The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-31


calico had ancestry OF magnificent brocsde
that swept Broadway clean without
any expense to the Street Commss oners.
Though you live in an elegant residence and
fare sumptuously every dsy. let your daugh.
ters feel that IL Is a disgrace to them not to
know how to work. / denounce the idea
prevalent in society that though our young
women may embroider slippers and crochet
and make mats for lamps to stand Oo with
out disgrace, the ides OF doing anything for
livelihood is dishonorable.
1t is shame for young woman, belong.
ing to large family. to be inefficient when
the father tolls his life away for her support.
1t is shame for daughter to be idle while
her mother tolls at the wash-tub. It is as
honoloble to sweep house. make beds or trim
has rs II is TO twist O watch chain. As far
Is l can understand, the line ofrsspsctability
lies between that which is useIai and that
which is useless. IL women do that which is
Of no value. their work is honorable. Itthsy
Go practical work, it is dishonorsble. That
tpr Young woslen may escape the csDsure OF
doing dish honorable work l shall particular.
ize. You may knit tidy for the back OF IA
Armchair, but by DO means make the money
whtrewith to buy the chair. Youma with
delicate brush, beautify rnantel ornament,
but die TatEer than earn enough 10 bay
marble msntel. You may learn artistic
music until you can sQusil Italian but never
sing "Orlonville" or odd Hundred" Do
nothing practical il yoU would ia the eyes
OF refined society preserve your respectable
ity.
/ scout these finical notions tell you a
woman, no more than mar, has right TO
occupy place in this world unless she paws
rent for it. In the course or lifetime you
consume whole harvests and Groves of cstsle,
and every day you live you breathe forty
hogsbeads OF good, pure air. You must, by
some kind OF usefulness pay for at this
Our race was the last thing crested-the birds
and fishes on the fourth Gay. the cattle aud
lizards on the fiji day, and ma. on t he sixth
Gay. III biologists are sht the esrth ~as a
million o years IN possession OF the insects,
beasts and birds before our race came upon
il. Ia one sense We were innovatols; the cat
tie, the lizards and the hawks had pre- enc
ton right. Tie question is not what we are
to dc with the liza DIS and summer insects.
but what the lizards snd summer insects are
10 DO with us.
MUST EARN YOUR POSITION.
ii we want place in this world We must
earn IT, The partridge makes its own nest
before it occupies 1t. The lark by its morn.
ing song, earns its breakfast before 1t eats 1t;
and the Bible gives an imitation that the
FIST duty OF an idler is TO starye when 1t
Gays IL he viii not work, neither shall he
eet." ldleness ruins the health and very
soon nature says: This man has refused to
pay bis rent; out with him' Society is 20
tell vast shortly Of those who would
have woman industrious shut her Up TO
few kinds OF work. My Judgment Ia the
matter is that woman bas right to 90
anything she can DO we'll. There should be
no department OF merchandise, mechanism
art or science barred against her. 1t Miss
HOsrner has genius for sculpture. give her
a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has fondness for
deliDeatiDg sDinas, let her make the Horse
Fair" II Miss Mitchell will study ast-on-
omy, let her mount the starry ladder IL
Lydia will be merchant, let her sell pOr-
pie. II Lucretia Mott will preach the GOSPEL,
let her thrill with her womanly eioqaence
TT Quaker meeting house.
lt Is said IL woman is given such opportu-
mites she will occupy places that might be
taken by man. | say if she have more skill
and sdsptedness forsny position than man
has, let her have it, She has as much right
10 her bread, to her apparel ana 70 her home
as men nave. But il is said that her nat7re
is so delicste that she is untitled for exhaust.
ing toll. ] ask in the name of Gil past his
tory what toll On earth is more severe.
exhaustive and tremendous than that toll
of the needle TO which for ages she has been
subjected? The bsttering-Ism, the sword
the csrbine, the battle-ax have made no such
havoc as the needle. | would that these liv-
ing sepulchIes in which women have for
sges been buried might be opened and that
some Tesurrt elton trumpet might bring up
light. Go with me and l will show yoa
woman who by hardest toll supports her
children, and her drunken husband, her old
father and mother, pays her house rent,
always has wholesome food on her table, Nnd,
when she can get some neighbor on the SAB
bath 10 come in and take care Of her family,
appears in church with hat and cloak that
are far from indicating the toll TO which she
is subjected.
Such q woman as that has body and soul
enough to fit her for any position. She could
stand beside the maj ority Of your salesmen
and dispose OF more goods. she could go
into yonr wheelwrlght shops and beat one
half of your workmen at making carria ges.
We talk about women ss though we had re.
signed to her all the light work, and our
selves had shouldered the heavier. Bat the
day OF Judgment, which will reveal the suf
ferings of the stake and inQaisition, will
marshal before the throne of God and the
hierarches of heaven the martyrs of WASH
tub and needle. Now say, IL there be any
preference in occupation, let women have il.
God knows her trials are the everest. + her
acuter sensitiveness to misfortune, by her
hour OF anguish, / demand that nc one hedge
up her pathway to q livelihood. Oh, the
mesnness, the despiseability of men who be-
grpdge a woman the right to work anywhere
IN any honorable calling.
GIVE WOMAN AN EQUAL SHOW.
go still farther, and cay that women
should have equal compensation with men.
By what principle of justice is it that women
in many of our cities get only tvo.thirds as
much pay as men, and in many CAGES only
half? Here is the gigantic Injustice that
for work equally we'll, If not better done, NO.
men receive far less compensation han M %.
Start with the National Government. We.
men clerks in Washington get 5000 for doing
that for which men recsive 81, 500. The
wheel OF oppression Is rolling over the neeks
Il thousands OF women who are ct this mo-
ment in despair about what they are to do.
Many OF the large mercantile estab slu ents
Of our cities are accessory TO these abomina-
there are scores OF souls being pitched on
into death, and their employers know it is
there Cod Will there be q judgment? l