The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-18

the tears seem TO relieve his brain, and MS
spirits rise from 10 below zero to 80 IN the
shade, and he comes out OF the Crisis.
About three years after this young meI-
chant goes into the old merchants store
and SAYS: well, my old friend, was this
morning thinking over what you dld 1or me
three years ago. You helped me out OIL an
awful crisis in my commercial history L
learned wisdom, and prosperity mas come
and the pallor has gone out or my WlIe 5
cheeks. and the roses that We're there Wneh
| courted her in her fathers house nave
bloomd again, and my business is splenqld,
and L thought 1 ought to let you know that
you saved a mani
IN THE LIFE OF WOMAN.
There sometimes come e~xigencies in the
life of a woman. One morning several
years ago 1 saw in the -ewspape that
there was a young woman in New York
whose pocketbook, containing 1913, had
been stolen and she had been left without
a farthing at the beginning of winter in a
strange city and no work. 1 inquired into
the case and found it genuine. Now, l
have read Shakspeare's tragedies and Vic
tor Hugo's tragedies and Alexander Smiths
tragedies, but l never read a tragedy more
thrilling than that case and similar cases
by the hundreds and thousands In all our
large ~cities-young women without money
and without home and without work IN
these great maelstroms OF metropolitan ire.
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servation how do you treat 1t? Get out
of thy way; we have no room in our eS-
adjustment for any more hands. L don't
believe in women, anyway; they are a lazy,
idle, worthless set. John, please show this
person out of the door" Or do you COM
pliment her personal appearance and say
things TO her which If any man said to your
sister or daughter you would be tempted
TO kill him on the spot? That IS one way,
and it is tried every day In these large
cities, and many of those who advertise
g. -, Ao4IC ( 81 fanfnFioC and for gov
ernesses in families have proved themselves
unfit to be in any place outside Of hell.
But there IS another way. and l saw IL in
the Methodist Book Concern IN New YORK,
where a young woman applied for work,
and the gentleman in tone and manner said
in substances: MY daughter, we employ
women here, but l do not know of any va
cant place in our department, But l have
a friend in business on Canal street who
may nave a place for you. Here is my
card and my friends address. Show il 10
him and he will treat you well. Good morn
ing" The embarrassed and inundated
woman seemed to give way TO Christian
look that / think must have won for her
a place in which 10 earn her bread. l
rather think that considerate gentleman
saved a woman.
There is another exploit that you can do,
and that is to save a child. y child does
not seem 10 amount to much. 1t is nearly
a year old before it can walk at all. For
the first year and a half il cannot speak a
WIZ
starve If il had to earn its own food. For
the first fifteen years its opinion on any
subject is absolutely valueless.
THE CASE OF THE CHILD.
I am glad that there are those who
know something of the value of a child.
Its possibilities are tremendous. What will
those hands yet do? Where will those feet
yet walke Toward what destiny will that
never-dyirg soul betake itself? Shall those
lips be the throne of blasphemy or bene-
diction? Come. all We surveyors Of the
earth. bring link and chain and measure
If you can this possible possession. Come,
all We astronomers OF the earth. with your
telescopes, and tell us If you can see the
range Of its eternal flight. Come. chronicle
gists, and calculate the decades on dec
AIDES, the centuries on centuries, the cycles
on cycles, the eternities on eternities. Of its
lifetime. Oh, 10 save a child Am / not
right in putting that among the great sx-