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Title: The pathway of life ... to which is added a biography of Dr. Talmage
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Publisher: Historrical pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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me-thing by which they could support themselves. If you are going to be teachers, or if you have so much assured wealth that you can always dwell in those high regions, trigonometery, of course, metaphysics, of course, Latin, and Greek, and German, and French, and Italian, of course, and a hundred other things, of course, but if you are not expecting to teach, and your wealth is not established beyond misfortune, after you have learned the ordinary branches, take hold of that kind of study that will pay in dollars and cents in case you are thrown on your own resources. Learn to do something better than anybody else. Buy Virginia THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 109 Pennys book entitled The Employments of Women, and learn there are 500 ways in which a woman may earn a living. ROMANTIC IDEAS. No, no! says some young woman; I will not undertake anything so unromantic and commonplace as that. An excellent author writes that after he had, in a book, argued for efficiency in womanly work in order to success, and
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IDLENESS. positive apprenticeship by way of preparation, a prominent chemist advertised that he would teach a class of women to become druggists and apothecaries if they would go through an apprenticeship as men do; and a printer advertised that he would take a class of women to learn the printers trade if they would go through an apprenticeship as men do; and how many, according to the account of the no THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. authoress, do you suppose applied to become skilled in the druggist business and printing business? Not one! One young woman said she would be willing to try the printing business for six months, but by that time her older sister would be married, and then her mother would want her at home. My sisters, it will be skilled womanly labor that will finally triumph. But, you ask, what would my father and mother say if they saw I was doing such unfashionable work ? Throw the whole responsibility upon the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, who is constantly hearing of young wom

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