Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

ing fancy work which the world may dis
pense with when hard times come, but
connect your skill with the indispensables
of life. The world will always want some-
thing to wear and something to eat and
shelted and fuel for the body, and knowl-
edge for the mind, and religion for the
soul. And all these things will continue
TO be the necessaries, and If you fasten
your energies upon occupations and pro-
fessions thus related the world will be UNI
able to do without you. Remember that
in proportion as you are skillful in any
thing your 1ivalries become less. For un-
skilled toll, women by the million. But
you may rise to where there are only
thousand; and still higher until there are
only hundred; and still higher till there
are only ten; and still higher in some par
ticular department till there is only a unit
and that yourself. For while you may
keep wages and place through the kindly
sympathies of an employer, but you will
eventually get no more compensation than
you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battle of life,
that the time is coming when women shall
not only get as much salary and wages as
men get, but for certain styles of employ.
ment women will have higher salary and
more wages for the reason that for some
styles of work they have more adaptation.
Butthis justice will come to woman not
through any sentiment of ga!lantry, not
because woman is physically weaker than
man and therefore oughtto have more con-
sideration shown her, but because through
her finer natural taste and more grace of
manner and quicker perception and more
delicate touch and more educated adroit-
ness she will III certain callings be to her
employer worth 10 per cent. more, or 90
per cent. more, than the other sex. She
will not get it by asking for it, but by earn
ing it, and it shall be hers by lawful con-
quest.
Now, men of America, be fair and give
the women a chance! Are 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 womens work. Do not be afraid!
God knows the end from the beginning
and He knows how many people this world
can feed and shelter, and when It gets too
full He will end the world and, if need be,
start another. God will halt the inventive
faculty. which, by producing machine
that will do the work of ten or twenty or
hundred men and women, will leave that
number of people without work. ( hope
that there will not be invented another
sewing machine, or reaping machine, or
corn thresher, or any other new machine
for the next 500 years. We want no more
wooden hands, and iron hands, and steel
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
have to do is to do our best and trust Him
for the rest. Let me cheer all women
| fighting the battle of life alone, with the
fact that thousands of women have in that
way won the day. Mary Lyon, founder of
Mount Holyole Female Seminary, fought
the battle alone: Adelaide Newton, the
tract distributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the
Dix, the angel of the insane asylums,
alone; Caroline Herschel, the indispensa-
BILE reinforcement of her brother, alone;
Maria TakrZewska, the heroine of the Ber-
lin Hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers,
patron of sewing schools for the poor of
Edinburgh, alone. And thousands and
tens of thousands fof women of whose
bravery and self-sacrifce and glory of
character the world has made no record,
but whose deeds are in the heavenly
achives of 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 quin-
tillion 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 the faces OF
many of 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, in His
last hours forgot all the pangs of His own
hands and feet and heart as he looked into
the face of maternal anguish and called Il
friends attention to it, in substance say
ing: John, | cannot take care OF her any
longer. DO for her as would have done
il | had lived. Behold thy nlother!" Ii
under the pressure OF unrewarded and
whitening and the wrinkles come,
rejoice that you are nearing the hour Of
escape from your very last fatigue, and
may your departure be as pleasant as that
of Isabella Graham, who closed her life
with smile and the word peace" The
daughter of regiment in any army is all
surrounded by bayonets of defense, and, in
the battle, whoever falls, she is kept safe.
And you are the daughter of the regimen!
| COLlllaUOeu ny tue lioiu VI I1oels. Altel
all you are not fighting the battle Of life
alone. All Heaven is on your side. You
will be wise to appropriate to yourself the
words Of sacred rhythm:
| One who has known i'll storms to sail
have on board:
| Above the roaring OF the gale
henr my Lord.
! He holds me; when the pillows snite
| shall not fall.
l short, It's sharp; if long, tits light;
| He tempers all.
Soaring Off aTramp.