick pauper who asked her. As she got old er there were days when she was a lit' tie sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam, just the one for Christ mas eve. She knew better han anyone else how to fix things. Her every prayer, as God heard it, was full of evervbodv who had trouble. Tho. brightest thingy in all the house dropped from her fingers. She had peculiar notions, but the grandest- notion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in thi sight of God, is of great price. When she elied, you all gathered lovingl? about her, and as you carried her out to rest the Sunday School class almost covered her coffin with japonieas, and the poor people stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eyes. sobbing- bitterly, and the man of the world said, with Solomon.' 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