The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-03-16
THE WORKING WOMAN
DR.. Talmage Speaks Words Of En-
oouragement to Her.
Faith and Trust I'm God Afford Com
fort for Those Who Are OPP
pressed and Struggling
for Livelihood.
Copyright. 1907 by Louis Klopsch.l
VS. hin crf ON


This discourse of DIR. Talmage is an
appeal for mercy in behalf of oppressed
womanhood. and offers encouragement
TO those struggling for livelihood; /;
text, Ecciesiastcs iv.. /: Behold the
tears of such as were oppressed, and
they had no com torter."
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
that were fashioned by some member
OF his royal family. so let the toilcr
everywhere be respected!
The needle has slain more than the
sword. When the sewing machine was
invented. some thought that invention
would alleviate womau's toll and put
an end TO the despotism of the needle
But no; while the sewing machine
has been a great blessing TO weIl-to-do
families in many cases. it has added to
the stab of the needle the crush of the
wheel, and multitudcs of women. not
withstanding the reinforcement of the
sewing machine, can only make. work
hard as they will. between two and
three dollars a 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 Cm-
ployment as perfect garden with no
weeds in il demanded. but as soon as
they had sinned the best thing for
them was 10 be turned out where they
would have 10 work. We know what
a withering thing il is for man to have
nothing 10 do. OF the eco prosperous
and honorable men that YOU know 9gl
had to work vigorously at the begin
ming. But 4 Gm now to tell YOU that
industry is just as important for a
woman's safety and happiness. The
most unhappy women in our Communi-
ties to-day are those who have no en-
gagements to call them Up in the
breaEfasted lounge through the dull
forenoon in slippers down at the heel
and with dishevelod hair, reading the
last novel, and who, having dragged
through wrCtched forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep and having
passed an hou~ and n half 3t their toi-
let. pick up their cardcasc and go out
10 make calls, and who pass their even
ings waiting for somebody to come in
and break up the monotony. ArabelIa
Stuart never was imprisoned in so
dark a dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle wom-
an. 1t may be with hand. ii may be
with brain, II 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, fftie;h. IhouSandth thing in
their life is 10 get somebody to take
care of them. Instead of titat the first
lesson should be how under God they
may take care OF themselves. The sim
nle fact Is that a majority of them do
have TO take care of themselves and
that, too. after having through the
false notions of their parents wasted
: he 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 hav-
ing given theT no facility for earning
their livelihood.
Nine. de Staol said: 1T is not these
writings that ! ann proud of. but the
fact that / have facility in ten occu-
patiOns in any one of which L could
make livelihood" You say YOU have
a fortune to leave them. o man and |
woman! Have YOU not learned that. !
like vul:ures. like hawks. like eagles. |
riches have wings and fly away? |
Though YOU should be successful in |
leaving a competency behind YOU. the |
trickery OF executors may swamp il in /
a night. or some officials in our /
hurches may get up mining COM
DJny and induce your orphans to put /
their money into a hole in Colorado |
md If by The most skillful machinery /
he eunkcn money cannot be brought
up again prove TO them that il T
vas etc-nally decreed that that was
lC way thsy were TO lose il and that
L went in the most orthodox and heav-
My style. Oh, the damnable schemes
hat prOfcssed Christians will engage
II until God puts His fingers into the
ollar of the hypocrite's robe and strips
clear down to the bottom, You have |
10 right because you are well off to
onclude that your children are going
o Se we'll eff. \ man died leaving a
lrge fort His son fell dead in a
grogshOP. His old com
AIDES came il and said as they bent
ycr his corpse: What is the matter
18th YOU, Boggsey?' The surgeon
-anding over him said: Hush. We.
re is dcad," "Oh, he is dead!" they
aid. Come. boys, let us go and take
drink in memory of poor Boggsey!'
ave you nothing better than money
o leave your children? Ifyou have not.
mt send your daughters into the world
18th empty brain and Unshlled hand,
on arc guilty of assassination, homi-
dc, infan .icide.
There are women toiling in our cities
5r two or three dollars a week who
ere the daughters of merchant
rinces. These suffering ones low