Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
WHEELING REGISTER, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1896

probable, that if some girl bushes and
wishes she could ask some Tom Brown,
she will be told to invite him, and in
deed each girl can ask the Tom, Dick or
Harry who may be friend or sweetheart
You see, this club is to be run by
girl-women, and by a girl-woman l
mean one who has evry desire of
woman, her bravery (else she wouldn't
be at work or trying to learn how to
work., and the years of q girl, which
give her right to enjoy herself.
Somebody says to me as I am talking:
Bah, you are too enthusiastic" No,
am not; not a bit. The world is full
of pessimists, who make bitter, by
their words, even the sweet odor of
violets, who see nothing good either
in heaven or earth, forgetting that on
earth there are women. If, when
every woman child were born, its tut
ure from its cradle to its grave were
arranged for no one would be happier
than l. 1 do not believe in women
having TO earn money except by earn
ing it as grateful daughters, loving
wives and devoted mothers. But, alas
there are so many women. And upon
the frail shoulders of so many women
falls the support of so many others.
If there is woman worker in the fam
lily be sure that she is caring for some
body, and men should blush with
shame when they allow women to earn
money for them that is, of course, un-
less they are inyalids. But right here,
where there are thousands of women
working, there are
WOMEN SUPPORTING LAZY, SHIFT
LESS MEN,
| brothers, sons opr husbands. and doing
it willingly; losing their beauty, losing
their attractiyeness, losing all, eXter-
nally, that is theirs by right of their
I womanhood, because they have not on
ly to work, but to wOrktoohard
You know l am telling the truth.
You need only look in your own small
town, if you live in one, to find the
shiftless man who is supported by a
woman. If there is one in the small
town, how many are there in the great
big cities? There are women who are
supporting drunkards. DO you know
what that means? To give a man his
daily bread, his clothes and the roof
that covers him, and in addition, when
YOU are alone, to find yourself uttering
! q silent prayer that he may come home
sober. To have him appear drunk,
beastly drunk; TO put cold cloths on
his head, to try and induce him to
take some medicine, to work and watch
until he goes to sleep; perhaps to have
a bruise on your forehead where he
struck you, and which you excuse be-
cause he did not know what he was
doing. After a sleepless night to find
yourself at your work, and to have
the editor, or the picure-buyer, or the
merchant wonder why you don't throw
more life into your work this morn
ing" These women are the
MARTYRS OF THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY.
It is true. sadly true. But there are
pleasant things to think about, even
among the workers. There is going
TO be many a pleasant evening for the
lonely girl. and she is looking forward
10 it now with joy, for she is sure that
the good time VIII come. since it is
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woman who made it possible for her
who needed it to learn to work well.
That is the secrI of ito do it we'll
And that is what. in her own womanly
way. Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins has done.
I am not a great one for Haunting the
Star Spangled Banner; some of the
stars are not much credit TO us; but
the one which reflects the State in
which Mrs Dunlap Hopkins was born
is a credit to itself and to all the world.
Which one? Well. one of those great
bigWestern ones, big enough to give
birth to generous women and apprecia-
tive men. ! never look at her, never
see those clear, earnest, dark eyes OF
hers, that lido not think
a lady with lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type OF good,
Heroic womanhOod.'
A prediction? Well there are worse
( fortune tellers than Bah.
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