The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-16
THE WORKING WOMAN
Or. Talmage Speaks Words of En-
couragement to Her.
Faith and. Trust In God AfTord Com
fort for Those who Are OPP
pressed and Struggling
for n Livelihood.
copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington, March IL.

text, Ecclesiastes w., 1: behold the
tears of such as were oppressed, and
they had no comforter"
Very long ago the needle was busy.
1t was considered honorable for wom-
en- to toll in olden times. Alexander
the Great stood in his place showing
garments made by his own mother.
The finest tapestries at BayeuX were
made by the queen of William the Con-
queror. Augustus, the emperor, would
not wear any garments except those
shat 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 womans toll and put
nm end to the despotism of the needle.
But no; while the sewing machine
has been 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 multitudes of women, not
withstanding the reinforcement of the
sewing machine. can only make, work
hard as they will, between two and
three dollars week.
The greatest blessing that could have
happened to our first parents was be-
ing 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 en-
ployment as a perfect garden with no
weeds in it demanded, but as soon as
they had sinned the best thing for
them was to be turned out where they
would have to work. We know what
whitening thing it is for man to have
nothing to do. OF the 1000 prosperous
and honorable men that you know 800
had to work vigorously at the begin
ming. But 1 ON now to tell you that
industry is just as important for
woman's safety and happiness. The
most unhappy women in our commune
ties to-day are those who have no en-
gagements 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 wrCtched forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep and having
passed an hou" and half at their tot
let, pick up their cardcase and go out
20 make calls, and who pass their even
fngs waiting for somebody to come in
and break up the monotony. Arabella
Stuart never was imprisoned in SO
dark q dungeon as that.
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, sec
ond third, fourth. fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fftieth, 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
NAV take care of themselves. The sim
pie fact is that ma iority of them do
have to take care of themselves and
that, too, after having through the
false notions of their parents wasted
che years in which they ought to have
learned how successfully to maintain
themselves. We now and here declare
the inhumauity, cruelty and outrage
of that father and mother who pass
their daughters into womanhood hav-
ing given theP no facility for earning
their livelihood.
Nine. de Stael said: at is not these
writings that l am proud of, but the
fact that / have facility in ten occu'
pations in any one of which | could
make n livelihood" You say you have
fortune to leave them. o man ano
woman! Have you not learned that
like vultures, like hawks, like eagles
riches have wings and by away
Though you should be successful in
leaving competency behind you, tho
trickery OF executors may swamp it in
night, or some officials in our
churches may get up a mining com
pany and induce your orphans to put
their money into hole in Colorado
and If by the most sllillful machinery
the eunken money cannot be brought
up uBdlu prove W llClh lHub u
was eternally decreed that that wal
the way they were to lose it and tina
IL went in the most orthodox and heav
emily style. Oh, the damnable schemes
that professed Christians will engagt
in until God puts His fingers into thu
collar of the hypocrte's robe and strip
il clear down to the bottom! You hav,
no right because you are well off Il
conclude that your children are goinl
to be we'll Off A man died leaving
large fortune. His son fell dead in
Philadelphia grogshop. His old com
rades came in and said as they ben
over his corpse: "What is the matte
with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon
standing over him said: FLUSH, ye
He is deadl" "Oh, he is dead" the
said. "Come, boys, let us go and TAX
a drink in memory of poor Boggsey!
4 IL. 80.