The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-05-27

teal and useful employments. Many
OF them are waiting for fortunate and
prosperous matrimonial allian:e, bat
some lounger like themselves wi | come
along, and after counting the large
number of Father JethrO's sheep and
camels. will make proposal that will
be accepted: and neither of them hav-
ing done anything more practical than
to chew chocolate caramcls, the two
nothings will start on the road of life
together. every step more and more a
failure. That daughter of the Midi
anitish sheik will never find her
Moses
Gifts of America, initiate q pporah.
Do something practical Do some
thing helpful. DO something we'll.
Many have fathers with great flocks
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 con.
denim themselves to unaflianced and
solitary life is because they can not
support the modern young woman,
who rises at 1879 in the morning and
retires after midnight, one OF the
trashiest of novels in her hand most of
the time between the late rising and
the late retiring-a thousand of them
not worth one Ziprorah.
There is a question that every father
and mother ought to ask the daughter
at breakfas or tea table, and that all
the daughters of the wealthy shiell
ought to ask each other: What would
you do If the family fortune should
fail, if sickness should prostra:e the
breadwinner, if the ilocks of Jethro
should be destroyed by a sudden OK
cursion of wolves and bears and ny
enas from the mountains? What woull.
you do for a living? Could you sup
port yourself? Can you take care of an
invalid mother, or brother or sister as
well as yourself?' Yea. bring it down
to what any day might come to pros
porous family. Can you cook a dinner
il the servants should make strike
for higher wages and leave that morn
ing?" Every minute of every hour of
every day of every year there are fam
lilies flung from prosperity into hard
ship. and alas! If in such exigency the
seven daughters of Jethro can do moth
ing but sit around and cry and wait
for some one to come and hunt them
up situation for which they have no
qualification. Get at something use
full; get at it right away! Do not say:
IF | were thrown upon my own re-
sources l would become a music teach
err" There are now more music teach
ers than could be supported if they
were ali Mozarts ami Wagners and
Handles DO not say: II will go to
embroidering slippers" There are
more slippers now than there are
feet Our hearts are every day wrung
by the story of elegant woman who
were once affiuent, but through catas-
trophe have fallen helpless, with no
ability to take care of themselves.
Our friend and Washingtonian
townsman, w. W. Corcoran, did mag
nificent thing when he built and en-
dowed the Louise Home" for the I'M
fortunate aristocracy of the south
the people who once had everything
but have come to nothing. We want an.
other W. w. Corcoran to build Louise
Home" for the unfortunate aristocracy
of the north. But institutions like that
in every city of the land could not take
care of one.half the unfortunate aris-
tocracy of the north and south, whose
large fortunes have failed. and who,
through lack of acquaintance with any
style of work, can not now earn their
own bread.
There needs to be peaceful, yet radi-
cal revolution among most of the pros
porous homes of America, by which
the elegant do-nothings may be trans
formed into practical do-some.
things. Let useless women 60
to work and gather the flocks.
Come, Zipporah, let me introduce you
to Moses. But you do not mean that
this man affianccd to this country girl
was the great Moses of history, do
you? You do not mean that he was
the man who afterward wrought such
wonders? Surely you do not mean the
man whose staff dropped, wriggled in
to a serpent, and then. clutched, stiff
ened again into staff? You do not
mean the challenger of Egyptian
thrones and palaces? You do not mean
him who struck the rock so hard il
wept in a stream for thirsty hosts:
Surely you do not mean the man who
stood alone with God on the quakine
Sinaitic tanges; not him to whom the
Red Sea was surrendered? Yes, the
same Moses defending the seven
daughters of the Midiantish sheilx
who afterward rescued nation.
Why. do you not know that this is
the way men and women get prepared
for special work? The wilderness OF
Arabia was the law school, the thee
logical seminary, the university o.
rock and sand, from which he gradu
ated for a mission that would ball
seas, and drown armies. and lift the
lantern of illunined cloud by night
and start the workm>n with bleeding
backs among Egyptian brick kiln:
toward the pasture lands tina
flow with milk and the trees
of Canaan dripping with honey
Gracious God. teach all the people thi:
lesson. You must go into humiliation
and retirement and hidden closets o
prayer if you are to be fitted for spe
cial usefulness.
How did john the Baptist get pre-
pared to be forerunner of Christ
Show me his wardrobe. 1t will b.
hung with silkcn socks and embroid
cred robes and attire of Syrian purple
Show me his dining table. On it thu
tankards ablush with the riches
wines of the vineyards of Engedi
and rarest birds that were evel
caught in net, and sweetest veni
son that ever dropped ant;er
before the hunter. No. we are dis
tinctly told 1.-THE same John had hi
raiment of camel's hair"-not the fin.
hair of the camel which we call the
camlet lint the lonp coarse hair Sucf