The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09


on spring goods and went down. That is one
! way and some cf YOU have tried it,.
| But there IS another Tay. That young mer-
! chant who found that he had miscalculated in
laying IN too many goods of enc kind and
| Deen hung OF the unusual season, is standing
! behind the counter feeling very blue and Bit
ing his finger nails or looking over his account
! books, which read darkerand worse every time
| ne LOOKS at them, and thinks how his young
! VIE VIII have TO be put in palmer house
! THAN she ever expected to live in or go to
| thlrd-rate boardinghouse where they have
tough liver and sour bread five mornings out
OF the seven. An old mcrcl q it comes in
| and says: "Well, joe this has been hard
season for young merchants, and this pro-
| longed cool weather has put many in the dol
| drums, and 1 have been thinking of you a
| good deal OF late, for just after L started in
business I once got into the same scrape.
| Now, If there is anything L can do to help
you out will gladly do It. Better just put.
| those goods out of sight for the present and
xtseason we will plan something about them.
will help you to some goods that you can
| sell for me on commission, and l will go
| down to one of the wholesale houses and tell
| them that know you and will back you up,
and If you want a few dollars to bridge over
| the present, can let you have them. Be as
economical as you can keep stiff upper lip,
and remember that you have two friends,
God and myself Good morning" The
od merchant goes away and
the Young man goes behind
MS UcSk ana the tears roll DOWN MS cheeks.
1t is the first time he has cried. Disaster made
him mad at everything and mad at man and
mad at God But this kindness melts him,
and the tears seem to relieve his brain, and
his spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty
in the shade, and he comes out of the crisis.
And about three years after, this young mer-
chant goes into the old merchants store and
says "Well, my old friend was this morn
ing thinking over what you did for mo three
years ago. You helped me out of an
n PlN NINA nj al eff +
learned wisdom and prosperity has come, and
the palor has gone out of my wife's cheeks,
and the roses that were there when 1 courted
her in her fathers house have bloonled again,
and my business is splendid, and l thought I
ought to let you know that you saved man"
In short time after, the old mer-
chant who had been a good while
shaky in his limbs and had
poor spells is called to leave the world, and
one morning after he had read the twenty
third Psalm about THE Lord is my Shep-
herd, ;" he closes his eyes on this world, and an
angel who had been for many years appointed
to watch the old mans dwelling, cries upward
the news that the patriarch's spirit is about
ascending And the twelve angels who keep
the twelve gates of heaven unite In crying
down to this approaching spirit of the old man,
Come in at any of the twelve gates you
choose Come in and welcome, for it has been
told all over these celestial neighborhoods that
you saved a man."
There sometimes come exigencies in the life
| of woman. Ono morning about two years
ago l saw in the newspapers that there was
| young woman in New York whose pocket
| book, containing $685. had been
stolen and she had been left without farthing
| at the beginning of the winter in strange
| city, and no work. And although she was
| stranger, did not allow the nine O'Clock mail
| to leave tho lamp-post on our corner without
| carrying the thirty-seven dollars and thirty
three cents: and the case was proved genuine.
Now have read all Shakspeare's tragedies and
| all Victor Hugo's tragedies and all Alexander
Smiths tragedies, but never read @ tragedy
more thrilling than that case, and similar
| cases by the hundreds and thousands in all
| our large cities; young women without money
and without home and without work in these
| great maelstroms of metropolitan life. hen
such a case comes under your observation, how
| do you treat it? "Get out of my way, we
| have no room in our establishment for any
more hands. don't believe in women any
woy 'nsy o aIe nease show pzyb las
out OF the door" Or do you compliment her
| personal appearance and say things to which
if any malAsaid to your sister or daughter you
| would kill him on the spot? That is one way,
and ii is tried every day in these large cities,
! and many of those who advertise for female
hands in factories and for goyernesses in fami
| lies have proved themselves unfit to be in any
| place outside of hell.
But there is another way, and I saw it the
other day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where young woman applied for
work and the gentleman in tone and manner
said in substance: "My daughter. we employ
| women here, but do not know of any vacant
| place in our department. You had better in
| quire at such and such place, and hope you
| will be successful il getting something to do"
The embarrassed and Inundated woman
seemed s; too to give sho way ,ro to Chris
| a hopeful look that think must have won for
her a place in which to earn her bread |
rather think that consideTate and Christian
gentleman saved q woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women, and would like to
grind up about as many this year. Out of all
that long procession OF women who march on
with no hope for this world nor the next, bat
tered end bruised and scpfed at and flung off
the precipice, not one but might have been
saved for home and God and heaven. But
good mea and good women are not in that kind
OF business. Alas for that poor thing! nothing
but tho thread of that sewng-girl's needle held
tell in public discourse what man is, but
what is woman? Until some one
shall give a better definition 1 will
tell You what woman is; Direct
from God, sacred and delicate
rift with affections so great that no measuring
line short Of that OF the infinite God can tell
their bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe
and lift and irradiate home and society and
the world. Of such value that no one can ap
preciate it, unless his mother lived long
some great crisis Of LIE, when all else failed
him, had wife to reinforce him with faith
in God that nothing could disturb. Speak
out, yc cradles, and tell Of the feet that rocked
you aud the anxious faces thes hoyercd over
youl Speak out ye nurseries Of all Christen-
dom, and W hoaas, whether desolate or still
in full bloom with the faces Of wife, mother
end daughter. and help me to define what
woman IS II q man during all his life accom-
pish nothing else except to vim the love and
confidence and help and conpanionship OF .
coed woDan, lie is a garlanded victor and
ought 20 have the hands OF all the peOpIe be-
tween here and the grave stretched ont to him
IN coDgratula;ion.
Bat as TIC gscgra2hers tell Us that the
depths Of the SCH correspond with the heights
81 the mountains, have to tell you that good
wommhood is not higher mp than bad woman
hood Is deep down. TIE gFandcr tile palace,
the more awful The c3uiiagrGtiGn that destroys
il. The grander the steamer Oregon the
mere terrible her going down just off the
coast Now | should not wonder il you
tiemlloa litile with sense Of responsibility
when / Say that there is hardly a person in
this house but may have Gn opportunity to
save q woman. 1t may imyour case he done
by good advice or By financed h clip, Or BY try
ing 70 bring 10 bear some one of % Thousand
Christian influences You would not have 20
20 far. IT, for instance, YOU know atr0sg VOur