The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-08

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 sometimes the
difference between Heaven and hell.
Women often have less commiseration
| for women than men. If a woman
steps aside from the path of virtue,
man may forgive woman never!
Woman will never get justice done her
| from woman's ballot.
Never will she get it from mans bal
lot. How, then? God will rissup for
her. God has more resources than we
know of. The flaming sword that
hung at Edens 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 it 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 to de-
mand more wages, and to demand
them successfully. Unskilled and in
competent labor must take what it is
given, skilled and competent labor
will eventually make its own standard.
Admitting that the law of supply and
demand regulates these things, | con-
tend that the demand 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. Re-
solve that, God helping, you will take
care 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 called to stay as you are, you
can be happy and self-supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak, and woman the vine that
climbs it; but have seen many tree
fall that not only went down itself.
but took all the vines with it. l can
tell you of something stronger than
oak for an ivy to climb on, and that is
the throne of the great Jehovah. Single
or affianced, 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 woman's head there are
spread the two great, gentle, stupend-
Gus 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 ignO-
miniously acknowledges to be wom-
an. and ask God to make you an hum
BILE. active. earnest Christian.
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 freclkles than her sins; more inter-
ested in her bonnet strings than in her
redemption. Her apparel is the poor
est part of Christian woman, how
ever magnifcently dressed, and no one
has so much right to dress well as 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 blister off her eyelids, and the
rouge off her cheeks, and with two
rough, bony hands, scatter spangles
and glass beads and rings and ribbons
| l., l,,NnohnS anA hnalx1aS and
sashes and frisettes and golden clasps.
The dying actress whose life had been
vicious said: 1.-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
an one with that of some Christian
aunt that was once blessing to your
household. do not know that she was
ever offered hand in marriage. She
lived singly, that untrammeled she
might be everybody's blessing. When
ever 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
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 it, was full
of everybody who had trouble. The
brightest things in all the house
dropped from her fingers She had pc
culiar notions, but the grandest notion
she ever had was to make you happy.
She dressed well-auntie always dressed
well; but her highest adornment
that was 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 japon-
icas; 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 Je-
sus, as unto the maiden in Judea. COM
manded: Il say unto thee, arisen'
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