The Russellville Democrat., 1888-01-19

o'clock in the wintry mornlngs thr ough the slush and storm to the place where they shall earn only hall enough for subsistence, the daughters of once prosperous merchants, lawyers, ciergymen, artists, bankers and capitai' ists who brought up their children unuer the internal delusion ihaf It was not high toned for women to learn pront' able calling. Young women, take tnis affair in your own hands and let there DC an insurrection in all prosperous families of Brooklyn and New York and Christen- dom on the part of the daughters or this day, demanding knowledge in occupa' tions and styles of business by wnicn they may be their own defense and tneir own support If all fatherly and husbandly and brotherly hands forever fail them.
 I have seen two sad sights--the one woman in all the glory of her young iife stricken by disease, and in a week lffeless in home of which she had been the pride. As her hands were folded over the still heart and her eyes closed for the last slumber, and she was taken out amid the lamen nations of kindred and friends. thought that was a sadness im- measurable. But have seen something compared with which that scene was Q woman who had been all her days amid wealthy surroundings, by the visit of death and bankruptcy to the household, turned ont on cold world without one lesson about how to get food or 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 Atlantic ocean looking for ship. wrecked craft that was left alone and for saken 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 conflagration, sinking into what abyssf o, God, help! o, Chris {, rescue!
 My sisters, give no t your time to learn ing fancy work which the world may dis pense with when hard times come, but connect your skill with the indispensa
 bles of life. The world will always want something to wear and something to eat, and shelter and fuel for the body, and knowledge for the mind, and religion for the soul And all these nthings will con tinue to be the necessaries, and If yot fasten your energies upon occupations and professions thus related, the world will be unable to do without you. Re. member that in proportion as you are skillful in any thing your rivalries be come less. For unskilled toll, women by the million. But you may rise to where | there are only thousand; and still | higher till there are only a l hundreds; and still higher until | there are only ten; and stil | higher in some particular department | till there is only unit and that yourself. For awhile you may keep wages and e place through the kindly sympathies oi an employer, but you will eventually gel no more compensation than you car
 make yourself worth.
 Let me say to all women who have al ready entered upon the battle of | life, that the time is coming when woman ] shall not only get as much salary and wages as men get, but for certain styles | of employment women will have higher salary and more wages, for the reas or | that for some styles of work they havs more adaptation. But this justice will
 come to woman not through any senti
 ment of gallantry, not because woman Is | physically weaker than man and there. | fore ought to have more consideration shown her, but because through her | finer natural taste, and more
 grace of manner, and quicker per ception, and more delicate touch, and mor' | educated adroitness, she will in certain callings be to her employer worth ten pei
 cent. more, or twenty per cent. more thar
 the other sex. She will not get it by ask
 ing for it, but by earning It. and it shal
 be hers by lawful conquest.
 | Now, men of America, be fair and giv
 the women a chance! Are you afrait | that they will do some of your work, anC hence harm your properties? Remem
 Der that there are scores of thousands oi
 men doing women's work. Do not b.
 afraidl God knows the end from the be | ginning, and He knows how many peopl | this world can feed and shelter, and whei
 it gets too full He will end the world, and
 if need be, start another. God will hal
 the inventive faculty, which, by prod1c ing a machine that will do the work O ten or twenty or one hundred
 men and women, will leave tha | number of people without work. I hop,
 that there will not be invented anothe
 sewing machine, or reaping machine, ol corn thresher, or any other new machin,
 for the next five hundred years. We wan, |
 and steel hands, and electric hands sub
 stituted for men and women who would
 otherwise do the work and get the pay
 and earn the livelihood.
 But God will arrange all, and all we hay,
 to do is to do our best and trust Him fol
 the rest Let me cheer all women fight | ing the battle of life alone with the fac
 that thousands of women have in tha
 way won the day. Mary Lyon, founder
 of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary,
 fought the battle alone; Adelaide New
 ton, the tract distributor, alone; Fidelia | Fisk, the consecrated missionary, alone Dorothea Dix, the angel of the insane
 asylums, alone; Caroline Herschel, tn. | indispensable re-enforcement of hei
 brother, alone; Maria Takrgewska, the | heroine of the Berlin hospital, alone
 Helen Chalmers, patron of sewing schools | for the poor of Edinburgh, alone. And | thousands and tens of thousands of womer | of whose bravery and self. sacrifice
 and glory of character the world
 has made no record, but whose deeds are in the Heavenly archives oi
 martyrs, who fought the battle alone and though unrecognized for the short thirty or fifty or eighty years of their earthly
 existence, shall, through the quintillior
 ages of the higher world, be pointed out
 with the admiring cry; "These are they
 who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white | in the blood of the Lamb"
 Let me also say for the encouragement of all women fighting the battle of life
 alone, that their conflict will soon end | There is one word written over tho faces | of many them and that word is despair My sister, you need appeal to that Christ who comforted the sisters of Bethany in their domestic trouble, and who fir his last hours forgot all the pangs
 of his own hands and feet and heart a,
 be looked into the face of maternal
 anguish, and called friends attention to it, in substance saying: "John, car not take care of her any longer. Do foi her as would have done if had lived
 Behold thy motherp If, under the pres l eurA af mn raw rdad and A d