The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-10-11

they elbOWed their deserving and
needy sisters in competition until
the average income of working wo-
men is shamefully small, but four
dollars and fifty cents a week, con-
siderably less than half the aver
age income of men who work in the
same relations. The most woman
ly OF American women has declared
truly, "Home is woman's climate,
her native air, her vital breath, "
and in full sympathy with this SEN
timent of Frances e. Willard is the
pleasing prophecy of Flora Nc
Donald Thompson, ''The twenti-
eth century will witness the splen-
did spectacle of prodigal wives re-
turning to the domestic sphere un-
der the tyranny of truth they have
learned about themselves. Call
not the sphere morrow, 0 thou new
woman, for thy views are destined
to undergo happy change as soon
as thou dost become some worthy
mans old woman. 1t is estimated
that 80 per cent of the crime COM
mitted IN our cities is chargeable to
people who never knew the benefits
of genuine home life. Some one
has said that a woman has the
right to do whatever she can do
we'll, adding as correctly that wo-
man ought to do whatever she can
do better than a man; it is true, but
it is only half the truth. the other
half being, woman must do what.
ever only a woman can do. A wo-
man can do great many things as
we'll as man, but only woman
can makea home. Even better than
woman a man may build a house
but it is only house until under al
chemy, of woman's touch it is
transformed into home. Note
this, too, o ye women ambitious for
careers. I" Everywhere else in re-
lation to men women are competi-
tors; in homes they are queens of
realms exclusively their own.
The worlds great need then is
not tariff reform, nor currency re-
form, nor even temperance reform,
necessary as either or all of these
and hundred others like them
may be--the worlds chief need is
home reform. To that end no wo-
man is too noble, and none too
wise, to sit and serve at the cradle
side of her own babe; for
1.-THE night hath thousand eyes,
And the day but one,
But the light OF the whole earth dies
With the setting sun.
The mind hath thousand eyes,
And the heart but one.
But the light Of the whole life dies
When love is DONE"
MAKING HOME THE HAPPIEsT PLACE
ON EARTH.
My time is out, and / have Just
reached the point where could be-
gin 10 talk on my appointed theme,
"The Happiest Place on Earth.
If I owe an apology for thus de-
parting from the subject assigned |
me, allow me to make it by humbly |
saying that / have been no less
than half conscious of divine call
to diverge. 1t is my prayer that
when this mornings session, de-
ed as it is to The Twentieth |
Centery Home, shall have closed, it
will then be impossible for the
Christian Endeavor movement ever
to be rid of the duty of epousing
Christianity in the home as chief |
among its cardinal principles. To
make our homes the happiest place |
in the world they must be of all
places the holiest. No other temple |
is so sacred as that wherein the |
husband and father is the high |
priest and no altar is so worthy of
a seraphim guard as the one at the
fireside; and, verify, if there were
more such affairs in the homes
there would be fewer skeletons in
the closet. OF course / intended to
say that, to be the happiest place
on earth the home must be the
happiest place on earth the home
must be the dwelling plane of mu-
tual love and confidence; that II
should be the best and brightest Of
all schools and the most desirable
of clubs. OF course / meant to add
that it should be brought every
pure amusement. and that no other
kind should be allowed to exist
anywhere. 1t was my further pur-
pose to insist that the cheeriest
and dearest of all playmates of our
children shonld be their own faith
ers and mothers, and that man
who is too stiff and dignified to let