The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-03-14

encouragement to those struggling for
livelihood; text, Ecclesiastes w., l, BE
hold the tears of such as were oppressed,
and they had no comforter.
Very long ago the needle was busy. 1t
was considered honorable for women to
toll in olden times. Alexander the Great
stood in his place showing garments
made by his own mother. The finest tap
estries at Bayeux were made by the
queen of William the Conqueror. Angus
FMS the emperor would not wear any gar
ments except those that were fashioned
by some member of his royal family. So
let the toiler everywhere be 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
end to the despotism 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 ana
multitudes of women, Notwithstanding
the reinforcement of the sewing ma
chine, can only make, work hard as they
will, between 81 and So a 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 it demand
ed, but as soon as they had slnned the
best thing for them was to be turned out
where they would have to work. we
know what a whitening thing it is for
man to have nothing to do. Of the l,OOO
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 wom-
ans safety and happiness. The most I'M
happy women in our communities to-day
are those who have no engagements to
call them up in the morning, who once
having risen and breakfasted lounge
through the dull forenoon in slippers
down at the heel and with disheveled
hair, reading the last novel, and Who
having dragged through wretched fore
noon and taken their afternoon sleep and
having passed an hour and a half at their
toilet, pick up their cardcase and go 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 so dark dun
geon as that
No Happiness in Idleness.
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
girls of our families must be started with
that idea The curse of American society
is that our young women are taught that
the first, second third, fourth fifth,
sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth, thousandth
thing 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 majority of them do
have to take care of themselves and that,
too, after having through the false no.
tons of their parents wasted the years
in which they ought to have learned how
successfully to maintain themselves. We
now and here declare the inhumanity,
cruelty and outrage of that father and
mother who pass their daughters into
womanhood having given them no facil-
ity for earning their livelihood.
Mime. de Stael said, 1T is not these
writings that [ am proud OF, but the fact
that 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
cessfu in leaving competency behind
you, the trickery of executors may
swamp it in a night, or some officials in
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pany and induce your orphans to put
their money into hole in Colorado and
if by the most skillful machinery the
sunken money cannot be brought up
again prove to them that it was eternally
decreed 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
tians will engage in until God puts his
fingers into the collar of the hypocrite's
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 we'll off. A man died
leaving large fortune. His son fell
dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His
old comrades came in and said as they
bent over his corpse what is the mat
standing over him said: Hush, We! He
is deadv' ''Oh, he is dead" they said.
Come, boys, let us go and take drink
in memory of poor Boggseyw Have you
nothing better than money to leave your
children? If you have not, but send
your daughters into the world with emp
ty brain and unskilled hand, you are
guilty Of assassination, homicide, infanti-
eide.
There are women toiling in our cities
for 81 or So week who were the daugh-
tiers of merchant princes. These suffer
ing ones now would be glad to have the
crumbs that once fell from their father' $
table. That wornout, broken shoe that
she wears is the lineal descendant of the
ST. gaiter in which her mother walked,
and that torn and faded calico had an
cestry Of magnificent brocade that swept
Pennsylvania avenue and Broadway
clean without any expense to the street
commissioners.
No Disgrace TO Work.
Though you live in an elegant residence
and fare sumptuously every day, let your
do &c fo, thar,