The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-17


men DO, and how many. according 10 the
account Of the authoress, do you suppose
applied to become skilled in the druggist
business and printing business? Not one!
But, you ask, what would my father
and mother say If they saw 1 was doing
such questionable work." Throw the
"ho-e responsibility upon US, the pastors,
VINO are constantly hearing of young wom-
en- IN all these cities. who, unqualified by
their previous luxurious surroundings for
me awful struggle of life into which they
nave been suddenly hurled seemed to have
nothing left them but a choice between
starvation and damnation. There they go
along the street O'Clock in the wintry
mornings, through the slush and storm,
10 the place where they shall earn only
mar enough for subsistence the daught-
ers OF once prosperous merchants law
yeIs' c4ergymen, artists, bankers and cap
ld.4sts who brought up their children
under the Internal delusion that it was
not hlgh-toned for women to learn
profitable calling Young womeni take
TINS AFFAIR in your own hand, and let there
De an lnsurrection in all prosperous fami-
lies on the part of the daughters of this
day demanding knowledge in occupations
ana styles of business by which they may
De lnelr own defense and their own support
II all tatherly and husbandly and brother
ly hands forever fail them / have seen
Two sad sights. the one a woman in all the
glory or their young life stricken by dis
ease, and in a week lifeless in a home
] OF winch she had been the pride. AS her
/ hands were folded over the stiU heart and
( her eyes closed for the last siumber and
! she was taken out amid the lamentations
/ OF kindred and friends / thought that was
a sadness immeasura BILE But | have seen
something compared with which that
/ scene was bright and songful 1t was a
I young woman who had been all her davs
/ amld wealthy surroundings, by the visit of
| death and bankruptcy to the household
! turned out on the cold world without one
lesson about how TO get food or shelter.
ana lnIo the awful whirlpool of city life
| Where strong ships have gone down. and
| ior twenty years not one word has been
heard from her. Vessels went out on the
atlantic ocean looking for shipwrecked
cidlt mat was left alone and fOrsaken on
tne sea Few weeks before, with the idea
/ OF bringing It into port. But who shall ever
DImg again into the harbor of peace and
/ nope and heaven that lost womanlv i'm.
mortal, driven in what tempest af1ame In
/ What con1agration, sinking into what
abyss? o, God help! o. Christ, rescue!
MY sisters, give not your time to learning
Iancy work which the world may dispense
with in hard times. but connect your skiU
with the indispensable of life
Inc world Will always want something
7 TO wear and something to eat and shelter
ana fuel for the body and knowledge for
the mind, and religion for the soul. And
hccessarles, and If you fasten your ener-
/ gies upon occupations and professions
thus related, the world will be unable TO
| do without Mou. Remember, that In pro-
portion as you are sl1illful in anything
/ your rlValFies become less For unskiued
/ Toll there are women by the millions But
you may rise to where there are only thou
/ sands and still higher till there are only a
! huhdred; and still higher, till there are
ohIy Ten; and still higher, in some partic-
faT p fFa1n
and that yourself For while YOU NAV
Keep wages and place through the
hlhaiy sympathy of an employer, but you
! VIII eventually get no more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
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 set but for certain styles of employ
| ment women viii 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 woman 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 edu-
| Gated adroitness, she will, in certain call
ings, be TO her employer worth ten per
cent more or twenty 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, be fair and give
the women a chance. Are you afraid that
they will do some of your work and hence
harm your properties? Remember that
| there are scores of thousands of men
doing women's 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 fun he will end the world and
if need be, start another. God will halt
the inventive faculty, which, by producing
a machine that win do the work of ten
/ or twenty or a hundred men and women
| viii leave that number of people without
work. l hope that there will not be
| invented another sewing machine or
| reaping machine, or corn thresher, or any
! other new machine, for the next five
| hundred 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
y
| the battle alone; Adelaide Newton the
| tract distributor alone; Fidelia Fisk the
cOnsecrated missionary, alone; Dorothea
| Dix, the angel of the insane asylums,
| alone; Caroline Herschel, the indispen-
! sable reinforcement of her brother alone:
/ Maria Takrzewska, the heroine of the
| Berlin Hospital alone Helen Chalmers,
patron of the sewing schools for the poor
of Edinburgh, alone. And thousands ana
! tens of thousands of women, of whose
| bravery and self-sacriice and glory of
character the world has made no record
but whose deeds are in the heavenly
| archives of martyrs who fought the battle
| alone. and. though unrecognized for the
short thirty, or fifty, or eighty years of
| their earthly existence, shall through the
| qunullion age of the higher world be
pointed out with the admiring cry, These
are they who came out of great tribula-
| ton and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb"
Let me also say, for the encouragement
| 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 then. and that word is Des-