St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-04-14
TUE WORKING WOMAN
d.. Talmage Speaks Words of En-
couragement to Her.
Faith and Trust In God Afford Conn
fort for Those Who Are OPP
pressed and Struggling
for q Livelihood.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,

70 tnOse Struggling ZOE u INeuuOOo
text, Ecciesiastcs w., 1: Behold tn,
tears Of such rs were oppressed, and
they had no comforter"
Very long ago the needle was busy
It was considered honorable for won
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 wers
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 toile,
everywhere be respected!
The needle has slain more than the
sword. When the sewing machine was
invented. some thought that invention
would alleviate woman's toll and put
an end to the despotism of the needle
But no; while, the sewing machine
has been a.great blessing to well-to-dc
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 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 enl.
ployment as 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
q xithering thing it is for man to have
nothing to do. OF the 1000 prosperous
and honorable men that you know go
had to work vigorously ut the begin
ming. But I cm now to tell you that
industry. is just rs 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
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, sand who, having dragged
through wretched forenoon and
taken their AFTERNOON sleep and having
passed an hou- and half at their toi..
let, pick up their cardcase and go out
to make calls. and who pass their even
ings waiting for somebody to come in
md break up the. monotony. Arabella
Stuart never was imprisoned in 50
dark 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
society is that our young
women are taught that the first, sec
ond. third. fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth; fiftieth, 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
msy take care of themselves. The SIM
pie fact is that = majority Of them do
have to take care of themselves and
that, too, after having through the
false notions Of their parents wasted
The years in which they ought to have
learned how successfully to maintain
We now and here declare
the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage
Of that father and mother who pass
their daughters into womanhood hav-
ing given then no facility for earning
their livelihood.
Nine. de Stael said: "It is not these
writings that am proud Of, but the
TACT that I have facility in ten occu-
pations in any one Of which could
make livelihood" You say you have
! fortune to leave them. O man and
woman! Have you not learned that,
like vul!ures, like hawks, like eagles.
riches have wings apd fly away?
Though you should be successful in
eaving a competency behind you. the
tYickery of executors may swamp it in
! night, or some officials in our
;hurches may get up q mining COM
pany and induce your orphans to put
heir money into q hole in Colorado
md II by the most skillful machinery
he sunkcn money cannot be brought
up again 1rore' to them that it
vas eternally decreed that that was
he way thsy were to lose it and that
{ went in the most orthodox and hesy-
My style. Oh, the damnable schemes
hat professed CHI :. .ans will engage
n until God puts His fingers into the
,ollar of the hypocrite's robe and strips
1 clear down to the bottom! You have
10 right because you are well ON to
that your children are going
70 Se we'll OF. A man died leaving q
arge fortune. His son fell dead in .
grogshop. His old COM
AIDES came in and said as they bent
yer his corpse: ''What is the matter
With you, BVggsey The surgeon
over him said: Hush, ye!
Ie Il dead!" ''Oh, he is dead!" they
aid. "Come, boys, let us 60 and take
drink in memory Of poor Boggsey!"
lave you nothiny better than money
o leave your children? Hyou have not.
nut send your daughters into the world
With empty brain and unskilled hand,
on are guilty of assassination, homi-
idc, infan.icide.
There are women. toiling in our cities
or two or three dollars = week who
5ere the daughters of merchant
rinces. These suffering ones now
,ould be glad to have the crumbs that |
nee fell from their fathers table.
hat wornout, broken shoe that she
rears is the lineal descendant of the
IL eaiter in which her mother walked,
nd that torn and faded calico had an
estry ef magnificent brocade that
wept Pennsylvania ayenue and Broad
,ay clean without any expense to the
treet commissioners.
Though you live in an elegant resi-
ence and fare sumptuously every day,
4 your daughters feel it il . dis
race for them not to know how to
7ork. I denounce the idea prevalent |
! society that, though our young wom- ]