The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-05-25


ana eamels will make proposal that
VIII be accepted; and neither OF them
having done anything more practical
than 10 chew chocolate caramels. the
Two nothings will start on the road OF
ilfe together, every step more and more
a failure. That daughter Of the MIDI
anitish sheik will never find her Moses.
Girls Of America initiate Zlpporah.
do something practical. Do something
helpful. DO something well Many
nave fathers with great nocks Of alb
torbing duties. and such a father needs
help In home. or Office. or field. Go
out and help him with the nocks. The
reason that so many men now condemn
themselves 10 unbalanced and solitary
life Is because they cannot support the
modern young woman. who rises at
haif'past ten In the morning and re-
tires after midnight. one Of the trash
lest novels In her hands most OF the
time between the late rising and the
late retiring-a thousand OF them not
worth one Zlpporah.
There Il question that every father
and mother ought 10 ask the daughter
at breakfast or tea table. aud that all
the daughters Of the wealthy hhelk
ought 20 ask each other: What would
you do II the family fortune should fail.
II sickness should PROSTATE the bread
winner. II 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 n
living7 Can you support YOURSELF Can
you take care Of an invalid mother or
brother or sister a. well as yourself7"
Yea, bring Il down TO what any day
might come to a prosperous family.
Can you cook a dinner II the servants
should make a strike for higher wages
and leave that mornlng2" Every min
ute Of every hour Of every day Of every
year there are families flung from pros
perity into hardship. and alas II In
such exigency the seven daughters Of
Jeihro can do nothing but slt around
and cry and wait for some one 10 come
and hunt them up a situation for which
they have no qualification. Get at
something useful, get at IL right away
Do not say: II were thrown upon
my own resources I would become a
music teacher" There are now more
music teachers than could be supported
u they were all Mozarts and wagners
and Handels. DO not say: Il will 20
to embroidering slIpperH." There are
more slippers now than there are feet
Our friend and Washington towns
man. W. W Corcoran. ala a magnin-
cent thing when he built and endowed
the Louise Home for the support Of
the unfortunate aristocracy % the
south-the people who once had every
thing but have come 20 nothing We
want another W. W. Corcoran 20 build
Louise Home" for the unfortunate
aristocracy Of the north. But lnstltu-
lions like that In every city Of the land
could not take care Of one-half the un.
fortunate aristocracy Of the north and
south. whose large fortunes have failed
and who through lack Of acquaintance
with any style Of work. canno, now
earn their own bread.
There needs 20 be peaceful. yet rad
teal revolution among most Of the pros
porous homes OF America. by which the
elegant do-nothlngs may be transform
Cd into practical do-somethings. Let
useless women go 20 work and gather
the hocks. Come. ZIpporah. LEI me In.
I ,roduce you 10 Moses, But You DO not
mean that this man afianced 20 this
country girl was the great Moses %
I history. DO your You DO not mean that
he was the man who afterward
wrought such wonders? Surely. you
DO not mean the man whose stan
dropped. wriggled into a serpent. and.
then. clutched. stirened again into a
staf7 You do not mean the challenger
Of Egyptian thrones and palaces? You
DO not mean him who struck the rock
20 hard Il wept In a stream for thirsty
hosts2 Surely you do not mean the
man who stood alone with God on the
quaking Sinaitic ranges. not him 20
whom the Red sea was surrendered
Yes. the same Moses defending the sew.
On daughters Of the Mldianitlsh sheik:
who afterward rescued a nation.
You see John Knox preaching the
coronation sermon Of James VI. and
arralgnlng Queen Mary and Lord Darn
ley In a public discourse at Edinburgh.
and telling the French ambassador ia
40 nome and call his king a murderer:
John Knox making all Christendom
feel his moral power. and az his burial
the Earl Of Morton saying: Here n,
eth a man who in his life never feared
the face Of man" Where did John
Knox get much Of his schooling for
such resounding and everlasting
achievement He got II while In chains
pulling at the boats oar In French
captivity Michael Faraday. one Of
the greatest In the scientific world
did not begin by lecturing In the uni
yersity lie began by washing bottles
In the experimenting room OF Humph
rey Dayy. 'lIohenlnden. the i'm
mortal poem Of Thomas Campbell. wal
first rejected b. newspaper editor
and In the notes to correspondents ap
peared the words: ITO +. 9Th,
lines commencing. On Linden wher
the sun was low. are not mp to ou
standard Poetry Is not r. C.s forte.
OH It Is a rough road TO any kind o
valuable success. So the priyatlonl
and hardshlps Of your life may on
smaller scale be the preface and In
PRODUCTION 10 usefulness and history.
Sec also In this call Of Moses tina
God has a great memory Four hun
dred years before he had promised tn
dollvorance OF the oppressed Israellto
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