Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-03-15
WOMEN WHO WORK.
OR. TALMAGE SPEAKS ENCOURAGING
WORDS TO THEM.


aud Strugglc For Livelihood.
WASHINGTON, March 11.-Ths dis
course Of DR.. Talmagc is an appeal for
mercy in behalf Of oppressed woman
hood and offers encouragement to those
struggling for n liveihood text, Ecclc-
tiastes iv, 1, Behold the tears Of such as
were oppressed, and they had no COM
forter."
Very long ago the needle was busy. 1t
was considered honorable for women to
.oil in oldcn times. Alexander the Great
stood in his place showing garments
made by his own mother The finest tap
astries at Baycux wore made by the
queen Of William the Cunqucror Angus
trs the emperor would not wear any gar
uents except those that were fashioned
~ some member of his royal family. SO
ct the tolcr everywhere he respected,
The needle has slain more than the
sword. When the sewing machine was
invented. some thought that invention
would alleviate wOman's toll and put an
I'D to the dcspotism of the needle But
no; while the sewing machine has been
a great blessing to well to do families in
many cases, it has added to the stab Of
the needle the crush of the wheel and
multtudes of women, notwithstanding
the reinforcement of the sewing ma
chine can only make, work hard as they
will. between 81 and So week.
The greatest blessing that could have
Happened to our first parents was being
turned out of Eden after they had done
wrong. Adam and Eve in their perfect
state might have got along without work
or only such slight employment as per-
feet garden with no weeds in il demand
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best thing for them was to be- turned out
where they would have to work. We
know what whitening thing it is for 4
man to have nothing to do. or the LOCO
prosperous and honorable men that you
know 900 had to work vigorously at the
beginning. But | am now to tell you that
industry is just as important for a wom-
ans safety and happiness. The most I'M
happy women in our communities today
are those who have no engagements to
call them up in the morning, who once
having risen and brcakfasted lounge
through the dull forenoon in slippers
down at the heel and with dishevclcd
hair. reading the last novel, and who,
having dragged through a wretched fore
noon and taken their afternoon sleep and
having passed an hour and a half at tHrir
toilet. pick up their cardcuse and 90 out
TO make calls. and who pass their even
ings waiting for somebody TO come in and
break up the monotony. Arabella Stuart
never was imprisoned in 50 dark dun
gcon ; that.
No Happiness In IdIeness.
There is no happiness in an idle wom
an. 1t may be with hand, it may be with
brain, it may be with foot, but work she
must or be wretched forever. The little
81,
that idea. The curse of American society
is hat our young women are taught that
the first second. third. fourth, fifth.
,ixth, seventh tenth, fftieth, thousandth
hing in their life is to get somebody to
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 q ma ority of them do
have to take care of themselves and that,
too. after having through the false no.
lions of their parents wasted the years
in which they ought to have learned how
necessarily to maintain themselves. We
now and here declare the inhumanity,
cruelty and outrage of that father and
mother who pass their daughters into
vomanhood having given them no facl-
ny for earning their livelihood.
Nine. de Stael said, 1T is not these
writings that | am proud of, but the fact
that l have facility in ten occupations in
any one Of which l could make liveli-
hood" You say you have fortune TO
leave them. o man and woman, Have
YOU not learned that. like vultures like
hawks like eagles, riches have wings and
fly away? Though you should be sue
cessful in leaving a competency behind
you, the trckery of executors may
swamp it in night or some officials in
our churches may get up a mining COM
Dany and induce your orphans to put
}heir money into a hole in Colorado and
If by the most skillful machinery the
sunknl money cannot be brought NJ
again prove to them that it was eternally
dccreed that that was the way they were
to lose it and that it went in the most or
thodox and heavenly style. Oh the
damnable schemes that professed Chris
dams will engage in until God puts his
fingers into the collar of the hypocrite'
robe and strips it clear down to the bot
tom. You have no right because you are
well off to conclude that your children
are going to be well off. \ man dice
leaving large fortune. His son fel
lead in a Philadelphia grogshop. Hi
I'D comrades came in and said as they
bent oy his corpse, What is the mat
.cr with you, Boggsey:' The surgeon
standing over him said Hush, ye. H.
IS dead" "Oh, he is dead"' they said
Come, boys, let us go and take a drinl
IN emory of poor Bogrsey" Have yc,
nothing better than money to leave YOU
children? If you have not but senC
your daughters into the world with emp
~ brain and unskilled hand, you ar
guilty of assassination, homicide. infant
ode.