Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-01-21

men can never reach. Witness all those
who have heard their mother pray.
Useful Employment.
Oh, young women Of America, as
many Of you will have to fight your
own battles alone, do not wait until
you are flung Of disaster and your father
is dead and all the resources Of your
family have been scattered, but now,
while in a good house and environed 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 embroidery Of fine
slippers, Of which there is a surplus,
and make a useful shoe. Expend the
time in which you adorn cigar case in
learning how to make a good, honest
loaf Of bread. Turn your attention from
the making Of tiimsy nothiDgs to the
manufacturing Of important something's
Much Of the time spent IN young la
dies seminaries in studying what are
called the higher branches" might bet
ter be expended in teaching them some
thing by which they could support
themselves. If you are going to be
teachers or If you have so much assured
wealth that you can always dwell IN
those high regions, trigonometry Of
course, metaphysics of course, Latin
and Greek and German and French and
Italian Of course, and a hundred other
things of course, hut if you are not ex-
pecting to teach and your wealth Is not
established beyond misfortune after you
have learned the ordinary branches take
hold Of that kind Of study that will pay
in dollars and cents in case you are
thrown on your own resources. Learn
10 do something better than anybody
else.
"No, no, says some young woman,
81 will not undertake anything 20 un-
romantic and commonplace as that "
An excellent author writes that after he
had, in book, argued for efficiency IN
womanly work in order to success and
positive apprenticeship by way Of prep
aration . prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach class Of women TO
become druggists and apothecaries II
they would 20 through an apprentice
ship as men do, and printer advertised
that he would take class Of women to
learn the printers trade if they would
20 through an apprenticeship as men
do, and how many, according to the ac-
count Of the author, do you suppose
applied to become skilled in the drug
gist business and printing businessg
Not one!
Common Delusion.
"But," you ask, what would my
father and mother say if they saw l was
doing such unfashionable work." Throw
the whole responsibility upon us, the
pastors, who are constantly hearing Of
young women 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 n choice between starvation
and damnation. There they 20 along
the street at Z o'clock in the wintry
mornings through the slush aud storm
to the place where they shall earn only
half enough for subsistence, the daugh-
ters Of once prosperous merchants, law
yers, clergymen, artists, bankers and
capitalists, who brought up their chill
dren under the Internal delusion that it
was not high toned for women to learn
a profitable calling Young women,
take this affair in your own hand, and
let there be an insurrection in all pros
porous families on the part OF the daugh-
ters Of this day, demanding knowledge
in occupations and styles Of business by
which they may be their own defense
and their own support if all fatherly
and husbandly and brotherly hands for
ever fail them. / have seen two sad
sights, the one woman in all the glory
of her young life, stricken by disease
and In d 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 lamen-
tations Of kindred and friends thought
that was a sadness immeasurable. But
| have seen something compared with
which that scene was bright and song
full. It was young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy sur
roundings by the visit Of death and
bankruptcy 10 the household turned out
on a cold world without one lesson
about how to get food OF shelter and
into the awful whirlpool Of city life,
where strong ships have gone down.
and for 90 years not one word has been
heard from her. Vessels went out on
the Atlantic ocean looking for a ship
wrecked craft that was left alone and
forsaken on the sea a few weeks before,
with the idea Of bringing it into port
But who shall ever bring again into the
harbor Of peace and hope and heaven
that lost womanly immortal, driven IN
what tempest, ahame in what conhagra-
ton, sinking into what abyssy q God,
helpl o Christ, rescue My sisters give
not your time to learning fancy work
which the world may dispense with in
hard times, but connect your skill with
the indispensables Of life.
The world will always want some-
thing 10 wear and something to eat,
and shelter and fuel for the body. and
knowledge for the mind, and religion
for the soul. And all these things will
continue 10 be the necessaries, and II
you fastsn your energies upon occupa-
tions and professions thus related the
world will be unable 20 do without you-
Remember that in proportion as you are
skillful in anything your rivalries be-
come less. For unskilled toll there are
women by the millions But You may
rise TO where there are only thousands,
and still higher till there are only a
hundred, and still higher till there are
only ten, and still higher. in some par
i ticular department. till there is only a
unit, and that yourself. For awhile you
may keep wages and place through
the kindly sympathy Of an employer,
but you will eventually get no more
compensation than You can make your
self worth
| Tat ma zav IN all women who have