The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-01-13
WORK FOR WOMEN.
REV. DR.. TALMAGEs SUGGESTION.
Excellent Advice Given to
Americas Daughters.


Brooklyn Diviue-@l1u Sure Of Reward
Cheer f0r the Cd Maids.
Sp<eia. l. ne Easaas C.ty T.s.e..
BRooKLTS, y. Y. I.e s-Tbe Rev. 7. De-
Witt Talmage d. D.. preached at the Tsber-
naele this morning the first o, 4 series If ser
nous 10 The women Of America. with practi-
cal hints FOR men The subject 81 this dis
course was The Women VINO Figh; the Bat
tie Of Life Alone" aud the text was from
Proverbs, xiv, /: Every wise woman build
eth her house" DR.. Talma.e said;
Woman a mere adjunct To man. an appen-
dix to the masculine volume, an appeudage,
a sort Of after-thought, something thrown in
to make things even-that is the horesv enter
tanned and implied bY some men. This is evil
dent 10 them: Woman's insignifcance as
compared 10 man is evident to them. because
Adam was first created and then Eve They
don't read the whole story or they would ind
that the porpoise and the bear and the hawk
were created before Adam, so that this argu-
ment drawn from priority Of creation might
prove that The sheep and the dog were greater
than man.. No woman was an independent
creation and was intended, If she chose. to
i've alone, to walk alone, act alone, think
alone and fight her battles alone.
WOMEN NOT ALL FOR WIVES.
The Bible says it Is not good for man to be
alone, but never saws it is not good for
women 10 be alone and the simple fact is that
many women who are harnessed for life i'm
The marriage relation would be a thousand
times better of II they were alone. God
makes no mistake, and the fact that there is
such large majority Of women in this land
proves that lie intended that multitudes of
them should 20 alone Who are these men
VINO year alter year hang around hotels and
engine houses and theater doors and come i'm
ana out 10 bother busy clerks and merchants
ana mechanics, doing nothing even when
there Is plenty 10 dOi They are men support
ed by their wives aud mothers. Ii the statis-
Tics OF any OF our cities could be taken on this
subject YOU would find that vast multitude
OF women not only support themselves but
makcuilneS. great legion of men amount
10 nothing, and a woman by marriage
manacIed 10 one Of these nOnentities needs
coincidence. woman standing outside the
marriage relation Is several hundred thousand
times better oil than woman badly married
Many bride instead of a wreath OF orange
blossoms might more properly wear a bunch
OF nettles and night-shade, and instead of the
wedding march more appropriate tune
would be the Dead march in Saul" and in
stead OF banquet of confectionery and ices
thefe might be more appropriately spread
table covered with apples OF SOdOm, which are
outside fair and inside ashes
DOVE MATED TO YULTURE.
Many an attractive woman of good sound
sense in other things has married one of
these men to reform him. What was the re-
rcsultE Like when a dove noticing that a
Vulture was rapaciOus and cruel set about TO
reform 1t and said, 81 have mild disposition.
anu like peace. and was brought up in the
quiet OF dove cote, and l will bring the vul-
ture to the same liking by marrying him."
so one day after the vulture had declared he
would give up his carnivorous habits and
cease longing for blood Of flock or herd at an
alter OF rock covered with moss and lfchen
the twain were married, bald-headed eagle
officiating, the vulture saving, ''With all nv
dominion of earth and sky | thee adore, and
promise to love and cherish till death do us
part But one day the dove in her flight saw
the Vulture busy at carcass and cried ''StOD
that! did You not promise me that YOU
would quit your carnivOr0us and filthy habits
IL | married you! Yes said the VulEure.
"but IL yon don't like my way you can leave"
ana with one angry stroke of beak and an
other fierce clutch of claw the vulture left tie
dove eyeless and wngless and lifeess And
a HOOK OF robins flying past cried to each
other and said, "See there that comes from
doves marrying a vulture TO reform him"
Many a woman who has had the hand of a
young inebriate offered but declined it, or
who was asked to chain her life to a man self
lsh or OF bad temper and refused the shackles,
VIII bless God throughout all eternity that
she escaped that earthly pandemonium.
WOMEN MADE CELIBATEs.
Besides all this in our country about 1,00O-
OO1 men were sacrificed in our civil war. and
that decreed / 5000 women to celibacy
Besides that, since the war, several armies of
men as large as the federal and confederate
armies put together have fallen under malt
liquors and distilled spirits so full of poison
ed ingredients that the work was done rapid
ly, and the victims fell while vet Young.
And ii $4,000 men are destroyed every year by
strong drink before marriage, that makes in
the twenty-three years since the war i, 1000
men slain, and DEGREES l,150 900 women to
celibacY. Take then the fact that so many
women are unhappy in their marriage, aud
the fact that the slaughter Of 2,15l, 600 men
by war and rum combined decides that at
least that number of women shall be unaffian-
ced for life, my text comes in with cheer and
potency and appropriateness that / never
saw in 1t before when it says, every wise
woman buildeth her house." that is, let wo-
man be her own architect, lay out her own
plans, be her own supervisor, achieve her own
destiny.
BRIGHT POINTS FOR OLD MAIDS.
In addressing these women who will have to
fight the battle of life alone | congratulate
YOU on your happy escape. Rejoice forever
that you will not have to navigate the faults
of the other sex. when YOU have faults enough
of your own. Think of the bereayements Won
avoid, of the risk of unassimilated temDer
which you will not have to run, of the cares
you will never have to carry, and of the Op-
p0rtunty of outside usefulness from which
marital life would have partially debarred
you, and that YOU are free to 90 aud come as
one who has the responsibilities of a house
hold can seldom be. God has not given YOU
2 hard lot as compared with your sisters.
When young women shall make up their
minds at the start that masculine companion
snip is not necessity in order 10 happiness,
and that there is a strong probability that
they will have to fight the battles of life
alone, they will be getting the timber ready
Tor their own fortune, and their saw and axe
and plane sharpened for its construction,
since Every wise woman buildetn her house"
As no boy ought TO be brought I'D without
learning some business at which he could earn
a livelihood, so no girl ought to be brought up
Without learning the science of self-support
The difficulty is that many family 90 sailing
on the high tides of success, and the husband
and father depends on his own health and
Acumen for the welfare Of his household. but
one day he gets his feet wet, ami in three
days pneumonia has closed his life, and the
daughters are turned out on a cold world to
earn bread, and there is nothing practical
that they can do The friends Of the family
come In and hold consultations
WORK FOX THE DAUGHTERS.
'Give music lessons" saws an outsider.
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