Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-01-20
CELIBACY FOR WOVEN.
DR.. TaImage Thinks All Gi1s Should
Learn a Trade,
And he Ready Ia Assume thu Battle of
Life Without Depending Upon Any
Man Marriage Is often al urse
Instead Of "a Blrssing


have Ia earn their own living rs well
rs to all toilcrs with hand or brain.
Text Prov. xiv, l: Every wise woman
buildcth her house"
Woman mere adjunct to man, an
appendix to the masculine volume, an
apprndagr. "A sort of aftcrihou"ht,
something thrown in To- make things
even that is the hcrcSr cutcrtainrd
and Implied Icy some men. n i il evil
dent To- them. because Alan was first
created and then r7rr-->f'rrcv rcud
the whole story or they would find
that the porp"isr and the bear and the
hawk were created before Adam,
81 that this argument, drawn from
priority of creation, might prove that
tn" sheep and the dog were greater
than man. No. Woman WAS an indie
pendent creation, anu was intended, if
she chose. - live alone. To work alone,
act alone, think alone and fight her
battles alone. The bible SAYS it is not
good for man Ia live alone, hut never
SAYS it i not good for woman to lie.
alone: and the simple fact i that many
Women who are harnc>Scd for life in
the marriage relation would hr thou
sandfold better oil if they were alone
h" are these men who, wear after
year, hang around hotels and engine
houses and thratrr doors aud come in
out To- bother busy clerks and mcr-
chants and mechanics, doing nothing.
when there is plenty To de-? They are
men supported 10y their wives and
mothers. If the statistic, of any of
our cities could he taken ON this sub
irct You would lind that vast null
titudr of women not only support
themselves. hut ma~rulinrS A great
legion uf men amount To moth
ing. and woman 10y marriage.
Reeds condolences. \ woman standing
outside III" marriage relation il sever
al hundred Thousand times better off
than woman badly married. Many "A
bride, instead of a wreath of orange
blossoms. might more properly wear
bunch of ncttlcS and night shade. and
instead of the wedding march Il more
appropriate tune wound br The Dead
March in saul, and instead of ban
might hc more appropriately spread Il
table covered with the apples nf Sodnm
Many an attractive woman. Of good
sound >cu>.' in other things has mar
ricd ou" If these men To reform him
What was ia" result? Like when a
dove. n"ticiu" that a vulturr was rapa-
ciuuS and cruel. sat about L. reform it.
and SAID. Il have Il mild disposition
AMI | like peace, and was brought up
i'm the quiet of dove-cutc. and | will
bring the vulturc tn the same liking
10y marrying him. So, one day, after
the vulture declared he would give
up his carnivorous habits and cease
longing for blood of flock and herd,
at an altar of rock covered with
moss and lichcn, the twain were
married. bald-headcd eagle ofliciat-
ing, the vulturc saying, with all my
dominion of earth and sky, thee en-
dow, and promise to love and cherish
till death do us part" But one day the
dove in her fright. saw the vulturc busy
at carcass. and cried, stop that.
did you not promise me That
you would quit your carnIV-,r-
Gus and filthy habits if | mar
ried you?" Yes" said the vulturs,
but if you don't like my way, you cam
leave. aud with one angry stroke IF
the beal, and another fierce clutcg q
the claw. the vulture left the dove c,
R,>S and wingleS> and lifclcss. u
a flock of robins flying past, cried, to
each other and said, See there! ltat
comes from a dove marrying a v'ltf.c
to reform him"
Many woman who has had The
hand of a young incbriate Offered, 'ut
declined it, or who was asked 10 cis ia
her life to n man selfish, or of bad a
per. and refused the shackels. WI
bless God throughout all eternity that
She escaped that earthly pandemonium.
Besides all this, in our country about
10 0,000 men were sacrificed in our
civil war, and that decreed / 900, 600
women to celibacy. Besides that. since
the war, several armies as large
as the federal and confederate
armies put together, have fall
len under malt liquors and distilled
spirits, 50 full of poisoned ingredients
that the work was done more rapidly,
and the victims fell while yet young.
And if 30, 900 men are destroyed every
year by strong drink before marriage,
that makes in the 80 years since the
war 1850, 900 men slain, and DEGREES
l.G5O, 900 women to celibacy. Take,
then, the fact that So many women
are unhappy in their marriage,
hA hnt hA Il
ter of 2.55O,0OO men by war
and rum combined, decides that al
least that number of women shall be
unbalanced for life, my text comes in
with a cheer and a potency and appro.
priateness that you may never have
seen in it before when it says, Every
wise woman buildeth her house," that
is, let woman be her own architect, lay
out her own plans, be her own super
visor. achieve her own destiny.
In addressing those women who have
to fight the battle alone, congratu
late you on your happy escape. Re,
joicc forever that you will not have to
navigate the faults of the other sex
when you have faults enough of your
own. Think of the bereavements you
avoid, of the risks of unassimilated
temper which you will not have to run
of the cares you will never have tc
carry, and of the opportunity of out
side usefulness from which marital
life would have partially debarred
you, and that You are free t.
go and come as one who has the
responsibilities of household can sell
dom be. God has not given you hard
lot as compared with your sisters.
When young women make up theii
minds at the start that masculine com.
partnership is not a necessity in order
to happiness, and that there is strong
probability that they will have to fight
the battle of life alone, they will be
getting the timber ready for their own
fortune, and their saw and AK and
plane sharpened for its construction,
since Every wise woman buildeth hel
house"
As no boy ought to be brought up
without learning some business n,
which he could earn a livelihood, SC
no girl ought to be brought up with
out learning the science of self-sup
port. The difficulty is that many d