The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-03-29
THE WORKING WOMAN
n. Talmags Speaks Words Of Hn-
ceuragsmsnt to Her.
1eltA ana Trust In 0ea AHerA Gem
leRt fer These Whs Are Op.
= pressed aaA etPaSGlin1
fer . Livellh0od.
(Cepyright. 1)oo. by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington, March II.


Washington. March II.
This discourse of DR.. Talmage 10 An
appeal for mercy in behalf of oppressed
wemanAood, and offers encouragement
TO those struggling for livelihood;
text, Ecclesiastes iv., /: "Behold the
tears Of such az were oppressed, and
they had NO comforter"
Very long ago the needle was busy.
II 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 toiler
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-do
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 q 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 en-
ployment as a perfect garden with no
weeds in 1t 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
a withering thing it is for man to have
nothing to do. OF the 1000 prosperous
and honorable men that you know 999
had to work vigorously at the begin
ming. But I ON now to tell you that
industry is just as important for a
woman's safety and happiness. The
ties to-day are those who have no en-
gagements to call them up in the
morning, who once having risen and
breaks.sted lounge through the dull
forenoon in slippers down at the heel
and with disheveled hair, reading the
last novel, and who, having dragged
through wretched forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep and having
passed an hour and half at their toi-
let, pick up their cardcase and go out
70 make calls, and who pass their even
ngs waiting for somebody to come in
lnd break up the monotony. Arabella
fStusrt never was imprisoned in 30
dark . dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle wom-
IN. It 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
American society is that our young
women are taught that the first, sec
ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fftieth, thousandth thing in
their Lie is to get somebody to take
care of them. Instead of that the first
lesson should be how under God they
may 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
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 them no facility for earning
their livelihood.
Nine. de Stael said: at is not these
writings that / am proud of, but the
fact that / have facility in ten occu-
pations in any one of which / could
make livelihood" You say you have
o fortune to leave them. o man and
woman! Have you not learned that,
like vultures, like hawks, like eagles.
riches have wings and fly away?
Though you should be successful in
VdslIS competency ocHihu you, thC
trickery OF executors may swamp it in
night, or some officials in our
churches may get up n mining COM
pany and induce your orphans to put
their money into hole in Colorado
and IL by the most skillful machinery
the eunkcn money cannot be brought
up again prove to them that it
was eternally decreed that that was
the way they were to lose it and that
1t went in the most orthodox and heav-
enly style. oh, the damnable schemes
that professed Christians will engage
in until God puts His fingers into the
collar Of the hypocrite's robe and strips
it clear down to the bottom! You have
no right because you are we'll off to
conclude that your children are going
10 he we'll off. A man died leaving q
large fortune. His son fell dead in
Philadelphia grogshop. His old COM
tades came in and said as they bent
over his corpse: what is the matter
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