Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-22

der them, for they have pathos and d
power in their religious utterances that
men can never reach Witness NIL those
who have heard their mother pray.
Useful Employment.
Oh, young women of America, as
many of you will have to fight your
own battles alone, do not wait until
you ere flung Of disaster and your father
is dead and all the resources of your
family have been scattered, but now,
while in good house and enyironed by
all properties, learn how to do some
kind of work that the world must have
as long MS the world stands. Turn your
attention from the embroidery of fine
slippers, of which there is q surplus,
and make n useful shoe. Expend the
time in which you adorn cigar case in
learning how to make good, honest
loaf OF bread Turn your attention from
the making of flimsy nothings to the
manufacturing CT important something's
Much of the time spent i'll young Ia
dies senlinaries i'll studying what are
called the higher branches might bet
ter be expended in teaching them some.
thing by which they could support
themselves II you are going to be
teachers OF If you have SO much assured
wealth that you can always dwell in
those high regions. trigonometry of
course, metaphysics of course, Latin
and Greel. aud German and French and
italian Of course. and hundred other
things of course, Lut if you are not ex-
pecting to teach and your wealth is not
established beyond misfortune after you
have learned the ordinary branches take
hold of that kind OF study that will pay
in dollars and cents in case you are
thrown on your own resources. Learn
to do something better than anybody
else.
mo- no, ;" says some young woman,
II will not undertake anything so un-
romantic and commonplace as that. !"
An excellent author writes that after he
had, in book, argued for efficiency in
womanly work in order to success and
positive apprenticeship by way OF prep
aration prominent chemist advertised
that he would teach class Of women to
become druggists and apothecaries if
they would 90 through an apprentice
ship as men do, and printer advertised
that he would take class Of women to
learn the printers trade if they would
go through All apprenticeship as men
do, and how many, according to the &C.
count of the author, do you suppose
applied to become skilled in the drug
gist business and printing business?
Not onel
A Common Delusion.
"But, you ask, what would my
father and mother say if they saw I was
doing such questionable work." Throw
the whole responsibility upon us, the
pastors, who are constantly hearing Of
young women in all these cities who,
unqualified by their previous luxurious
surroundings for the awful struggle of
life into which they have been suddenly
hurled, seemed to have nothing left
them but choice between starvation
and damnation. There they go along
the street at o'clock in the wintry
mornings through the slush and storm
to the place where they shall earn only
half enough for subsistence, the daugh-
tiers of once prosperous merchants, law
yers, clergymen, artists, bankers and
capitalists, who brought up their chill
dren under the Internal delusion that it
was not high toned for women to learn
profitable calling. Young women,
take this affair in your own hand, and
let there be All insurrection in all pros
porous families on the part of the daugh-
tiers of this day, demanding knowledge
in occupations and styles of business by
which they may be their OWL defense
and their own support if all fatherly
and husbandly and b,otherly hands for
ever fail them. have seen two sad
sights, the che woman in all the glory
of her young life, stricken by disease
and in week lifelcss i'll home OF
which she had been the pride. AS her
hands were folded over the still heart
and her eyes closed for the last slumbcr
and she was taken out amid the lamen-
tations of kindred and friends l thought
that was sadness unreasonable. But
have seen something compared with
which that scene was bright and song
full. 1t was young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy sur
roundings by the visit of death and
bankruptcy to the household turned out
on cold world without one lesson
about how to get food or shelter and
into the awful whirlpool of city life,
where strong ships have gone down,
and for 20 years lot one word has been
heard from her. Vessels went out on
the Atlantic ocean looking for ship
wrecked craft that was left alone and
forsaken on the sea few weeks before,
with the idea of bringing it into port.
But who shall ever bring again into the
harbor of peace and hope and heaven
that lost wonanly immortal, driven IN
what tempest afame in what contiagra-
ton, sinking into what abyss? . God,
help o Christ, rescued My sisters, give
not your time to learning fancy work
which the world may dispense with i'll
hard times, but connect your skill with
the indispensables of life.
The world will always want some
thing IN wear and something to eat,
and shelter and fuel for the body, and
knowledge for the mind, and religion
for the soul. And all these things will
continue to be the necessaries, and If
YOU fasten your energies upon occupa-
lions and professions thus related the
world will be unable to do without you.
Remem Der that in proportion as you are
skillful in anything your rivalries be-
come less. For unskilled toll there are
women by the millions. But you may
rise IN where there are only thousands,