The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-08

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ma nat torn and faded calico had an
Casrry Of magnificent brocade that
swept Broadway clean without any ex-
s1la' to the street commissioners.
3g Oh you live in an elegant residence
@ fare sumptuously every day, let
,'1 daughters feel it is disgrace to
tag not to know how to work. de.
,e the idea, prevalent in society,
though our young women may en-
er slippers and crochet and make
mats for lamps to stand on without
disgrace, the idea of doing anything for
livelihood is dishonorable. 1t is a
shame for a young woman, belonging to
large family, to be inefficient when
the father tolls his life away for her
support 1t is shame for daughter to
be idle while her mother tolls at the
washtub. 1t is as honorable to sweep
house, make beds or trim hats as it is
to twist watch chain.
Finical Notions.
AS far as can understand, the line
of responsibility lies between that
which is useful and that which is use
less. If women do that which is of no
value, their work is honorable If they
do practical work, it is dishonorable.
That our young women may escape the
censure of doing dishonorablo work
shall particularize You may knit tidy
for the back of an armchair, but by no
means mako the money wherewith to
buy the chair. You may, with delicate
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die rather than earn enough to buy a
marble mantel You may learn artistic
music until you can squall italian, but
never sing "Ortonville" Or cold Hun
bred" Do nothing practical if you
would in the eyes of refined society pre-
serve your responsibility. scout these
finical notions. 1 tell you no woman,
any more than man, has right to oc-
cupy a place in this world unless she
pays rent for it.
In the course Of lifetime you con-
sumo whole harvests and droves Of cat
tie, and every day you live breathe 40
hogsheads of good pure air. You must
by some kind of usefulness pay for all
this. Our race was the last thing Great
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day, the cattle and lizards on the fifth
day and man ON the sixth day. If geol-
ogists are right, the earth was million
of years in the possession Of the insects,
beasts and birds before our race came
upon it. In one sense we were inno-
vators. The cattle, the lizards and the
hawks had presumption right The
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the lizards and summer insects, but
what the lizards and summer insects
are to do with us.
If we want place in this world, we
must earn it. The partridge makes its
own nest before it occupies it The
| lark by its morning song earns its break
fast before it eats it. The Bible gives
idler is to starve when it says if he
twill not work neither shall he eat. !"
Idleness ruins the health, and very soon
nature says: 'This man has refused to
pay his rent Out with himP'
The Toll of the Needle.
Society is to be reconstructed on the
subject of woman S toll. A vast majority
of those who would have woman indus
trious shut her up to few kinds of
work My Judgment in this matter is
that woman has right to do anything
she can do we'll. There should be no de-
partment of merchandise, mechanism,
art or science barred against her. If
Miss Hosmer has genius for sculpture,
give her chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has
fondness fol-. delineating animals, let
her make "The Horse Fair" If Miss
Mitchell will study astronomy, let her
mount the starry ladder. If Lydia will
be merchant, let her sell purple. If
Lucretia Mott will preach the gospel, let
her thrill with her womanly eloquence
the Quaker meeting house.
1t is said if woman is given such
opportunities she will occupy places
that might be taken by men. say if
e have more skill and adaptedness for
a,y position than man has let her have
1 She has as much right to her bread,
10 her apparel and to her home as men
I've.
But it is said that her nature is so deli
gate that she is untitled for exlausting
ii. I ask in the name of all past his
tory what toll on earth is more severe,
e.;hausting and tremendous than that
ell of the needle to which for ages
slle has been subjected? The battering
IN, the sword, the carp1ne, the DaJJIe-
(, have made no such havoc as the
,edle. would that these living sepul-
ellers in which women have for ages
b,en buried might be opened, and that
some resurrection trumpet might bring
p these living corpses to the fresh air
I'd sunlight.
Go with Inc, and will show you a
oman who by hardest toll supports her
e1ildren, her drunken husband her old
'ather ana mother, pays her house rent,
ways has wholesome food on the table,
nd when she can get some neighbor on
ne Sabbath to come in an / take care of
4er family appears in chez, III with hat
nd cloak that are far from indicating
ne toll to which she is subjected
Trials of Women.
Such woman as that has BODY and
oul enough to fit her for any position
he could stand beside the majority of
Iour statesmen and dispose of more
goods. She could go into your wheel
right shops and beat one-half of your
sorA,nen at making carriages. We talk
Don't WO,nall as though we had resigned
her all tho light work, and ourselves
i'ad shouideren She heavier. But the day
Il Judgment, which will reveal the suf-
erings of the stake and inquisition. will
marshall before the throne of God and
me h.oraruhs of heaven the martyrs of
/ 'vashtub and needle. = "
now l say, if there be any prefer.
nee IN occupation, let woman have If
roo Knows her trials are the sevrrest
~ her acuter sensitiveness to ,nisfor.
.une' by her hour of anguish, | demand
nat no one hedge up her pathway TO n
livelihood. Oh, the meanness tho do
Picaoiiity of men who begrudge n WON.
VI 'he right to work anywhere in amy
honorable callingl ''
90 sun further and say that women