THE WORKING WOMAN Dr. Talmage Speaks Wards of En couragement ta Her. ValU Trut lm Om AsTor Cam- tort tor Tka.e Wkt Arc Up stress 4 a4 Btranllaa tor a LlTCltkMd. Copyrlcht. UN. by Louis Klopsch. Washington, March 11. This discourse of Dr. Ta Image ia an appeal for merry in behalf of oppressed w man hood, and offers encouragement to those strupfrling- for a livelihood; Zt, Ecelesiastes iv., 1: "Behold the tears of such at were oppressed, and they had no comforter." Vary long ago the needle was busy. It was considered honorable for wom an to toil in olden times. Alexander the Great stood in his place showing garments made by his own mother. The finest tapestries at Rayeux wor made by the queen of William the Con queror. Augustus, the emperor, would not wear any garments except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal family. So let the toiler everywhere be respected! The needle hns slain more than the word. When the sewing machine was invented, some thought that invention would alleviate woman's toil and put an end to the despotism of the needle. Rut no; while the sewing machine has been a great blessing to well-to-do families in many eases, it has added to he stab of the needle the crush of the wheel and multitudes of women, not withstanding the reenforcement of the sewing machine, can only make, work hard as they will, between two und three dollars a week. The greatest blessing that could have happened to our first parents was be ing turned out of Kden after they had done wrong. Adam and Kve in their perfect state might have got along without work or only such slight em ployment us a perfect gard'en with no weeds in it demanded, but n.s soon ni they had sinned the best thing for ihem was to be turned out where thev would have to work. We know what a withering thing it is for man to have nothing to do. Of the 1,000 prosperous and honorable men that you know 099 bud to work vigorously at the begin ning. But I om now to tell you t hat industry is just as important for u woman's safety and happiness. The most unhappy women In our communi ties to-day are. those who have no en gagements to call them up in the morning, who once hnving risen and brenk ..sted lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel and' with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and who, having dragged through a wretched forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep and having passed an how and a half at their toi let, pick up their cardcuse and go out to make calls, und who nass their even- ina DreaK up toe monotony. Arabella Stuart never waa imprisoned in ao dark a dungeon as that. There is no happiness in an idle wom an. It may bt with hand, it may be with brain, it may be with foot, but work she must or be wretched forever. The little girls of our families must be started with that idea. The curse of American society is that our young women are taught that the first, sec ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, Iftieth, thousandth thing iu their life is to get somebody to take :arc of them. Instead of that the tirst lesson should be how under Cod they my take care of themselves. The sim ple fact is that a majority of them do tuvc to take care of themselves nnd that, too, after having through the false notions of their parents wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain themselves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage of that father and mother who pass their daughters into womanhood hav ing given them no facility for earning their livelihood. Mme. dc Stael said: "It is not these writings that I am proud of. but the f.tet that 1 have facility in ten occu pations in any one of which 1 could make a livelihood. " You say you have a fortune to leave them. 0 man and vwinan! lluvp you not learned that, like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and fly away? Though you should be successful in having a competency behind you, the trickery ot executors may swamp it in night, or some ollicinls in our iliurches may get up a mining com pany and induce your orphans to put their money into a hole in Colorado nnd if by the most skillful machinery the sunken money cannot be brought up again prove to them that it was eternally decreed' that that was tiie way thty were to lose it and that it went in the most orthodox and heav enly style. Oh, the damnable schemes 'hat professed Christians will engage in until God puts His fingers into the ollar of the hypocrite's robe und strip U Clear down to the bottom! You have, ao right because you are well off to conclude that your children are going W be well off. A man died leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His old com lades came in and said as they bent over his corpst: "What is the matter U-ifU 11 5" Tl,n " 1 .11 JUU, jmoi 1 1 in nu.gvv. standing over him said: "Hush, ye! He is dead!" "Oh, he is dead!" they aid. "Come, boys, let us go and take ,J i i a K i " Have you nothing better than money 1 IN A f J 1 -aun " ... . ...... . - ....... n - leave your cnnarcu : i i you un nu. , but send your daughters into the world with empty brain and unskilled hand, There are women tolling in our cities two or three dollars a week who tat daughters or. mercsmat These suffering ones woald be glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their father's table. That wornout, broken shoe that ahs wears ia the lineal descendant of the $12 gaiter in which her mother walked, and that torn and faded calico had an cestry of magnificent brocade that swept Pennsylvania avenue and Broad way clean without any expense to the atreet commissioners. Though you live in an elegant resi dence and fare sumptuously every day, let your daughters feel it is a dis grace for them not to know how to work. I denounce the idea prevalent in society that, though our young wom en may embroider slippers and crochet and make mats for lamps to stand on without disgrace, the idea of doing I anything tor a livelihood is dishonor- ble. It is a shame for a young woman belonging to a large family to be in ' efficient when her father toils his life ! away for her support. 1 So far as 1 can understand, the line ' of respectability lies between that which is useful and that which is vise j less. If women do that which is ( I no value, their work is honorable. If they do practical work, it is dishonor able. That our young women may es cape the censure of doing dishonora ble work, I shall particularise. You may knit a tidy for the back of an arm chair, but by no melius make t he money wherewith to buy the chair. You may with a delicate brush beautify a man tel ornament, but die rather than earn enough to buy a marble mantel. Vol may lenrn artistic music until you can squall Italian, but never sing "Ortou ville" or "Old Hundredth." Do noth ing pract'eal if you would, in the eyes of refined society, preserve your re spectability. 1 scout these finical no tions. I tell you a woman, no more than a man, has a right to occupy a place in this world unless she pays a rent for it. In the course of a lifetime you con sume whole harvests und droves of cat tle and every day you live and breath 40 hogsheads of good, pure nir. You must by some kind of usefulness pay for all this. Our race was the last thing created - the birds and fishes on thi fourth day, the cattle ami lizards en the fifth day and man on the sixlli day. If geologists are right, the earth was l.OOu.OlW of years in the possession of the insects, beasts and birds before our race came upon it. In one sense we were invaders. The cattle, the lisardl and the hawks had preemption right. The question is not what we nte to do with lizards and summer insects, but what the lizards und summer insects are to do with us. If we want a place in this world, we must earn it. The partridge makes its own nest before It occupies it. The lark by its morning song earns its breakfast before it eats it, and the Bible gives an intimation that the first duty of an idler is to starve when it says: "If he will not work, neither shall he eat." Idleness ruins the health, and very soon nature says: "This man has refused to pay his rent. Out with him!" Society is to be reconstructed on the subject of wom an's toil. A vast majority of those who would have woman industrious shut her up to a few kinds of work. My judgment in this mat ter is t hat a wom an has a right to do anything she can do well. There should be no depart ment of merchandise, mechanism, art or science barred aguinst her. If Misi Hosmer has genius for sculpture, give her a chisel. If Kosa ltonhrur has a fondness for delineating animals, let her make "The Horse Fair." If Miss Mitchell will study astronomy, let her mount the starry ladder. If Lydia will be a merchant, let her sell purple. If Lucretia Mott will preach the Gospel, let her thrill with her womanly elo quence the Quaker meeting house. Years ago. one Sabbath night in the vestibule of our church, nfter service, a woman fell in convulsions. The doc tor said she needed medicine not so much as something to eat. As she be gan to revive in her delirium she said, gaspingly: "Eight cents! Bight cents! 1 wish I could get it done. I am no tired. I wish I could get some sleep, but I must get it done. Eight cents! Eight cents!" We found aft erward that she was making gar ments for eight cents apiece nnd that she could make but three of them in a day. Hear It! Three time eight are 24. Hear It, men and women who have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villains of our cities arc the employers of these women. They beat them down to the last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit a dollar or two before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is done it is sharp ly inspected, the most Insignificant flaws picked out and the wages re fused and sometimes the dollar de posited not given back. The Women's Pro tec tire union reports n ease where one of the poor souls, finding a place where she could get more wages, re solved to change employers and went to get her pay for work done. The employer said: "I bear you are going to leave me?" "Yes," she said, "and I have come to get w hat you owe me." I He made no answer. She said: "Are you not going to pay me?" "Yes," h'l said, "I will pay you," Hnd he kicked her downstairs. Oh, that Women's Protective union! The blessings of Heaven be on it for the merciful and Divine work it is do ing in the defense of toiling woman hood. What tragedies of suffering are presented to them day by day! A paragraph from their report: "Can you make Mr. Jones pay me? He owes me for three weeks at $2.50 a week, and I can't get anything, and my child is very sick." The speaker, a young woman lately widowed, bunt into a flood of teara as she spoke. She waa bidden to eome again the nest afternoon and repeat her story to the attorney at hia usual weekly hearing of frauds and imposi tions. Means were found by which Mr. Jones was Induced to pay the $7 .SO." Another paragraph from their rs The Eminent Kidney and Bladder Specialist. The Discoverer of Swamp-Root st Work is His Laboratory. There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by It heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure or apoplexy are often the result of kidney disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to ad vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack the vital organs, or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell. Then the richness of the blood the albumen leaks out and the sufferer has Bright' Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new dis covery is the true specific for kidney, bladder and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands of apparently hopeless cases, after all other efforts have failed. At druggists In fifty-cent and dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling about Swamp Root and its wonderful cures. Address Dr. Kilmer &. Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. and mention this paper. port: "A fortnight had passed, when she modestly hinted a desire to know how much her services were Worth. 'Oh, my dear.' he replied, 'you are get ting to be one of the most, valuable hauda in the trade. You will always get the very best price. Ten dollars a week you will be able to earn very easily.' And the girl's fingers flew on with her work at a marvelous rate. The picture of ten dollars a week had almost turned her head. A few nights later, while crossing the ferry, she overheard the name of her employer In the conversation of girls who stood near: 'What. John Snipes? Why, he don't pay! Look out for him every time. He'll keep you on trial, as he c.ills it, for weeks, and then he'll let you go. and get some other fool!' And thus .lane .Smith gained her warning against the swindler. Hut the union held him In the toils of the law until he paid the worth of each of those days of 't rial.' " Another paragraph: "Her mortifica tion may be imagined when told that one of the two tive-dollar bills which she had just received for her work was counterfeit. Hut her mortification was swallowed up with indignation when her employer denied having paid her the money snd insultingly asked her to prove it. When the Protective union had placed this matter in the courts, the judge said: 'Y'ou will pay Eleanor the amount of her claim, $j.H3, and also the costs of the court.' " How are these evils to be eradicated? Some say: "liive woman the ballot." What effect such ballot might have on other questions I am not here to dis cuss, hut what would be the effect of female suffrage on women's wages? I do not believe that woman w ill ever get justice by woman's ballot. Indeed women oppress women as much as men do. Do not women, as much as men. beat down o the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Are not women as shurpas men on washer women and milliners and inaiitui makers. If a woman asks one dollar for her work, does not her female em ployer ask her if she will not take K) cents? You say: "Only ten cents dif ference." Iiiit that is sometimes the difference between Heaven and hell. Women often have less commiseration for women thau men. If a woman steps aside from the path of rectitude, man may forgive; woman never! Woiuan will never get justice done her from womun's ballot. Neither will she get it from man's ballot. How then? God will rise up for her. Cod has more resources than we know of. But there is something forwomen to do. Let young people prepare to excel in spheres of work, and they will be able after awhile to get larger wages. Unskilled and incompetent labor must take what is given; skilled and com petent labor will eventually make Its own standard. Admitting that the law of supply and demand regulates thes-.' things, I contend that the demand for skilled labor is very great and the sup ply very small. Start with the idea that work is honorable and that you can do some one thing better than any body else. Kesolve that, Qod helping, you will take care of yonrself. If you are after awhile called into another relution, you will le all the better qualified for it by your spirit of self reliance, or if you are called to stay ns you ure you can be happy nnd self supporting. Poets are fond of talking about man as an oak and woman the vine that climbs it. but I have seen many a tree fall that not only went down itself, but took all the vines with it. I can tell you of something st ronger t han an orilc for an ivy to climb on, and that is the throne of the great Jehovah. Single or affianced, that woman is strong who leans on God and does her best. Many of you will go single-handed through life, and you will have to choose be tween two characters. Young woman, I am sure you will turn your back upon the useless, giggling, irresponsible nonentity which society ignominlously acknowledges to be a woman and ask God to make you a bumble, active, earnest Christian. What will become of that womanly diselple of the world? She is more thoughtful of the attitude she atrikea upon the carpet than how ahe will look in the judgment; more worried about her freckles than, her sins; more interested in her apparel than in Iter redemption. The dying actress whoas life had bean vicious asm : 'Trie eeene closes. Draw the cur tain." Generally the tragedy comes first and the farce afterward, but in her life it was first the farce of a use less life and then the tragedy of a wretched eternity. Compare the life and death of such a one with that ef some Christian aunt that was once a blessing to your house hold. I do not know that she was ever asked to give her hand in marriage. She lived single, that, untrammeled, she might be everybody's blessing. Whenever the sick were to be visited or the poor to be piovided with bread she went with a blessing. She could pray or sing: "Kock of Ages" for any sick pauper who asked her. As she got old er there were days when she was a lit tle sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam, just the one for Christ mas eve. She knew better han anyone else how to fix things. Her every prayer, as God heard it, was full of everybody who had trouble. The brightest things ki all the house dropped from her fingers. She had peculiar notions, but the grandest notion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which. In the sight of God, is of great price. When she died, you all gathered lovingly about her. nnd as you carried her out to rest the Sunday School class almost covered her coffin with japonieas. nnd the poor people stooil at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eves, sobbing bitterly, nnd the man of the world said, with Solomon: "Her price was above rubies," and Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judea, commanded: "I say unto thee, arise!" Holding Mini Off. Doctor casually ) Well, Mr. Drown, how are you to-day? Mr. Ilrown (defensively) Oh, I'm all right, doctor. There's nothing tin matter with me that would be worth (3 to you. Chicago Record. An E very -DM y Occurrence. Smith Chicago hns b. robber who drives about in a cub. Itrown That's nothing! I've been robbed by a cab driver many a time. - -Tow n Topics. Sritiua Hlmaelf Right. "You don't dare put your arm around Miss I'assee's waist." "I'm not afraid of ber but I'm no lemon squeezer." Harlem Life. Ganse. "A man who will bent Ins wife," ex claimed Mrs. Rivera, "is cruel!" And she upset the chessboard. Chi rngo Tribune. In CnnflileMce. Friend Is it true that the tonic did you a great deal of good? Actress Oh, yes! I received $50n lor my testimonial. Puck. It it Vary hsrd to stand idly by and see our dear i i -h stiller while ti waiting the arrival of the doctor. An Albany (N, Y ) dairyman (tailed at a drug store there for u doctor to come nnd see bis child, then very Hick with croup. 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