The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-06
A WORKING woMAN's DESTINY
Continued from First Page

NUMBER queue MIS-. W. D. ID E1ii III
an address given in Jacksonville,
Fla, January, 1917. | shall answer
as I Sc it. Nearly two thousand years
ago Christ said: "He that is great
est among you shall be servant to
ALL" The truth of that statement
still holds today She that is great
est among you shall be servant TO all.
Consider woman's work in our own
country. This work may be done
partly by women leading a sheltered
life, but if she is doing woman's work
from a worldly standpoint she belongs
on the worlds honor roll.
Four millions are assuming the
burden and responsibility of govern
ment. Millions of others are clamor-
ing for these privileges. Bookkeepers
and stenographers by thousands, go
out each day to be mans helpmeet in
the affairs of business, to take from
his shoulders the tedious details.
Thousands bend over the beds of
the sick and dying as nurses and doc
tors to heal the body and bring peace
to the mind.
Thousands of others rise before the
sun shows it's big face in the east and
quietly pass through the homes of
those more fortunate than themselves,
removing the household rubbish, pol
ishing the floors and furnaces, max
ing cleanliness shine like goodness.
As the housewife lies snugly in bed
thousands of others move swiftly into
the kitchen and prepare the food
which shall sustain her and her entire
family.
All day long the family is tended
by the efficient and willing hands OF
the working woman. When the hus.
band has been fed the cook and house
maid relinquish him to the steno.
grapher The children are sent to
school where everything that many OF
them ever learn is taught them from
cleaning their finger nails to speaking
correctly, the language of the country
in which they are born. When you
stop to think of it, is it any wonder
that man sometimes compares his
wife to one of these ants of civiliza,
ton, and finds her wanting, and un-
less the working woman proves
stronger than the man there, is an,
other divorce to buy.
| predict as the worlds reason un-
folds the working woman will be con-
sidered it's greatest asset. In few
years she will sit in equality with mar
as director of governments in the
western hemisphere as she has al
ways on the thrones of Asiatic and
European countries. She will be the
chief educator of both sexes through
all ensuing generations. She will
nurse the sick back to life, and hav.
ing always been strong in faith anC
religious fervor it shall be her point.
ing finger which will direct our
thoughts upward, sanctifying oul
lives and labor in such a way that
work will become holy, privilege
bestowed as the reward of efficiency
and talent-such talent as enables q
man of obscure rank to rise to the
favor of a king.
When work becomes holy, service q
privilege, idleness and uselessness
will be shame. Pride and ambition
will achieve power through the most
efficient labor possible to the human
race in every field of industry, and
not through the mere possession OF
wealth! When work is regarded as
holy, and efficiency as sacred gift
the lust of wealth will pass away and
the working woman will receive from
the world in the same ratio in which
she serves. Men will consider her
friendship privilege, her love life's
greatest fulfllment, for from her
they shall receive an understanding
love, this woman accustomed to a
mans world as was that savage and
primeval being who sought susie
nance at the side of man while she
bore his offspring through those thou
sands of years which have at last
evolved the civilized race.
Useless man and useless woman
must pass out of existence. Useless
waste of time, useless waste of wa
ter, useless gifts of nature shall be
no more. Laboring men and women
will together be the browning glory of
the human race. Acres now barren
Will pCCOHIC HOW6IluS SdFueHSs anu
food producing areas, and whether
men or women be without families or
ties, since all work together to make
a perfect whole, then will they be
necessar yin the divine scheme of
things, and the working woman will
be regarded with the same reverence
with which the sheltered. woman is
today regarded, and with the same
concern with which we regard any
other thing absolutely necessary in
the social, business and financial fab
ric of the world. When this happy
era dawns on the earth the power and
glory of nations will no longer evist
in the maintenance of thousands of
armed men, and shining ships of war,
but a nations power will be reckon
ed in proportion to its scale of SER
vice toward all other nations, and its
glory will be acceded to be, as in real
ity it has always ben, the millions of
toilers who render this service In
this era of peace and good will when
the working woman rises early and
lies down late, the earth will have