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/ THK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JANUARY art, 18!>8. tb( WOMEN ENCOURAGED DR. TALMAGE’S WORDS OK CHEERIO THE GENTLE SEX. Bettor Slnclrt BleiMsdnefl* Tliun a Ufe of Misery WUri nu l.'nworthy Husband. Girls Should Ue Taught to Take Cate of Themselves. (Copyright, 1S3?, by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, Jan. 1G.—This sormony of Dr. TahiuiRO is a h’rcat eucouruKo- ment to women who have to earn their own living, as well as to all toilers with hand or brain; text, Proverbs xiv, 1, “Every wise woman buihkth her honse.” Woman a mere adjunct to man, an appendix to the masculine volume, an appendage, a sort of afterthought, some thing thrown in to make things even— that is the heresy entertained and im plied by seme men. This is evident to them, because Adam was first created, and then Eve. They don’t read the whole story, or they would find that the porpoise and the bear and the hawk were ereated before Adam, so that this argument, drawn from priority of crea tion, might prove that the sheep and the dog were greater than man. No. Woman was an independent creation and was intended, if sho chose, to live alone, to work alone, act alone, think alone and fight her battles alone. The liible says it is not good for man to be alone, but never says it is not good for woman to bo alone, and the simple fact is that many women who are harnessed for life in the marriage relation would be a thousandfold better oil if they were alone. Who are these men who year after I year hang around hotels and engine j houses and theater doors and come in | and out to bother busy clerks and mer- j chants and mechanics, doing nothing j when there is plenty to do? They aro i men supported by their wives and moth- . crs. If iho statistics of any of our cities ■ could bo taken cn ibis subject, you i would find that a vast multitude of wo- i men not only support themselves, but } masculines. A great legion of men j amount to nothing, and a woman by j marriage manacled to one of these non- | entities needs condolence. A woman | standing outside the marriage relation is several hundred thousand times bet ter off than a woman badly married. Many a bride, iusttr.d of a wreath of orango blossoms, might more properly wear a bunch cf nettles and nightshade, and instead of the wedding march a more appropriate tune would bo the dead march in “Saul, "and instead of a banquet of confectionery and ices there might bo more appropriately spread a table covered with apples of Sodom. Mistakes of Marriage. Mp.sy ar. attractive woman cf good sound senso in other things lias married one of theso men to refoirn him. What was tbo result? Like when a dove, no ticing that a vulture was rapacious and cruel, set about to reform it and said, “I have a mild disposition, and 1 like peace and was brought up in the quiet of a dovecot, and I will bring the vul ture to tho same liking by marrying him,” so one day, after the vulture de clared ho would give up his carnivorous habits aud ccaso longing for blood of flock and herd, at an altar of rock cov ered with moss and lichen tho twain were married, a baldbeaded eagle offi ciating, tho vulture saying, “With all my dominion of earth aud sky I thee endow and premise to love and cherish till death do us part.” But one day the dove in her fright saw tho vulture busy at a carcass and cried: “Stop that! Did you not promise mo that you would quit your carnivorous and filthy habits if I married you?” “Yes, ” said tbo vulture, “but if you don't liko my way you can leave.” And with one angry stroke of tho beak and another fierce clutch of tho claw the vulture left the dove eye less and wingless and lifeless, and a flock of robins flying past tried to < uch other and said: ”fc*eo there! That comes from a dovo marrying u vulture to re form him. ” Many a woman who has had tho baud of a young inebriate offered, but de clined it, or who was ask«d to chain her life to a man selfish or of bad tem per and refused tbo shackles, will bless God throughout all eternity that she es caped that earthly pandemonium. Husband* Not Kecesnary. Besides all this, in our country about 1,000,000 men were sacrificed in our civil war, aud that decreed 1,000,000 women to celibacy. Besides that, since the war several armies of men as large as the Federal and Confederate armies put together have fallen under malt liquors aud distilled spirits, so full of poisoned ingredients that the work was done more rapidly, and the victims fell while yet young. Aud if 60,000 men are destroyed every year by strong drink before marriage that makes in the 83 years since the war 1,650,000 men slain and decrees 1,050,000 women to celib acy. Take, then, the fact that so many women aro unhappy in their marriage and tho fact that tho slaughter of 3,650,000 men by war and rum com bined decides that ut least that number of women shall be unafflaucd for life, my text cornea in with a cheer aud a po tency and appropriateness that you may never have seen in it before when it says, “Every wise woman buildoth her house”—that is, let woman be her own architect, lay out her own plans, be her own supervisor, achieve her own des tiny. In addressing those women who have to fight tbo battle alone I congratulate fo« m your happy escape. Rejoice for- aver that you will not have to navigate the faults of the other eex when you have faults enough of your own. Think of the bereavements you avoid, of the tisks of unassimilated temper which you will not have to run, of the carea you will never have to carry and of the opportunity of outside usefulness from which marital life would have partially debarred yoo, aud that you aro free to go and come as one who has the respon sibilities )f a household can seldom be. God has not given you a hard lot as compared with your sisters. When young women tball make up their minds at the start that masculine com panionship is not a necessity in order to happiness and that there is a strong probability that they will have to light the battle of life alone they w ill be get- J ting the timber ready for their own for tune and their saw aud ax and plane ! sharpened for its construction, since “ev- i ery wise woman buildeth her bouse.” Girl* Should Be Tiuiglit Self Keliance. As no boy ought to be brought up without learning some business ut ; which ho could earn a livelihood, so no j girl ought to bo brought up without learning the science of self support. The difficulty is that many a family goes sailing on the high tides of success, and tho husband aud father depends on ' his own health and ufumeu for the wtl faro of bis household, but one day be | gets his feet wet, and in three days j pneumonia hau closed his life, and the daughters are turned out on a cold world to earn bread, and there is noth ing practical that they can do. Tho friends come in and hold consultation. “Give music lessons,” says an outsider. Yes, that is a useful calling, and if you have great genius for it go on in that direction. But there are enough music teachers now starving to death in all our towns and cities to occupy all the piano stools and sofas aud chairs and front doorsteps of tho city. Besides that, tho daughter has been playing on ly for amusement aud is only at the foot of the ladder, to the top of which a great multitude of masters on piano and harp and flute and organ have climbed. “Put the bereft daughters as sales women in stores,” says another adviser. But there they must compete with sales men of long experience or with m< n who have served an apprenticeship in | commerce and who began ns shopboys I at 10 years of age. Some kind hearted dry goods man, having known the la ther, now gone, says, "We are not in need of any more help just now, but send your daughters to my store, and 1 will do us well Ly them as possible.” Very soon the question comes up, Why do not the female employees of that es tablishment get ns much wages is the male employees? For the simple reason, in many cases, the females were sud denly flung by misfortune behind that counter, while tho males have from the day they lift the public school been learning tbei business. How is this evil to be cured? Start clear back in the homestead aud teacli your daughters that life is an earnest thing, and that tbirc is a possibility if not a strong probability that they will have to fight the battle of life alone. Let every father aud mother say to thsir daughters, “Now, what would you do for a livelihood if what I now own were swept, nwey by financial disaster cr eld age or death should end my career?” Advice to Ciimarried Women. “Well, I could paint on pottery and do such decorative work.” Yes, that is beautiful, and if you have genius for it go on in that direction. But there are enough busy at that now to make a line of hardware as long as yon Pennsyl vania avenue. "Well, I could make recitations in public and caru my living us a drama tist. I could render ‘King Lear’ cr ‘Mac beth’ till your hair would rise on cud or give you ‘Sheridan’s Bide’ or Dickens’ ‘Pickwick.’” Yes, that is a beautiful art, but ever and anon, as now’, there is an epidemic of dramatization that makes hundreds of households nervous with the cries and shrieks and groans of young tragediennes dying in the fifth act, and the trouble is that while your friends would like to hear you aud real ly think that you could surpass Bistort and Charlotte Gust man aud Fanny Kemble of the past, to say nothing of the present, you could not in the way of living in ten years earn 10 cents. My advice to all girls and all unmar ried women, whether in affluent homes or in homes where most stringent econ omies are grinding, is to learn to do some kind of work that the world must have while the world stands. I am glad to see a marvelous change for the better aud that women have found out that there are hundreds of practical things that a woman can do for u living if she begins soon enough and that men have been compelled to admit it. You aud I can remember when tho majority of oc cupations were thought inappropriate for women, but our civil war came, and the hosts of men wont forth from north and south, and to conduct the business of our cities during the patri otic absence women were demanded by the tens of thousands to take the vacant places, and mnltitudes of women who had been hitherto supported by fathers aud brothers aud sous were compelled from that time to take care of them selves. From that time a mighty change took place favorable to female employ ment. Occupation* For Women. Among the occupations appropriate for woman I place the following, into many of which she has already entered, aud all the others she will enter: Ste nography, aud you may find her at near ly all the reportorial stands in our edu cational, political and religious meet ings. Savings banks, tho work cleau aud honorable, aud who so great a right to toil there, for a woman founded the first savings lank—Mrs. Priscilla Wake field? Copyists, and there is hardly a professional man that does not need the service of her penmanship, aud as amanuensis many of the greatest books of our day have been dictated for her writing. There they are as florists and confectioners and music teachers aud bookkeepers, for which they are special ly qualified Ly pitticuie aud accuracy, and wood engraving, in which tho Coop er institute has turned out so many qualified, aud telegraphy, for which she is specially prepared, ns thousands of tho telegraph offices will testify. Photography, and in nearly all our es tablishments they may tie found there at cheerful work. As workers in Ivory and gutta pereba and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gilding, and in chem icals, in porcelain, in terra cotta. As postmistresses, and presidents havo given them appointments all over tho land. As proofreaders, as translators, asmed- elers, as designers, as draftwomeu, as lithographers, as teachers in schools aud seminaries, for which they aro es- pecially endowed, tho first teacher of every child, by divine arrangement, be ing a woman. As physicians, having graduated after a regular course of study from the female colleges of our largo cities, whero they get as scientific and thorough preparation as any doctors ever had and go forth to a work which no one but women could so appropriate ly and delicately do. On the lecturing platform, for you know tbo brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore and Airs. Hallowell and Miss Willard and Mrs. Latbrop. As physiological lecturers to their own sex, for which service there is a demand appalling and terrific. As preachers of the gospel, aud all tho pro tests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hin der them, for they have a pathos and a power in their religious utterances that men can never reach. Witness all those who have heard their mother pray. l.'nefal Employment. Oh, young women of America, as many of you will have to fight your own battles alone, do not wait until you are flung of disaster and your father is dead and all tho resources of your family ha'-e been scattered, but now, while in a good house and environed by all prosperities, learn bow to do somo kind of work that tbo world must have us long us tbo world stands. Turn your attention from the embroidery of fine slippers, of which there is a surplus, aud make a useful shoo. Expend the time in which you adorn a cigar case in learning how to make a good, honest loaf of bread. Turn your attention from the making of flimsy nothings to tho manufacturing of important somethings. Much of the time spent in young la dies’ seminaries in studying what are tailed tho “higher brunches” might bet ter be expended in teaching them some thing by which they could support themselves. If you are going to be teachers or if you havo so much assured wealth that you tan always dwell in those high regions, trigonometry of course, metaphysics of course, Latin and Greek aud German and French and Italian of course, and u hundred other things cf course, but if you are not ex pecting to teach and your wealth is not established beyond misfortune after you have learned the ordinary brunches take hold of that kind of study that will pay in dollars aud cents in case you aro thrown on yaur own resources. Learn to do someihiug better than anybody else. “No, no,” says some young woman, “I will not undertake anything so uu- romuutic and commonplace as that.” An excellent author writes that after bo had, in a book, argued for efficiency in womanly work in order to success aud positive apprenticeship by way of prep aration a prominent chemist advertised that he would teach a class of women to become druggists aud apothecaries if they would go through an apprentice ship as men do, aud a printer advertised that he would take a class of women to learn tho printer’s trade if they would go through an apprenticeship us men do, aud how many, according to the ac count of the author, do you suppose applied to become skilled in the drug gist business and printing business? Not one! A Cr-tnmon Delusion. “But,” you ask, "what would my father and mother say if they saw I was doing such nnfasbionablo work?” Throw the whole responsibility upen us, the pastors, who are constantly hearing of young women in all these cities who, unqualified by their previous luxurious surroundings for the awful struggle of life into which theydiuve been suddenly hurled, seemed to Lave nothing left them but a choice between starvation and damnation. There they go along the street ut 7 o’clock in the wintry mornings through the slush and storm to the place where they shall earn only half enough for subsistence, the daugh ters cf once prosperous merchants, law yers, clergymen, artists, bunkers aud capitalists, who brought up their chil dren under the infernal delusion that it was not high toned for women to learn a profitable calling. Young women, take this affair in year own hand, and let there be an insurrection in all pros perous families on tho part of the daugh ters of this day, demanding knowledge in occupations aud styles of business by which they may be their own defense aud their own support if all fatherly and husbandly and brotherly bauds for ever fail them. I have seen two sad sights, the one a woman in all the glory of her young life, stricken by disease aud in a week lifeless in a home of which she had been the pride. As her hands were folded over tbo still heart and her eyes closed for tho last slumber aud she was taken out amid the lamen tations of kindred and friends I thought that was a sadness immeasurabla But I have seen something compared with which that scene was bright aud song ful. It was a young woman who had been all her days amid wealthy sur roundings by tho visit of death and bankruptcy to the household turned out on a cold world without one lesson about bow to get food or shelter and into the awful whirlpool of city life, where strong ships have gone down, and for 20 years not one word has been heard from her. Vessels went out on the Atlantic ocean looking for a ship wrecked craft that was left alone and forsaken on the sea a few weeks before, with the idea of bringing it into port, ttut who shall ever bring again into the baruor of peace and hope and heaven that lost womanly immortal, driven in what tempest, aflame in what conflagra tion, sinking into what abyss? O God, help! O Christ, rescue! My sisters, give not your time to learning fancy work which the world may dispense with in hard times, but connect your skill with the indispensables of life. The world will always want some- thing to wear and something to eat, and shelter and fuel for the body, and knowledge for the mind, aud religion for the soul. And all these things will continue to be tbo necessaries, and if you fasten your energies upon occupa tions aud professions thus related the world will be unable to do without you. Remember that in proportion as you are skillful in anything your rivalries be come less. For unskilled toil there are women by the millions. But you may rise to where there are only thousands, and still higher till there are only a hundred, aud still higher till there aro only ten, and still higher, in some par ticular department, till there is only a unit, and that yourself. For awhile yon may keep wages aud a place through the kindly sympathy of an employer, but you will eventually get no more compensation than you can mako your- | self worth. Let mft say to all women who have ] already entered upon the battles cf life | that the time is coming when women j shall not only get ns much salary nud 1 wages as men get, but for certain ctyles j of employment women will have higher salary and mere wages, for the reason that for some styles of work they have more adaptation. Lut this justice will come to woman not through any senti ment of gallantry, not because woman is physically weaker than man, and therefore ought to have more consider ation shown her, but because through her finer natural taste, aud more grace of manner, and quicker perception, and more delicate touch, and more educated adroitness, she will in certain callings be to her employer worth 10 per cent more or 20 per cent more than tho oth er sex. She will not get it by asking for it, but by earning it, and it shall be hers by lawful conquest. Now, men of America, be fair and give the women a chance. Aro you afraid that they will do some of your work, and hence harm your prosperities? Remember that there are scores of thousands of men doing women’s work. Do not be afraid. God knows the end from the beginning, aud he knows how many people this world can feed and shelter, and when it gets too full he will end tho world and if need bo start an other. God will halt the inventive fac ulty which, by producing a machine that will do the work of 10 or 20 or 100 men aud women, will leave that number of people without work. I hope that there will not bo invented another sewing machine, or reaping machine, or corn thrasher, or any other new ma chine for the next 500 years. We want no more wooden bauds, and iron hands, and steel hands, and electric hands sub stituted for men and women, who would otherwise do tho work aud get the pay and earn the livelihood. Trust Id God. But God will arrange all, and all we have to do is to do our best and trust him for the rest. Let me cheer all wo men fighting the battle of life alone with tbo fact of thousands of women who havo won the day. Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke Female sem inary, fought tho battle alone; Adelaide Newton, the tract distributer, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated mission ary, alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel of tbe insane asylums, alone; Caroline Herschel, the indispt usable ro-euforce- ment of her brother, alone; Maria Takrzewska, tho heroine of tbe Berlin hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers, pa tron of the sewing schools fur tho poor of Edinburgh, alone, aud thousands aud tens of thousands of women, of whose bravery and self sacrifice and glory of character the world has made no record, but whose deeds are in the heavenly archives of martyrs who fongbt the battle alone, and, though unrecog nized for the short 80 or 60 or 80 years of their earthly existence, shall through the quiutilliou ages of the higher world be pointed out with the admiring cry, “These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in tbe blood of the Lamb. ” Let mo also say for the encourage ment of all women fighting the battle of life alone that their conflict will soon end. There » one word written over the faces of many of them, and that word is “despair.” My sister, you need ap peal to Christ, who comforted tho sisters of Bethany in their domestic trouble and who in his last hours forgot all the pangs of his own hands and feet aud heart as he looked into the face of ma ternal anguish and called a friend's at tention to it, in substance saying: “John, I cannot take care of her any longer. Do for her as I would have done if I had lived. Behold thy moth er!” If under tbe pressure of unreward ed and unappreciated work your hair is whitening and the wrinkles come, re joice that you are nearing tbe hour of escape from your very last fatigue and may your departure be as pleasant as that of Isabella Graham, who closed her life with a smile and the word “peace.” The daughter of a regiment in any army is all surrounded by bayonets of defense, and in the battle, whoever falls, she is kept safe. 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