The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-21

| beat down to the lowest figure the wonan
who sews for them? Are not women as sharp
as men on washerwomen ana rniii nt anu I
mantua makers? II a woman asks 81 for ner
work. does not her female employer ask II
she will not take ninety cents? You say,
"OnIv ten cents difference" But that 10
sometimes the difference between heaven
and hell. Women often have less comms-
Grafton for women than men. Ii woman
stems aside from the path OF virtue. man may
foroivs-voman never, Woman will never
get Justice done her from womau's ballo..
Never will she get it from mans ballot.
How. then? God will rise up for her. Col
has more resources than we know OF. Ih9
flaming sword that hung at Eden's gate
when woman was driven out VIII cleave WIN
its terrible edge her oppressorS.
But there is something for our women TO
do. Let our young people prepare to excl
in spheres OF work, and they VIII he apie
after awhile to get larger wages. II 1t ~
shown that woman can III store sell mora
goods in n year than a man. she Will soon M
able not only to ask but to deman mora
wages. and to demand them successfully.
Unskilled and incompetent labor must tax"
what Is given. Skilled and competent labor
will eventually make its own standar l.. Ad.
hitting that the law OF sutp and daTnan1
regulates these things. l contend that the
demand for skillet labor is very great ami
the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work is honor bile
and that YOU can do some one thing better
than Ar yone else. Resolve that. God help
ing. YOU will take care OF yourself. II you
are after while called into another relation,
YOU will all the better be qualified Tor 1t by
YOUR spirit of saf-reliance. or if you are
called to stay as you are you can be happy
and self-supportin9.
Poets are fond of talking about man Ms an
oak and woman the vine that climbs it, but
have seen many tree fall that not only
went down itself. but took all the vines with
it. I can tell you of something stronger
than an oak for an ivy to climb on, ana that
is the throne OF the great Jehovah. Single
or afflanced. that woman is strong VINO leans
on God and does her best. Inc needle may
break. the factory band may slip, the wages
may fail. but over every good woman > heaN
there are spread the two great gentle, STU
pendous wings of the Almighty.
Many OF you will go single handed through
life and YOU will have to choose between
two characters. Young woman. am sure
YOU will turn your back upon the useless.
eieglinc, painted nonentity which society
ipnominiously acknowledges to be woman
and ask God to make you humble, active.
earnest Christian.
What will become of this goddess disciple
of fashion? What an insult to her sex Her
manners are an outrage upon decency. she
is more thoughtful OF the attitude sne
strikes upon the carpet than how she VIII
look in the judgment, more worried about
her freckIes than her sins, more interested
in her bonnet strings than in her redemp-
ton Her apparel is the poorest part OF
Christian woman, however magnlhcently
dressed and no one has SO much right to
dress we'll as Christian. Not SO with the
goddess disciple of fashion. Take her
robes, and you take everything. Death
will como down on her some day, and rub
= ba CT of bora vpli1C and thp rouge OIL
her cheeks, and with two rough, bony hands
scatter spangles and glass beads and rings
and ribbons and lace and brooches and
buckles and sasbes and frisettes and golden
clasps.
The dying actress whose life bad been
vicious said The scene closes. Draw the
curtain" General, the tragedy comes first
and the farce afterward. but in her life it
was first the farce OF useless lite and then
the tragedy OF wretche1 eternity
Compare the life and death of such one
with that OF some Christian aunt mat was
once a blessing to your household. 90 pot
know that she was ever offered hand IN
she lived single, that untram-
meled she might be everybody 5 blessing
Whenever the sick were to be visited or the
poor to be provided with bread. she went
with blessin- She could pray or sing
Rock OF Ages" for any sick pauper VINO
asked her. AS she got older there Were DAYS
when she was little sharp, but for the
most part aUntie was a sunbeam-lust
the one Tor Christmas eve. She knew
better than any one else how to fix
things. Her every prayer, as God heard
it. was full OF everybody who had trouble
The brig btest things in all the house dropped
from her fingers. She had peculiar notions,
but the grandest notion she ever had was to
make you happy She dressed well-auntie
always dressed well-but her highest adorn.
ment was that of meek and quiet spirit,
which, in the sight of God, is of great price.
When she died, you all gathered lovingly
about her, and as you carried her out to rest
the Sunday-school class almost covered the
coffin with japonicas, and the poor people
stood at the end OF the alley, with their
aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly. and
the man of the world said, with Solomon,
"Her price was above rubies,' and Jesus, as
unto the maiden in JudBa. commanded, II
sn1 INF thnn arise ~