St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-19
Mr.. Beecher Devotes Portion Of the
Morning Hour for the Benefit
Of Shop Girls.
What to Consider in Selecting Vocation
Those Offering the Best
Advantages.
DR.. Ta1mage's Theme, ssShan We
Have Another Chance in the
Next World.''
What This Life is Meant FORA
Dream of the Day of
Judgment.
Helping Shop Girls.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-In reading no
tice this morning of a concert to be given
for the benefit of the Working Girls So
ciety, Mr.. Beecher, after describing the
object of the society to be the education to
working girls in useful branches of knowl-
edge, such as dreSSmaking. cooking, type
writing, millinery, etc., said: ''Of dress
making there is no need for me to speak.
1t comes by nature, but cooking, in all the
efforts that are being made now to econ
omize and to lift up the ignorant and the
working classes of the community, there
are great many fundamental elements
that must go in, but one neglected element
of economy is cooking. 1t is astounding to
think what sort of things we love
to eat, and in what condition. 1
consider the kitchen as being the devils
own organized kingdom against the king
dom of health in the human family.
the want of economy springing from the
want of knowledge, the gross food, the
greasy food, the want of delicacy and of
regard for the finer elements of health and
| life-it is amazing. 1t is piteous, 1t is
heathenish. The heathens live better than
we do Oftentimes in that regard. We do
not want any French morality, but we should
like some French cuisine. The art of one
onion to make dozen soups, every one OF
A DIFFERENT FLAVOR;
! the art of rendering the poorest meats, and
the cheapest, such as are within the reach
of all, into such tasteful and relishful
dishes as shall perfectly satisfy the men
who gorge themselves with pork and rude
young women how so wisely
and economically and delicately
to cook as to lay foundation under their
future married life that will avail very
much. 1 would not hold back any moral
or religious element, but the kitchen has a
great deal to do with grace in civilized So
| ciety. It seems to me that fashion goes
from bad to worse all the time. Some
times it attacks one part, some times an
other, and to very large extent it is a
blotch against taste, and | can't expect that
millinery will amount to very much. But
type-writing, that is very important, and
opens one of those quiet occupations for
women that we desire very much to see eX-
tended. One of the great questions of the
day, and especially in cities, is what occu-
pationS are open to single women, or mar
ried women for that n after, but
ESPECIALLY FOR MAIDENs,
by which they can obtain, an honest liveli-
hood without breaking down their health,
Typewriting, the sewing machine, teleg
raphy. copying. under suitable limitations,
open great many varieties to old-fashioned
notions of industry. 1t is good thing for
giris to learn them, if they never use them.
We are all the time rising up and breaking
down. One of the most piteous and uni
versal spectacles that addresses your eyes
and mine, is that of refined and educated
| On1l n howe fn no nf fhai
! life been affiuently supplied, and in the
bankruptcy of their husbands, or in their
death, find themselves obliged to maintain
themselves and their families. ''What can
we do?" they cry. The number of things
that a woman can do can easily be counted;
and | hold that part of family education
should be to have a substructure of effect
i've working knowledge by which they
might maintain themselves under reduced
circumstances. 1t is all very well to under
take to enforce the motives of duty, but a
woman wrenched out of her rooted ground
transplanted into
| POOR AND SANDY SOIL,
and compelled to bring forth all the fruits
that belong to her former station, it is ask
ing a perpetual miracle, We have been
taught by novelists that love broke folks
hearts, or the want of them, but there are
hundred things abroad that are breaking
hearts, and when 1 say breaking their
hearts, the heart has nothing to
do with it; it is breaking
their nerves-that is where the
breaking comes, it is exhausting them,
weakening them. There is no part of so
ciety which has in it more good there is no
part of it more assailable and that de-
| linQuences easier than young womanhood.
There is no class of which more drops by
the road and that constitute so large an ele-
ment in the stream of death and damnation
than rolls down through the streets of our
great Cities and any attempt to meet their
wants and to anticipate the disaster which
easily falls to them will be certainly of the
mind and heart of Jesus"
The theme of Mr. Beecher's sermon was
the parable contained in the fourteenth
chapter of Luke, fifteenth to twenty-fourth
verses, the story of the rejected invitations
to the feast.
Dr rEa lima Uo,s Sorrpon.