The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-22

in schools and seminaries. for which
they are especially endowed, the first
teachers Of every child, by divine ar
rangemcnt, being woman. AS ply
sicians, having graduated after regu-
lar course OF study from the female
colleges OF our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough prepare
ton as any doctors ever had, and go
forth TO u work which no one but
women could SO appropriately and
| delicately do. On the lecturing plat
form; for you know the brilliant sue
cess of Mrs. Livermore, and Mrs. Hal
lowell, and Miss willard, and Mrs.
Lathrap. AS Physiological lecturers to
their own sex. for which service there
is demand appalling and terrific. AS
preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts can not
hinder them, for they have pathos
and power in their religious utter
ances that men can never reach. Wit
ness all those who have heard their
mother pray.
Oh! young women OF America! as
many of you win have to fight your
own battles alone, do not wait until
you are flung Of disaster and your ia
Their is dead, and all the resources OF
your family have been scattered; but
now, while in a good house and en-
vironed by all properties, learn how
to do some kind of work that the world
must have rs long as the world stands.
Turn your attention from the embroid-
cry of fine slippers, of which there is a
Il II
pend the time in which you adorn
cigar case in learning. how to make u
good, honest loaf of bread. Turn your
attention from the making of himsy
nothings To the manufacture of i'm
portant something's.
Much of the time spent in young la
dies seminaries in studying what are
called the "higher branches" might
better be expended in teaching them
somclhing by which they could sup
port themselves. If you are going to
be teachefs0o r if you have so much as
surcd wealth that you can always
dwell in those high regions, trigonom-
etry of course, metaphysics Of course,
Latin and Greek and German and
French and Italian of course, and
hundred other things of course; but if
you are not expecting 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 to do some
thing better than anybody else.
Let me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battle of life,
that the time is coming when women
shall not only get as much salary and
wages rs men get, but for certain
styles of employment 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 man,
and, therefore, ought to have more
consideration shown her, but because
through her finer natural taste, and
more grace of manner, and quicker
perception, and more delicate touch,
and more educated adroitness, she WILL
in certain callings, be To her employ
err worth 10 per cent. more, or 20
per cent. moro than the other
sex. She will not get it by ask
ing for it, but by earning it, and it
shall be hers by lawful conquest.
Now, men of America. bs fair, and
give the women chance. Are you
afraid that they will do some of your
work, and hence harm your pros
perties? Remember that there are
scores of thousands OF men doing wom-
ems work. Do not be afraid. God
knows the end from the beginning, and
lie knows how many people this world
can feed and shelter, and when it gets
too full lie will end the world, and, If
need be, start another. God vii halt
tic inventive faculty, which, by pro-
ducing a machine thatwill do the work
of ten or twenty or Il hundred IN N and
women, will leave that nu Der of
people without work. | hope that
there will not be invented another sew
ing machine, or reaping machine, or
corn thresher, or any other new ma
chine, for the next $40 years. We want
no more wooden hands and iron hands
and steel hands and electric hands
substituted for men and women who
would otherwise do the work and get
the pay and earn the livelihood.
Let me also say, for the encourage
p1ent of all women fighting the battle
of life alone, that their conflict will
soon end. There is one word written
over the faces OF many of them, and
that word is Despair" My Sis
ter, you need appeal t. Christ,
who comforted the sisters of
Bethany in their domestic trouble,
and who in Ills last hours
forgot all the pangs of Ills own hands
and feet and heart as He looked into
the face of maternal anguish, aud
called "a friends attention to IL, in sub
stance saying: John, | can not take
care Of her any longer. Do for her as
would have doneif l had lived. Behold
thy mothcrw If, under the pressure
OF unrcwarded aud unapprcciate work,
your hair is whitening and the wrin-
klcs come, rejoice that you are nearing
the hour of escape from your very last
fatigue, aud may your departure be as
pleasant rs that Of Isabella Graham,
who closed her life with smile and
the word Peace"
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