The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-09

| start on the road Of life together, every
step more and more failure. That dapgh-
| ter of the Midianitish shsik will never find
her Noses Girls Of America, initiate
ZipporahI Do something practical Do
something helpful Do something well.
Many have fathers with great fooks Of
absorbing duties, and such father needs
help In home or office or field. Go out
and help him with the focks. The reason
that SO many men now condemn them
selves to unbalanced ard solitary life is
because they cannot support the modern
young woman, who Rises at half past 10
In the morning and retres after midnight,
one of the trashiest of novels In her hands
most OF the time between the late rising
and the late retiring, thousand of them
not worth one Zipporah.
There are questions 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, II sickness
should PROSTATE the breadwinner, If the
flocks of Jethro should DO destroyed by
sudden excursion Of wolves and bears and
hyenas from the mountain What would
you do for livingP Could you support
YOURSELF Can you take care Of an invalid
mother or brother or sister as we'll as your.
self?" Yea, bring 1t down to what any
day might come 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, II In such exigency
the seven daughters Of Jethro can do
nothing but sit around and cry and wait
for some one to como and hunt them up a
situation for which they have no quali1-
cation. Get at something useful; get at
1t right away! Do not say, "If were
thrown upon my own resources, would
become music teacher" There are now
more music teachers than could DO sup
ported II they were all Mozarts and Wag-
ners and Handels Do not say, II will go
to embroidering slippers" There are more
slippers now than there are feet. Our
hearts are every day wrung by the story
of elegant women who were once affluent,
but through catastrophe have fallen help
less, with no ability to take care Of them
selves.
Idlers Should Work.
Our friend and Washingtonian towns
man, W. W. Corcoran, did a magnificent
thing when he built and endowed the
Louise home for the support Of the un-
fortunate aristocraoy Of the sOuth-the
people who once had everything, but have |
come to nothing. We want another W. W. |
Corcoran to build Louise home for |
the unfortunate aristocracy of tho north. |
But institutions like that in every city Of |
the land could not take care Of one-half |
the unfortunate aristocracy of the north |
and south whose large fortunes have |
failed and who through lack of acquaint-
ance with any style of work, cannot now |
earn their own bread
There needs to be peaceful yet radical |
revolution among most of the prosperous |
homes of America by which the elegant |
do nothings may be transformed into |
practical do something's. Let useless wom-
EN- go to work and gather the focks.
Come, Zipporah let me introduce you to |
Moses. But you do not mean that this |
man affianced to this country girl was the
great Moses of history, do your You do
not mean that he was the man who after !,
ward wrought such wonders thereP Surely |
you do not mean he whose staff, dropped, |
wrigglod into serpent and then, clutched, |
stiffeped again into a staff? You do not |
mean the challenger of Egyptian thrones
and palacesp You do not mean he who |
struck the rock so hard it wept in a stream
for thirsty hosts? Surely you do not mean
the man who stood alone with God on the
quaking Sinaitic ranges not him of that
most famous funeral of all time, God COM
ing down out of the heavens to bury him?
Yes, the same Moses defending the seven
daughters of the Midianitish sheik, who
afterward rescued all nations.
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 theological semi
nary, the university of rock and sand
from which he graduated for a 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 tho
trees Of Canaan dripping 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 to be fitted for special usefulness.
How did John the Baptist get prepared to
become forerunner of Christ? Show me
his wardrobe. 1t will DO hung with silken
socks and embroidered robes and attire of
Syrian purple. Show me his dining table,
On it tho tankards u-blush with tho richest
wines of tho vineyards Of Engedi, and
rarcst birds that were ever caught in net,
and sweetest venison that ever dropped
antlers before the hunter. No, We are d.
rectly told "the same John had his raimont
of camols hair, not the fine hair of tho
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 caught and tho wings and legs torn
off and they were stuck on wooden spts
and turned before the fire. Tho Bcdouins
pack them in salt and carry them In sacks.
What a menu for John the Baptist
Through what deprivation he came to
what exultation
Victory of Endeavors.
And you will have to go down before
you 20 up. From tho pit into which his
brothers threw him and tho prison in
which his enemies incarcerated him Jo-
seph rose to be Egyptian prime minister.
Elijah, who was to be tho greatest of all
the ancient prophets; Elijah, who mado
King Ahabs knees knock together with
the prophecy that the dogs would be his
only undertakers; Elijah, whose one pray
er brought moro than three years of
drought, and whose other prayer brought
drsnching showers, the man who wrapped
up his cape Of sheepskin into roll and
with 1t cut path through raging Jordan
for just two men to pass over, tho man
who with wheel of fire rodo over death
and escaped into the skies without mortu-
airy disintegration, tho man who thou
sands Of years after was called out of the
eternites to stand beside Jesus Christ on
Mount Tabor when it was ablaze with tho
spondors of transnguration-this man
could look back to the time when vora-
cous and filthy ravens were his only ca
terCrs.
You see John Knox preaching the COR
onaton sermon Of James VI and aTaisn-
Ing Queen Mary and Lord Darnley in a
public discourse at Edinburgh and telling
The French ambassador to go home and
hall his king murderer, John Knox