Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-12

The reason that SO many men now con-
denim themselves to- unbalanced and
solitary lifr i because they can not
support the modern Young woman.
who rises at 1910 in the inornin" and
rctircS inter midnight. one of the
traShicst of novels in her hand most of
the time between the late rising and
the late rctiring-a Thousand uf them
not worth nnc Hipporah
There is question that every father
and mother ought Ia ask the daughter
at breakfast or tea table. and that all
the daughters of the wealthy shicll
ought L. ask each other: What would
You do if the family fortune should
fail, If sickness should PROSTATE the
hrcadwinnrr, il the nnck> Of Jcthro
should hr destroyed bv a sudden cN-
cur>Inn Of wolves and bears and hv-
enaS from the mountains? What would
You do for living? Could Won sup
Tort yourself? Tan YOU take care Of an
invalid mother. or brother or sister a.
we'll ~ yourself? Yea. bring it down
To 81 hat any day might com To- 4 pros
porous family. Gun YOU "nul, dinner
If the servants should mak strike
for higher wages aud leave that morn
ing" Every minute uf every hour Of
every day of every year there are fam
lies flung from prosperity into hard
ship, and ala>! If in such cNigrncy the
seven daughters of Jcthro can do noth-
ing but sit around and cry aud wait
for some one to com, and hunt them
up a situation for which they have no
~ Ia inn
full; get at il right away. DO not say:
''lf ! were thrown uHon my own re-
sources | would become n music teach
err There are now more music teach
crs than could bc supported if they
were all MozartS and Wagncrs and
Handles. DO not say: IL will go To
embroiderin% slippers" There are
more slippers now than there are
feet Our hearts are every day wrung
| 10y the story Of elegant woman who
were once aiilucnt, but through catas-
| trophc havS fallen helpless, with no
ability to take care If tn msclves.
Our friend and Nhshingtonian
/ townSman. W. W. Corcoran. did mag
niticcnt thing when he built and en-
/ dowcd the Louise Home" for the I'M
| fortunate ariStncracy of the south
/ the people who once Ia everything
| but have come To nothing. We want an
/ other W. W. Curcuran To build Louise
| Home" for the unfortunate aristocracy
/ of the north. Eut institutions like that
I in every CITY of the land could not take
care of onc-half the unfortunate aris-
! tocracy of the north and south. whose
/ large fortunes have failed, and who
through lack of acquaintance with any
| STYLE of work, can not now earn their
own bread.
There needs to b. peaceful, yet radi
cal revolution among most of the pros
porous homes of America. by which
the elegant do-nothings may he trans
| formed into practical do-some-
things. Let useless women go
to work and gather the flocks.
Come, Xiprorah, let me introduce you
to Moses. But you do not mean that
this man aiilanccd to this country girl
was the great Moses of history, do
you? You do not mean that he was
the man who aftcrward wrought such
wonders? Surely you do not mean the
man whose staff dropped. wriggled in
|
ened again into staff? You do not
mean the challenger of Egyptian
thrones and palaces? Tou do not mean
him who struck the rock SO hard it
wcpt in stream for thirsty hosts?
Surely you do not mean the man who
stood alone with God on the quaking
Sinaitic tanges; not him to whom the
Red Sea was surrendered? Yes, the
same Moses defending the seven
daughters of the Midiantish shcik;
who afterward rescued nation.
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 thco-
logical seminary, the university of
rock and sand, from which he gradu-
ie.sd for mission that would balk
seas. and drown armies. and lift the
lantern of illumined cloud by night,
and start the workmen with bleeding
backs among Egyptian brick kilns
toward the pasture lands that
flow with milk and the trees
of Canaan dripping with honey.
Gracious God, teach all the people this
lesson. You must go into humiliation
and retirement and hidden closets of
prayer if you are to bc fitted for spe-
cial usefulness.
How did John the Baptist get pre-
pared to be a forerunner of Christ?
Show me his wardrobe. 1t will be
hung with sillen socks and embroid-
cred robes and attire of Syrian purple.
Show me his dining table. On it the
tankards ablush with the richest
wines of the vineyards of Engedi,
and rarest birds that were ever
caught in net, and sweetest veni-
son that ever dropped antlers
before the hunter. No, we are dis
tinctly told 1.-THE same John had his
raiment of camers hair"-not the fine
hair of the camel which we call the
camlet. but the long, coarse hair SUI h
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 the wings and legs torn off,
and they were stuck on wooden spits
and turned before the fire. The
Bedouins pack them in sacks. What n
menu for John the Baptist. Through
what deprivation he came to what
exultation.
And you will have to go down before
you go up. From the pit into which
his brothers tire " him and the prison
in which his enemies incarcerated him
Joseph rose to be Egyptian prime min
lister. Elijah, who was to be the great
est of all the ancient prophets, Elijah,
who made King Ahab's knees knock to-
gether with the prophecy that the dogs
would be his only undertakers; Eli jah,
whose one prayer brought more than
three years of drought, and whose 9th
err prayer brought drenching showers
the man who wrapped up his cape OF
sheepskin into n roll and with it cut q
path through raging Jordan for just two
to pass over; the man who with wheel
of fire rode over death and escaped
into the skies without mortuary disin
tegration; the man who thousands OF
years after, was called out of the eter,
mites to stand beside Jesus Christ on
, Mt. Tabor when it was ablaze with the