The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-08-27

ceIHin2. And tie twelve Angels vnO
keep the twelve gate If heaven, unite
IL crying down to this approaching
spirit Of the old man, Come In, and
welcome, for it has been told al over
these celestial lands that you saved a
man"
~ TIKI LIVE or wOMAE
There sometimes cyne exigezlcies ia
tAS Hio ~ a woman. One morning a
few years ago saw In the newspaper
that there was a young woman In New
York. whose pocketbook containing
tlirth seven dollars and thirty three
cents had been stolen, and she had
bean left without a penny at the begin
ming OF winter, In n strange city, and
no work And although she was a
stranger, did not allow the o O'Clock
mail to leave tho lamp post on our cor
ner Without carrying the thirty -seven
dollars and thirty-three cents. and the
case was proved genuine
Now, have read al s;l.akespeare's
tragedies, and all Victor Hugo's TRACE
dies, and oil Alexander Smiths TRACE
dies, bat l never read a tragedy more
thrilling than hat case, and similar
cases BY the hundreds and thousands
In all our large citiee-yoang women
without money and without home and
without work in the great maelstrons
OF metropolitan life. When such q
case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it1 Get out of my
way; we have no room In our estab-
hshment for any more hands I don't
believe in women anyway. They ore a
lazy, idle, worthless set. John, please
show this person out of the 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
spot6 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 I saw it one
day In the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where young woman ap-
piled for work and the gentleman IN
tone and manner said in substance:
Iy 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 I
hope you will be successful in getting
something to do. Here is my name and
tell them I sent you"
The embarrassed and Inundated
woman seemed to give way to Christian
confidence. She started out with q
hopeful look that, think, must have
won for her place in which to earn
her bread. rather thluk that consid-
crate and Christian gentleman saved q
woman. New York and Brooklyn
ground up last year about thirty thou
sand young women, and would like to
grind up about as many this year. Out
OF all thot long procession of women
who march on with no hope for this
world or the next, battered and bruised
and scoffed at, and flung off the preci-
pice, not one but might have been
saved for home and God and heaven.
But good men and good women are
not In that kind of business. Alas for
that poor thing Nothing but the
thread of that sewing girls needle held
her, and the thread broke.
WOMAN A GIFT FROM GOD.
l have heard men tell in public dis
course what a man is; but what is
womanY Until some one shall give
better definition I 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 irradiate 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 him, had q
wife to REINFORCE him with q faith In
God that nothing could disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of tie
feet that rocked you and the anxiods
faces that lowered over you'll Speak
out, ye nurseries of all Christendom,
and We homes, whether desolate or st1n
In full bloom with the faces Of wits.
mother and daughter, and help me 10
define what woman is. But as geogra-
pliers tells US that the depths of the sea
correspond with the heights of the
mountains I have to tell you that a
good womanhood is not higher up then
bad womanhood is deep down The
grander the palace the more awful the
confiagration that destroys it. The
grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down just of the
coast
Now ] should not wonder If you
tremhled a little with a >sense of n
sponsihlity when I.sas. that. theseias
hardly a person IN this. house. but .may
hove an opportunity to sa~e. a woman.
1t may in your. case be done. by good
Va Ny LLuikjdeaA ny G{y-
tng to bring to beer some one of Q
thousand Christian influences If, foe
Instance, you find Q woman in financial
distress and breaking down in health
and spirits trying to support her chill
tren, now that her husband is dead OF
an invalid, doing that very important
and honorable workout which is 1T
tie appreciated-keeping a boarding
house, where oil the guests, according
as they pay small board. or propose,
without paying any board at all, to de-
camp, are critical of everything and
hard to please, busy yourselves IN try.
ing to get her more patsons and tell
her OF divine sympathy. -
/ Yea, ii you see a wo,nap favored a
fortune and With all kindly surround
logs, finding in the hollow batteries o,
the world her chief requirement nvfns
for herself and for time as II there
were no eternity, strive to bring hen
into the kingdom of God, as did thu