Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-04

cars on their way up2 They cannon
afford the i've cents! If, concluding to
deny herself something else, she gets
into the car, give her seat! You want
70 see how Latimer and Ridley appeared
IN the FIRE: look at that woman and be-
hold a more horrible martyrdom, hot
ter fire, a more agonizing death!
One Sabbath night, In the vesttoule OF
my church, after service, a woman Tell
in commissions. The doctor said she
needed medicine not so much as some
thing 10 eat. AS she began TO revive,
10 her delirium, she said, gasplngly::
Eight centsl Eight cents! Eight cents.
I wish I could get it done! l am so tlred
1 wish / could get some sleep, but must
get IL done! Eight cents! Eight cents.
We found afterwards she was making
garments at eight cents apiece, and that
she could make but shree OF them In
day. Hear H. Three times eight are
twenty-four! Hear it, men and women
who have comfortable homes. Some OF
THE WORST VILLAINS
OF the CITY are the employers Of these
women. They beat them down 10 th'
last penny, and try to cheat them GU
Of that. The woman must deposit
dollar or two before she gets the gar
ments 20 work on. When the work Is
done il is sharply inspected, the most
insignificant flaws picked out, and the
wages refused, and sometimes the dollar
deposited not given back. The WOmen'S
Protective Union reports a case where
one Of these poor souls, finding q place
where she could more wages, resolved 10
change employers, and went to get her
pay for work done. The employer says:
II hear you are going to leave me?'
Eyes" she said, "and I have come TO
get what you owe me-" He made no an
swer. She said: Are you not going TO
pay meP' Yes, " he said, II will pay
you;" and be kicked her down the stairs.
How are these evils 20 be eradicated?
What have you 10 answer; you who sell
coats ami have shoes made, and con-
tract for the Southern AMI Western
markets? What help is there, what
panacea, what redemption? Some say:
give women the ballot" What effect
such ballot might have on other QueS-
lions am not here 10 discuss; but what
would be the effect OF female suffrage
upon womar's wages? 1 do not believe
that woman VIII ever get justice by
woman's ballot.
Indeed, women Cypress women as
much as men do. Do not women, as
much as men, beat down TO the low est
figure the woman who Sews for them :?
Are not women as sharp as men on
washerwOmen, aud milliners, and man
tua-makers? II a woman asks dollar
for her work, does not her female en-
ployer ask her il she will not take nine
" cents? You say "Only ten cents dig
ference" but that is sometimes the diff
ference between heaven and hell.
Women often have less cOmmseration
for women than men. II woman
steps aside from the path Of virtue,
man may fOrgive-woman never! Wo-
man will never get justice done her
FROM womau'S ballot.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak, and woman the vine that
climbs IL; but have seen many tree
fall that not only went down itself, but
took all the vines with IL. l can tell
you Of something
STRONGER THAN AN OAK
for an ivy to climb on, aud that is the
throne Of the great jehovah. Single or
aifianced, that woman is strong VINO
leans on God and does her best. The
needle may break; the factory band may
slip; the wages may fail; but over every
good woman's head there are spread the
two great gentle, stupendOus wings OF
the Almighty.
Many Of you will so single-handed
through life, and you will have to
choose between two characters. Young
woman, I am sure you will turn your
back upon the useless, giggling, paint
ed nonentity which society ignominious-
IL acknowledges to be woman, and
ask God 10 make you an humble, active,
earnest Christian.
What will become Of this goddess dis
cipls Of fashion? What an insRlt 80
her sex. Her manners are an outrage
upOn decency She is more thoughtful
OF the attitude she strikes upon the
carpet than how she will look In the
Judgment; more worried about her
ireckles than her sins; more interested
in her bOnnet-strings than in her re
demptiOn. Her apparel is the poorest
part OF a Christian woman, however
magui6cently dressed, and no one has
so much right to dress well as Chris
tlan. Not so with the goddess disciple
Of fashion. Take her robes, and you
take everything. Death will come
down on her some day, aud rub the
bistre of her eyelids, ana the rouge of
her cheeks, aud with two rough, bony
hands, scatter spangles and glass beads
and rings and ribbons and lace and
brooches and buckles and Ssshes and
friSettes and golden clasps.
The dyiag actress whose life had
been vicious, said: "The scene Closes
Draw the curtain" Generally tho
tragedy comes first, and the farce
afterward; tut in her life it was first
the farce OF useless life, and then the
tragedy Of a Wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death Of such
an one with that Of some Christian
aunt that
WAS ONCE A BLESSING
to your household. do not know that
she was ever offered a hand in mar.
riage. She lived single, that untrsm-
melted she might be everYbody's bless
ing Whenever the sick were TO be
visited, or the poor 70 be provided with
bread, she went with blessing. She
could pray, or sing Rock OF Ages,
for any sick pauper who asked her
As she got older. there were days when
she was a little sharp, but for the most
part Auntie was q Sunbeam-luSt IN ,