Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-01-27
AN IMPRESSIVE LESSON.
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Topic Work for Women.
Girls Should be Taught to Be ssif-support-
Ing, ms Boys Are What women Can
Do--Gomfort for the Work.
Ing Woman.

Witt Talmage offers encouragement to
women who have TO earn their own
living. IL is based on the text:
Every wise woman bulldeth her house.
Proverbs XIV, !.
Woman n mere adjunct to man, an
appendix TO the masculine volume, an
nppendage, a sort OF after-thought,
something thrown into make things
even that is the heresy entertained
and implied by some men. This is evl-
dent to them, because Adam was first
created, and then Eve. They don't
read the whole story, or they would
find that the porpoise md tho bear
and the hawk were created before
Adam, so that this argument, drawn
from priority OF creation, might prove
that the sheep and the dog were
greater than man. No. Woman was
IN independent creation, and was in
tended, IL she chose, to live alone, to
work None, act alone, think alone,
and fight her battles alone. The Bible
says 1t is not good for man TO be alone,
but never says it Is not good for woman
~ be alone; and the simple fact Is that
many women who are harnesssd for
life In the marriage relation would be
thousandfold better off II they were
alone.
Who are these men who, year after
year, hang around hotels and engine
houses aud thentor doors, and come In
and out to bother busy clerks and
merchants and mechanics, doing moth
ing, whore there il plenty TO do? They
nre men supported by their wives and
mothers If tho statistics OF any OF
our cities could be taken on the sub
ject, You would find thatn vast multi
tude OF women not only support them
selves, but mascnlines. A great legion
OF men amount to nothing, md IL WON
IN by marriage, mnnnclcd to one OF
these nonentiLies, needs coincidence.
A woman standing outside the mar
riage relation Is several hundred
thousand times better off than IL worn-
IN badly married. Many u bride, In
stead of wreath OF orango blossoms,
might more properly wear II bunch Of
ncttlcB dnd Might shada, and, lnStea d of
the wedding March" II more appro-
pirate tune would be the "Dead March"
In Saul, and, instead Of IL banquet of
confectionery and ices, there might be
more appropriately sprond II table
covered with apples of Seldom.
Many uu attractive woman, of good
sound sense In other things, has mar
rcd one OF these mon to reform him.
What was the rosultp Like when IL
dove, noticing that u vulture was ra-
pacious and cruel, set about to reform
it, and said: II have mild DISPOSE
ton, and ! like peace, and was brought
up In the quiet of u dove-coto, and
will bring the vuIture To the snme iIt.
ing by marrying him." so, ono day,
after the vulturu declared he would
give up his carnivorous habits and
cease longing for blood of flock and
herd, nj IN altar of rock covered with
moss and lichen, the twain were mar
ricd " baid-headed eagle officiating,
tho vulture saying: with all my
dominion OF earth and sky | thee en-
dow, aud pronis To love aud cherish
till death do us part" But one dizzy
the dove, in her frlgut saw the vul-
ture busy Mt n carcass, md cried:
stop thati did you not promise me
that you would quit your carnivorous
and filthy habits II hurried your"
Yes said tho vulture, "but If YOU
don't Hike my way, you can leave" and
with one angry stroke of the bealS and
another fierce clutch OF tho claw, the
vulture left tho dove eyeless and wing
less and lifcleSs. And II flock of robins
flying past, cried to euch other and
said: See therel that comes from
dove marrying II vulture To reform
him"
Many u woman who has had the hand
OF young inobrinte otferod. but de-
elined IT. or who was asked to chain
her life 10 man selfish, or of bad tenn
per, and refsed the shanklss, will bless
God throughout all eternity that shc
escaped that earthly pandemonium.
Besides NIL thus, IN our country about
1000, 900 men were sacrificed in our
civil war, and that decreed 900 900
women TO celibucy. Besides that, sine.
the war, several armies of mon ~
large as tho federal and confederate
armies put together, have fallen under
malt liquors and distilled spirits, so
fMl Of poisoned ingredients that tho
work WAS done more rapidly, and the
victims died while yet young Aud II
30. 600 men are destroyed every year by
ntrong drink before marriage, Tint
makes in the 8S years since the war
l,eb0, 900 men slain, and DEGREES $50,
900 women to celibney. Take, then,
the fact That 20 many women are UNI
happy in their marriage, and the fact
that the slaughter of $500 0On mcn,
by war and rum combined, decides thnt
at least that mum ter OF women shall be
unbalanced for life, my text comes in
with II cheer and II potency and nppro-
priatencSs that you may never have
seen In 1t before when it says: Every
wise woman butldcth her house" that
IL, lot woman be her own architect, lay
out her own plans, be her own super
visor, achieve her own destiny.
In addressing those women who
have u fight the battle alone, | con
graduate you on your happy escape
Rejoice forever that you will not hav,
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