The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-05-12

when she might have reclined on the
hillside near her fathers tent, and
plucked buttercups, and dreamed out
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 focks
and droves of cares and anxieties, and
every daughter Of the family, though
there be seven, ought to be doing her
part to take care of the focks. In
many households. not only Is Zipporah,
but all her sisters, without practical
and useful employments. Many Of
them are waiting for fortunate and
prosperous matrimonial alliance, but
some lounger like themselves will
come along. and after counting the
large number of father Jethro's sheep
and camels will make proposal that
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 flocks of alb
sorbing duties, and such father needs
help in home. or Office. or field. Go
out and help him with the flOcks. 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 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 if the family fortune should fail,
If sickness should PROSTATE the bread
winner. if the flocks of Jethro should
be destroyed by sudden excursion of
wolves and bears and hyenas from the
What would you do for a
living? Can you support yourself? Can
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 dinner if the servants
should make strike for higher wages
and leave that morning." Every min
ute of every hour of every day of every
year there are families flung from pros
perity into hardship. and alas! if in
such exigency the seven daughters of
JethrO can do nothing but sit around
and cry and wait for some one to come
and hunt them up situation for which
they have no qualification. Get at
useful; get at it right away!
Do not say: If l were thrown upon
my own resources l would become
music teacher" There are now more
music teachers than could be supported
t they were all Mozarts and Wagners
md Handles. Do not say: Il will 60
% embroidering slippers" There are
more slippers now than there are feet.
Our friend and Washington towns
nan, w. w. Corcoran, did a magnifi-
,ent thing when he built and endowed
he Louise Home" for the support of
he unfortunate aristocracy of the
people who once had every
hing but have come to nothing. We
want another w. w. Corcoran to build
/ Louise Home" for the unfortunate
of the north. But institu- !
ions like that in every city of the land
ortunate aristocracy of the north and
outh, whose large fortunes have failed,
md who, through lack of acquaintance |
With any style of work, cannot now |
arm their own bread.
There needs to be peaceful. yet rad
cal revolution among most of the pros
,erous homes of America, by which the
legant do-nothings may be transform
d into practical do-somethings. Let |
lseless women go to work and gather
he flocks. Come. Zipporah, let me in
reduce you to Moses! But you do not
mean that this man affianced to this
girl was the great Moses OF
history, do you? You do not mean that
le was the man who afterward
wrought such wonders? Surely, you
10 not mean the man whose staff
ropped. wriggled into serpent, and,
hen. clutched, stiffened again into a
taft? You do no, mean the challenger
f Egyptian thrones and palaces? You
o not mean him who struck the rock
O hard it wept in stream for thirsty
osts? Surely. you do not mean the
IAN who stood alone with God on the
uaking Sinaitic ranges: not him to
7hom the Red sea was surrendered?