The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-05-15

romances, and sighed idly to the winds.
and wept over imaginary songs to the
brooks. No. she knew that work was
honorable, and that every girl ought
TO have something to do. and so she
starts with the bleating and lowing and
believing and neighing droves to the
we'll for the watering
Around every home there are hocks
and droves Of cares and anxieties. ana
every daughter Of the family. though
there be seven, ought TO be doing her
part to take care OF the nocks. In
many households. not only Is Zipporan,
but all her sisters. without practical
and useful employments. Many OF
them are waiting for fortunate ana
prosperous matrimonial alliance, but
some lounger like themselves VIII
come along. and after counting the
large number Of father Jethro's sheep
and camels will make proposal tnat
will be accepted; and neither OF them
having done anything more practical
than to chew chocolate caramels, the
two nothings will start on the road OF
life together. every step more and more
failure. That daughter OF the Midi
anitish sheik will never find her Moses.
Girls of America, initiate Zipporah.
Do something practical Do something
helpful. Do something well. Many
have fathers with great fiocks OF alb
sorbing duties, and such a father needs
help in home. or Office, or ield. Go
out and help him with the fiocks. The
reason that so many men now condemn
themselves to unbalanced and solitary
life is because they cannot support the
modern young woman, who rises at
half-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 Zipporah.
There is a question that every father
and mother ought to ask the daughter
at 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. IL 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? Can you support yourself? Can
| you take care of an invalid mother OF
brother or sister as we'll as yourself?'
Yea. bring It 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
| apd Iaava tb,t r,orrfpU9w 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 o.
Jethro can do nothing but sit around
and cry and wait for some one TO come
and hunt them up a situation for which
they have no qualification. Get a
something useful; get at II right away
Do not say: IF | were thrown upoI
my own resources l would become I
music teacher" There are now NOR
music teachers than could be supported
il they were all Mozarts and Wagner
and Handels. Do not say: Il will g
to embroidering slippers" There ar
more slippers now than there are feet
Our friend and Washington towns
man, w. w. Corcoran. did a magnif
cent thing when he built and endowe
the Louise Home" for the support O
the unfortunate aristocracy Of tn
south-the people who once had every
thing but have come to nothing. W
want another W. w. Corcoran to bull
a Louise Home" for the unfortunat
aristocracy of the north. But institu
, tions like that in every city OF the Ian
, could not take care OF one-half the vi
fortunate aristocracy OF the north an
! south, whose large fortunes have faile'
and who. through lack OF acquaintanC
with any style of work, cannot no
, earn their own bread.
= There needs TO be peaceful. yet rat
a ical revolution among most OF the pro-
porous homes OF America. by which N
S elegant do-nothings may be transform
Y ed into practical do-somethings. Il
d useless women 90 to work and gath'
n the hocks. Come. Zipporah. let me II
e troduce you to Moses, But you do N
D mean that this man afianced to tn
(, country girl was the great Moses
J. history. do you? You do not mean tn
e he was the man who afterwal
It wrought such wonders? Surely, "
IS do not mean the man whose sta
e dropped. wriggled into a serpent, an
Is then. clutched. stiffened again into
o staff? You do not mean the challeng
Of Egyptian thrones and palaces? VI
1t do not mean him who struck the TO-
e so hard it wept in a stream for thirs
ID hosts? Surely, you do not mean &
le man who stood alone with God on q
ir quaking Sinaitic ranges: not him
le whom the Red sea was surrendere
le Yes. the same Moses defending the Sc
ID en- daughters of the Midianitish shei
1r | who afterward rescued a nation