Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1898-02-03

vuiture. .'but If you don't like my way,
yoa car leave and with one angry stroke
OF the b4.ak, and another fierce clutch, the |
vuiture left the dove eyeless and wingless
aad ~iifeiess.
srang a woman who has had the hand OF
q yourg inebriatc offered, but declined 1t, |
Or who was asked to chain her life to 8
nan selfish, or Of bad temper, and refused
fae shackles, will bless Ged throughout all
eternity that she escaped that earthly pam !
denonium.
In addressing those women who have to
battle alone congratulate you On your
happy escape. Rejoice forever that you
yill not have TO navigate the faults OF the
other sex. when you have faults enough OF
YOUR own. Think Of the bereavements
vc4t avoid. Of the risks Of unassimilated
te-aper which you will not have to run, OF
tho cares you will never have to carry,
md OF the opportunity Of outside useful
ness from which married life would have
partially debarred you, and that you are
free to 90 and come a. enc who has the
responsibilities Of n household can seldom
be. God has not given you q hard lot. as
compared with your sisters. When young
women shall make up their minds at the
start that masculine cOmpaniOnship is not
a necessity in order to happiness, and that
there is a strong probability that they will
have to fight the battle of life alone, they
will be getting the timber ready for their
own fortune, and their saw and ak and
plane ~sharpened for its construction,
since Every wise woman buildeth her
house,
AS no boy ought to be brought up with
out learning some business at which he
could earn q livelihood. so no girl ought to
be brought up without learning the science
Of self-support. The difficulty isthat many
q family goes sailing III the high tide Of
success, nnd the husband and father de-
ponds on his own health and acunnen for
the welfare Of his household, but one day
he gets his feet wet, and in three days
pneumonia has closed his life, and the
daughters are turned out on q cold world
to earn bread, and there is nothing rracti-
cal that they can DO.
How is this evil to be cured? Start clear
back in the homestead and teach our
daughters that life is an earnest thing, and
! that there is q possibility. if not q strong
probability. that they will have to fight the
battle Of life alone. Let every father and
mother say to their daughters: Now, what
would you DO for q liyelihoodif what l now
own were swept away by financial disaster,
or old age, or death should end my c~areer?"
Ny advice to all girls and all unmarried
women. whether iii af1luent homes Or In
homes where most stringent economies are
grinding, is to learn to do some kind OF
work that the world must nave while the
world stands.
o. young women Of America. as many OF
EoA IL nav ~ iSAC NOuL ~ battlOo
alone, 10 not wait until you meet with
disaster and you father is dead, and all
the resources Of your family have been
scattered: but nov, while in Ii good house
and cnvironed by all properties, learn
how to do some kind Of work that the
world must have as long as the world
stands. Turn your attention from the en-
b%roldery OF fine slippers, of which there Is.
Il surplus. and make Il useful shoe. EX-
pend the time in which you adorn a cigar
case in learning how to make q good,
honest loaf of bread. Turn ycur atten-
ton from the making Of flimsy nothings to
the manufacturing of important some
things.
But you ask, "what would my father
ana mother say if they saw I was doing
such unfashionable work?' Throw the
whole responsibility upon US, the pastors,
who are constantly hearing Of young wo-
men in all these cities, who, unqualified by
their previous luxurious surroundings for
the awful struggle of life into which they
have been suddenly hurled, seemed to have
nothing left them but a choice between
starvation and damnation. They go
along the street at 7 O'Clock in the wintry
mornings, through the slush and Storm,
to the place where they shall earn only
half enough for subsistence, the daugh-
tiers of once prosperous merchants, law
yers, clergymon, artists, bankers and
capitalists. who brought up their chill
drea under the, internal delusion that
it was not high tone for Il woman to learn a
profitable calling. Young woman. take
this affair in your own hand, and let
there be an insurrectiOn in all prosperous
families on the part Of the daughters Of
this day, demanding knowledge in occu-
patton and styles of business by which they
may be their own defence and their W
support if all fatherly and husbandly
and brotherly hands fail them. I have
seen two sad sights, the one a woman in
all the glory Of her young life. stricken
by disease, and in a week ~lifeless in a home
OF which she had been the pride. AS her
hands were folded over the still heart and
her eyes closed for the last slumber, and
she was taken out amid the lamentations
OF kindred and friends, [ thought that was
q sadness unreasonable. But l have seen
something compared with which that
scene was bright and songiul. It was Il
young Toman who had been all her DAYS
anna wealthy surroundings. by the visit
OF death and bankruptcy to the household
turned out on a cold world without one
lesson about how to get food or shelter,
and into the awful whirlpool of city life.
Where strong ships have gone down, and
Tor twenty years not one word has been
heard from her. Vessels went out on the
Atlantic Ocean looking for a shipwreeked
Il craft that was left alone and forsaken on
the sea a few weeks before, with the idea
!. or bringing it into port. But who shall
ever bring into the harbor Of peace and
hope and heaven thu. lost woman!y i'm
mortal, driven in what tempest, aname in
, what c~ontlaSration. sinking into what
abyss? q God, help! O Christ, rescue.
ny sisters, give not your time to learning
fancy work which the world NAV dispense
Nlth III hard times. but connect your skill
With the indlspensables OF life.
Let me say to ali women who have al
ready entered upon the battle of life that
the time is coming when women shall not
only get as much salary and wages as men
get, but for certain styles OF emplovment
women will have higher salary and more
wages. for the reason that for some STYLES
Of work they have more adaptation. But
this justice will come to women not through
any sentiment Of gallantry, not because
: Woman is physically weaker than men.
and. therefore. ought to have more con.
SHERATON shown her. but because throuoh
; her finer natural taste and more yrace ~
manner and quicker perception. and more
delicate touch. and more educated adrojt-
ness she will. in certain cailings. be to ha,
employer worth ten cper cent. more. OF
twenty per cent. more than the other sex
! she Will not get It by asking for it. but by
earning it. and il shall be hers by lavfnI