New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-17

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wife: We'll, Mary, we will have to move ont
| OF this house and sell our piano. That old
/ merchant that has had an evil eye on me
| ever since Istarted has bought out all that
| clothing, and he will have it rejuYenated,
| and next year put it on the market as new
while we will do well if we keep out of the
! poor house." The young man, broken
] spirited. goes to hard drinking. The young
| wife with her baby goes to her fathers
house, and not only is his store wiped out
| but his home, his morals and his prospects
! for two worlds, this and the next And
| devils make banquet of fire and fill their
| cups of gall and drink deep to the health of
the old merchant who swallowed up the
young merchant who got stuck on spring
goods and went down That is one way
| and some of you have tried it,
But there is another way. That youno
merchant who found that he had miscalcula-
ted In laying in too many goods of one kind
and been flung of the unusual season, is
standing behind the counter feeling very
blue and biting his fnger-nails or looking
over his account books, which read darker
and worse every time he looks at them, and
thinks how his young wife will have to be
put in a palmer house than she ever expected
to live In or go to a third-rate boarding
house where they have tough liver and sour
bread i've mornings out of the seven.
An old merchant comes in and says:
well, Joe, this has been a hard season
TOR young merchants, and this prolonged
cold weather has put many in the
doldrums, and | have been thinking of YOU
a good deal oflate, for just after | started
IN business once got into the same scrape
Now if there is anything can do to help you
out will gladly do it. Better just put
those goods out of sight for the present
and next season we will plan something
about them. l will help you to some
Hc hot coJlf
mission, and will go down to one of the
wholesale houses and tell them that know
you and will back you up, and if you want
few dollars to bridge over the present can
let you have them. Be as economical as you
can, keep stiff upper lip and remember that
you have two friends, God and myself
Good morningl' The old merchant goes
away and the young man goes behind his
desk and the tears roll down his cheeks. 1t
is the first time he has cried Disaster made
him mad at everything, and mad at man
and mad at God But this kindness melts
him. and the tears seem to relieve his brain,
and hisspirits rise from 10 below zero to 80
in the shade, and he comes out of the crisis.
And about three years after this young
merchant goes into the old merchants store
and says: swell, my old friend, was this
morning thinking over what you did for
me three years ago. gu helped me out of
an awful crisis in my commercial history. /
learned wisdom and prosperity has come and
the pallor has gone ont of my wife's cheeks,
and the roses that were there when / courted
her in her fathers house have bloomed again,
and my business is splendid, and l thought
l ought to let you know that you saved a
mani III a short time after, the old mer-
chant, who had been good while shaky in
his limbs and had poor spells, is called to
leave the world, and one morning after he
had rea.. the Odd psalm about "The Lord is
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world, and an angel who has been for many
years appointed to watch the old mans
dwelling cries upward the news that
the patriarchs spirit is ascending.
And the - angels who keep the
II gates of heaven unite in crying down
to this approaching spirit of the
old man: "Come in at any of the IL gates
you choose! Come in and welcome, for it has
been told all over these celestial neghbor-
hoods that you have saved man."
There sometimes come exigencies in the life
OF woman. One morning about two years
ago saw in the newspaper that there was q
young woman in New York whose pocket
book containing 3d. .33 had been stolen and
she had been left without a farthing at the
beginning of winter in a strange city, and no
work. And although she was stranger, /
did not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave my
lamp post on the corner without carrying
the 1888; and the case was proved genuine.
Now have read all Shakspeare's tragedies
and all Victor Hugo's tragedies and all
Alexander Smiths tragedies, but never
read a tragedy more thrilling than that
case, and similar cases by the hundreds and
thousands in all our large cities; young Wom-
en- without MONEY and without home and
without work in these great maelstroms of
metropolitan life. When such a case comes
under your observation, howdo you treat it?
"Get out of my way, we have no room in our
establishment for any more hands. I don't
believe in women anyway, they are lazy,
person out of the door" Or do you compi-
ment her personal appearance and say
things to her which if any man said to your
sister or daughter you would kill him on the
spot? That is one way, and it is tried every
day in these large cities, and many of those
who advertise for female hands in fac
tories and for governesses in fami-
lies have proved themselves unfit
to be in any place outside of hell.
But there is another way, and saw it the
other day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where young woman applied
tor work and the gentleman, in tone and
manner, said in substance "My daughter,
we employ women here, but do not know
OF any vacant place in our department You
had better inquire at such and such place,
and hope you will be successful in geUting
something to do.'' The embarrassed and
Inundated woman seemed to give way to
Christian confidence. She started out with a
hopeful look that I think Unjust have won
for her place in which to earn her bread.
rather think that considerable and Chris
tian gentleman saved woman. New York
and Brooklyn ground up last year about
10000 young women, and would like to
grind up as many this year. Out of all that
long procession of women who march on
with no hope for this world or the next, bat
tered and bruised and scoffed at, and flung
off the precipice, not one but might have
been saved Tor home and God and heaven.
But good men and good women are not in
that kind of business. Alas for that poor thing!
nothing but the thread of that sewing girls
needle held her, and the thread broke. I
have heard men tell in public discourse what
aman is, but what is woman? Until some
one shah give better definition will tell
you what woman is Direct from God,
sacred and delicate gift with affections SO
great that no measuring line short of that of
the infinite God can tell their bound. Fash
toned to refine and soothe and lift and irradi-
ate home and society and the world. Of such
value that no one can appreciate it, unless
mother lived long enough to let him under
stand it, or who in some great crisis of life,
when all else failed him, had wife to rein
force him with faith in God that nothing
could disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, and