The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-03-17
THE WORKING WOMAN
DR.. Talmage Speaks Words of En-
enlargement to Her.
Faith and Trust I'm God Afford Com
fort for Those Who Are OPP
pressed and Struggling
for a Livelihood.
copyright. 1909, by Louis Klopsch.l

wOmanhOOu, ana Offers encouragement
to those struggling for n livclihood
text, Ecclesiastes w., /: "Behold the
tears of such as were oppressed, and
they had no comforter"
Very long ago the needle was busy.
1t 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 toilcr
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 n 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 hc'rccnforcement of the
sewing machine, can only make, work
hard as they will, between two and
three dollars 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 i'm their
perfect state might have got along
without work or only such slight en-
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
n whitening thing it is for man to have
nothing TO do. OF the 1000 prosperous
and honor bic men that you know 900
had to work vigorously at the begin
ming. But ] Gm now to tell YOU that
industry is just as important for 4
womnn's safety and happiness. The
most unhappy women in our commune
tics 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, and who, having dragged
through n wrCtchcd forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep and having
passed an hour and half at their tot
let, pick IN their cardcasc and go out
to make calls, and who pass their even
ings waiting for somebody to come in
md break up the monotoDy. Arabella
Stuart never was imprisoned in SO
dark dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle wom-
IN. 1t may he 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, 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 SIM |
pie fact is that a majority of them d"
have to take care of themselves and
that, too, after having through the
IalSt hOIIDnS VI lHtlE )dItHIS "dSlC'
tbe years in which they ought to have
learned how successfully to maintain
themselves. We now and here declare
The humanity, 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 i could
make a livelihood" You say you have
n fortune to leave them. o man and
woman! Have you not learned that,
like vul!ures, like hawks, like eagles.
riches have wings and fly away?
Though you should be successful in
leaving n competency behind you, the
trickcry of executors may swamp it in
n 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 II by the most skillful machinery
the cunkrn money cannot be brought
up again prove to them that 1T
was eternally decreed that that was
the way they were to lose it and that
IL went in the most orthodox and heav-
only style. Oh, the damnable schemes
that profcssed Christians will engage
in until God puts His fingers into the
collar Of the hypocrite's robe and strips
IL clear down to the bottom! You hcve
no right because you are well OF to
conclude that your children are going
to DC we'll off, A man died leaving a
large fortune. His son fell dead in IA
Philadelphia grogshop. His old com
rades came in and said as they bent
over his corpse: what is the matter
with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon
standing over him said: "IIush, ye!
He Is dcad!" "Oh, he is dead!" they
said. "Come, boys, let us go and take
n drink in memory of poor Boggsey!"
Have you nothing better than money
to leave your children? Ifyou have not,
but send your daughters into the world
with empty brain and unskilled hand,