The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-31

ness must be trickedi She loves to see
men at work. She loves sweat, wearf-
ness, self-sacrifce. She will be found
not in palaces, but in the cornfields and
factories and lowering over Uttered
desks; she crowns the unconscious head
OF the busy child. II you look up sud-
denly from hard work you will see her;
but II you look too long she fades sor-
rowfully away
No man IL born into the world,
whose work is not born with him;
there Is always work, and tools to
blessed are the horny hands OF toll.
Lowell.
He who works for works sake will
never want for wages.
Sadly. we confess the unacceptable
truth that what many persons want
is not worthy work so much as a
good income. 1t is the weekly pay en-
velope. rather than the task. that in
tercsts them While it would be folly
to ignore the wage aspect of work yet
it is contended that a truly noble
worker is first Of all Interested in his
output; for that is the expression Of
mis- life to the world.
'"Time worketh; let me work, too.
Time undoeth; let me do.
Busy time, my work I ply
Till rest in the rest Of eternity
''S'n worketh; let me work, too.
Sin undoeth: let me do.
Busy as sin. my work I ply
Till rest in the rest Of eternity"
death worketh; let me work, too.
Death undoeth; let me do.
Busy death, my work ply
Till rest in the rest OF eternity
''God worketh: let me work, too.
God dOeth; let me do.
Busy for God my work ply
Till 1 rest in the life OF eternity
Be stirring. man. while yet the day is
The night. when none can work. fast
draweth near.
Perhaps it may seem ungallant to
write SO candidly upon the subject.
but the truth, which cannot be
lodged, is, that one of the great prob
lens of our day is the idle woman.
The general prosperity of our Land
has freed millions of women from the
necessity to labor, either In or out OF
the home. The work that their
grandmothers did for themselves is
now done by employed labor. The
results of the idleness and liberal al
lowance of these multitudes Of women
are many and serious: the creation Of
a demand for Injuries and ever-chang
ing fashions; the lowering of woman
" ideals of dress; the increase of ar
tif1cial pleasures and other growing
abandonment of the home and its
quiet joys; the lack of poise and judg-
ment which comes with industry: the
loss of serious purpose from life; the
growth of irreligion-so the list piles
up to formidable proportions The So
luton of many a homes problems
would be for the woman to cease
prattling about the servant problem
and to do her own work; to give up
the mad struggle to follow fashions,
and to help her husband In the paths
of thrift. The insistent. uncomfort-
able question which confronts thou
sands of women today. who do not
have to toll for their daily bread, is
What am doing to justify my exist
ence? Am I a non-producer and a
parasite; or do 1 make some return
to the world for what it gives me ?"
Work is one solution of the woman
question.
am glad a task to me is given
To labor at day by day,
For 1t gives me health and strength and
hope,
And learn to cheerfully say:
Head. you may think; heart you may
feel
But hand. you must work Away"
Louisa NJ. Alcott.