The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-25

must have al long as the world stands.
Turn your attention from the embroid-
cry OF fine slippers, OF which there Is
a surplus. and make a useful show.
Expend the time in which you adorn
a cigar 81 in learning how to make
a good. honest loaf OF bread. Turn
your attention from h making Of
fiimsy nothings 10 the manufacturing
| OF important something's.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
Much of the time spent In young
ladies' seminaries in studying what
are called The higher branches" might
better be expended in teaching them
themselves. II You are going to be
teachers, or If you have SO much as
sured wealth that You a always
dwell in those high regions trigonOme-
try, of course, metaphysics OF course.
Latin and German and French INK
| Italian of course, and a hundred other
things. of course. but if o are not
expecting to teach, and your wealth is
not established beyond misfortune,
after you have learned the ordinary
branches lake 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.
mo, no." says some young woman
II will not undertake anything 50 I'M
romantic and commonplace as that"
An excellent author writes that after
he had, in a book, argued for efficiency
in womanly work in order to success,
and positively apprenticeship by way
Of preparation, a prominent chemist
advertised that he would teach a class
- --1
apothecaries if they would go through
an apprenticeship as men do, and a
| printer advertised that he would take
a class of women to learn the printers
trade if they would go through al ap-
premiership as men do, and how many
according to the account of the author,
do you suppos applied to become skill
ed in the druggist business and print
ing business? Not one!
But" you ask, what would my
father and mother say if they saw I
| was doing UGH questionable o ?"
Throw the whole responsibility upOn
us, the pastors, who are constantly
hearing of young women 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
llOullUS IelI UlIeIn Dul d cHOlCe DclNt tu
s~tarvatin ano damnation. There they
go along the street Z O'Clock in the WIN
try mornings through the slush and
storm to the place where they shall
earn only half enough for substance
the daughters of once prosperous mer-
chants, lawyers, clergymen, artists,
bankers and capitalists, who brought
up their children upder the Internal
delusion that it was not high tone for
| women to learn a profitable calling.
Young women, take this affair in your
| own hand and let there be an insur-
rection in all prosperous families on
the part Of the daughters of this day,
demanding knowledge in occupations
, and styles of business by which they
, may be their own defense and their
own support if all fatherly and hus-
bandly and brotherly hands forever
fail them. l have seen two sad sights,
the n a woman in all the glory of
her young life, stricken by disease,
and in a week ~lifeless in a home of
| which she had been the pride. AS her
hands were folded over the still heart
and her eyes closed for the last slumber
AND she was taken out amid the lam
entations Of kindred and friends I
thought that was a sadness immeaS-
urable. But I have seen something
compared with which that scene was
bright and songful. 1t was a young
woman who had been all her days
amid wealthy surroundings by the
visit Of death and bankruptcy to h
household turned out on a cold world
without one lesson without n word
about how TO get food or shelter and
into the awful whirlpool of city life,
where strong ships have one down,
and for twenty "a not one word has
been heard about her. Vessels went
| out on the Atlantic ocean looking for
: a shipwrecked craft that was left alone
and fOrsaken on the sea a few weeks
before with the idea Of bringing it into
port. But who shall ever bring again
into the harbor of peace and hope and
heaven that lost womanly immortal,
driven in what tempest, af1ame in what
conf1agration, sinkink into what abyss?
o God, help! o Christ, rescue! My
sisters, give not your time to learning
fancy work which the world may dis
pense with in hard times, but connect
your skill with the in~dispensables of
life.
BODILY NECESSITIES.
The world will always a. some