Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-02-02

always getting into some kind of a difficulty, and
as far back as | can remember, l can see my grand
mother solemnly shaking her head and saying to
me after | had been into mischief,
"satan finds some mischief still,
For idle hands to do"
Not a very elegant adage to be sure, but | have
found since the days my grandmother repeated it
to me, that it is true.
The old lines hold as true when applied to actors
on the busy worlds stage of action, as they do in
the play-room or in the school-room, where the idle
boy stands pins on their heads in his companions
seat, and where the girl makes paper balls and
draws pictures of her teacher, because she has
nothing more important to do.
A large amount of crime, accounts of which fill
every secular paper we pick up, comes directly or
indirectly as a result of idleness, and lack of occu-
patton for the mind as well as the body.
Every girl should occupy her time with some
wholesome work or recreation, and no girl should
be without some trade or profession, when she
grows old enough to master it.
No matter if your father is rich and can afford
to keep you in idleness, you cannot afford to be
idle.
Money oftentimes takes wings and flies we know
not where, and then what is the poor girl to do who
knows not how to help herself in the world. She
must depend on her father and take what he can
give her, be it what she wants or not, besides be-
ing a great expense. Then if the young lady who
knows neither how to cook, sew or do homework,
should marry a poor man, what would she do? Or,
if the poor man this girl marries should die and
leave her with two or three helpless little children
looking to her for support, how would she take care
of them?
Thncn NOT uplkoIv oococ hut ncnur aInoct
every day. Widows with children to care for, and
orphans to care for themselves, and no way to
do it.
A great many, in fact most, of the unfortunate
women and girls found in the large cities were once
as pure and good as any girl who will read this
letter, but they were thrown on the cold world to
battle alone with temptation and bitter poverty,
and the struggle was too much for them. They
sold their womanhood and cast their crown of vir-
tue under the feet of their tempter for bread.
Among this class of women there are to be found
a great many who were once petted daughters of
wealth and grew up in idleness. When they were
thrown on their own resources for support they
were as helpless as babies, and their sin in falling
was no greater than the sin of their parents when
they brought them up to be only ornaments in So
cety.
Before you condem these degraded women, girls,
think for a minute what you would have done had
you been tempted as they were. The circle of a
girls employment is no longer a limited circle.
Times have greatly changed for women in the last
few years, and are continually growing better.
Women now have their choice of all of the pro-
LESSONS and of most of the trades.
Women have proven themselves successes as
lawyers, physicians, preachers, dentists, printers,
publishers, writers, artists, musicians, and women
are even coming to the front as inventors.
Woman is mans equal in every respect and the
world is beginning to find it out at last,
You who are girls today, will be in a few years
the women of the land, and what kind of women
are you going to be? Begin now to fit yourselves
to be useful women, women who will be i%ndepend-
ent and who will not be drones in the coming army
of noble and grand women. Now is the time to