The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-06-06

not only TO ask, but 70 demand more
wages, and TO demand them success-
fully. Unskilled and incompetent labor
must take what is given; skilled and
competent labor will eventually mako
It's own standard. Admitting that the
law Of supply and demand regulates
these things, l contend that the de-
mand for skilled labor is very great,
and the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work Is hon
orable, and that you can do some one
thing better than any one else. Resolve
that, God helping, you will take care Of
yourself. If you are, after q while,
called into another relation you will all
the better be qualified for 1t by your
spirit Of self-relianoe; or II you are
called to stay as you are, you can be
happy and self-supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
rs an oak, and woman the vine that
climbs II; but have seen many a tree
fall that not only went down Itself. but
took all the vines with it. can tell
you Of something stronger than IN oak
for an ivy to climb on, and that N the
throne Of the great Johsvsh. Single
or affianced, that woman 10 strong who
leans on God and does her best. The
needle may break; tho faotory-band
may slip; the wages may fail; but over
eyery good womsn's head thero are
spread the two great, gontle, stupen-
dous wings of the Almighty.
Many Of you will 60 single-handed
through life, and you will have to
choose between two characters. Young
woman, am sure you will turn back
upon the useless, giggling, painted
nonenity which society ignominiously
acknowledges to be woman, and ask
God to make you an humble, active,
earnest Christian.
What will become Of this goddess
disciple 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 re-
demption. Her apparel Is the poorest
part Of o Christian woman, however
magnifcently dressed, and no one has
so much right to dress we'll as Chris
tian. 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 blister off her
eyelids, and the rouge off her checks,
and with two rough, bony hands, scat
ter, 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 afterwards;
but in her life 1t was first the farce of
a useless life, 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 blessing TO your house
hold. do not know that she was ever
offered hand In marriage. She lived
single, that untrammeled she might be
everybody's blessing. Whenever the
sick was to be visited, or the poor to be
provided with bread, she went with a
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 little sharp,
but for the most part Auntie was a
/ sunbeam-just the one for Christmas
eve. She knew better than any one
else how TO fix things Her every
prayer, as God heard IT, was full of
I everybody who had trouble. The
brightest things in all the house
dropped from her fingers. She had
peculiar notions, but the grandest
( notion she ever had was to make you
happy. She dressed well-Auntie always
dressed well; but her highest adorn'
ment was that of meek and quiet
spirit, which, in the sight Of God, 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 bitterly;
, and the man of the world said, with
Solomon, "TIer price was above rubies;"
and Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judea,
. commanded: 81 say unto thee, arisew