The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-06-07

who sews for them2 Are not women as sharp
| az men on washerwomen aud milliners and
mantua makers? II q woman asks 81 for her
work. does not her female employer ask IL
she will not take ninety cents! You say,
"0nly ten cents difference But that IL
sometimes the difference between heaven
and hell. Women often have less commits
Grafton for women than men. II woman
steps aside from the path % virtue. man may
forvivs-woman never, Woman will never
get justice done her from wonau's bsllo:.
Never will she get Il from mans ballot.
How. then? God will risa up for her. God
has mora resources than we know o. The
flaming swor | that hung at Eien's gate
when woman was driven out will ceave with
its terrible eige her oppressors
But there Is something for our women tn
do. Let our young people prepare to exec,
in spheres OF work. and they will be able
alter awhile 10 get larger wages. II It be
shown that woman can in n stors sell mors
goods In year than q man. she will soon bs
able not only to ask but TO demand moro
wages. and to demand them successfully.
Unskilled and incompetent labor must tnks
what Is given. skilled and competent labor
will eventually make its own STANDARD. Ad-
mitting that tho law OF sur ply and demand
regulates these things. contend that tho
demand for skilled labor is very great and
the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work is honorahls
and thnt you can do some one thing better
than ar yone else. Resolve that. God help
ing, you will take care o. yourself. II you
are after "A while called into another relation
you will all the better be qualified for II bv
your spirit OF self-reliunce. or II you arc
called to stay as you are you can be happy
and self-supportinc.
Poets are fond OF talking about man as an
oak and woman the vine that climbs II, but I
haye seen many tree fall that not only
went down itself. but took all the vines with
II. L can tell you OF something stronger
than an oak for an Ivy TO climb on, AMI that
IL the throne OF the great Jehovah. Single
or affianced, that woman Is strong who leans
on God and does her best. Tho needle may
break, the factory band may slip. the wages
may fail. but over every good womans head
there are spread the two great. gentle, stu.
pendous wings OF the Almighty
Many OF you will 60 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,
glggling, painted nonentity which society
ANONYMOUSLY acknowledges 10 be woman
and ask Col to make you humble, active,
earnest Christian.
What will become OF this godless disciple
OF fashion? What an insult TO her sex Her
manners are an outrage upon decency. She
Is more thoughtful OF the attitude she
look In tho judgment, more worried about
her freckles than her sins. more interested
In her bonnet strings than in her redenNO.
tion. Her apparel is the poorest part o
Christian woman, however magnincen
dressed, and no ono has so much rigl
dress we'll rs a Christian. Not so witt
goddess disciple OF fashion. Take
robes, and you take everything.
will como down on her some day, ant
the bistre of her eyelids. and the roue
her checks. and with two rough. bonyl
scatter spangles and glass beads and
and ribbons and lace and brooches
buckles and sashes and frisettes and 8,
clasps.
The dying actress whose life had
vicious said ''The scene closes. Draw
curtain" Generally the tragedy comes
and the farce afterward but in her H.
was first the farce OF u useless lite and
the tragedy OF wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death OF such n
with that OF some Christian aunt that
once blessing to your household. do
know that she was ever offered hand
marriage. She lived single, that untr
melei she might be everybodys bless
Whenever the sick were to be visited or
poor to DO provided with bread. she
with blessing. She could pray or
'Kock OF Ages for aI.y SIX paupsr --~
asked her. As she got older there We're days
when she was little sharp, but (, : the
most part auntie was sunbeam
the one for Christmas eve. she
better than any one else how TO
things. Her every prayer, as God
II, was full OF everybody who had trol
The brightest things In al the house drol
from her fingers. She had peculiar motto
but the grandest notion she ever had was
make you happy. She dressed well-aunl
always dressed well-out her highest ador
ment was thar OF meek and quiet spir
which, In the sight OF God, is OF great pric
When she died, you all gathered lovingl
about her, and ns you carried her out 10 resi-
the Sunday-school class almost covered tn
coffin with iaponicas, and the poor peopl
stood at the end OF the alley, with thei
aprons TO their eyes, sobbing bitterly, an(
tue man OF the world said, with Solomon
"Her price was above rubies," AMI Jesus,
unto the maiden in Juiea, commanded,
say unto thee, arlsem -