The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-09


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aocks OF absorbing duties, and such
father needs help in home. or Office, OF
field Go out and help him with the
iocks. The reason that so many men
now condemn themselves so unbalanced
and solitary life is because they cannot
support the modern young woman, who
rises at haif-past ten ia 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 retir-
ing-a thousand of them not worth one
Zipporah.
There is a question that every father
and mother ought TO ask the daughter al
breakfast or tea table, and that all the
daughters of the wealthy sheik ought to
ask each other: What would you do il
the family fortune should fail, If sickness
should PROSTATE the bread-winner If the
fiocks of Jethro should be destroyed by a
sudden excursion of wolves and bears and
hyenas from the mountain? What would
you do for a living? Could you support
yourself2 Can you take care of an in
valid mother or brother or sister as well
as yourself?' Yea, bring il down to what
any day might come to a prosperous fam
ily- Can you cook a dinner if the SER
wants 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 alasl if in
such eXigency the seven daughters of
Jethro can do nothing but sit around and
cry and wait for some one to come and
hunt them uD a situation for which they
have no qualification. Get at something
useful get at it right away! Do not say:
lf were thrown upon my own resources
1 would become music teacher There
are now more music teachers than could
be supported If they were all Mozarts
ana Wagners and HANDLES Do nor saw.
VIII go to embroidering slippers There
are more slippers now than there are feet
our hearts are every day wrung by the
story OF elegant women who were once
atfiuent. but through catastrophe have
fallen helpless. with no ability to take
care of themselves.
our friend and Washingtonian towns
man. w. w. Corcoran, did a magnificent
thlng when he built and endowed the
Louise Home" for the support of the un-
fortunate aristocracy of the South-the
people VINO once had everything but have
come 10 nothing We want another 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 aristocracy of the North
ana south, whose large fortunes have fail
cd and who, through lack of acquaintance
with any style of work, cannot now earn
their own bread.
There needs to be peaceful. vet radical
revolution among most of the prosperous
homes OF America, by which the elegant
uo-hothlngs may be transformed into
practical do-somethings. Let useless vvo
fo
come, Zlpporah, let me introduce Won To
Moses! But you do not mean that this
man afhanced to this country girl was the
great Moses of history, do you? You do
not mean that he was the man who after
ward wrought such wonders? Surely
you do not mean the man whose starr
dropped, Wriggled into serpent. and
then, ciutched, stiffened again into a
stanE You do not mean the challenger of
Egyptian thrones and palaces? You do
not mean him who struck the rock so
hard it wept in a stream for thirsty hosts?
surely, you do not mean the man who
stood alone with God on the uuaking ST.
haltlc ranges; not him to whom the Red
sea was surrendered? Yes, the same
Moses defending the seven daughters of
the Midlanitish shek; who afterward res
cued a 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 theological semi
nary the university of rock and sand
from which he graduated for a mission
that Will balk seas, and drown armies
and lift the lantern of illumined cloud by
night, and start the workmen with bleed
ing backs among Egyptian brick-kilns to-
ward the pasture lands that flow with milk
and the trees of Canaan dripping with
honey. Gracious God, teach all the peo-
PIE TINS lesson You must go into humll-
iation and retirement and hidden closets
OF prayer If you are to be fitted for spe-
clal usefulness. How did John the Ban
ust get prepared to become a forerunner
OF Christi Show me his wardrobe It
VIII be hung with silken socks and en-
broidered robes and attire of Syrian pur-
pie. Show me his dining table. on il
! the tankards ablush with the richest wines
of the vineyards of Engedi. and rarest
birds that were ever caught in net, and
sweetest venison that ever dropped antlers
before the hunter. No we are distinctly
told the same John had his raiment OF
| camels' hair,'-not the fine hair of The
camel which we call camlet, but the long.
] coarse hair such as beggars in the Fast
wear-and his only meat was of insects
| the green locust, about two inches long
roasted, a disgusting food. These insects
| were caught and the wings and legs torn
off, and they were stuck on wooden splits
and turned before the fire. The Bedouins
pack them in salt and carry them in sacks
What a menu for John the Baptist
Through what deprivation he came tc
| what exultation!
And you win have to go down befor,
you go up. From the pit into which his
| brothers threw him and the prison II
( which his enemies incarcerated him. To.
seph rose to be Egyptian prime minister.
Elijah, who was to be the greatest of al
the ancient prophets, Elijah, who mad,
| King Ahabs knees knock together wifi
the prophecy that the dogs would be hi.
only undertakers; Elijah whose one pray.
er brought more than three years a.
drought, and whose other prayer brought
drenching showers; the man who wraopef
up his cape of sheepskin into roll ane
with IL cut a path through raging Jordan
for just two to pass over; the man VIII,
with wheel fire rode over death and cs
capped into the skies without mortuary lis
migration; the man who, thousands o.
years after, was called out of the eterni
ties to stand besides Jesus Christ Or
Mount Tabor when it was abIaze with III,
! of ne6r