, 1874-09-06

my brain
/ 4 TEorduT OF rITY
to tie women in those underground rooms, wh
bend over the washing g-machine Or the ironing
board day after day, and almost night after nigh:
since their work often confines them until th
hours OF which = monarch cried:
How many thousand Of my poorest subjects are Z
this hour asleep!
This morning wcnt down into the hc.: ant
vapor, and watched there for half an hour. Tall
about Turkish baths! Why. they arc nothing
and nowhere. To me it Was simply fearful.
4 lady came forward to meet me {sho tcas I
lady ovety inch, though she took her hands iron
ast,Tch.bowg, and answered my 3 questions witt
Wages are low, ranging from 314 to e23 pcl
month but board, lodging, and laundry-worl
| are inclnded; go, having no expense to meet
this is all profit, and the women arc able to dress
| better and lay up more than many who have
wias ne cali better situations and nicer work.
| 1went there witn bitter feeling against their
| employer, who had colored mon to servo his
gnests aud do the light work in the estab,
sh%'ns moss sj ia esads Sad ID IN 2on'' }oms a.
been wronged myself. But the cheerful,
contcnted faces Of the girls; thor assurance
that tho work vas not 30 very hard, nor the heat
| oppressive now they we're used to it; their
hght-hcarted iests. their freedom from care, and
! tllier liking for their work, convinced me that
| there was
no WRONG DONE THEN,
| no injustice or oppression medtAted and
smiled as I remembered hoH often bad pitied
! them with pity that was almost pain in its in
tensity.
The plain fact in the case is, wo waste vast
amount Of gratultous sentiment over these
things and vast aInount over people Who aro
better OF all the time than wo are ourselves /;
for which they would not thank US Tero they
aware Of it,
We pity the girl Who washes our dishes, and
the one vino does general houseuork, and tho
ssamstress who slsSes With her needle. and tho
one who takes care Of the children, aud the wom-
an who goes out housecleaning, aud the Que
who renovates solled linen, very much after the
manner in which I pitied these laundry-girls.
One at them in particulars pretty girl, Nho
always stood by tue door folding napkins
with deft fingers that were Whitcr than my OWL
had interested me always, and had an idea that
she must be very unllappy tlere,-Wiahed IVES
man, or knight Of tho days Of Arthur, go I
could dc something chivalrous, or even Don
Quixote, whom my mission wonld be to rescue
distressed dausels, or that OF her rich u1a-
clas in the Antipodes would die and leave her
few millions but she quietly took the romance
and sentiment out Of my calculations By saying,
in the most matter-of-fact manner, that
sHE LIKED HER WORK;-
had rathcr do it than anything else.
don't know what you would have done, but
! made up my mind on the instant that miesiou-
ary work wasn't in my line Of business that
had no special talent for convincing people that
they we're worse-treated by fata than any one
else, that they had mistaken their calling and
bad bettar shut mp shop and go ont in search OF
their sphere aud to the admiration had felt
for that little girls pretty face added at oncs
respect for her good eense.
There is no step Of fames ladder that mutt
not be filled, and thoy who stand on the lowest
round stand there Is WELL and far more eafnlv,
than thoas wlao arc higher up. No have such
lotof false, sy idoas about the relation Of things
Oh
spectacle :; such contemptible fancles about gen.
tility, that wonder everybody doesn't have to
ba their Own servant in this ''our Gerce dcu1oc-
racy." No wonder poet announced it as - q
thing for laughter, aeers, and jeers.' It is
on the principle that ne teach our boys
that thoy wero born TO be Presidents
when, after oil, it would be vastly better to bo
teaching them something honest and practical.
We only want new President once in four or
eight rears; but no want millions of sturdy Yco-
men. who put their bands to the ploW, and break
new fields in every department of art, science,
commerce,-as Wel a. II agriculture, Whero
boundleas ac1es roll in luxury in far-oH western
and northern territories that AZ get tho foot of
civilization has never pressed.
we WANT WIVES FOB THESE MEN,
brave, seueible, honest Steady, industrious, low
ing women,-wh can take up LIES labors With
cheerful hearts,-not forever sighing mourn
fully to tha neglect Of present duties, and the
general discomfort Of every ono around them,
OF "what might have been." Maud Mullera aro
pretty in clover-delds and poems; bat think |
them about as companionable as Niobes, and |
don't wonder that their husbands are sometimes !
found "1ying around loose, and that their chill !
dreu grow up to do likewise.
It is not that want women to be "1ousehold !
drudges," or that advise them all to be laun- |
dresses, but that want them to respect every !
calling, to discriminate between tho |
that glitte1s behind the footlghts will tarnisl, t
md that hearts ache under eilkcu robea IS they |
rarely do under simple print
Oh, what Ifa's lessons cost us! What wo Bufer /
before We learn to be content withal"! How /
We wTithe in the hand that, struggle no ever so |
fercely, holds us in the ranke that Experience |
drills. The greatest fault, tho most glaring /
in our composition, ia
WANT OF 6ELF-1EspECT,-
want OF that graud, innate pride that makes |
whatever we do honorable thst makes ono a
man though he hold spade, end woman most |
Homanly, lady-like, and lovanlc, while sho dig
charges tue household tasks upon which tho |
comfort OF family and friends depends.
ThcTe ia no home go sWeetly homehko cs that |
in which the #ife is mistress aud housekeepor,
familiar With the petty details of domestic life |
that your strong-mluded re1orme1s pronounce
irksome and degrading. Idon'tkn What good |
their carping has ever done the human raco
while tho mischief, the discomfort, the misery
and ruin, that caa be traced directly to thom aro
Thotr misplaced eympathy'-:eympathy only
ac!ed like sunshine when falling upon blossom
and fruit, it perfects them, bat turns vinegar
more sour."
ne talk about raising tho nasses but how do
we Try to do it? We talk about eloTating them,
and What do VIC mcsa? We make them unhappy
10 lowly paths, envious OF the undesirable, teach
them to dcspise the good and tho usoful, to do
pend upon their surroundings for their manhood
aud womanhood, upon their occupation for
their, responsibility. upon their birth for
their nobility I like the ambition that |
dares all things, but which yet puts
8 true estimate upon tho value Of each. Had
children to rear. would teach thom with cvory
breath they drew from their first conscious mo-
meut, tho spirit TINT is the grandest proof OF
worth,-that uoblest type Of pride ever seen in
man OF woman:
" TOO PROUD TO CARE FROM WHENCE CANE"
Every pulsntion Of the heart should repeat it,
erery act in life should proclaim it, snd, whea
one builds his structure upon this fouuda~
ion. and risos to eminence upon it, he
1eed hare no fcM for himseIf or
othe1s for him; for the united storms
If ages, tha tlnndors Of nil the forces in the
World. civil, social, or political power, cannot
more him. Ho eau will whatever he Will havo,
md have whatever he may ask, and nothing will
70 refused, and NO good thing withheld from
li1a~ He will be the Iruc American aristocrat;
nd the spirit ia tho snme in man or woman,
refining, purifying, making 50
rod tho smallest and meanest duty in 1fn -