Connecticut western news., 1894-06-07

llS SiflS Ol tisS Cll9 1HSSS tiiS5ssS,SNl III eadwork, these iii flower making, ii millinery, enamehng, cigar making, lookbinding, labelling, feather picking, rrint coloring, paper box making, but, most overworked of all and least compensated, the sewing women. Why Go they not take the city CUTS on their way up? They cannot afford the cents. If, concluding to deny herself something else, she gets into tho car, give her seat. You want to see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire. horrible martyrdons-a hotter fire, a Ilore agonizing death.
 One Sabbath night, in tho vestibule of my church, after service woman fell ill convulsions. The doctor said she needed medicine not so much as some thing to cat. AS she began to revive, in Ter deliriu,n sho said gaspingly: Flight centsl Eight cents! Eight centsl I wish I could get 1t donel I am so tired! wish I could gci soa.o sleep, but must get 1t donel Eight centsl Eight centsr' We found afterward that she was making garments at s cents apiece, and that she could make but three of them in aday. Hear itl Three times s arc 2t! Hear it, men and women who have comfortable homesl .s.....#-
 Some of tho worst villains of the city aro the employers of these women. They beat them down to tie last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit $i or S2 before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is done, it is sharply inspected, the most insignificant flaws picked out and the wages refused, md sometimes the S1 deposited not given back. The Women's Protective union reports a case where one of these poor souls, find ing place where she could get more wages, resolved to change employers and went to get her pay for work done. The employer says, T hear you are soing to leave me:'' "Yes, " she said, ''and have come to get what you owe me. " He made no answer. She said, Are you not going to pay me?" "Yes, he said, 1T will pay you," and he kicked her down stairs.
 Women Against Women.
 How are these evils to be eradicated: What have you to answer, you who sell coats and have shoes made and con- tract for the southern and western mar kets? What help is there, what panacea, what redemption? Some say. "Give women the ballot. What effect such ballot might have on other questions am not here to discuss, but what would hr. f1,a afFa r1f To woman's s wages? I do not believe that woman will ever get justice by woman's s ballot.
 Indeed women oppress women as much as men do Do not women as much as men beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them: Are not women as sharp as men on washerwomen and milliners and man. tua makers? If a woman asks $i for her work, does not her female employer ask if she will not take 90 cents? You say, ''Only 10 cents difference. But that is sometimes the difference between heav- en and he'll Women often have less commiseration for women than men. If woman steps aside from the path of virtue, man may forgive-woman never i! Woman will never get justice done her from woman s ballot. ..ea r
 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.
 4 Source of Strength.
 But rhere is something for our wom- en to d.. Let our young people prepare to excel ill spheres of work, and they will be able after awhile to get larger wages. Ii it Do shown that woman can in 6 store sell more goods in year than a man, she will soon be able not only to ask but to demand more wages, and to demand them successfully. Un- F.lilled and Incompetent labor must take what is given. Skilled and competent labor will eventually make it's own standard. Admitting that the law of supply and demand regulates theso things, I contend that the demand for skilled labor is very great and the sup ply very small.
 Start with the i6ca that work is hon. o-ablc and that you can do some one thing better than any one else. Resolve that, God helping, you will take caro of yourself. If 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 call ed to stay as you are you can be happy and self supporting.
 Poets arc fond of talking about man as an oak and woman the vine that ! climbs it, but have seen many Q tree fall that not only went down itself, but | took all the vines with it. I can tell you of something stronger than an oak l for an ivy to climb on, and that is the | throne of the great Jehovah. Single or aGianced, that woman is strong who leans on God and does her best. The needle may break, the factory band may slip, the wages may fail, but over every ] good wornan'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, paint cd nonentity which society ignominious- ! ly acknowledges to be a woman and ask God to make you humble, active, earnest Christian.
 i Useless Life.
 | What will become of this goddess dis ciple of fashion? What au insult to her ! sexf Her nlanners arc an outrooa ,,noo ! decenoy. She is more thoughtful of the ! attitude she strikes upon the carpet than how she will look in the judgment, more worried about her freclles than her sins, more interested in her bonnet strings than in her redemption. Her ap- ! parel is the poorest part of Christian : woman, however magnifcently dressed, and no one has so much right to dress ! well as Christian. Not so with the [ goddess disciple of fashion. Take her