The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-04-19

calls it, for weeks. and then he'll let
you go, and get some other fool! 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 mortifca-
ton may be imagined when told that
one of the two five-dollar bills which
she had just received for her work was
counterfeit. 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
union had placed this matter in the
courts, the judge said: 'Yoa will Fay
Eleanor the amount of her claim, s. So,
and also the costs of the court
How are these evils to be eradicated
Some say: "Give woman the ballot y
What effect such ballot might have Oh
other questions 1 am not here to dis
cuss, but what would be the effect of
| female suffrage on women's Wages? |
do not believe that woman will .sr get
| justice by woman's ballot. 1,.deef
women oppress women as mucl. a.
men do. Do not women, as much az
men, beat down to the lowest figure
| the woman who sews for them? Are
not women as sharp as men on washer
women and milliners and manSuf
makers. If woman asks one c-oi.ai
for her work, does not her female en-
ployer ask her if she will not take sc
cents? You say: 'Only ten cents off
ference" But that is sometimes the
Women often have less commiseration
for women than men. If woman
steps aside from the path of rectitude,
man may forgive; woman never !:
Woman 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.
But there is something for women to
do. Let young people prepare to excel
in spheres of work, and they will be
able after awhile to get larger wages.
Unskilled and incompetent labor must
take what is given; skilled and COM
petent labor will eventually make its
i own standard. Admitting that the law
of supply and demand regulates these
things, / contend that the demand for
skilled labor is very great and the sup
ply very small. Start with the idea
that work is honorable and that you
can do some one thing better than any.
body else. Resolve that, God helping
you will take care of yourself. If yo,
are after awhile called into anothet
relation, you will be all the better
lqualified 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 mar
as an oak and woman the vine thai
climbs it, but 1 have seen many tire.
fall that not only went down itself, bul
took all the vines with it. / can tel
you of something stronger than an o;il
for an ivy to climb on, and that is th'
throne of the great Jehovah. Single c'
affianced, that woman is strong whs
leans on God and does her best. Man,
of you will go single-handed throug'
life, and you will have to choose be
tween two characters. Young woman
am sure you will turn your back upo,
the useless, giggling, irresponsible,
nonentity which society ignominious!,
acknowledges to be a woman and asl
God to make you a humble, active
l hof will
of that womanly disciple of the world
She is more thoughtful of the attitud
she strikes upon the carpet than hov
she will look in the judgment; NOR
worried about her freckles than he
sins; more interested in her appare
than in her redemption. The dyin,
actress whose life had been viciou
said: 'The scene closes. Draw the cur
tain.' Generally the tragedy come
first and the farce afterward, but il
. her life it was first che farce of use
. less life and then the tragedy of
wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death of sucl
a one with that of some Christian aun
that was once blessing to your house
hold. do not know that she was eve
asked to give her hand in marriage
She lived single. that, untrammelet
she might be everybody's blessing
Whenever the sick were to be visited o
. the poor to be provided with bread sh
went with blessing. She could pra
, or sing: Rock of Ages" for any sic
pauper who asked her. AS she got ole
er there were days when she was a Ii;
!, tie sharp. but for the most part aunt
:, was sunbeam, just the one for Christ
mas eve She knew better han anyor
, else how to fix things. Her every praye;
as God heard it, was full of everybod
who had trouble. The brightest thing
in all the house dropped from he
fingers. She had peculiar notions, bl
the grandest notion she ever had wa
to make you happy. She dressed we'll
hut her highest adornment was that q
: a meek and quiet spirit. which, in tn
sight of God, is of great price. Whe
she died, you all gathered lovingl
; about her, and as you carried her OF
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