Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-05-13

her sisters, without practical and use
full employments. Many Of them are
waiting for fortunate and prosperous
matrimonial alliance, but some lounger
like themselves will come along and
after counting the large number OF Ia
ther Jethro's sheep and camels will
make proposal that will be accepted,
aud neither of them having done any
thing more practical than to chew choco-
late caramels the two nothings Will
start on the road Of life together, every
step more and more failure. That
daughter Of the Midianitish sheik will
never find her Moses. Girls Of America,
initiate Zipporah. Do something practi-
cal. Do something helpful Do some
thing well. Many have fathers with
great focks Of absorbing duties, and
such a father needs help in home or
office or field. Go out and help him
with the focks. The reason that so
many men now condemn themselves to
unbalanced and solitary life is because
they cannot support the modern young
woman, who rises at half past 10 in
the morning and retires after midnight,
one of the trashiest of novels in her
hands most of the time between the late
rising and the late retiring-a thousand
Of them not worth one Zipporah.
There are questions that every father
and mother ought to ask the daughter
at breakfast or tea table and that all
the daughters of the wealthy sheik
ought to ask each other: "What would
you do if the family fortune should fail.
if sickness should prostrate the bread
winner, il the focks Of Jethro should
be destroyed by sudden excursion Of
wolves and bears and hyenas from the
mountain? What would you do for a
living? Could you support yourself?
Can you take care Of an invalid mother
or brother or sister as we'll as yourself?"
Yea, bring it down to what any day
might come to a prosperous family.
"Can you cook dinner if the servants
should make a strike for higher wages
and leave that morning." Every minute
of every hour Of every day Of every year
there are families flung from prosperity
into hardship, and, alas, if in such ext
gency the seven daughters Of Jethro can
do nothing but sit around and cry and
wait for some one to come and hunt
them up a situation for which they
have no qualification Get at something
useful. get at it right away. Do not
say, "If | were thrown upon my own
resources, / would become music
teacher" There are now more music
teachers than could be supported II
they were all Mozarts and Wagners and
Handels. Do not say, 81 will go to en-
broidering slippers. There are more
slippers now than there are feet. Ouf
hearts are every day wrung by the story
of elegant women who were once sffiu-
ent but through catastrophe have fall
ell helpless, with no ability to take care
of themselves.
Our friend and Washingtonian towns
man. W. W. Corcoran, did = magnit'
cent thing when he built and endowed
the Louise home for the support OF the
unfortunate aristocrscy Of the south
the people who once had everything, but
have come to nothing. We want anoth
er w. W. Corcoran to build Louise
home for the unfortunate aristocracy Of
the north. But institutions like that II
every city Of the land could not taxi
! care of one-half the unfortunate arlstoc
racy Of the north and south whose larg'
fortunes have failed and who, through
lack of acquaintance with any style o.
work. cannot now earn their own bread
There needs TO be peaceful yet rad
ical revolution among most Of the pros
perous homes Of America by which tn
elegant do nothings may be transformed
into practical DO something's Let use
less women 20 to work and gather th'
focks. Come, Zipporah. let me intro
duce you to Moses. But you do no
mean that this man affianced to thi
country girl was the great Moses Of his
tory. do you? You do not mean that n
was the man who afterward wrough
such wonders therei Surely you do no
mean he whose staff dropped. wrigRle'
into a serpent and then, clutched, stlff
ened again into a staff? You do no
mean the challenger of Egyptian throne
, and palaces? You do not mean he VIII
, struck the rock SO hard it went in
stream for thirsty hosts? Surely you d
not mean the man who stood alon
. with God on the quaking Slnaltl
a ranges. not him of that most famou
r funeral of all time, God coming dow
ont of the heavens to bury him: Yes
\ the same Moses defending the seye
daughters Of the Midianitish sheik, VIII
, afterward rescued all nations.
| Preparation For Special Work.
q WHY. do YOU not know that this
q the way men and women get prepare
for special work. The wilderness
Arabia was the law school, the theoloe
Z ical seminary. the university OF roc
!. and sand, from which he graduated fC
a mission that will balk seas and drow
n armies and follow the cloud Of fire b
night and start the workmen wit
a bleeding backs among Egyptian bric
9 kilns toward the pasture lands that no
!. with milk and the trees of Canaan dril
y ming with honey. Gracious God, teac
|. all the people this lesson. You must
j.. into humiliation and retreat and hidde
O closets of prayer if you are 90 be mite
/. for special usefulness. How did Jon
t the Baptist get prepared to become
n forerunner Of Christ? Show me d
.s wardrobe. 1t will be hung with siike
,. socks and embroidered robes and attn
e of Syrian purple. Show me his dinlr
Y table On il the tankards ablush wi'
A the richest wines of the vineyards
L Engedi and rarest birds that were sv
y caught in net and sweetest venison tn
u ever dropped antlers before the hunte
J. No; we are directly told 1.-THE san
:. John had his raiment Of camel's han
Al NOT the fine hair Of the camel whi'
10 we call oamlet, but the long, coarse ha
81 such as beggars in the east wear-aI
his only meat was OF insects, the gree
l' locust. about two inches long, roaste
!, disgusting food. These insects we
"a caught and the wings and legs torn o
d. and they were stuck on wooden spi