Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-07-27

That boarding house In all probability
has young girls in 1t whose lives are
not what they ought to be. Seeing sin
by day and necessarily seeing and
hearing about sin by night has hard
ening influence upon the young girls
soul. OF course. the Divine Protector
can and Will preserve that young coun-
] try girl true and pure and noble If she
/ keeps clinging TO the omnipotent arm,
but without that superhuman aid the
| moral tendency for the female worker
! In the factory is downward. The life
there is In some respects the same as
that upon the theatrical stage, about
| which noted actor once wrote, THE
saddest fact about my profession is
that the constant seeing of what one
| ought not to see has tendency to
blunt the moral sensitiveness and blind
ones eyes to his moral duty and to
right" hs#tt H
Temptation Avoided.
Then consider the besetting tempta-
lions ready to greet the young girl who
applies for a position as clerk in q
large downtown store. Parents, it is
high time that you fully realize there
are among the owners of large down
town dry goods stores some who do not
expect their clerks to live upon their
salaries. There are hundreds and thou
sands Of those young girls whose cost
~ dress proves that they are not living
upon their weekly wages Everywhere
in those downtown stores sin stands
around with outstretched arms crying:
Come! Come and wear fine clothes!
Come and be respected as you cannot
be in the kitchen or the nursery! Come
and have your nights to yourself!
Come and see the brightest part of city
life through the undimmed eyes of
youth" And the young girls from the
country. by the hundreds and thou
sands, are turning their backs upon the
refined employment of a domestic life
and flinging themselves into the whirl-
ing, brain destroying, heart crushing
maelstrom of temptation. where so
many have been destroyed forever.
The royal domestic should be among
the most honored of all women. 1t
largely depends on her readiness to
perform her duties and her efficiency in
! y
Is to be a nation of homes. God set
teth the solitary in families" or as you
could read it in the Bible margin, God
setteth the solitary in house" What
does that mean? Simply this: Every
ideal unit of society should be a home.
What is an ideal home? A father and
mother for the heads of the table,
children for the nursery, servants to
help provide for the domestic wants.
While the husband is off to business
the wife must be doing her work in the
house. But there is a limit to wife's
physical and mental capacities. No av
erage mother can perform her domestic
, work without help. She cannot be
. nurse and dressmaker and cook and
, chambermaid and waitress and mar
, keter all in one. She must have female
| assistance. She must have a servant
or servants to aid her, or else she must
give up housekeeping. AS a strange
and unaccountab BILE prejudice has gone
abroad against our daughters and SIS
, tiers going to work as servants in the
: kitchen, one by one the homes Of
: America are being closed. The husbands
, and wives, with their children, are
going to live in boarding houses and
hotels. If you ask the average wife
why she gives up housekeeping, she
, will answer: II could no longer endure
! the unreasonableness of servants. The
2 servant girl question simply racked
p my nerves until l was in torture. One
day l would seem to be getting along
all right. But If the washing was a
, little larger than usual or 1 complained
+ about my servant being out too late at
I night, or had some extra company for
I dinner, suddenly l would find myself
8 servantless, with all the work to do in
K the kitchen. 1 could not stand the
i strain" When the servant girl goes
y out of the American home, then the
! front door of that American home is
barred and locked.
+ A Vital Institution.
l. But" says some one to me, 'is the
l. responsibility of the American girl who
l.; will not become a domestic servant SO
), great? Cannot men and women who
l. live in boarding houses and hotels be
e Just as good as those husbands and
It wives who have their own homes?
No, my brother, 1 do not think so.
believe the Christian home is the most
y vital institution for good in all Amer
C lea l believe it is the foundation
! stone not only of the altar of Christ
.r but also of the temple of neighborly
4 love and also of our national legisla
a tive hall. If a man is not anchored il
c locality by a home, that implies ht
n has as a rule, no individual church
4 connection. He is not living under the
If shadow of the church spire where hi
father lived and where his children
"a were born.
Il. The home is the foundation stone O.
ar the temple of patriotism. 1t has beer
we'll said by a great writer, THE sures
IN way TO destroy anarchy is to brin;