Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-02-02
that she escaped that earthly PAN

In addressing those women who have Z
battle alone, congratulate you on you
happy escape. Rejoice forever that yot
will not have to navigate the faults OF tf
other sex, when you have faults enough
your own. Think OF the berei
you avoid, of the risks OF unass.
temper which you will not have to run, o.
the cares YOU will never have to carry,I
and of the opportunity of outside useful-}
ness from which married life would hav7
partially debarred you, and that you arc
tree to go and come as one who has the
responsibilities of a household can selds
De. God has not given you hard
compared with your sisters. When
women shall make up their minds
start that masculine ecompanionshipfsi
4 necessity in order to happiness, a Id th
there is strong probability that thos,
have to fight the battle of life zone,
will be getting the timber ready for
pwn fortune, and their saw and aN
plane sharpened for its construct
,ince Every wise woman buildeth
house."
As no boy ought to be brought
out learning some business mt VIII
could earn a livelihood. so no girl ougz
De brought up without learning the sciS
If self-support. The difficulty is that man
4 family goes sailing on the high tide o.
success, and the husband and father de-.
pends on his own health and acumen /
he welfare of his household, but one dR
he gets his feet wet, and in three dG'
pneumonia has closed his life, and
daughters are turned out on 0S
10 earn bread, and there is notn3S
.al that they can do. 0S
How is this evil to be cured? * s
back in the homestead and te8cK,
daughters that life is an earnest thingaS:
that thele is a possibility, ii not a strong
proba bility, that they will have 10 light the
battle of life alone. Let every father and
mother say to their daughters: ''Now, what
would you do for livelihood ii what now
own were swept away by financial disaster,
or old age, or death should end my careerr
NY advice to all girls and all unmarHiaaN
women whether in affusnt homes or in
homes where most stringent economies are
grinding, is to learn to do some kind OF
work that the world must have while the
world stands.
o, young women of America as many OF
you will have to fight your own battles
alone, do not wait until you meet with
disaster and your father is dead, and all !
the resources of your family have been
scattered; but now, while i'll IA good house
and environed by all properties, learn
how to do some kind of work that the
world must have as long as IL world
stands. Turn your attention from the enA
broidery of fine slippers, of which there -
n surplus, and make useful shoe.
pend the time in which you adorn a c<
case in learning how to make good,
honest loaf of bread. Turn your atten-
ton from the making of 1limsy nothings to
the manufacturing of important some
things.
But" you ask what would my father
and mother say if they sav I was doing
such unfashionable workY ThrOWeIe
whole responsibility lpOn US, the pastors,
| who are constantly hearing of young go-
men in all these cities, who, unqualified
| their previous luxurious surroundings for
| the awful struggle of life into which the
have been suddenly hurled, seemed to nav
nothing left them but choice betweo
starvation and damnation. They
along the street at o'clock in the wintry
mornings, through the lush and storm,
| to the place where they shall earn only
half enough for subsistence, the duugh-
ters of once prosperous merchants, law
yers, ciergymen, artists, bankers apo
capitalists, who fought up their chii
dren under the internal delrzign ffhs
It was not high tonf for woman t.
profitable calling Young WON
. this atse'r in yo<4 own han
n 49,. iv
families on the nan1
this day, demandirSfOeE
palrom mar he dIe tbair 5t5iT5 own % 4 nd shop
support If all fati
and brotherly hand EyEes
seen two sad sights,
all the glory of her -
by disease, and in a we " ell
Of which she had been
hands were folded over
her eyes closed for the X ana
she was taken out amid o.
of kindred and friends,
q sadness immeasurable.->
something compared VIZ
scene was bright and SOW
young conan who had be
amid wealthy surrounding
of death and bankruptcy tC
turned out on a cold wor
lesson about how to get +,
and into the awful WlirIDOC
where strong ships hays-gone 49,
for twenty years NOT one word mas
heard from her. Vessels went ont ON r.
Atlantic Ocean looking for a shipwrecken
craft that was LETT alone and forsaken on
the sea a few weeks before, with the idea
Of bringing 1t into port But who sbaJi
ever bring ito the harbor of peace ann
hope and heaven that lost womanIv in
mortal, driven in what tempest. afame in
what conhagration, sinking into wha
abyss? o God, helpl Christ rescna,
My sisters, give rot your time to learnino,
fancy work which the world NAV dispense
with in hard times but connect vonr siiII
with the indispenstb bles of life.
Let me say to all women who bov, nj
ready entered upon the battle of -.
the time is coming wnen women shal
only get as much salary and wages as
get, but for certain styles of empIovm
women will have higher salary and m,
wages, for the reason that for some sty.
OF work they have more adaptation IN
this justice will come to women not throne
any sentiment of gallantry, not beennsa
woman is physically weaker than men
and, therefore, ought to have more con-
sideration shown her, but because tbrougb
her finer natural taste and more grace ~
manner and quicker perception, and mora
delicate touch, and more educated adroit-
ness she will, in certain callngs, be to her
employer worth ten per cent. more or
twenty per cent. more than the other sex.
| She will not get it by asking for 1t, but by
earning it, and it shall be hers b lawful
conquest.