The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-10-23

This statement Is not always true in
reference 10 women who have 20 work
for their living outside OF the four
walls Of a home. Without they are
often compelled. even against their
wills, 10 inhale the vlhating atm0s-
phere Of sin. They are often COM
PEELED 10 see sights which their eyes
ought never TO behold and TO hear say
ings which ought never to bee heard
and 10 stand shoulder 20 shoulder with
moral lepers. whose sins, II not con-
tagious, by too much association may
become fatally infectious. Here. for
instance, is young girl just arrived
from the country. She decides 20 enter
a factory and become a day wage
Garner. That factory has scores OF
girls whom she would never dare in
trOduce 10 her old Christian mother.
That young girl within four weeks
service in that factory has seen and
heard more wickedness than she has
ever known before. Then this young
girl goes from her factory 10 her board
ing house. Upon her small salary she
cannot afford TO pay n very big board
bill. The result is that she lives in
boarding house near her daily work
That boarding house I'm all probability
has young girls in II whose lives are
not what they ought 10 be. Seeing sin
by day and necessarily seeing and
hearing about sin by night has hard
ening influence upon the young girls
soul.
Then consider the besetting tempta-
lions ready to greet the young girl who
applies for position as clerk in
large downtown store. Parents. 10 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
ly 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 10 yourself.
Come and see the brightest part Of city
life through the undimmed eyes Of
youth"
The royal domestic should be among
the most honored OF all women. Ii
largely depends on her readiness 10
perform her duties and her efficiency IN
her service whether or no this country
Is 10 be a nation Of homes. God set
teth the solitary I'm families" or as you
could read IL IN the Bible margin. God
setteth the solitary I'm q house" What
does that mean7 Simply this. Every
ideal unit Of society should be a home.
What Is an ideal homer A father and
n mother for the heads Of the table,
children for the nursery. servants 20
help provide for the domestic wants.
While the husband is of 10 business
the wife must be doing her work in the
house. But there is a limit 10 a 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
and waitress and mar
keter all IN one She must have female
She must have a servant
or servants to aid her, or else she must
give up housekeeping As O strange
and unaccountabie prejudice has gone
abroad against our daughters and sis
ters 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.
"But," says some one 10 me. 'is the
responsibility Of the American girl who
will not become a domestic servant so
great? Cannot men and women who
live in boarding houses and hotels be
just as good as those husbands and
wives who have their own homesF
No. my brother, do not think so. /
believe the Christian home Is the most
vital institution for good in all Amer
ica. / believe Il is the foundation
stone not only OF the altar Of Christ.
but also Of the temple Of neighborly
love and also Of our national legisla-
tive hall. II a man is not anchored in
a locality by a home, that implies he
has. as a rule, no individual church /
connection. He is not living under the
shadow Of the church spire where his
father lived and where his children
were born.
The home IS the foundation stone Of /
the temple Of patriotism. II has been
well said by a great writer, "The surest |
way TO destroy anarchy IS 10 bring
about a social condition where every |
man can own home" When a man |
sits upon his own doorstep he truly /
feels he IS an American citizen. He /
will then, II necessary, be more willing /
10 die for that country Of which his /
home Is a part And one Of the great /
est curses blasting our large cities TO- /
day IS not that their people are bad. /
but that they are becoming a people I
without homes They are living for /
the most part in boarding houses and /
In rented rooms. from which they can I
move out at a couple Of weeks notice. /
Oh. women Of America whom God is /
calling TO the service Of a domestic, | I
plead and beg Of you TO take up your /
noble work. / plead and beg Of you I
In the name Of Christ that you help /
save the homes. the Christian homes. /
No throne Of usefulness. l care not /
how high It may be, can ever overtop /
that which makes Il possible for the /
little children to gather around their /
own fireside.
The royal domestic is a queen. The /
kitchen aud the nursery are the places /
where God expects a woman naturally /
to serve. I have no use for those mas
culine cvuics who would dehar women /