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

BROOKLYN, n. Y, June Rev. 7.
De Witt Talmage, who is now on his
rOund-ths-worId journey, has chosen as
the subject for to-day, Martyrs Of the
Needle the text being Matt. 1924,
at is easier for a camel to go through
the eye Of q needle"
Whether this "eye OF the needle" be
the small gate at the side Of the big
gate at the entrance Of the wall Of the
ancient city, as is generally interpreted,
or the eye OF a needle such as is now
handled In sewing 2 gamemenL 1 90
not say. In either case 10 would be a
tight thing for a camel 70 90 through
the eye Of a needle. But there are
whole caravans Of fatigues aud hard
ships going through the eye OF the sew
ing wOman's needle.
The greatest blessing that could have
happened 10 our first parents was being
turned out OF Eden after they had done
wrong. or the thousand prosperous
and honorable men that you know, nine
hundred and ninety-nine had to work
vigorously at the beginning.
But l an now to tell you that indus
try Is just as important for a woman's
safety and happiness. The most IN
happy women in our communities TO-
day are those who have no engagements
TO call them up in the morning; who,
once having risen and breakfaSted,
lounge through the dull forenoon in
slippers down at the heel and with dis
heveled hair, reading the last novel;
and who, having dragged through a
wretched forenoon aud taken their
afternoon sleep, and having spent an
hour and half at their toilet, pick up
their card case and 90 out to make
calls; and who pass their evenings wait
ing for somebody TO come in and break
up the mOnOtony. Arabella Stuart
never was imprisoned In so dark dun
geon as that.
There is DO happiness in an idle wo-
man. II may be with hand, 10 may be
with brain, II may be with foot; but
work she must, or DO wretcbed forever.
The little girls Of our families must be
started with that idea. The curse Of
our American society is that our young
women are taught that the Erst, sec
ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fitieth, thOuSandth thing In their
life is TO get somebody TO take care OF
them. Instead Of that, the first lesson
should be, how, under God, they may
take care OF themselves. The simple
fact Is that a majority OF them do have
to take care OF themselves, and that,
too, after having, through the false no.
tions Of their parents, wasted the years
In which they ought TO have learned
how successfully 70 maintain them
selves. We now and here declare the
inhumanity, cruelty and outrage Of that
father and mother, who pass their
daughters into womanhood, having
given them no facility Tor earning their
livelihood.
Though you live in On elegantiresi-
dsnce, and fare sumptuously every day,
let your daughters feel
IT Is A DISGRACE
to them not to know how to work. I
denounce the idea, prevalent in society,
that though our young women may en-
broider slippers, and crochet, and make
mats for lamps % stand OF, without dis
grace, the idea OF doing anything for
livelihood is diShOnOrab,e. IL is a shame
for Young woman, belonging 20 large
family, 20 be inefficient when the father
tolls his life away for her support It
is a shame for a daughter TO be idle
while her mother tolls at the waSh-tub.
II is as honorable TO sweep house, make
beds, or trim hats, as IL is to twist
watch chain.
II we want a place In this world we
must earn it. The partridge makes its
own nest before 10 occupies IL. The
lark, by It's morning song, earns its
breakfast before 10 eats it; the Bible
gives an intimatiOn that the first duty
OF an idler is 10 starve, when it says If
he will not work, neither shall he
eat" Idleuess ruins the health; aud
very soon Nature says. This man has
refused 20 pay his rent; out with him!
Society is TO be- reconstructed on the
subject Of wOman's toll. A vastly ma
tOrity OF those who would have woman
Industrious shut her no 20 a few kinds
Of work. My judgment in this matter
10, that a woman has right 10 any
thing she can do well. There should
be no department of merchandise,
mechanism, art, or science barred
against her. IL Miss HOsmer has genius
for sculpture, give her a chisel. Ii
Rosa Bonheur has a fondness for delin-
eating animals, let her make "The
Horse Fair" II Miss Mitchell will
study astronomy, leu her mouRt the
starry ladder. If Lydia will be a mer-
chant, let hsr sell purple, II Lucretia
Mott will preach the Gospel, let her
thrill with her wOmanly elOQuence the
Quaker meeting-hOuSe.
/ go still further, and say that women
should have equal compensation with
men. By what principle OF justice is it
that women IN many OF our cities get
only tWO-thirds as much pay as men,
and In many cases only half?
Is there a God2 Will there be judy
ment? ! tell you, IL God rises up 20 re-
dress woman's wrongs many OF our
large establishments will be swallowed
up quicker than a South American
earthquake ever took down a city. God
will catch these OppresSOrS between the
two millstones OF his wrath and grind
them 10 powder.
hear from all this land the wall Of
womanhood. Man has nothing TO an
sWer to that wall but batteries. He
SAYS she is an angel She IS not. She
knows she is not She is a human be-
ing, who gets hungry when she has no
food and cold when she has no fire.
Give her no more batteries; give her