The Republican journal., 1881-08-18
Talmage on ''Housekeeping ,

ReV. /. Dewitt Talmage preached.
Sunday, on the subject Of housekeeping.
In the course of his remarks he said ::
on ask why more sermons are preached
to men than to women. reply it is be-
cause women are better than men. | do
not say this in compliment or in spirit of
soft gaIlantIy Tor, when women are bad
they are dreadiul-but as a statistical
TACT which cannot be contr0verted. They
have fewer temptations to out breaking
SIN: are naturally more reVerential and
| LOVING; 1t IS easier for them to become
| Christians: they are in the majority in
| the church on earth; and | suppose that
| II You should count the women and chill
dren OF heaven You would have counted
three-tourths Of IS population Men
! bothered with the anXietics of the store
and office and shop, or coming from the
stock exchange, say when they get home :
'Oh, you ought to be over in Wall street
these days; you ought to be in our factory
a little while: you ought to manage : or
lOor2n SubOrdlnateS, and then YOU would
know what trouble and anxiety are" q.
SIT, the wife and the mother has to con-
| duct at the same time a university, a
clothing establishments restaurant. It
laundry, Il library, while she is health
officer, police and president of her realm
| She must do a thousand things. and do
them well, IN order to keep things going
smoothly: and 50 her brain and her
nerves are taxed TO the utmost. am
| speaking OF the great mass of hOuseheep-
ers-the women to whom life is Il strllg-
gle and who lit 40 years OF age look as
though they were 30. The fallen at Get
| tysburg and Waterloo are Il small number
compared to the slain in the kitchen.
OH go to the cemetery and YOU will see
that the tombstOnes all read beautifully
\ poetic, but if those tombstOnes would
speak the truth, thousands of them would
say: Here lies women killed hy too much
mendlng and sewing and baking and
| scrubbng and securing. The weapon
with which she was slain Was a broom or Il
| sewing machine, or ladle. You think, q
man OF the world, that you have all the
cares and anXleties. If the cares and any
leties OF the household should come upon
you for one week YOU would be d tit can
didate for Bloomingdale insane asyum
| There IS the trial OF severe economy. Nine
| hundred and ninety nine households out
| VI plIt lIOuSulll dlG SuDlctltu 10 III L
some under more and some under less
stress OF circumstances especially faman
smokes very expensive cigars and takes
very costly dinners ut the restaurants,
he will be severe in demanding domestic
economies. This is what kills tens OF
thousands OF women, attempting to make
- do the work of 81 How the bills
come in. The women is the banker of
the household She is the president and
cashier and teller, discount clerk, and
there is panic every few weeks This
| 30 years war against high prices, this
perpetual study of economies, this life
long attempt to keep the outgocs less than
thrincome, exhaust millions of housekeep-
ers. Sometimes an indigestble article
of food, by its effect upon a commander
or king, has defeated an army or over
thrown an empire, Housekeepers, by
the food they provide, by the couches they
spread, by the books they Introduce, by
the influences they bring around their
home, are deciding the physical, intellec-
tual, moral eternal destiny of the race.