The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-06-18
'AlistrlIamtous.
FEMALE IDLENBSS.
REV. MP GADDIS AT PIXIES
MUSIC HALL.
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Proverbs-sist chnptor, q7th yor.c.

A'"" "uN "N.N"u PulCot ACllClJJ IN
shis world is connected with honest.
reputable toll. Idleucss is not only
dishonorable, but is opposed to goou
inc happiness, The lazy mau or
woman is evidently seekiag to thwart
the command of their Croator-in
the sweat Of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread. There is no true manly or
womanly dignity in this world discon
nected from labor.
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Woman can and must do good in
this world. Her hour has come, and
the woman revolution Of to-day eau
not go backward save to CLEAN from
the history of womans past those
traits of character that gave to the
world such women is the mothers Of
Bacon, Hume, r. b. Sheridan, Lord
Erskine, Sir Walter Scott, and in
more modern times Of the Wesleys,
the Calyins, the Whilfelds, Wash
iugtons, Adams, and unnumbered
Others of the past, who devoted much
of their lives to the training of their
sons ana daughters, through which
God was hororod and mankind bless
ed.
Iropeal that the woman revolution,
so successfully iuaugurated, must not,
can not, go backward. Onward is
the inspiration of the hour, aud wo-
man must continue the revolution
until all tue obstacles in her pathway
to success are removed.
Prominent among these obstacles
stands that of female idleness, over
which so many Of the sex stumble
aud fall into irretrievable ruin. When
| am asked why there are not more
female teachers who can command
good salaries in our schools, female
music teachers, female merchants,
female physicians, &C., l answer, be.
cause our American girls are through
the customs of the day, trained up
tl lives of Incidence and case. No
nation of the same size, population
aud Intelligence, presents as many
feminine idlers as our own. Among
American women the funcied heaven
of the nineteenth century is plenty of
money, dress. fashion, folly theatre,
going and novel reading, with moth
ing to do. The success of the pre-
sent woman revolution depends in the
main upon the destruction of the
idea that feminine idleness is essen
tial to female independence.
The most dependent class Of people
in the world are these who have to
depend upon some one else to furnish
all they eat, drink, or wear.
8 ConyersiOg with an intelligent
young lady, few evenings since, She
archly remarked we young ladies are
under obligations to you for your
good advice, but as for me will
never marry unless | can marry a man
abe to keep me without work. Live
sgithQutayork k-drag out miserable
existence without unything to do.
The desire without the fulfillmentis Of
itself terrible. 80 rs .1ri Z ID
This leads me to notice the first
great cause ofso much female idle
ness, and contempt for labor. Too
many of our girls are taught to be-
lieye by the words and actions of
their parents, that labor is degrad-
ing, Labor degrading? Cod ldbors
angels labor; the redeemed saints of
heaven labor, and are scntforth as
ministering spirits to the children Of
men. No. Labor is oleyeting; not
degrading.
My text says OF the mother, nshe
looked well to the ways of her house
hold. As remarked in a previous
sermon, home is wonau's dominion,
aud while | would not confne her
there, as is the desire of DR.. Todd
aud others Of his kith, would have
her look we'll to the interests Of her
dominion. As its immediate and |
presiding sovereign, she caIeth for its
present aud future happiness There
arc four kinds Of hSasehold care
mgralIPhysieal, mental Sppd domes
tic. Every mother should bo pre-
pared to train her children IN she
nurture end aimonition of the lord.
She should be ready TO take the place
of her husband 10 his absence in con
Quoting those religious exercises
Thich, eyer tend to ,hpllow aud sane
iify the future lives'of her ohildreu.
So < X *s ~
Physical training comes next. In
hesc days of sffeminancy aud decay
# physical strength, all mothers
hould be prepared to direct the
physical training Of their children