The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-05-11

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What was tue use Of Zipporah's BE-
meaning herself with work when she
might have reclined Oh the hillside near
her fathers tent and pluckcd buttercrps
and dreamed out romances and sighed
idly to the winds and wept over imag-
mary songs TO the brooks? No, she knew
that work was honorable and that ev-
cry girl ought to have something to do.
and 20 she starts with the bleatlng and
lowing and believing and neighing
:i7oves TO the well for the watering.
Around every homo there are hocks
and droves Of cares and anxieties, and
every daughter Of the family, though
there be seven, ought to be doing her
part to take care Of the flocks. In many
households not ouly is Zipporah. but all
her sisters, without practical and USE
ful employments. Many Of them are
waiting for fortunate and prosperous
matrimonial alliance, but some lounger
like themselves will como along and
after counting the large number OF ia
ther Jethro's sheep and camels will
make proposal that will be accepted,
aud neither of them having done any
thing mo-e practical than to chew choco-
late caramels the two nothings will
start on the road of life together, every
step more and more a failure. That
daughter of the Midianitish sheik will
never find her Moses. Girls Of America,
initiate Zipporah. Do something practi-
cal. Do something helpful. Do some
thing we'll. Many have fathers with
great fiocks of absorbing duties, and
such a father needs help in home or
Office or field. Go out ard help him
with the hocks. The reason that so
many men now condemn themselves to
unafiiance1 and solitary life is because
they cannot support the modern young
woman, who rises at half past ~ III
the morning and retires after midnight,
one Of the trasbiest of novels in her
hands most Of the time between the late
rising and the late retiring-a thousand
of them not worth cne Zipporah.
There are questions that every father
and mother ought 10 ask the daughter
at breakfast or tea table and that all
the daughters CT the wealthy sheik
ought to ask each other: ''What would
you do if the family fortune should fail,
if sickness should PROSTATE the bread
winner, if the focks of Jethro should
be destroyed by sudden excursion of
wolves and bears and hyenas from the
mountain? What would you do for a
living? Could you support yourself?
Can you take care Of an invalid mother
OF brother OF sister as well as yourself:'
Yea, bring it down to what any day
might come to q prosperous family.
"Can you cock dinner il the servants
should make a strike for higher wages
aud leave that morning. Every minute
of every hour Of every cay CT every year
there are families flung from prosperity
into hardship. and. alas, if in such exi.
gency the sevcn daughters OF Jethro can
do nothing cut sit around and cry and
wait fer sJm2 one to come and hunt
them up a situation for which they
have no qualification! Get at something
useful, get at it right away. Do not
say, eff I were thrown upon my own
resources, would become a music
teacher" There are now moro music
teachers than could be supported If
they were all Mnzarts and Waguers and
HandelS. Do Rot say, II viii! go to en-
broidering slippers" There are more
slippers now than there are feet. Our
hearts are every day wrung ty tie story
of elegant wcmen who were Gnce af1iu-
ent, but through catastrophe have fall
Ell helpless, with 10 ability to take care
of themselves.
Our friend and WashiDgtonian towns
man, ". ". CorcGran, did magniti-
cent thing when he built and endowed
the Louise home fer the support OF the
unfortunate aristocracv Of the south
the people who once had everything, but
have come to nothing. We want ancth-
er w. w. Corcoran to build Louise
home for tie unfortunate aristocracy of
the north But institutions like that III
every city of the land could not take
care of one half the unfortunate aristcc-
racy of the north and south whose large
fortunes have failed and who, through
lack of acquaintance with any style OF
work, cannot now earn their own bread.
There needs to he peaceful! yet rad
ical revolution among most OF the pros
porous homes cf America by which the
elegant do noth;ugs may be transformed
into practical do something's. Let use
less women 20 to work and gather the
flocks. Come, Zippocah. let Inc intro
duce you to Moses But you DO not
mean that this man af1iarced to this
country girl was the great Moses CT his
torv, do you: You do not mean that be
was the man who afterward wrought
such wonders there: Surely you 90 not
mean be whose staff dropped. wrigeled
into a serpent and then, clutched, still
ened again into a staff? You do not
mean the challenger OF Egyptian thrones
and palaces: You do not mean he who
struck the rock SO bard it went III q
stream for thirsty hosts: Surely you dc
not mean the man who stood alone
with God Gu the quaking SlnaluC
ranges, not him of that most famous
funeral Of all time, God coming down
out of the heavens to bury him: Yes,
the same Moses defending tho seven
daughters OF the Midianitish sheik, who
ufterward rescued all nations.
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