The Brookhaven leader., 1885-05-07

First, she may visit the children,
talk with them and bring them into
the Sabbath school: then she must
interest and keep them there by
friendly sympathy and love, by
reading interest stories, explaining
the lessons, distributing prizes, etc.
To work effectually in the Sabbath
school and church, each one should
have a special object upon which TO
concentrate her labor, and all the
members should harmonize aud work
together for good.
Woman has also come to the front
as a missionary worker, both at
home and abroad This is a work
in which every earnest christian
woman should feel an interest, and
should labor to advance. Most
especially should she endeavor to
aid in sending the gospel to the ig-
norant of her own country. A very
small effort on the part of each in
vIdual would raise q boom that
would gladden. the hearts of our mis-
sionaries in their arduous labor and
which would in return to us bring Joy
Every church should have its mis-
sionary, or other societies, and these
call for another duty which has been
too much negl, cted among women,
which is, to learn the methods OF
conducting public meetings. This
has never been considered part of
woman's education, yet she not ex-
empt from ridicule or ignorance in
this matter. She should study some
manual which teaches the methods
of conducting these meeting and
thus avoid the accusation OF incapac
ity so often heaped upon her by the
opposite sex.
1t is impossible in one essay 10 90
into the history of all the callingS
for wonans hon, rable and noble
work. They range from the lower
drudgeries to the line of profess.
ionar s,-reachers, Lecturers, Law
yers, Physicians, Journalists,
Preachers, and host of others.
The woman who works in some
honorable way to maintain herself
loses none of the dignity or refine
mcnt of true womanhood, and is
just as much, even more, an orna.
ment 10 her sex than the woman
whose days are spent in idlcness.
Woman does not always enter pub
lie life from choice. Her ambition
is more often aroused by necessity.
A comfortable home, surrounded bv
love and confidence, is her hearts
desire, but when these are denied
her she Is ready to adapt herself to
any honorable avocation that comes
within the range of her strength
and capacity, which is the secret of
all successful living.
Again, woman is no small unit in
the great effort now being made to
abolish King Alcohol from our land
She has already done much by her
planning, her prayers aud her tears
toward arouSlng the public to action
in this matter, yet there remains
much more to be done. The proper
ton of drinkers increases, and with
it the ever increasing percentage OF
paupers, idiots and lunatics. No
prayer has power to arrest the in
ebriate appetite, or surely there
would not now exist one anebriate
home under the broad canopy Of
heaven, for how woman has wept,
plead and prayed, God only knows
Neither will swearing off or signing
pledge remove the appetite for
the stimulant. The appetite is there
and what can woman do to cure or
prevent it.
We are told that food hes much to
do with creating or REFRESHING this
dreaded appetite, and that unnatural
food has created unnatural tendencies
ever since the story of food began.
In this, as in all other reformations,
the work must begin at home. Moth
ers should impress 1t upon their
children to live sober and industli.
Gus lives. Let the daughters learn
to make savory, relishable dishes
'ioLh SISdp hdCCtIdlS, anu SlUCG tHCS
have learned that the way to mans
affections is down his throat, teach
them that the soil in which the
brain is cultivated lies in the same
direction. Because bcnefcent God
has beautifully filled our stores with
a variety of good things it does not
follow that we should eat of them
all at the same time. There is no
doubt that a variety in diet is bene-
fetal, but rich food, like our SUNDAY
clothes, should be INDUCED in only
occasionally, and strong drink nev
En-.
Nothing hut knowledge can be
perfect safeguard, and if we neglect
to lmpart that knowledge we are in
so much guilty if they grow up to
criminal lives and dishonored
deaths.
Southern women may well learn
lesson on diet from their Northern
sisters. They tell us that we eat too
much meat that meat once day
and in small quantities Is sufficient.
and that children under six years
should cat no meat. Our most learn
ed physicians tell us that food
should always consist largely OF
grain and fruits,-wheat in all its
forms, corn, rice, barley and oat-