Show idle idie women FROM THE tre OLIVE brancu show me an idle woman and I 1 will show you a discontented peevish restless meddler no patter if wealth has his fallen to her lot oil on her velvet lounges amid the drapery of her parlors surrounded by everything gorgeous and beautiful chels she is miserable there is no room for her heart to grow her sympathies are warped her fancies discolored she chides time for a laggard and drab sig sighs 9 and groans and scandalises es till fill it is time to dress ss or the character chir acter of her neighbor is ruined 1 an idle woman how can she be idle what sit with folding hands and gaping jaws and watery e ry eyes and talk and wish and loll 1011 and are t there h er e many such doubtless women who can nothing correal for fot real good wio alo would pity but not aid those tho se who apply to them for help wamen women who to work because a rich beig neighbor abor might catch them at it such women and we believe it is heavens truth that we repeat are more than half the cause of our national misfortunes the imports of rich silks and foreign fabrics are for them them the toil of hard working husbands and fathers is for them instead of encouraging home manufactures fac tures and making themselves ot or socialism socialise soula socia lise they send millions and millions lo 10 increase foreign capital and nd then are willing to be laughed at for their pains pairis what if the domen women women of 1700 bad done thus what it if said it ia is our right to remain idle and di delicate licate to let the implements alementa plem eata enta ts rf cf labor alone to t 6 dres eres as richly as a we ve please to make all ail nations minister to our vanity 2 was george washington wife any less a lady because she be made and wore her own homespun homes bomes puL pun was george mother any the tha less a lady because she planted and with her own bands turned up tip the ground idle how can woman be idle idie wilh perishing in i g thon thor mands around herewith herx heart head and ha hands ds with resources on every side how bow ca can n she be bei idle idie if she has time and means what an angel ancel she the may be or earth Is she formed of I 1 clay too nice to seek out the disconsolate the buffering suffering the erring Is her foot too dainty to tread ahe crazy floors of poverty her hand too soft 0 to o touch the haggard temples of the sick and yet young girls are growing up tip for we se see ethem ithem to move languidly from fron the dobrof doon door of home bome to the schoolroom school room door to read for ar hours till their eyes growdis groW dim to dress for dinner to promenade to sleep eat and vegetate in fine to lead idle luxurious lives sometimes it is true a sincere affection for some ap pp penniless but hard working ddn many changes the current of life and they grow prow content to volk voik work to wait to save to lie busy but too often they marry fast young inen jaen board loard for fot a few years in in false security heir their become permanent and when their homes so called re broken up farewell forever to 0 o peace to happiness we have a recipe for those who have bale littfe or nothing to do something that will stir up benevolence and stimulate to ambition it is thir thin thise form associations of 11 A american meridan women willing to 0 labor for tile the country in earnest let those tho se associations set their faces against foreign manufactures fac tures at least for a time jimr wear somewhat coarser texture it will help heip many an american to 9 get bread for his family countenance no llo mono aono scorn the trafficker in human misery scorn the he man who would for his own enrich anent fake take flie tiie lle ile lie very meal aiom the mouths of the peor poor liale ellale the fhe lle ile lie speculator in a jest and a by word you can do it your power is immen immense imme nsf qa noti you know not how bow great you yon can never rightly Rl imite taio isi opportunities you yon have bave late already missed for he the want of a litle energy a little of lh b missionary spirit a little wholesome hate bate of iniquity af 51 A D |