The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-04

beat them down to the last penny, and
try to cheat them out of that. The
| woman must deposit dollar or two be-
/ fore she gets the garments to work on.
/ When the work is done IL is sharply In
/ spected. the most insignificant flaws
picked out, and the wages refused and
/ sometimes the - deposited not given
/ back The Women's Protective Union
/ reports case where one Of these poor
| souls, finding place where she could get
I more wages, resolved to change employ
/ erS, and went to get her pay for work
/ done. The employer says: Il hear you
/ are going to leave me?''-''Yes," she said,
/ and I have come to get what you owe
1 me" He made no answer. She said:
/ Are you not going to pay meH'-"Ges,'
/ he said, Il will pay you;' and he kicked
/ her down the stairs
| How are these evils to be eradicated2
/ What have you TO answer, you who sell
| coats. aud have shoes made. and contract
/ for the southern and western markets.
What help is there, what pauacea, 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 be the
effect of female suffrage upon woman's
wages, ! do not believe that woman
/ viii ever get justice by woman's ballot.
Indeed, women Cypress women as much
as men do. Do not women, as much as
men, beat down to the lowest figure the
| woman who sews for theml Are Lot wo-
men as sharp as men Oh washerwOmen,
and milliners, and mantua-makers? If a
woman asks dollar for her work, does
not her female employer ask her if she
| will not take niueJy cents! You say
7 only ten cents difference but that is
/ sometimes the difference between heaven
ana hell Women often have less com
miseration for women than men. If a
I -fanc side from the n9fD Of UiT-
tue, man may 'forgive-woman never
! Woman viii never get justice done her
/ from woman's ballot
! Never will she get it from mans ballot.
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 oppres-
sors.
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 while, to get larger wages
If it be shown that a woman can. in a
store, sell more goods in a year than a
man, she will soon be able not only to ask
but TO demand more wages, and to de-
mand them successfully. Unskilled and
| Incompetent labor must take what is
given: skilled and competent labor will
eventually make its own standard. Ad-
hitting that the law of supply and de-
mand regulates these things, | 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. Resolved that
God helping. you will take care of your
self. If you are, after while, called into
another relation you will all the better be
qualified for it by your spirit of self-reli-
ance. or if you are called to stay as you are,
you can be happy and self-supportng.
Poets are fond of talking about man as
an oak. and woman the vine that climbs
it; but l have seen many tree fall that
not only went down itself, but took all the
vines with it. | can tell YOU something
stronger than an oak for an ivy to climb
on, and that is the throne of the great Je-
| hovah. Single or afianCed, that woman
| is strong who leans on God and does her
! best. The needle may break the factory
! hand may slip; the wages may fail 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,
l 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 Chris
tian.
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 ap-
parel is the poorest part of a Christian
! woman, however magnifcently dressed
and no one has so much right to dress
we'll as a Christian. Not so with the
! goddess disciple of fashion Take her
robes, and you take everything. Death
| will come down upon her some day, and
rub the bistre offher eyelids, and the
rouge off her checks, and with two rough,
bony hands. scatter spangles and glass
beads and rings and ribbons and laces 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 use
less life, and then the tragedy of a
wretched eternity.
Compare the life aud death of such an
one with that of some Christian aunt that
was once a blessing to your household 7
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 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
a little sharp, but for the most part
Auntic was a sunbeam-iust one
for Christmas-eve. She knew better
than anyone else how to fix things
Her every prayer, as God heard
it, was full of everybody who had trouble.
The brightest things in all the house
dropped from her fingers. She had pecu-
liar notions, 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, 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 Sun
day 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.
Her price was above rubies - and
Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judea, COM
handed: Il say unto thee, arise"'