The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-05-30
JUST WHAT you MAKE 1T
A SERMON FOR GIRLS

Il am sick of this cant and twad.
die, for can call it by no better
name. Ii is all nousense-no girl
need throw herself away. Couldn't
support berselfl And SO she married
that man with no moral stamina, NO
more iit for her TO mate with, than
an eagle Is to mate with a crow 70
why, what could she do? She
couldn't teach-she had no gift 10 the
way OF business. She had TO mar
ry"
DO" said 1, "wby she could do
houseworki" |"
do housework ? My companion
lifted her hands in horror and amaze.
ment. "Do Homework! Who would
recognize her, ana then she is not
able to do housework."
is there caste in this land
would ecognize her none the less be-
cause she made my bread and wash.
ed my dishes Not able to do house
work! What has she taken upon
her but housework Will not the
vows Of wifehood and the care she
has assumed be housework? Work
ing out, Us you term it, would be
nothing 70 the responsibility she has
taken"
"0h, well, the world does not look
at it in this light"
Does that make the work any
easier ? | fail to see the point"
''You always do put things SO
queerly. | for one would do just as
Emma Haze did, il were situated
in the same manner
Would you, reader? The circum-
stances are these:
Emma Haze was an orphan.
She had home at an uncle's, it such
place can be called home. She
was tolerated there becanse she was
a brothers. child. She worked for
her board and was grudgingiy allow
ed the clothes she needed. Although
her education was good, she had no
tact for teaching. She had no taste
for business, as has been already
said. Her forte was doing house
work, but rather than support herself
in that way-for fear OF what Mrs.
Grundy and ber train of folio Sers
would ssy-she married q man who
had no mind, no principle. no educa-
ton, but little money.
Would you have done it? | put
the question 10 each one who reads
would you have done it !? 1t
you would. then you are-must | say
II coward
And now i want to preach ser
mon to every girl in this land. Per-
hsps there will be nothiog beautiful
in it, nor any poetry in it. but it will
have this merit, there will be truth in
il. This is tie text CHRIS, your
life will be just What you make it."
Nothing is lowering to your digni-
y, if You do not let il lower your dig
atty. Keep 10 the path of virtue and
you are in The right 1t is no worse
or you 10 go into the kitchen OF
another and d. the wcrk and be paid
.wenty shillings week for it, than it
. for You 10 marry aud do the same
work, and get nothing for it but what
1oa eat aud the clothes you wear
| went in search Of q servant girl
asst summer For seven long weeks
searched sorrowing. One pretty
ooking girl told me that il ! only
iyed in the town instead OF the coun-
ry she would help me, but she was
.freid she would spoil her complex
on Yet her father was drunksrd,
nd her mother earned their daily
'read by going out at days work.
erubbiDg, washing and the like
And there the daughter was content
o sit with folded hands, waiting.
ping that some one would come aud
a srry her.
But, says one, Il don't want 10
nnk that | must work out oil my
ife for living"
You heed not, but you will need
ourage, perseverance and will to i
10. lie, me tell you story. Mary |
Ssrnum and her brother were left or
hans She was sixteen, be fourteen
he father had been q shifIless, inef-
eient sort Of man, and bad laid up
Iothing for the future, Sd they we're
5liged to support themselves For
unately for her, she knew how to do
Iousework, and anyone who secured
.lary secured q treasure. So abe |
.ent tu work. She sent her brother
/, schoul. At the age Of sixteen he
leant to learn . trade. Soon after
be came to me.
Il am tired Of doing housework,
rod .f coorrso~ Iosv.o and ncs,kiow |!