Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-14

waiting for fortunate and prosperous
matrimonial alliance, but some lounger
like themselves will como along and
after counting the largo number of IA
Their Jethro's sheep and camels will
mako proposal that will be accepted,
and neither of them having done any
thing mora practical than to chew choco-
late caramels the two nOthings will
start on the road of life together, every
step more and more q failure. That
daughter of the EIidianiiish shoik will
never find her Moses. Girls of America,
initiate zipporah. DO something practi-
Cal. Do something helpful. Do some
thing we'll. Many have fathers with
great foclis of absorbing Duties and
such u father needs help in home or
Office or field. Go out ard help him
with tho Gocks. 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 10 i'll
the morning and rctires after midnight,
one of the trashiest of novels i'll her
hands most of the time between tho late
rising and the late retirinS--a thousand
of them not worth one Zpporah.
There are questions that every father
and mother ought TO ask the daughter
at breakfast or tea table and that all
tho daughters Of the wealthy sheik
ought to ask each other: "What would
you do if the family fortune should fail.
if sickness should PROSTATE the bread
winner, if thu floc!;s of Jethro should
be destroyed by Il sudden excursion of
wolves and bears and hyenas from tho
mountain? What would you do for "a
living? Could you support yourself?
Can you take care of an invalid mother
or brother OR sister as well as yourself"
Yea, bring it down to what any day
might couio to prosperous family.
"Can you cook dinner if the servants
should make strike for higher wages
and leave that morning." Every minute
of every hour of every day Of every year
there are families flung from prosperity
into hardship, and, alas, if i'll such oxi-
gency the seven daughters of Jethro can
do nothing but sit around and cry and
wait for some one to come and hunt
them up Il situation for which they
have no qualifications Get at something
useful, get at it right away. Do lot
say. eff / were thrown upon my own
resources, would become music
teacher. - There are now mere music
teachers than could be supported If
they wero all Mozarts and Wagners and
Handels. Do not say, 81 will 60 to en-
broidering slippers. f" There are moro
slippers now than there are feet. Our
hearts are every day wrung by the story
of elegant women who were once atIlu-
ent, but through catastrophe have fall
ell helpless, with no ability to take care
OF themselves.
Our friend and Washingtonian towns
man, W. ". Corcoran, did magnif-
cslnit. thing when he nuiiio and endowed
the Louise home for the support of tho
unfortunate aristocracy of the south
the people who once had everything, but
have come to nothing. We want anoth-
or w. w. Corcoran to build Il Louise
home for the unfortunate aristocracy OF
the north. But institutions like that i'll
every city of the land could not take
care of half the unfortunate aristoc-
racy Of the north and south whose largo
fortunes have failed and who, through
lack of acquaintance with any style OF
work, cannot now earl their own bread.
There needs to be peaceful yet rad
cal revolution among most OF the pros
porous homes of America by which tho
elegant do nothings may be transformed
into practical do something's Let use
less women go to work and gather the
nocks. Come, Zipporah let mo intro
duce you to Moses But You do not
mean that this man a!lianced to this
country girl was the great Moses of his
tory, do you? You do net mean that h9
was the man who afterward wrought
such wonders there? Surely you do not
mean he whose staff dropped. wriggled
into a serpent and then, clutched, stiff
ened again into a staff? You do not
mean the challenger of Egyptian thrones
and palaces? You do not mean be who
struck the rock so hard it went i'll a
stream for thirsty hosts? Surely you do
not mean the man who stood alone
with Gcd On the quakins Sinaitic
ranges, not Lin Of that most famous
funeral of all time, God coming down
out of the heavens to bury him? Yes,
the same Moses defending the seven
daughters Of the Midianitish shcik, who
nfterward rescued all E;!iiuns.
Preparation For Special Work.
Why, do YOU not know that this is
the way men and women get prepared
for special work? The wilderness Of
Arabia was the law school, the theolos-
ical seminary, the university of rock
and sand, from which he graduated for
mission that will balk seas and drown
armies and follow the cloud of fire by
night and start the workmen with
bleeding backs among Egyptian brick
kilns toward the pasture lands that flow
with milk and the trees OF Canaan drip
ping with honey. Gracious God, teach
all the people this lesson You must go
into humiliation and retreat and hidden
closets of prayer if you are co be fitted
for special usefulness. How Gid John
the Baptist get prepared to become a
forerunner of Christ? Show NE his
wardrobe. 1t will be hung with silken
socks and embroidered robes and attire
of Syrian purple. Show me bis dining
table. On it the tankards ablush with
the richest wines OF the vineyards OF
Engedi and rarest birds that were ever
caught in net and sweetest venlson that
ever dropped antlers before the hunter
No; we are directly told ':the same
John had his raiment of camel's hair.
not the fine hair of the camel which
we call camlet, but the long, coarse hair
such as beggars in the east wear-and
his only meat was Of insects, the green
locust, about two inches long, roasted,
disgusting food. These insects were