Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-08-29


welcome, for it has been told all owe
these celestial lands that you saved {
man."
IN THE LIFE OF WOMAN.
There sometimes come exigencies ir
the life of woman. One morning {
few years ago saw in the newspaper
that there was young woman in New
York, whose pocketbook containing
thirth-seven dollars and thirty-three
cents had been stolen. and she had
been left without n penny ut the begin
ming of winter, in strange city, and
no work. And although SHE was 0
stranger, did not allow the o'clock
mail to leave the Ialnp post on our cor
ner without carrying the tllirty-seven
dollars and thirty-three cents. and the
case was proved genuine.
Now, have read all Shakespeare
tragedies, and all,Yictor Hugo's TRACE.
: dies. and gall Alexander Smiths TRACE
& dies, buf l5nevers read II tragedy more
thrilling tlanSthat scase, and similar
cases by the hundreds and thousands
in all orr large cities young women
without money and without home and
without work in the great niaelstroms
! OF metropolitan life When such a
case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it? Get out of my
way; we have 10 room i'll our estab-
lislment forany more hands. | don't
believe in women anyway. They are a
lazy. idle, worthless set. John, please
slow this person out Of tile door
Or do you compliment her personal
appearance. and say things to her
Which if any man said to your sister or
daughter you would kill him on the
spot? That is one way, and it is tried
! every day in the large cities, and many
of those who advertise for female hands
in factories. and for governesses in fam
! lilies, have proved themselves unfit to
be in any place outside of hell. But
there is another way, and saw it one
day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where young woman ap-
piled for work and tho gentleman in
tone and manner said III substances;
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 sucl y place, and |
hope you will be successful in getting
something to do. Here is my name and
tell them | sent you
The embarrassed and Inundated
woman seemed to give way to Christian
confidence. She started out with
hopeful look THAT I think. must have
won for her Il place i'll which to earn
her bread. | rather think that consid-
crate anJ, Christian gentleman saved n
womun,S New York and Brooklyn
groundIp last year about thirty thou
sand young women, and would like to
grind up about as manly this year. Out
of all that long procession of women
who march on. with no hope for this
world or tile next, battered and bruised
and scoffed at. and flung oil the preci
saved Tor home AMI Sod and heaven.
But good men and good women are
not in that kind Of business. Alas for
that poor tlingl Nothing but the
thread of that sewing girls needle held
her, and the thread broke.
WOMAN A GIFT FROM GOD.
have heard men tell in public dis
course what man is; but what is
woman2 Until some one shall give a
better definition ! will tell you what
woman is. Direct from God, a sacred
and delicate gift. 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 irr;idiate home and society
and the world. OF such value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
lived long enough to let him under
stand it, or who in some great crisis
of life, when all else failed linn, had a
wife to re-enforce him with d faith in
God that nothing could disturb.
Speak out, We cradles, and tell OF the
feet that rocked you and the anxious
faces that lowered over you'll Speak
out, ye nurseries Of all Christendom,
and We homes, whether desolate or still
in full bloom with the faces OF wife,
mother and daughter. and help me to
define what woman is. But as geogra-
piers tells us that the depths OF the sea
correspond with the heights OF the
mountains | have to tell you that 4
good wolnanhood is not higher up than
bad wonanhpod is deep down. The
grander the palace the more awful the
conhagration that destroys it. The
erander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down Just OF the
coast.
Now / should not wonder if you
trelnbled little with Il sense OF re-
sponsibility when | say that there is
hardly person in this house but may
have an opportunity to save woman.
1t may in your case be done by good
advice, or Try financial help, or by try
ing to bring to bear some one OF o
thousand Christian influences. If, for
instance, you find a woman in financial
distress and breaking down in health
and spirits trying to support her chill
dren. now that her husband is dead or
an invalid, doing that very important
and honorable workout which islit-
tie appreciated keeping a boarding
house, where all the guests, according
as they pay small board. or propose,
without paying any board at oil, to de-
camp. are critical of everything and
hard to please, busy yourselves in try
ing to get her more patrons and tell
her of divine sympathy.
Yea, if you see woman favored OF
fortune and with all kindly surround
ings, finding in the hollow batteries OF
the world her chief regalelnept. living
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