Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-01-28

the cares YOU VIII never nave 10 carry
and 90 the opportunity Of outside useful
ues- from which married life would have
partially deharrysi YOU. and that you are
free 10 20 and come a. one who has the
r-snousIbi!iti,-z 90 a household can seldom
be. God has not given YOU a hard lot a.
compared with your sisters. When young
women shall make uP their minds at the
tart that masculine companionship Is not
"a necessity On order 30 Happiness aud that
there l. a strong probability that they will
have To- fight the hattie or life alone, they
will be getting the timber ready for their
own fortune. and their saw and AK and
plane sharpened for it, construction.
since Every wise woman huildeth her
house"
A. no boy ought to be- brought up with
out learning some business az which he
could earn livelihood, - no girl ought To-
he brought up without learning IN" science
81 seif-support. The difficulty isthat many
a family goes sailing on the high tide of
success, and the husband aud father de-
ponds on his own health and arumen for
the welfare 81 his household hut one day
he gets hi feet wet aud in three days
pneumonia has closed hi life, aud the
daughters are turned out ON % cold world
To earn bread. and there il nothing prarti-
cal that they can do.
How is this evil to be curcdg star. clear
back IN the homestead and teach your
daughters that life is an earnest thin-, and
that there Is "A possibility. il not a strong
probability, that they will have to fight the
battle Of life alone. Let every father and
mother say TO their daughters: Now. what
would you do for a livelihood if what now
own were swept away by financial disaster
or old age or death should end my rareers"
My advice To all girls aud all unmarried
women, whether in anluent homes or in
homes where most stringent economics are
grinding. Is to learn to do some kind Of
work that the world must have while the
world stands.
q, young women Of America! rs many OF
Won will have to fight your own battles
alone do not wait until YOU meet with
disaster and your father j. 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 as the world
stands. Turn your attention from the en-
broidcry Of fine slippers, of which there is
a lrplus, and make useful shoe. En-
I pend the time in which you adOrn a cigar
} case in learning how TO make good,
7 honest loaf of bread. Turn your atten-
/ tion from the making of ilimsy nothings to
the manufacturing of important some
! things
But, you ask, what would my father
an1 mother say if they saw / was dong
/ such questionable work. Throw the
whole responsibility upon US, the pastors,
VINO are constantly hearing of young wo-
. men 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 IA choice between
starvation and damnation. They 90
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 dRugh-
tiers Of once prosperous merchants, law
yrrs, clerEymcn artists, bankers and
capitalists who brought up their chill
dren under the Internal delusiOn that
it was not high tone for woman 10 learn u
profitable calling. Young woman! take
this AFFAIR in Your own hand, and let
there be an instruction in all prosperous
families on the part of the daughters OF
this day, demanding knowledge in Occu-
patton and styles of business by which they
may BE their own defence and their own
support if all fatherly and husbandly
and brotherly hands fail them. | have
seen two sad sights the one "a woman in
all the glory of her young life. stricken
by disease. and in Il week lifelcss in home
Of which she had been the pride. As her
hands We're folded over the still heart and
her eyes closed for the last Slumher and
she was taken out amid the lamentations
of kindred and friends | thought that was
a sadness immeasurable. But | have seen
something compared with which that
scene was bright and sOngful 1t was a
young conan who had been all her days
. amid wealthy surroundings. 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 twenty years not one word has been
heard from her. Vessels went out on the
Atlantic Ocean looking for a shipwrecked
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 into the harbor OF peace and
hope and heaven that lost womanly i'm
. mortal, driven in what tempest. atlame il
what cOntlagratOn, sinking into what
abyss? O God. help. o Christ rescue
My sisters, give not your time to learning
fancy work which the world may dispens,
with in hard times. but connect your skill
with the indispensables OF life.
Let me say to all women who have al
ready entered upon the battle Of life tina
the time is coming when women shall no
only get as much salary and wages rs met
, I get. but for certain styles Of employment
women will have higher salary and NOR,
wages. for the reason that for some style,
of work they have more adaptation. Blu
this justice will come to women not through
any sentiment of gallantry, not becaus,
woman is physically weaker than men
and, therefore, ought to have more con
| SideratiOn shown her, but because through
her linCr natural taste and more grace oil
manner and quicker perception and more
delicate touch. and more educated adroit
ness she will in certain callings, be to heI
employer worth ten per cent. more, OF
twenty per cent. more than the other sex
She will not get it by asking for it. but b,
earning it, and it shall be hers by Lawful
| conquest.