St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-02-19

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cry of fine Shippers. Of which there is
surplus. and make useful shoe. Elk
pend the time in which you adorn ,
cigar case in learning how to make q
good. honest loaf OF bread. Turn your
attention from the making of fimsy
nothings to the manufacture of i'm
portant something's.
Much of the time spent in young Ia
dies scminaries in studying what ars
called the "higher branches" nigh
better be expended in teaching then
something by which they could sup
port themselves. If you are going t.
be teachers or Il you have SO much as
sured wealth that you can alway.
dwell in those high regions, trigonon
etry of course, metaphysics OF course
Latin and Greek and German ani
French and Italian of course. and q
hundred other things OF course; but il
You are not expecting to teach, and
your wealth is not established beyond
misfortune, after you have learned .ht
| 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 some
thing better than anybody else.
NO. no. says some young woman;
II will not undertake anything sounro-
mantle and commonplace us that" An
excellent author writes that afte: lie
had, in a book. argued for efficiency in
womanly work in order to success, and
positive apprenticeship by way of prep
aration. prominent chemist advcr-
tised that he would teach class of
woman to become druggists and apothe-
carries il they would go through an ap-
premiership. as men do; and Il printer
advertised that he would take q class
of women to learn the printers trade
if they would go through an apprcn-
ticeship as men do. and how many. ac-
cording to the account OF the author
ess. do you suppose applied to become
skilled in the druggist business and
printing business? Not onel
Let me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battle of life.
that. the time is coming when women
shall not only get as much salary and
wages as men get. but for certain
styles of employment women will have
higher salary and more wages, for the
reason that for some styles Of WORK
they have more adaptation. But this
justice will come to women not through
any sentiment of gallantry, not because
woman is physically weaker than man,
and, therefore. ought to have moro
consideration shown her. but because
through her finer natural taste, and
more grace of manner, and quicker
perception. and more delicate touch.
and more educated adroitness, she will,
in certain caliings, be to her employ
er worth 10 per cent. more, or %
per cent. mors than the other
sex. She will not get it by ask
ing for it, but by earning it, aud it
shall be hers by lawful conquest
Now, men of America, b. fair, and
give the women chance. Arc you
afraid that they will do some of your
work, aud hence harm your pros
perties? Remember that there are
scores of thousands Of men doing wom-
ems work. Do not be afraid! God
knows the end from the beginning, and
lie knows how many people this world
can feed and shelter, and when it gets
too full He will end the world, and, If
need be. start another. God will halt
tie inventive faculty. which. by pro-
ducing machine that will do the work
Of ten or twenty or a hundred m.n and
women, will leave that nu IN Der OF
people without work. / hope that
there will not be invented another sew
ing machine, or reaping machine, or
corn thresher, or any other new ma
chime, for the next $40 years! We want
no more wooden hands and iron hands
and steel hands and electric hands
substituted for men aud women who
would otherwise do the work and get
the pay and earn the livelihood.
But God will arrange all, and all we
have to do is to do our best and trust
Him for the rest. Let me cheer all
women fighting the battle of life alone
with the fact of thousands of women
who have won the dag. Mary Lyon.
founder of Mount Holyo.se female
seminary, fought the battle alone.
Adelaide Newton. the tract dis
tributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the
consecrated missionary, alone; Dor
othea Dix, the angel of the in
sane asylums, alone; Caroline Her
schel, the indispensable re-en force
ment of her brother, alone; Maria
Takrzewsl1a, the heroine of the Berlin
hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers, patron
of the servings schools for the poor OF
Edinburgh, alone. And thousands and
tens of thousands of women, of whose
bravery and self-sacrifice aud glory Of
character the world has made no
record, but whose deeds are in
the heavenly archives OF mar
tyrs who fought the battle
alone. aud. though unrecognizsd for
the short thirty or tifty or eighty years
of irearthlv existence. shall through
the quintillion ages of the higher world
be pointed out with the admiring cry:
THESE are they who came out of great
aud had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the
Lamb
Let me also say, for the encourage
ment of all women fighting the battle
of life alone, that their conflict will
soon end. There is one word written
over the faces OF many of them. and
that word is Despair My sis
ter. you need appeal t. Christ,
vino comforted the sisters OF
Bethany in their domestic trouble.
and who in His last hours
forgot all the pan9s of Ills own hands
and feet aud heart as Hs looked iuto
the face of maternal anguish. aud
called q friends attention to il, in sub |
stance saying: John, can not take
care OF her any longer. Do for her rs |
would have done il had lived. Behold
thy motherm Ii, under the press ure
of unrewar.led and unappreciate work,
your hair is whitening aud the wrin- |
Ixles come, rejoice that You are nearing
the hour Of escape from your very last |
fatigue, and may your departure be as
pleasant as that OF Isabella Grain I'm,
who closed her life with q smile and
the word peace.
The daughter of q regiment in any
army is all surrounded by bayonets OF