The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17
Dc WORKING WOMAN
ralmage Speaks Words of Eu-
enlargement to Her.
I'D and Trust In God Afford COM
.Srt for Those Who Are OPP
pressed and Struggling
for a Livelihood.
Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington.

Ills discourse of DR.. Talmage is an
n.nl for mercy in behalf of oppressed
and offers encouragement
hose struggling for n livelihood;
.|. Ecclesiastes w., 1: Behold the
.H of such as were oppressed, and
1f had no comforter"
Irry long ago the needle was busy.
ms considered honorable for wom-
d toll in olden times. Alexander
t. Great stood in his place showing
Ihents made by his own mother.
a. finest tapestries at Bayeux were
|de by the queen of William the Con-
Iror. Augustus, the emperor, would
4 wear any garments except those
ne were fashioned by some member
lis royal family. So let the toiler
srywhere be respected!
re needle has slain more than the
'ofd. When the sewing machine was
'1nted, some thought that invention
nd alleviate woman's toll and put
nd to the despotism of the needle.
Il no; while the sewing machine
. been great blessing to well-to-do
milies in many cases, it has added to
. stab of the needle the crush of the
|oel, and multitudes of women, not
|hstanding the reinforcement of the
ing machine, can only make, work
id as they will, between two and
fee dollars a week.
he greatest blessing that could have
nDened to our first parents was be-
& burned out of Eden after they had
nd wrong. Adam and Eve in their
fiect state might have got along
ihout work or only such slight EN-
as perfect garden with no
IDS in it demanded, but as soon as
tv had sinned the best thing for
.ui was to be turned out where they
nd have to work. We know what
thing it is for man to have
hing to do. OF the 1000 prosperous
4 honorable men that you know 900
a. to work vigorously at the begin
~ But I am now to tell you that
Iustry is just as important for a
|nian's safety and happiness. The
~ unhappy women in our commune
b to-day arc those who have no en-
Sements to call them up in the
ming, who once having risen and
1alSfasted lounge through the dull
moon in slippers down at the heel
a with disheveled hair, reading the
It novel, and who, having dragged
nigh wretched forenoon and
Ien their afternoon sleep and having
ed an hour and half at their tot
. pick up their cardcase and go out
lake calls, and who pass their even
NJ waiting for somebody to come in
1 break up the monotony. Arabella
1Art never was imprisoned in SO
rk dungeon as that.
Here is no happiness in an idle wom-
1t may be with hand, it may be
M brain, it may be with foot, but
Il she must or be wretched forever.
e little girls of our families must be
Led with that idea. The curse OF
aNrican society is that our young
Iten are taught that the first, sec
4 third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
"a, fiftieth, thousandth thing in
NJ life is TO get somebody to take
y of them. Instead of that the first
ON should be how under God they
W take care of themselves. The sim
TACT is that a majority of them do
~ to take care of themselves and
NJ too, after having through the
" notions of their parents wasted
Years in which they ought to have
ned how successfully to maintain
|nselves. We now and here declare
humanity, cruelty and outrage
hat father and mother who pass
n daughters into womanhood hav-
given them no facility for earning
= livelihood.
ihe. de Stael said: SIT is not these
'ings that I am proud of, but the
( that / have facility in ten occu-
BINS in any one of which I could
Ne livelihood" You say you have
0rtune to leave them. o man and
IAN! Have you not learned that,
NJ vultures, like hawks, like eagles.
les have wings and fly away?
nigh you should be successful in
ing a competency behind you, the
'kery of executors may swamp it in
Light, or some officials in our
fches may get up a mining com
N and induce your orphans to put
4 money into a hole in Colorado
IF by the most skillful machinery
eunkcn money cannot be brought
again prove to them that it
eternally decreed that that was
way they were to lose it and that
ent in the most orthodox and heav-
u style. Oh, the damnable schemes
protested Christians will engage
ntil God puts His fingers into the
y of the hypocrite's robe and strips
par down to the bottom! You have
light because you are well off to |
Nude that your children. are going |
e we'll off. A man died leaving
; fortune. His son fell dead in
'edelphia grogshop. His old com
; came in and said as they bent
his corpse: 'What is the matter
you, Boggsey?" The surgeon
'ding over him said: flush, ye!
IS dead!" "Oh, he is dead!" they
Come, boys, let us go and take
Ink in memory of poor Boggsey!"
B You nothiny better than money
ave your children? Ifyou have not,
Send your daughters into the world
empty brain and unskilled hand,
are guilty of assassination, homi-
infan icide.
Pere are women toiling in our cities
two or three dollars a week who
R the daughters of merchant
ICES. These suffering ones now
I'd be glad to have the crumbs that
\ fell from their fathers table.
\ wornout, broken shoe that she
Rs is the lineal descendant of the