The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-03-16
DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE eYTHE NOTED
Dr.INE.
subject; The Needles Havoo-An APPEAL
For Mercy For Oppressed wonsnhood
Let Her Have an Equal Chance With
Man In the struggle Of Life.


Man in the struggle Of Life.
lcoTyrghi E'vo.l
WAsHIs6rox. ID. C.-This discourse oi
DR.. Ialmage IL an appeal for mercy Ia be-
hall OF oppressed wOmaDhOod and offers
Encouragement 20 those struggling for a
liyelihood text, EcelesiGstss, tV., i. Be-
hold the tears Of such as were oppressed,
and they had no comforter"
Very long ago the needle was busy. IL
was considered honorable for women 10
toll in olden times. Alexander the Great
by his Own mother. The finest tapestries
al Bayecx was made by the queen Of WILL
IAN the COnqueror. Augustus, the en-
peror, would not wear any garments ex-
cept those that were fashioned by some
member OF his royal family. 50 Jet the
tolIer everywhere be respected.
The needle has slain more than the
sword. When the sewing machine was in
vented, some thought that invention would
alleviate womap's toll and put an end 20
the despotism Of the needle. But no.
While the sewing machine has been great
blessing 20 well-to-dO families In many
cases IL has added - the stab OF the needle
the crush Of the wheel. and multitudes Of
women. Notwithstanding the re-enforce-
meDt Of the sewing machine, can only
make, work hard az they VIII, between f2
and % week.
The greatest blessing that cOuld have
happened 20 our first parents was being
turned out OF Eden after they had done
wrong. Adam and Eve, IA their perfect
state, might have got along without work
or only such slight employment as n per-
feet garden with no weeds In 10 demanded.
Bat as soon as they had .siDned the best
thing for them was 10 be turned out whore
they would have 20 work. We know what
witheriDc thing IL is for man 10 have
nothing 10 do (lf the fhnneauH
Gus and honorable men that you know 800
bad 10 work vigorously NJ the beginning.
But an now 10 tell you that Industry is
lust az important for a woman's safety and
happiness. The most unhappy women In
out. communities to-day are those who have
no engagements 20 call them up In the
morning; who, once having risen and
bre6kfasted, lounge through the dun fore
noon In slippers down az the heel and with
dlsheveled hair, reading the last novel,
and VINO, having dragged through
wretched forenoon and taken their after
noon sleep and having passed al hour and
a half at their toilet, pick up their card.
case and go ont 10 make calls, and who
pass their evenings waiting for somebody
20 come In and break up the monotopy.
Arabella Stuart never was Imprisoned in
80 dark "a dungeon as that.
There is no happiness In m idle woman.
IL may be with hand, IL may be with brain,
II may be with foot. bu. work she must or
be wretched forever The little girls o!
our families must be started with that
idea. The curse % American society is
that our young women nre taught that the
FIRST, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh, tenth, hftieth, thousandth thing
la their life is to get somebody 10 take care
Of them. Instead OF that the first lesson
should be how under God they may take
care OF themselves. The simple fact Is
that a ma jorty OF them do have 20 take
care OF themselves, and that too, after hav-
ing through the false notions OF their par
ents wasted the years in which they ought
10 have learned how successfully 10 main
tain themselves. We now and here declare
the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage Of
that father and mother who pass their
daughters into wOmanbOOd, having given
them no faculty tor earning their liyelI-
hood.
Nine. lie Stael said, 1T is not these
writings that am proud OF. but the tact
that have facility In ten occupations, IN
any one Of which ! could make n liyeli-
hood You say you have q fortune 20
leave them. On, man and woman, have
YOU not learned that, like vultures, like
hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and
fly away Though you should be success
ful ~ leaving competency behind you,
the trlckery OF executors may swamp Il in
night or some official IN our churches
may get up mining company and Induce
your orphans 10 put their money into "a
hole in Colorado and II by the most skillful
machinery the sunken money cannot be
brought mp again prove 10 them that IL
was eternally decrced that that was
the way they were 10 lose Il and that
10 went in the most orthodox and heav-
enly style. Oh, .he damnablo schemes that
pyOfessed Christians will engage Ia until
God puts His NnSers into the collar OF the
lao, t.,F. ~. al.
10 the hottoml You have no right, because
you are well OF, TO conclude that your chill
dten are going TO be we'll of. man died
leaving large fortune. His son fell dead
In Philadelphia grogshop. Bis Old COM
rndes came in and said as they bent over
his corpse, "Wha; Is the matter with you,
Boggsy2' The surgeon standing over him
snid: "Hush yel He Is dead" "Oh, he Is
dead" they said. Come. boys; let US so
and take a drink in memory OF poor
Boggsyl' Have you nothing better than
money 10 leave your children? IL you have
not, but send your daughters into the
world with empty brain and upskillod
hand, you are guilty oi assassination,
homicide, intauticide.
There are women toillnc In our cities for
g or IS Il week who were the daughters OF
merchant princes. These suffering ones
now would be- glad 10 have the crumbs
that once fell from their fathers table.
ihnt worn ont broken shoe that she wears
Is the l!neal descendant of the ti2 Gaiter in
which her mother walked and that torn
aud faded calico had ancestery OF magpin-
cent brocade that swept Pennsylvania av-
enue and Broadway c,ean without any ex-
pense to the street commissioners. Though
YOU live in an elegant residence and fare
sumptuously every day, let your daughters
feel IL Is "a disgrace for them not TO know
how 10 work. l denounee the idea prev
alent in society that, though our young
women may embroider slippers and crochet
and make mats for lamps TO stand on with
out disgrace, the iden OF doing anything
for a livelihood is iishonorable. II is n
shame for a young woman belonging TO n
large family TO be inefficient when her
father tolls his life away for her support.
IL Is shame for daughter 10 be idle
while her mother tolls at the washtuh. IL Is
as honorable TO sweep house, make beds or
trim hats as IL is 10 twist watch chain.
SO far as can understand the line oil re-
spectabIlliy lies between that which is use
ful and that which f. useless. IL women
do that which is OF no value, their work Is
honorable i they do practical work, IL is
iishonorable. That our young women
may escape the censure otdoinc dishonor-
able work shall particularize. You may
knit a tidy for the back OF an armchair,
but by no means make the money where
With TO buy the chair. You may with
delicate brush beautify a mantel orna.
ment but die rather than earn enough TO
buy a marble mantel. You may learn
artistic music until you can squall italian,
but never sing "Ortonville' or "Old Hun
dredth." Do nothing practical IL you
would in the eyes Of refined society pre-
serve your respectability. i scout these
ilnical notions. 1 tell You woman. no
more than man has a rlght to occupy a
place In this world unless she pays a rent
tor it.
In the course OF lifetime YOU consume
whole hsrves,s and droyes Of cattle and
every day YOU live breathe forty hogheads