The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-01-26
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! II ana C:,..c;.;l.y 40. IN u, itGturing
ulatform, fer yCu know the brilliant
success cf Mrs. Liv,rmore and Mrs
Hallcwell and Miss Willard and Mrs.
Lathrop. AS physiological lecturers to
! their own sex, fer which service there
is demand appalling and terrific. AS
preachers of the gospel, and ali the pro-
| tests of ecclesiastical courts cannot him
der them. fer they have a pathos and a
power III their religious utterances that
men can lever reach. Witness all these
who have heard their mother pray.
Useful Employment.
Oh, young women Of America, as
many of you will have to fight your
own battles alcne, do net wait until
you are flung of disaster and your father
| is dead and all the resources OF your
family lave been scattered, but Low,
| while in a good house and eEvirCned by
all prosperities, learn how to do scme
kind of work that the world must have
as long as the world stands. Turn your
attention from the embroidery Of fine
| slippers, CT which there is a surplus,
| and make useful shoe. Expend the
| time in which You adcrn cigar case IN
learning how to make a good, honest
Leaf of read. Turn your attention. from
the making of flimsy nothings to the
manufacturing Of important something's.
| Much Of the time spent in young la
dies genlinarics in studying what are
called the "Eigher 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 CT
| course, metaphysics Of course, Latin
and Greek and German and French and
Italian of course, and a hundred other
things Of course, hut if ycu 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 OH your own resources. Learn
to Go something better than anybody
else.
"No, no." says scme young woman,
Il will not undertake anything so un-
romantic and commonplace as that. y
An excellent author writes that after he
| L,l G>,l- orr,,cI for rfSr1CnrC
womanly work in order to success and
positive Apprenticeship by way Of prep
aration q prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach class Of wCmen to
become druggists and apothecaries If
they would 90 through an apprentice
ship as men do, and a printer advertised
that he would take class of women to
learn the printers trade if they would
go through al apprenticeship as men
do, and how many, according to the ac-
count of the author, do you suppose
applied to Lecome skilled in the drug
gist business and printing business:
Not one!
4 Common Dclusion.
But" you ask, what would my
father and mother sag if they saw was
doing such rnfashionable work." Throw
the whole responsibility ulon Us, the
pastors, who are constantly hearing OF
young women in all these cities who,
unqualified Ey their previous luxurious
surroundings fer the awful struggle OF
life into which they have ben suddenly
hurled, seemed to Lave nothing left
them but a choice between starvation
and damnation. There they go along
the street at o'clock in the wintry
mornings through the slush and storm
to the place where they shall earn cniy
half enough fer subsistence, the daugh-
tiers Of oEce 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 all insurrection in all pros
porous families OH the part CT the daugh-
tiers 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. l have seen two sad
sights, the Cne woman in all the glory
of her young life, stricken by disease
and in week ifeless in home OF
which she had been the pride. AS heI
hands were folded over the still heart
and her eyes closed fer tie last sluE ber
and she was taken out amid the lamen-
taticns Of kindred and friends thought
that was sadness immeasurab!e. But
l have seen something compared with
which that scene was bright and soEg.
fIl. 1t was young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy sur.
rouudiugs by the visit Of death and
bankruptcy to the household turned out
Oh GELD world without one lesson
about how to get food or shelter and
into the awful whirlpool of city life,
where strCng ships have gone down,
and for 20 years not CEe word has been
heard from her. Vessels went out Oh
the Atlantic ocean looking for a ship
wrecked craft that was left alone and
forsaken ca the sea a few weeks before,
with the iGca of bringing it into port
But who shall ever bring again into the
hartor Of peace and hope and heaven
that lest womanly immortal, driven i'll
what tempest, afsme III what conhag,a.
tion, sinking into what abyss: o Gcd,
help! o Christ, rescue! Ny sisters, give
not your time to learning fancy work
which the world may dispense with III
hard times, but connect your skill with
Tie indispensablcs of life.
The world will always want some
thing to wear and something to cat,
and shelter and fuel for the body, AID
knowledge Tor the mind, and religion
for the soal. Aid all these things will
continue to he the neccSSarivs, and if
you fastcn yo"r energies upon occupa-
tions and professions thus related ,.c