Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-25
W0MAN'S WAGES.
A Sermon on W0man's Work by
Or. Talmags.
THE DEsPoTIsM OF THE NEEDLE
Girls Should be Taught to Earn
Their Own Living in
the World.
A PICTURE OF WoMAN's WORLD
,Speeidl 10 The REGISTER.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, May 24.-Dr. Talmage
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning on the subject: THE Despotism
of the Needle or Discourse on Woman's
Wages" Before the sermon DR.. Talmsge
explained the Epistle of James where it
says: "Be not many masters, which he
said was q reproof for those who are dis
posed to be "bossy" in their despotism.
The opening hymn was:
"'AIid scenes of confusion and creature complaints
How sweet 10 my soul Is communion Of saints!'
The text was from Ecclesiastics iy. |: $50
| returned and considered all the oppres-
sions that are now done under the sun and
behold, the tears Of such as were oppressed
and they had no comforter; and on the side
of :heir oppressors there was power" Fol-
lowing is
The Sermon in Full:
Very long ago the needle was busy II
was considered honorable for women to
toll in olden time. Alexander the Great
stood in his palace showing garments made
BY his own mother. The finest tapestries
at Bayeux were made by the queen of
William the Conqueror. Augustus, the
Emperor, would not wear any garments ex'
cept those that were fashioned by some mem
Der of his royal family. So let the toiler
everywhere be respected! The needle has
slain more than the sword. When the sew.
ing machine was invented some thought
that invention would alleviate womans toll
and put an end to despotism of the needle.
But, no; while the sewing machine has
been a great blessing to well.to.do families
in many cases, it has added to the stab Of
the needle the crush of the wheel, and
multitudes of women Notwithstanding the
reinforcement of the sewing machine can
Only make, work hard as they will, between
two and three dollars per week.
The greatest blessing that could have
happened to our first parents w"s being
turned out of Eden after they had done
wrong. Adam and Eve in their perfect
state might have got along without
Work,
or only such slight employment as perfect
garden with no weeds in it demanded. But
SIS soon as they had sinned, the best thing
for them was to be turned out where they
would have to work. We know what a
withering thing it is for a man to have
nothing to do. Old Ashbel Green, at four
score years, when asked why he kept on
working, said: 81 do so to keep out Of mis-
chief We see that man who has large
amount Of money to start with, has no
chance. Of the thousand prosperous and
honorable men that you know, nine hun
dred and ninety nine had to work vigorous.
ly at the beginning. But am now to tell
you that industry is just as important for a
woman's safety and happiness. The most
unhappy women in our communities to-day
are those who have no engagements to call
them up in the morning; who, once having
risen and breakfasted, lounge through the
dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel
last novel; and who, having dragged
through a wretched forenoon and taken
their afternoon sleep and having passed an
hour and half at their toilet, pick up their
card case and go out to make calls, and
who pass their evenings waiting for some
body to come in and break up the monotony.
Arabella Stuart never was imprisoned in so
dark dungeon as that. There is
No Happiness In An Idle Woman.
1t may be with hand, it may be with brain,
may be with foot; but work she must or be
wretched forever. The little girls OF our
fan lies must be started with that idea
The curse of our American society is that
our young women are taught that the frat,
second, third fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fftieth, thoussndth thing in their
life is to get somebody to take care of them.
Instead OF that, the first lesson should be,
how, under God, they may take care OF
themselves. The simple fact is, that a ma
jority Of them do have to take care Of them.
selves, and that, too, after having through
the false bottoms oftheir parents, wasted the
years in which they ought to have learned
how successfully to maintain themselves.
We now here declare the inhumanity, cruel.
ty and outrage of that father and mother
who pass their daughters into womanhood,
having given them no facility for earning
their livelihood. Madame De Stsel said:
at is not these writings that am proud of,
but the fact that have facility in ten occu-
pa,ions, in any one of which i could make a
| livelihood"
You say you have fortune to leave
them. o, man and woman, have you not
learned that like vultures like hawks, like
eagles,
Riches Have Wings
ard by away. Though you should be sue
cessiul in having competency behind you,
the trickery of executors may swamp it in
night; or some officials in our churches
may get up mining company and induce
your orphans TO put their money into hole
in Colorado; and if, by the most skillful
machinery the sunken money cannot be
brought mp again, prove to them that it was
eternslly decreed that that was the way they
were TO lose it and that it went in the mos.
orthodox and heavenly style. Oh, the
damnable schemes that pTofessed Christians
will engage in until God puts his fingers
into the collar Of the hypocrite's robe and
rips il clear down to the bottom! You have
no right because you are well OF to con-
clude that your childrea are going to be as
well of. A man died leaving large for
tune. His son fell dead in Philadelphia
grog.shop, His old comrades came in and
said as they bent over his corpse: Whit is
the matter with you BoggseyT' The sur
geon standing over him said: Hush up!
he is deadr 'Oh, he is dead" they said
"Come boys, let Us take drink in memory
of poor Boggsey!
Teach Her to WSrk.
Have you nothing better than money to
leave your children2 IL you have not, bat
send your daughters ints the world with
empty brain and unskinsd hand, you are
guilty Of assassination, homicide, regicids.
infaniicide. There are women toiGns in
our streets for 81 and 81 per week who were
the daughters Of merchant princes These
suffering ones now would be glad 70 have
the crumbs that once fell from their fathers
table. That worn, out broken shoe that she
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