The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-12

of every child, by divine arrangement
being n woman.
As physicians, having graduated after
regular course Of study from the female
colleges of our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough preparation
as any doctors ever had, and go forth to
a work which no one but women could
I so appropriately or delicately do.
/ On the lecturing platform, for you
know the brilliant success of Mrs. Liver
more and Mrs. Ilallowell and Mrs. Will
lard and Mrs. Iathrop.
As physiological lecturers to their own
sex, for which service there is a demand
| appalling and terrific.
As preachers of The Gospel, and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot
hinder them. for they have a pathos and
power in their religious utterances that
men can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
o, Young women Of america! as many
o. you val have to fi@ht your own bat
tlcs alone, do not wait until you are
flung Cf disaster, and your father is dead
and all the resources of your family have
been scattered; but now, while in a good
house and environed by all properties,
learn how TO DO some kind of work that
the world must have as long as the world
stands. Turn your attention from the
embroidery Of fine slippers, Of which
| there II Il surplus, ana make a useful
| shoe. LXpend the time in which you
aGorn cigar case in learning how to
make good, honest loaf Of bread. Turn
your attention from the making Of fliL4sy
no;Iia.s 10 the manufacturing of i'm
portant something's.
Much Of the time spent i'll young ladies'
| somtn,rlgs IL stndling what are called
the ''hi2 her branches might better be
eXpcnd2t III teaching them something
by which they CoaI support themselves.
Ii You are gong 10 be teachers, or if you
have so much assured wealth that yol
| can always dwell in those high regions,
trlGonoaI.iry of course. meta ihysics of
| course, lLtin AMI Greek, and German
anu trcncA anu Italian OF course. and a
hundred otA-r things, Of course, but if
you arc Lot CXpc" ing TO teach, and
your wealth is not estabiI he'd bavond
! misfortune, after you nave learned the
| ordinary branches, take hold of that kind
OF stuy that viii pay in dollars and cents
IN case you are thrown on Your own re-
sources. Learn 10 do something better
than anybody else. Buy Virginia Pen
ny's book entitled, THE Employmcnts
of Women" and learn thee are five
hundred ways III which a woman may
earn living.
no. No!' says some young woman,
| will not undertake anything SO unro-
mantle and com!n"2,'n"2 rs that. An
| pyrt.. lnrt 11,t ,Oi. HvirI. r' Io f,oJ
iu a book, argued for efficiency in
wOmanly work III order to success, and
positive apprenticeship 10y way Of prepara-
ton, prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach class of women to
become druggists and apothecaiies if
To :, would go through an apprcnticCship
as Ll>n do, and printer advertised that he
wC4ld take a class of women to learn the
printers trade if they would go through
an apprenticeship as men do, and how
! in@.y. according to the account of the
aLthOreSs, do you suppose applied to be
come Skilled in the druggist business and
printing Dusiness? Not one One young
! WOMAN said she would be willing to try
the printing business for six months, but
by tnat time her oder sister would be
married, and then her mother would
want her at home. My sisters, it viii 10
skilled womanly labor that will finally
triumph.
But" you ask, "what would my
father and mother say if they saw was
dong such untaal4ionable work2' Throw
the whole responsibility upon the pastor
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, who i3 con-
stantly hearing Of young women i'll all
these cities who, unqualified by their pre-
viCus luxurious surroundings for the
awful struggle Of lfl into which they
have been suddenly hurled, seemed to
have nothing left them but q choice be-
| tween starvation and damnation. There
they 50 along the street at O'clock in
the wintry mornings, through the slush
and storm to the place where they shall
earn only half enough for suLsist-
! ence, the daughters of once prosper
! Gus merchants, lawyers, clergymen.
artists, bankers and capitalists, who
! brought UP their children under the in
fernai delusiol that it was not high
toned for women to learn q proftaJta
calling. Young women, take this affa.r :
! in your own hands and lct there be an
instruction i'll ali prosperous families in
Brooklyn AID New York and Chr.atcn-
dom on the part Of the dau 3hters Of this
, day, demanding knowledge in occupa-
| tions and styles of business by which
they may be their own defense and their
own support if all fatherly and husbandly
and brotherly hands forever fail them.
| have seen two sad sights-the one a
woman in al the glory of her young life
stricken by disease, and in a week life
less in a home of which she had been the
pride. AS her hands were folded over
the still heart and her eyes closed for the
last siumber, and she was taken out amid
the lamentations OF kindred and friends,
| thought that was q sadness immeaSura-
be. But | have seen something COM
pared with which that scene was bright
and sOngful. 1t was a young woman who
had been all her days amid wealthy sur
rounding5 by the visit of death and bank
ruptcy to the household turned out on q
cold world without one lesson about how
to get food on shelter, and into the awful
whirlpool of city life where strong ships
have gone down, and for twenty years
not one word has been heard from her.
Vessels last week went out on the At
lantic ocean looking for a shipwrecked
craft that was left alone and forsaken on
the sea few weeks ago with the idea Of
bringing it into port. But who shall
ever bring again into the harbor of peace
and hope and heaven that lost womanly
immortal, driven in what tempest, aflame
in what conAagration, sinking into what
abyss? o God, help! o Christ, rescue!