Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-09


kind of study that will pay in dollars and
cents in case you are thrown on your own
resources. Learn TO do something better
than any body else. Buy Virginia Penny's
hook entitled The Empoyments OF
Woman" and learn there are five hun
dred ways in which a woman may earn
living.
mo, no" says some young woman; 81
will not undertake anything so unroman-
tic and commonplace as that" An ex.
cellent author writes that after he had, ia
q book, argued for efficiency in wOmanly
work in order to succeed and positive ap-
premiership by way o. preparation,
prominent chemist advertised that
HE WOULD TEACH a CLASS
of women to become druggists and apothe.
carries if they would 20 through an appren-
ticeship as men do, and printer adyer-
tised that he would take class Of women
to learn the printers trade if they would
90 through an apprenticeship as men do,
and how many, according 10 the account
OF the authOrtss, 10 you suppose applied
to tecome skilled in the druggist business
ind printing business: Not one One
young woman said she would be willing to
try the printing business for six months,
hu. by that time her older sister would be
married, and then her mother would want
her at home. My sisters, II will be skilled
womanly labor that will finally triumph
Now, men OF America, be fair and give
the women n chance Ale you afraid that
they will do some OF your work and hence
harm your properties? Remember that
there are sCOres of thousands Of men doing
wOmen's work. DO not be afraid God
knows the end from the beginning. and
He knows how many people this world
can feed ard shelter, and when it
gets too full he will end
the world anu if need be
start another. God will halt the invcn.
tive faculty, which by producing a
ma a,hine that will do the work of ten or
twenty or a hundred men and women, will
leave that number OF people without work.
hope that there will not be invented an
other sewing machine or reaping machine
or corn thresher or any other new machine
fer the next five hundred years. We want
40 more wooden hands aud steel hands and
electric hands substituted for men and
women who would otherwise 90 the work
and get the pay and earn the livelihood
Bat God will arrange all, and all We
have TO do is to do our best and trust in
Him for the rest. Let me cheer all women
lighting the hattie OF life alone, with the
fact that thousands of women have in that
way won the day Mary Lyon, founder
Of Mount Holy oke Female Seminary,
fought the battle alone; adelaide Newton,
the tract distributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk,
the conseCiatcd missionary, alone, Doro-
thea, Dix, tho angel OF the insane
asylums, alone; Caroline Herschel, the in
dispenStble reinforcement Of her brother,
alone; Maria Takrzewska, the heroiue Jl
nrrs, patron Of sewing schools for the poor
OF Edinburgh, alone. And thousands aud
tens of thousands of women OF whose braS-
cry and self.saCrice and glory OF chaTac.
ter the world his made 10 record, but
whose deeds are in tbs heavenly archives
ui martyrs who fought the battle alone
and, though unr5cognized Tor the short
thirty or iidy or eighty years of their
earthly cAiSt,Gcr, shall, through the dUin-
ulliou ages OF tbs higher world, h. pointed
out with the admirinr 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 erl There ;
one word written over the iaos OF many OF
them and that word ia Despair My sister,
you need appeal 10 that Christ who COm-
i6rted the sisters Of Bethany in their do
mestic trouble, and who in his last hours
forgot all the bangs of his own hands ana
ieet and heart as lie looked inta e Etve OF
maternal anguish and 2aiisd a friends at
tention 10 it IN CdUetaucc saying. "lohn,
. CanE"t take care of her any longer. DO
for her aS ! would have done had lived.
Behold thy mother If under the pres
sure Of unrewaTded and unappreciated
work your hair ia whitening and the
wrinkles come, rejoice that Won are
nearing the hour OF escape
from your very last fatigue, aud may your
departure he "a pleasant as that of Isabelle
trrAham, who closed her life with u smile
and The word Peace The daughter of
a regiment in any army is all surrounded
by blyOnets OF deien-e, and. in tho battle,
whosoever falls, she is kept aafe And
you are the daughteT Of The regiment com.
mandCd III the lord Of Hosts. After all
yo" are not lighting the battle OF life
alone All heaven il cn your side. You
will he wise to appropriate to Yourself the
words Of sacred rhythm:
one Nh no has known in storms &, s.I
have Oh bOHTl
Above the roaring o. the gnu
hear m I"'i.
tie hold, ne. when the hillOws SUIT.
| shall not fall
II short us sharp, II long, o., light
lie tempegs al