Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-03-12
with her work at a marvellous rate.

Inc picture Oh S4O week ndQ almost
turned her head. A few nights later
while crossing the ferry, she over
heard the name Of her employer in the
conversation of girls who stood near:
What, John Snipes? Why, he don't
pay. Look out for him every time.
He'll keep you on trial, as he calls it,
for weeks, and then he'll let you go
and get some other foolv And thus
Jane Smith gained her warning against
the swindler. But the union held him
in the tolls of the law until he paid
the worth of each Of those days of
trial."
Another paragraph: "Her mortifica-
ton may be imagined when told that
one of the two So bills which she had
just received for her work was coun-
terfeit. But her modification was
swallowed up with indignation when
her employer denied having paid her
the money and insultingly asked her
to prove it. When the Protective I'M
ion had placed this matter in the
courts, the judge said, You will pay
Eleanor the amount of her claim, 1888,
and also the costs of the court"
How are these evils to be eradicat-
ed? Some say, "Give woman the bal
lot" What effect such ballot might
have on other questions I am not here
to discuss, but what would be the eff
feet Of female suffrage on wOmen'S
wages? 1 do not believe that woman
will ever get justice by woman's bal
lot. Indeed, women Cypress women as
much as men do. Do not women as
u
figure the woman who sews for them?
Are not women as sharp as men on
washerwomen and milliners and man.
tua makers? If a woman asks a dol
lar for her work, does not her female
employer ask her If she will not take
80 cents? You say, "Only 10 cents
difference" But that is sometimes the
difference between heaven and hell.
Women often have less commiseration
for women than men. If a woman
steps aside from the path Of rectitude,
man may forgive-woman never! Wo-
man will never get justice done her
from woman's ballot. Neither will she
get it from mans ballot. How then?
God will rise up for her. God has
more resources than we know Of The
flaming sword that hung at Eden's
gate when woman was driven out will
cleave with it's terrible edge her OPP
preSSOrs.
Resolve to Excel.
But there is something for women to
do. Let young people prepare to ex-
eel in spheres of work, and they will
be able after awhile to get larger
wages. Unskilled and incompetent Ia
Dor must take what is given; skilled
and competent labor will eventually
make it's own standard. Admitting
that the law Of supply and demand
regulates these things, l contend that
the demand for skilled labor is very
great and the supply very small. Start
with the idea that work is honorable
and that you can do soane one thing
better than anybody else. Resolve
that, Gold helping, you will take care
of yourself. If you are after awhile
called into another relation, you will
be all the better qualified for it by
your spirit of self reliance, or if you
are called to stay as you are you can
be happy and self supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak and woman the vine that
climbs it, but l have seen many tree
fall that not only went down itself, but
took all the vines with it. l can tell
you of something stronger than an
oak for an ivy to climb on, and that
is the throne of the great Jehovah.
Single or affianced, that woman is
strong who leans on God and does her
best. Many of you will go single
no 1o6 nd ho
to choose between two characters.
Young woman, 1 am sure you will
turn your back upon the useless, gig
Cling, irresponsible nonentity which So
ciety ANONYMOUSLY acknowledges to
be woman and ask God to make you
a humble, active, earnest Christian.
What will become of that womanly dis
ciple of the world? She is more
thoughtful Of the attitude she strikes
upon the carpet than how she will
look in the Judgment; more worried
about her freckles than her sins; more
interested in her apparel than in her
redemption. The dying actress whose
life had been vicious said, ''The scene
closes-draw the curtain" Generally
the tragedy comes first and the farce
afterward, but in her life it was first
the farce of a useless life and then
the tragedy of a wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death of such a
one with that of some Christian aunt
that was once a blessing to your house
hold. I do not know that she was ever
asked to give her hand in marriage.
She lived single, that untrammeled she
might be everybody's blessing. When
ever the sick were to be visited or the
poor to be provided with bread she
went with a blessing. She could pray
or sing Crock of Ages" for any sick
manner who asked her AS she got