The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-02


youthful aspirants. They enter the
schoolroom with hearts throbbing in
/ anticipation of the great deeds to be
performed. They grow I'D. mingle
with the world, and find that life CON
sists of fixed routine. Striving to
obtain money to pay for food wearing
/ apparel, and a shelter over their
heads. When this duty has been per-
i formed to nicely sleep plunges them
into period of oblivion, but even dur
/ ing this time confused images of life,
4 sometimes the seeming preparation of
1 deeds that when awake would strike
terror to the bravest heart, torment
their weary brains.
Yes, the years roll on. Once in a
while l don some pretty gown and
s s5alllngly take my place with the
pleasure seekers. L form new social
ties every time my boarding place is
changed, but the years go on and on
without stopping and my HEARTS
IT. getting old? o, no, it is
sun cllnging to the ideal
prince who is to come along and
change these dull scenes by his love
as IL my magic I hold the sentiment
mat everyone in this world will some
Gay meet his or her IDEAL and when
these two persons shall be Joined to-
gether by the ties of the purest affec-
ton they will be as happy as the birds
carrolling in the treetops.
Inc years roll on, winter goes and
| summer comes; the leaves become
crimson and scarlet and gold; the
white snow enfolds the earth with its
ermine mantle; but where, o where
is my prince? The boys and girls I
Taught are grown to mans and wo-
mans estate, and still I cling to nv
ideal; still travel east or west as the
| case may be. When the earth is clad
and the suns rays pour upon it's bosom
! IN bright streams, [ roam from place
to place, hoping to find my ideal so
that the aching void caused by my
loneliness will disappear. My friends
marry. die and new faces confront
me, but yet [ wait patiently for my
ideal.
Looking in the glass I behold with
surprise that my raven locks are
white as snow. 1 have been north
! and south, east and west; my mind has
| accumulated all sorts of knowledge,
but my heart is beating, beating ever
and ever with less hopeful throb
than of yore. Younger beaming faces
receive the love and homage which I
crave; and the years roll on and on.
Money has not flown so Dlenteously
into my Golfers. Little could [ save
according to my condition, dressing
myself so that the children's and my
own eyes. too. would be satisfied with
my neatness, and spending an appro-
pirate amount on lectures and in other
ways to improve my mind that my
services might be acceptable to school
boards.
Suddenly ruder jar comes upon
me. [ hear the awful dirge, "Your
ero trio ocrI1
have all the wisdom Of sixty years
to bestow upon your worshipful sirs.
Forty years have I toiled for the pub
lie, and all the fruits of these years [
lay at your feet. Alas, alas! is the
sad refrain. Woman, as much as
we honor your meritorious conduct,
our duty to our country and the inno-
cent children we represent demands
that we employ younger and stronger
woman to take your place. You should
rest now" But my purse is
empty; my friends are dead;
where shall I rest?" 90, that is
sad thing-well. of course, it is diff
cult to tell '-brfghtening up, ''Why
didn't you marry when you were
young?" In the first place I was too
busy earning my living to attend to
social duties; in the second place, when
I was a young woman girls waited till
they were asked to bestow their hearts
and hands, and for aught l know it
may be so now, and in the third place. !
[ have been waiting for my ideal, the |
king of men, who was to transform
this world into a paradise for me, but
he came not.
1 heard the refrain, cover the Hill
to the Poorhouse," and l, who had
once been useful member of society, |
was to end my days by eating of the
bread of charity. 1 hear the young
woman of the day say the poor are
improvident 'Why didn't Miss K
save enough out of her salary to keep
her from being a dependent upon the
public?' My answer to this is simply
that from my slender pittance l helped
support an aged father and also to
educate younger sister. 1t was neces-
sary for me to spend some money for
clothes, and also for appliances to
keep abreast of my profession, and pos
sibly take summer journeys in it's in
terest. could [ save being thus stu
ated?" I am not the only working wo-
man who has come to such am end.
Neither are the working men in better
condition to provide for old age. The
great army of laborers only earn
enough to keep the wolf from the door
The future must take care of itself in
the great majority of cases. I cannot
help but ask the thinking public what
will become of this class of people
when age advances so as to render
them useless. Employers do not care
to engage old men, even if they are
able to work, as they prefer men of
vitality and youth to help in their en-
terprises. Old horses are sometimes
shot so as to get them out of the way
but old people linger on and if ambi-
rtion and pride have not left them how
miserable is their experience. 1 appeal
to the public. which is composed of |
kindly men and women, men and wo-