Connecticut western news., 1900-03-15
THE NEEDLES HAVOC
DR. TAlMAGE APPEALS FOR MERCY
 FOR OPPRESSED WOMANHOOD.

DR. TAlMAGE APPEALS FOR MERCY
 FOR OPPRESSED WOMANrOoD. Demands That She Have an Equal Chance With Man In the Struggle of Life-says She Is Unfairly Dis eriminatea Against.
 WARRINGTON, March 11-This dis course of Dr. Talmage Is an appeal for mercy in behalf of oppressed woman hood and offers encouragement to those struggling for a livelihood; text, Ecclesiastes iv. l, Behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter
 Very long ago the needle was busy. It was considered honorable for wo- men to toll in olden times Alexander the Great stood in his palace 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 in- vention 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 we'll to do families In many cases 1t has added to the stab of the needle the crush of the wheel, and multitudes of women, notwithstanding the re-en- forcement of the sewing machine, can only make. work hard as they will, between $2 and $3 a week.
 The greatest blessing that could have happened to our first parents was being 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 em- 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 whitening thing 1t Is for man to have nothing to do. Of the thousand prosperous and honorable men that you know 099 had to work vigorously at the beginning. But I am now to tell you that industry Is just as important for a woman's safety and happiness. The most unhappy women in our com liiunities today are those who have no engagements 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, and who, having dragged through wretched forenoon and talk en their afternoon sleep and having passed an hour and half at their toilet, pick up their cardcase and go out to make calls, and who pass their evenings waiting for somebody to come in and break up the monotony. Ara bella Stuart never was imprisoned in so dark dungeon as that.
 Unhappy likeness.
 There is no happiness in an idle wo- man. It may be with hand, it may be with brain, 1t 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 course of American society is that our young women are taught that the first, sec ond, third, four, 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 may take care of themselves. The simple 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 vast ed the years in which they ought to have learned how successfully to main tain themselves. We now and here de- clare the inhumanity, cruelty and out rage of that father and mother who pass their daughters into womanhood, having given them no facility for earning their livelihood.
 Mime. de Stael said, Tt Is not these writings that I am proud of, but the fact that I have facility in ten occu- pations, in any one of which I could make a livelihood" You say you have a fortune to 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 successful In leaving com potency behind you, the trickery of executors may swamp 1t in a night or some officials in our churches may get up mining company and induce your orphans to put their money into hole in Colorado and if by the most skillful machinery the sunken money cannot De brought up again prove to them that it was eternally decreed that that was the way they were to lose 1t and that it 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 1t clear down to the bottom! You have no right, because you are well off, to conclude that your children are going to be we'll off. A man died leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His old com rades came in and said as they bent over his cofpse, What is the matter with you, Boggsyf'' The surgeon standing over him said: Hush ye! He Is deadr "Oh, he Is dead.' they said Come. boys; let us go and take q drink in memory of poor Boggsy" Have you nothing better than money to leave your children? If 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 for $2 or B a week who were tho daughters of merchant princes. These suffering ones now would be glad tt have the crumbs that once fell iron their fathers table. That worn ou br.ken shoe that she wears Is the
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