The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-17


would be glad to havst the crumbs that !
once fell from their fathers table.
That broken shoe that she
wears is the lineal descendant of the
SIP gaiter in which her mother walked,
and that torn and faded calico had an
cestry of MAGNIFICENT brocade that
swept Pennsylvania avenue and Broad
way clean without any expense to the
street commissioners.
Though you live in an elegant resi-
dence and fare sumptuously every day,
let your daughters feel it is a dis
grace for them not to know how to
work. I denounce the idea prevalent
in society that, though our young wom-
en- may embroider slippers and crochet
and make mats for lamps to stand on
without disgrace, the idea of doing
anything for a livelihood is ~dishonora-
BILE. 1t is a shame for a young oma
belonging to a large family to be in
efficient when her father tolls his life
away for her support.
So far as I a understand, the line
of responsibility lies between that
which is useful and that which is USE
less. If women do that which is OF
no value, their work is honorable. If
they do practical work, it is dishonor-
able. That our young women may es-
cape the censIre of doing dishonora-
BILE work, l shall p~articular1ze. You
may knit u tidy for the back of an arm
chair, but by no means make the money
wherewith to buy the chair. You may
with a delicate brush beantify a man
tel ornament, but die rather than earn
enough to buy a marble mantel. You
may learn artistic music until you can
squat Italian, but never sing "Orton-
vile" or "Old Hundredth." Do moth
ing practical If you would, in the eyes
Of refined society, preserve your re-
spectability. j scout these finical no.
lions. l tell you a woman, no more
than a man, has a right to occupy q
place in this world unless she pays a
rent for it.
In the course of a lifetime you con-
sumo whole harvests and droves of cat
tie and every day you live and breathe
40 hogsheads of good, pure air. You
must by some kind of usefulness pay
for all this. Our race was the last thing
created-the birds and fishes on the
fourth day, the cattle and lizards on
the fifth day and man on the sixth day
If biologists are right, the earth was
1000, 0C0 tof years in the possession oil
the insects, beasts and birds before our
race came upon it. In II sense we
were invaders. The cattle, the lizards
and the hawks had preemption right
The question is not what we are to de
with lizards and summer insects, but
what the lizards and summer insects
are to do with us. If we want a plac'
in this world, we must earn it. The
partridge makes its own nest before i
occupies it. The lark by it's morning
song earns its breakfast before 1t eat
it, and h Bible gives an 1ntlnatiol
that the first duty Of an 1dler is II
starve when 1T says: II he Will no
work, neither shall he eat ldlenes
ruins the health, n very soon natur
says: This man has U to pay nj
rent. Out with him." Society is to b
reconstructed on the subject OF WON
! ans toll. A'vast majority OF nose wn
, would have woman industrious shu
her up to a lew xmas OF work. M
: judgment IN TINS matter Is tha' won
2 an mas a rlght-to 90 anything she "a
t 90 well. mere shoulq De no oePar'
ment OF rcnanol mechanism, al
c or science barred against ner' Ii ME
+ Hosmer mas genius lor sculptures CIV
? her a chisei' hosa Dohheur mas
1ondness lor uellnea'ihg animals, IL
her make me morse rair' Mi'
n Mitcneil VIII STUDY as~'rohonIy' le' Il.
mount the starry lauuer' hyuia WI
be a merchant iet her sen PurPie'
v Lucretia MOL VIII preach .ne uosp'
let her .hrii Win her "onahiy q
quence the euaher meeting house'
d Years ago. one Saooath nlght IN u
e vestibule OF our church a1ter servo
d a woman fell IN convuisions. Inc 40
- for said she needed meulclnC nOL