The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-06


the most insignificant flaws picked out,
and the wages refused, and sometimes
the dollar deposited not given back. The
Womens protective union reports case
where one of these poor souls, finding
place where she could get more wages,
resolved TO change employers and went
10 get her pay for work done. The en-
ployer says, II hear you are going to
leave me?" Yes" she said, and l have
come to get what you owe me-" He
made no answer. She said, Are you not
going to pay me?" Yes" he said, II
will pay you" and he kicked her down
the stairs.
How are these evils to be eradicated?
What have you TO answer, you who sell
coats and have shoes made and contract
for the southern and western markets?
What help is there, what panacea, what
redemption? Some say. Give women the
ballot" What effect such ballot might
have on other questions L am not here
70 discuss. but what would be the effect
Of female suffrage upon woman's wages?
do not believe that woman will ever
get justice by woman's ballot.
Indeed. women Cypress women $ much
as men do. Do not women, as much as
men, beat down to the lowest figure the
woman who gews for them? Are not
women as sharp as men on washerwomen
and milliners and mantua makers? If
woman asks dollar for her work. does
not her female employer ask her If she
will not take 30 cents? You say, "Only
10 cents difference" but that is some
times the difference between heaven and
he'll. Women have often less commiser-
alton for women than men. If a woman
steps inside from the path Of virtue man
may forgive-woman. never. Woman
will never get justice done her from
woman's ballot.
The Flaming Sword.
Never will she get it from mans bal
lot. How, then? God will rise up for
her God has more resources than we
know Of. The flaming sword that hung
at Eden's gate when woman was driven
out will cleave with its terrible edge her
oppressors
But there is something for our women
to do. Let our young people prepare to
excel in spheres of work. and they will be
able after awhile to get larger wages.
If il be shown that a woman can in a
store sell more goods in year than a
man, she will soon be able not only to
ask but 70 demand more wages, and to
demand them successfully. Unskilied
and incompetent labor must take what
is given. Skilled and competent labor
will eventually make its own standard.
Admitting that,the law Of supply and de-
mand regulates these things. I contend
that the demand for skilled labor is very
great and the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work is honor
able, and that you can do some one thing
better than any one else. Resolve that,
God helping, you will take care of your
self. II you are after awhile called into
another relation, you will all the better
be qualified for it by your spirit of self
reliance, or If you are called to stay as
you are you can be happy and self-sup-
porting.
Poets are fond Of talking about man
as an oak. and woman the vine that
climbs it, but 1 have seen many a tree
fall that not only went down itself. but
took all the vines with it. l can tell you
Of something stronger than an oak for
an ivy TO climb on, and that is the throne
OF the great Jehovah. Single or affi-
anced. that woman is strong who leans
on God and does her best. The needle
may break, the factory band may slip.
the wages may fall but over every good
woman's head there are spread the two
great, gentle. stupendous 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. giggling. painted nonentity
which society ANONYMOUSLY acknowl-
edges to be a woman and ask God TO
make you an humble, active. earnest
Christian.
Her FreckIes and Her Sins.
What will become OF this goddess dis
ciple Of fashion. What an insult to 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 freckles than
her sins; more interested in her bonnet
strings than in her redemption. Her APP
parel is the poorest part Of a Christian
woman, however magnificently dressed,
and no one has so much right to dress
we'll a Christian. Not so with the
goddess disciple of fashion. Take her
robes. and you take everything. Death
will come down on her some day and
rub the bistre off her eyelids and the
rouge off her cheeks, and with two
rough. bOny hands scatter spangles and
glass beads and rings and ribbons and
lace and brooches and buckles and sashes
and frisettes and golden clasps.
The dying actress, whose life had been
vicious. said: The scene closes. Draw
the curtain" Generally the tragedy
comes first and the farce afterward but
in her life it was first the farce of a
useless life and then the tragedy of a
wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death Of such a
one with that Of some Christian aunt
that was once a blessing to your house
hold. l do not know that she was ever
offered a hand In marriage. She lived
single, that untrammeled she might be
everybody's blessing. Whenever the sick
were to be visited or the poor to be pro-
vided with bread, she went with a bless
ing. She could pray or sing Rock of
Ages" for any sick pauper who asked
her AS she got older there were days
when she a little sharp. but for the
most part auntie was sunbeam-just
the one for Christmas eve. She knew
better than any one else how to fix
things. Her every prayer. as God heard
II, was full of everybody who had trou-
BILE. The brightest things In all the house
dropped from her fingers. She had pecu-
liar motions but the grandest notion
she ever had was to make you happy.
She dressed well-auntie always dressed
well-but her highest adornment was that
| Of a meek and quiet spirit, which, I'm the
sight Of Cod, 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 bitter
| ly, and the man of the world said with
| Solomon, Her price was above rubies, -
| and Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judaea
commanded, Il say unto thee, ariser'
No Hurry.
She-"What are you doing?'
He-"Squeezing your hand"
Squeezing my hand?'
| He-"Yes."