Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-21
ALONE IN The FIGHT
DR. Talmage Discourses on
the Women Who Fight
the Battle Alone.
ALL WOMEN SHOULD LEARN
SOMETHING USEFUL FOR
AN EMERGENCY.
The Salaries and Wages Of Women
to be Equal to Those
OF Men.
Some Advice to Men to be Fair With
Women.
Some Advice to Men to be Fair With
Women.
''THE woMEN WHO FIGHT THE BATTLE OF
LIFE ALONE"

''THE WOMEN WHO FIGHT THE BATTLE OF
LIFE ALONE"
BRooELYN, Jan. 8: The Rev. DeWit'
Talmagc, ID. d., preached at the Tabcr
Bacle this morning he first OF a series OF
sermons to the women Of America, Will
practical hints for men. The subject OF
this discourse was, The Women Whc
Fight the Battle Of Life Alone" and the
text was from Proverbs XIV. /:
s'Every wise woman buildeth her house"
Dr., Talmgc said:
Woman Il mere adjunct to man, an APP
pendix to the masculine volume, a sort OF
~afterthought, something thrown in to
make things %even-that is the heresy en-
tcrtained and implied by some men. This
is evident to them: Woman's ~insigniti
canoe as compared to mar is evident to
them, because Adam was first created and
then Eve. They don't read the whole
story or they would find that the porpolse
and the bear and the hawk were created
before Adam, so that this argument drawn
from priority Of creation might provethat
the sheep and the dog were greater than
man. No. Woman was an independent
creation and was intended, if she chose,
to live alone, to walk alone, act alone,
think alone, and fight her battles alone.
The Bible says it is not good for man to
be alone, but never says it is not good for
woman to be alone, and the simple fact is
that many women who are harnessed for
life in the marriage relation would be a
thsusandfold better off if they were alone.
God makes no mistake, and the fact that
there is such a large majority of women
in this land proves that he intended that
multitudes of them should go alone.
THE MEN WHO ARE SUPPORTED BY THEIR
WIVES.
Who are these men who year after
year hang around hotels and engine
houses and theatre doors and come in and
out to bother busy clerks and merchants
and mechanics, doing nothing even when
there is plenty to dor They are men sup
ported by their wives and mothers. If
the statistics of any of u large cities
could be taken on this subject you would
find that a vast multitude of women not
only support themselves but masculines.
A great legion of men amount to nothing,
and a oma by marriage manacled to
one of these nonenitics needs coincidence.
A woman standing ontside the marriage
relation is several hundred thousand times
better of than a woman badly married.
Many a bride instead of a wreath of
orange blossoms might more properly
wear n bunch Of nettles and nightshadc,
and instead of the Wedding March a
more appropriate tune would be the
Dead March in Saul, and instead of a
banquet of confectionery and ices there
might be more appropriately spread a
table covered with apples of Sodom,
which are outside fair and inside ashes.
THE DOVE AND THE vULTURE.
Many an attractive woman of good
sound sense in other things has married
enc of those men to reform him. What
was the result? Like when a dove motto
ny that a vulture was rapacious and cruel
set about to reform it and said, Il have a
mild disposition, and | like peace, and
was brought up in the quiet of a dove
cote, and | will bring the vulture 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 and herd,
ut an altar of rock covered with moss and
lichen the twain were married, a bald
headed eagle officiating, the vulture say
ing, with all my dominion of earth and
sky | thee endow, and promise to love
and cherish till death do us
part" But one day the dove in
her fight saw the vulture busy at a
carcass and cried, Stop that did you
not promise me that you would quit your
carnivorous and filthy habits if | married
your Yes" said the ~vulture, but if
you don't like my way you can leave
and with one angry stroke of beak and
another fierce clutch of claw the vulturc
left the dove eycless and wingless and
"Iifcless. And a flock of robins flying
past cried to each other and said, See
there that comes from a doves marrying
"a vultur to reform him"
DECREED TO CELIBACY.
Many a woman who has had the hand
Of a Young inehriatc offered but declined
it. or who was asked to chain her life &c
man selfish or of bad temper and re
fused the shackles, will bless Sod through
all eternity that she escaped that earthly
pandemonium. Besides all this, III ouI
country about one million men were sac
riticed in our civil war, and that decreeo
a million men TO calibacy. Besides that,
several armies OF men az large as the fed.
eral and confederate armies put together
have fallen under malt liquors and dis
titled spirits 50 full of poisoned ingredi
ents that the work was done more rapidly
and the victims fell while yet young
And if fifty thousand men are destroyed
every year by strong drink before mar
riage, that makes in the twenty-five