St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-18

lis text: "That our daughters may b.
rs corner stones. polished after thu
similitude of palace. Psalm cxliy.,l2
This beautiful text offers two great
'uggesIions-the utility and the beauty
If those whom IL terms "our dangh
ters," 1t is fine figure-cOrner stones.
polished like those In the temple. Th
indication is that "Our daughters" ART
the corner stones of the temple of so
ciety, or the state. or the church, and
that they are also the ornaments Of
these institutions. We have been
thinking all the while that the men
were the corner stones OF everything.
ar at least that certain classes of the
men were, such as the voters, OF the
politicians, or the Legislators, or the
capitalists, or the congressman, or the
senators, or the editors, or the preach
ers. Yet, with all the noise that men
make about their Importance. they can.
not quite drive out the conclusion that
1.-THE hand that rocks the cradle r.
Is the hand that rules the world" 81
A larger per cent of the young women
are morally and religiously inclined
than of the young men. Our high
schools graduate more girls than boys,
In the colleges the girls, not being ul-
nCtNCu ny tODdCCO ubCOlOis easily
keep pace with the boys, or Outstrip
them. In the Sunday schools and
prayer meeting there are more girls
than boys; in the pool rooms and sa-
looms there are more boys than girls. In
the churches there are more girls than
boys, more women than men. If purity,
intelligence and religion can success
fully compete with Ignorance and i'm
morality, then our text is right in de-
claring that ''Our daug hterS" are the
corner stone.
Once women were thought fit only to
darn. and sew. and knit, and wash
dishes, and do facy work, and visit, and
gossip" Now we hear of them in the
pulpit, in literature, and on the plat
form they rival the best; as physicians
and nurses they excel; the social circle,
the school room, the Sunday school and
out them. We have heard much of
"Queens in the home" There are
queens now wherever man is king. or
if not, then mans isolated royalty is a
standardization, the ballot box not eX-
cepted. The Marys, and Marthas, and
PriScillaS now are not cramped by
custom as they were in the days of the
Apostle Paul. The civilized world is a
throne where Christian womanhOOd
| may reign as queen.
Young women may do much for
young men. There is no reason why
SWeet-breathed young women should
be tortured with tobacco bieaths. They
should mildly rebel. If the Christian
young women of this whole land would
put their solemn veto on the alcohol
habit; if they would say, and stand by
it. 1.-THE lips that touch liquor shall
never touch mine," they would do more
for prohibition than high license or the
Republican party has ever done for 1t.
Better a thousand times to live until
death in peaceful maidenhOod than be
bound for life to topper.
The adornments of genuine woman
hood, according to the Apostle Paul.are
not outward, such as braiding her hair,
and gold and pearls and costly raiment,
but good works. Good works create
character, and character is the best cos
metic. Seek for the beauty that faith,
and hope, and love, and prayer will
give. The .'beauty of holiness" is not
poetic fiction, but reality. By that
beauty seek immOrtality,if not on earth,
beyond earth. Whittier, is his ''Raph-
ael," says:
The tissues Of the life to be
We weave with eOlors all our own; ~
And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown. -
Still shall the soul around 1t call So
The shadows which it gathered here;
And painted on the etc mai wall
The past shall reappear.