The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-01-28

| Turn your attention from the embroid-
cry of fine slippers, of which there is
surplus, and make q useful shoe. Ex-
pend the time in which you adorn a
cigar case in learning how to make
| good, honest loaf of bread. Turn your
attention from the making of fimsy
nothings to the manufacture of i'm
portant something's.
Much of the time spent in young Ia
dies seminaries in studying what are
called the ''higher branches" might
better be expended in teaching them
something by which they could sup.
port themselves. If you are going to
be teachers, or Il you have SO much as
sured 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.
mo, no" says some young woman;
81 will not undertake any thing so unro-
mantle and commonplace as that" An
excellent author writes that after he
had, in a book, argued for efficiency in
womanly work in order to success, and
positive apprenticeship by way of prep
aration, a prominent chemist adver-
| tised that he would teach a class of
woman to become druggists and apothe-
carries if they would go through an APP
premiership, as men do; and printer
advertised that he would take class
of women to learn the printers trade
if they would go through an appren-
| ticeship as men do, and how many, ac-
cording to the account of the author
ess, do you suppose applied to become
skilled in the druggist business and
printing business? Not one!
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 as 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 gallautry, 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
er worth 10 per cent. more, or 20
per cent. more 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
He knows how many people this world
can feed and shelter, and when it gets
too full He will end the world, and, if
need be, start another. God will halt
the inventive faculty, which, by pro-
ducing a machine that will do the work
of ten or twenty or a hundred men and
women, will leave that mum Der of
people without work. l 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 500 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.
But God will arrange all, and all we
have to do is to do our best and trust
Him for the rest. Let me cheer all
women fighting the battle of life alone
with the fact of thousands of women
who have won the day. Mary Lyon,
founder of Mount Holyoxe female
seminary, fought the battle alone
Adelaide Newton, the tract dis
tributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the
consecrated missionary, alone; Dor
othea Dix, the angel of the in
sane asylums, alone; Caroline Her.
schel, the indispensable REINFORCE
ment of her brother, alone; Maria |
Takrzewsl1a, the heroine of the Berlin
hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers, patron
of the servings schools for the poor of |
Edin burgh, alone. And thousands and |
tens of thousands of women, of whose |
bravery and self-sacrifice and glory of |
character the world has made no
record, but whose deeds are in |
the heavenly archives of mar
tyrs who fought the battle |
alone, and. though unrecognizsd for |
the short thirty or fifty or eighty years |
of their earthly existence, shall through |
the quintiIlion ages of the higher world |
be pointed out with the admiring cry: |
These are they who came out of great |
tribulation and had their robes washed |
and made white in the blood of the |
Lamb"
Let me also say, for the encourage
ment of all women fighting the battle |
of life alone, that their conflict win |
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 His last hours |
forgot all the pangs of His own hands |
and feet and heart as tie looked into |
the face of maternal anguish, and |
called friends attention to it, in sub |
stance saying: John, can not take |
care of her any longer. Do for her as l |
would have doneif had lived. Behold |
thy mother" If under the press ure
of unrewarded an unappreciate work, |
your hair is whitening and the wrin- |
kles come, ejoice that you are nearing /
the hour of escape from your very last |
fatigue, and may your departure be as |
pleasant as that of Isabella Graham, |