The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-15
REV. OR. TALMAGE.
THB EMINENT DIvnyE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject; The Needles Iisvoo-An Appeal
For Mercy For Oppressed w9 9nanhocd
Let Her Have an Equal Chance with
Man In the Struggle OF Life.

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wAsHfNoroN, d. C.-This discourse ol
DR.. Talmage is an appeal for mercy In be.
half OF oppressed womanhood and offers
encouragement to those struggling for u
livelihood; text, Ecclesiastes. w., 1, "Be.
hold the tears OF s1cll rs wero oppressed
and hey had no comforter"
Very long ago tho needle was busy. II
was considered honorable for women &c
toll IN olden times. Alexander the Great
stood In his pnlnce showing garments made
by his own mother. The finest tapestries
nt Bayeux was mado by the queen OF Will
lam tho Conqueror. Augustus, tho ON.
peror, would not wear any garments eX'
cept those that wcre fashioned by some
member Of his royal family. so let the
toiler everywhere bo respected.
Tho needle has slain more than the
sword. When the sewing machine wns In.
vented, some thought TINT invention would
alleviate woman's toll and put an end &C
tho despotism OF tho needle. But no
While the wing machine has beon q great
blosslug to well-to-do families Ia many
cases It has added to the stab OF tho needle
tho crush OF the wheel and multltudes oil
women, Notwithstanding tho re-enforce.
ment og the sewing mnchine, can only
make, work hard as they will, between 81
and SO "a week.
The greatest blessing that conld have
happened to our frat parents was being
wrong. Adam and Eve, In their perfecl
state, might have got along without wort
or only such slight employment as per
feet garden with no weeds In 1t demanded
But as soon rs they had sinned tho bes,
thing Tor them was to be turned out where
they would have TO work. We know what
whitening thing 1t Is for man to have
nothing to do. OF the thousand prosper.
Gus and honorable men that You know 0g,
had to work vigorously ut tho beginning
But 1 nm now to tell you that industry l.
just us important for u woman safety and
happiness. The most unhappy women IL
our communities to-day arc those who have
no engagements to call them up In the
morning; who, once having risen aud
breakfasted, lounge through the dull fore.
noon iu slippers down Mt the heel and with
disbeveled hair, reading the lust novel
and vino, having dragged through u
wretched forenoon and taken their after
noon sleep and having pissed al hour and
half ut their toilet, pick up their card
case and so out to make calls, and who
pass their evenings waiting for somebody
10 come In and break up the monotony
Arabelln Stuart mover was imprisoned ir
SO dark dungeon as thht.
There IS no happiness In an idle woman
IL may be with hand, II may 10 with brain
1t may be with foot, bn. work she must or
be wretched forever. Tho little girls oil
our families must be started with that
iden. Tho curse OF American society &!
that our young women are taught that the
first, second. third, fourth, NTH, sixth
seventh, tenth, ilftietb, thousaudth thing
In their life Ia to got somebody to take care
OF them. Instead OF that tho first lessor
should be how under God they may take
care OF themselves. The simple fact Il
that n majority or them do have to take
care OF themselves, and that, too, after hav
ing through the false notions OF their par
ents wasted tho years in which they ought
to have learned how successfully to main
tain themselves. We now and here declare
the inhumanlty, cruelty and outrage OF
that father and mother who pass theii
daughters into womanhood, having given
them no faculty for earning their livell
hood.
Mme. do Stael said, "It is not these
writings that am proud Of but the iac
that have facility In ten occupations, in
any one OF which / could make liyeli
hood" You say you have u fortune tc
leave them. Oh, man and woman, have
YOU not learned that, like vultures, like
hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and
fly away? Though YOU should be success
ful in leaving competency behind you
the trlckery OF executors may swamp IL In
night or some official in our churches
may get up mining company and induce
your orphans to put their money into u
hole In Colorado and II by the most skillful
machinery the sunken money cannot be
brought up again prove to them that 1t
was eternally decreed that that was
tho way they wero to lose it aud that
1t went in the most orthodox and heav.
emily style. Oh, the damnable schemes that
professed Christians will engage In until
God puts His fingers into The collnr OF the
hypocrltes robe and strips It clear down
to the bottoml You have no right, because
you are well off, to conclude that your chill
going a M A 1laa
leaving large fortune. His son fell dead
In philadelphia grogshop. His old com
rides came In and said as they bent over
his corpse, 'What is the matter with you
Bo9gsyp" The surgeon standing over hin
said: "Hush vel He Is deadl" "Oh, he is
dead!" they said. Come, boys; lot US &C
ana take drink In memory OF poor
BoSgsy" Have you nothing bettor than
money to leave your children? II you have
not, but send your daughters into the
world with empty brain and unskilled
hand, you are guilty of assassination
homicide, infanticide.
There are women toiling in our cities fol
80 or 30 week who were the daughters o.
merchant princes. These suffering one.
now would be glad to have the crumbs
that once fell from their fathers table
That worn out broken shoe that she wears
is the lineal descendant of the Ssi2 g0iter lr
which her mother walked aud that torn
huu i1uou uuu OF mUknlUs
cent brocade that swept Pennsylvania nv.
enue and Broadway clean without any OK.
pense to the street commissioners. Though
you live In an elegant residence and fare
sumptuously every day, lot your daughters
Ieel 1t Is Disgrace for them not to know
how to work. l denounce the idea prev.
alent in society that though our young
women mny embrolder slippers and crochet
and make mats for lamps to stand on with.
out disgrace, the idea OF doing anything
for livelihood Is dishonorable. II Is q
shamo for young woman belonging to II
Inrge family to be inefficient when her
father tolls his life away for her support.
1t IL u shame for daughter to be idle
while her mother tolls at tho washtub. 1t e.
as honorable to sweep house, make beds OF
trim hats rs 1t Is to twist II watch chain.
SO fur as l can understand the line OF re-.
spectabllity lles between that which "a uso.
iul and that which is useless II women
do that which is OF no value, their work IL
honorable. Ii they do practical work, IL II
dishonorable. That our young women
may escape the censure OF doing dlshonor.
able work shall particularlze. You may
knit u tidy for tho back OF an arm -chalr
but by no means make the money whero.
with to buy tho chair. You may with u
delicate brush beautiiy mantel orna.
ment,. but die rather than earn enough &C.
buy marble mante. You may learn
artistic music until you can squall Italian.
but never sing "0rtonviie" or "Old Hun
dredth." Do nothing practical IL you
would In the eyes OF refined society pre-.
serve your respectabllity. / scout these
hnical notions. | tell You woman, ~