The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-22
Thy servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divine,
Who sweeps q room as for Thy laws
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Again: there is trial of severe econo'
nv. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
households out of the thousand are sub
iected to it; some under more and some
under less stress of circumstances. Es-
pecially if a man smokes costly cigars
and takes very costly dinners at the res
t%aurants, he will be severe in demanding
domestic economy. This is what kills
tens of thousands of women; attempting
to make SIS do the work ofT, How the
bills come in! The woman is the ban.
ker of the household; she is the presi.
dent, the teller, the cashier, the discount
clerk; and there is a panic every few
weeksI This thirty years. war against
high prices, this perpetual study Of econ
omies; this lifelong attempt to keep the
outgoes less than the income, exhausts
millions of ho~usekeepers. Oh, my sis
ter, this is a part of the Divine discipline
If it were best for you, all you would
have to do would be to open the front
windows and the ravens would fly in
with food; and after you had baked fifty
cents from the barrel in the pantry, the
barrel, like the one CT Zarapeth, would
be full; and the Children's shoes would
last as long as the shoes of the ~Israelites
in the wilderness; forty years. Besides,
that, this is going to make heaven the
more attractive in the contrast. They
never hunger there, and consequently
there will be none of the nuisanCes of
catering for appetite. And in the land
of the white robe they lever have to
mend anything, and the air in that
hill country makes everybody well.
There are no rents to pay; every man
owns his own house, and a mansion at
that. 1t will not be 60 great a change
for you to have a chariot in heaven if
you have been in the habit of riding in
this world. 1t will not be 80 great change
for you to sit down on the banks of the
river, if you had a country seat in this
world; but if you have walked with tir.
ed feet in this world, what a glorious
change to moInt the celestial equipage,
and If your life on earth was domestic
ma~rtyrdom, oh! the Joy of an eternity in
which you shall have nothing to do ex.
eept what you choose to do, Martha
has had no drudgery for eighteen Centu.
riesl Iquarrel with the theologians who
want to distribute all the thrones Of
heaven among the John Knoxes and the
Hugh Latimers, and the Pheban legion.
Some of the brightest thrones in heaven
will be- kept for Christian housekeepers,
Oh, what a change from here to there!
from the time they put down the rolling
pin till they take up the sceptre. If
Chatsworth Park and Stewards mansion
on Fifth avenue were to be lifted into
the celestial city, they would be consid-
cred uninhabitable rookeries, and glori-
fed Lazarus would be ashamed to be 60.
ing in and out of either Of them.
There are many bousekeepers who
could get along with their tolls, If it
we're not for sickness and trouble. The
fact is, one half the women of the and
are more or less invalids. The moun.
tain lass who has never had an ache or a
pain, may consider household toll inCon-
siderable, and toward evening she may
skip away miles toward the field and
home the cattle, and she may, until ten
o'clock at night, Fill the house with laugh
ing racket; but oh, to do the work Of life
with a wornout constitution, when the
whooping cough has been raging for six
weeks in the household, making the day
as sleepless as the night, that is not 80
easy. Perhaps this comes after the sys.
tenn has been shattered by overwork
that has left ~desolation in every o Of
the house, and set the crib IN the garrett,
because the occupant has been hushed
into a slumber which needs no mothers
lullaby. Oh, she could provide for the
whole group a great deal better than she
can for a part Of the group, now the rest
are gonel Though you may tell her God
is taking care of those who are gone, 1t is
mother.l like to brood both flocks, and one
wing she puts over those in the house,
the other wing over those in the grave.
There is nothing but the old fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ that will take a
woman through the trials Of home.life.
At first there may be novelty or romance
that will do for a substitute. The mar.
riage hour has just passed, and the per-
plexities Of the household are more than
atoned by the joy of being together, an1
by the fact that when 1t ls late they do
do not have to discuss the question as to
whether IL Is time to 90. The mishaps
Of the household, instead Of being q mat.