, 1874-04-05
All INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR WOMEN.

Just now VIC must admit, whether We want to
or not, that women arc having things pretty
much their own way. We may Bay this frankly
US giving unto Cnsar tho things that are
CRsars; Or wo may confess it with tardy words
that prove our willingness to have tho world
look upon US as martyrs to mans inhumanity
to (wo)man. However. I want to talk to you
of something real; and I want to Say it as much
to one sex rs to the other,-to anybody and to
everybody, I don't care who, or where. or what,
SO that they are good, generous, rich, in1uen-
tial, dc.
One would naturally suppose thGt, in speak
ing to rnoncyed meu here, it was superlu-
Gus to uso the word generous as means Of dcs-
ignating any; since to say that a man is q Chi
cagoan, and rich. is to say, the world over, that
he is generous, if not lavish, with his money.
You have made fortunes with an ease that
surprised yourselves; and you have literally
aided and patronized With them amnsements,
literature, art, religious and social enterprises,
and all the vast speculative schemes that have
added TO our national prosperity and our na-
tional pride-haye n;ded and encouraged almos.
everything worthy, and much that was WORTH
less; but, of the few things yet untouched,
plead for but one.
: Uppor1nost ever in every mind is strong,
women in some substantial, permanent way.
Already We have churches. schools, missions,
Aid Societies, Tn Erring WoInan's Refuge, 3
Home for tho Friendess, hospitals for the sick,
converts for the world weary, reform school
for outcasts, Fou,dling's Home, md Bride
well,-a formidable array, TO which you will
point as you ask what more can possibly want
I want an Industrial Home, or School, for girls
and omen,-something removed far from char
ity and dependeneo,-- o,--something that shall ft
fo nCfyr all $hairr fF1f9 fa
them that truly " There all the honor lies.'
see no reason under the son why such an
institution may not as well be self-supporting as
8 State Prison; and, in ono sense. it would nucd
trades and occupations taught, and all kinds OF
business carried on which women s.o adapted
TO- each one applying herself, or being applied,
to that which she is best suited to or for Give
them safe and pleasant home within the insti-
tuition; give them food Tor body and mind; de-
velop the physical, mental, and moral powers of
each and all; give them plain aud tidy raincnt;
give them work for busy fingers and brains; and,
as both fingers and brains become educated, e1-
pert, useful as soon as the pupils, or appren-
for their labor, until they are perfect in each
branch or art aad place q useful life before
them in it's most attractive form, as being the
source OF that peace which paseeth under
standing, that il born of honest, industrious
independence, even though it should entail upon
them life Of self-donia1 and hard work.
Let the place be- so fur as possible, officered By
women, n,--women with large hearts, warm sym
patbies, broad charities,-so broad, SO CHRIST
like. so free from tue curse and taint OF CASTE
so free from bigoted 'self-rghteousness, that
they can take by tho hand the most humiliated
Magda1en that ever crept to their door to find
refuge from, the sin that appalls and the shame
that sicEens her, and lead her back to honor and
virtue making that possibly here which we're
Impossible elsewhere.
aake the institution. in the fullest, brightest,
eheeriest sense, ho.'nlike; no prison-walIs, no
hated place Of confinement and drudgery but
put in it books. pictures, flowers, birds, ali aud
everything shat will tond to cultivate domestic
tastes, refinement, and purity. Let it be, like
the homes wherein your own SONS and daughters
sre reared 2 Mecca to which Memory will make
faithful aud loving nEriuages when theY have
gone ont from its shelter,-to which, weary,
oppressed, 6urdened, worn with the c,rea that
womaEhood no less than manhood imposes. thev
can oyar look back gratefully as does the feyei-