The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-08-11

makes me KNOW all CHRISTIAN women
have right to 90 to Christ and tell him
all their annoyanCes and troubles, since
by his oath OF CoDiugal fidelity he is
sworn to sympathize George Herbert,
the Christian poet wrote two or three
verses on this subject;
"The servant, by this clause,
Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room as for thy laws,
Makes this and the action fine"
Again, there is the trial of severe econ,
omy. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
cases out of hundred are subjected to
it-some under more and some under
less stress of circumstances, especially
if man smokes very expensive cigars,
and takes very costly dinners at the res,
taurants, he will be esevere in demanding
domestic economies. That is what kills
tens of thousands of women-attempting
to make S. do the work of 81. How the
bill come in! The woman is the banker
of the households; she is the President,
the cashier, teller, discount clerk, and
there is panic every few weeke. This
thirty years war against high priCes;this
perpetual study of economies; this life.
long attempt to keep the outgoes les
than the income eXhausts millions of
housekeepers. o, my sister, this is part
of the divine discipline, If it were best
for you, all you would have to do would
re to open II front windows and the ra.
vens would fly in with food, and after
you had baked fifty times from the bar
rel in the pantry, the barrel, like the
one of Z9repath, would be full: the chill
drens' 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
consequently there will none of the nui-
sanCes of catering for appetites, and in
the land of the white robe thev never
have to mend anything, and the air in
that country makes everybody well.
There are no rents to pay; every man
owns his own house, and mansion at
that. 1t will no, be so great 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 so great
change for you TO sit down on the banks
of the river of lie, if in this world you
had country seat. But if you have
walked with tired feet in this world,
what glorious change to mount Ceies-
tial equlpage, and if your life on earth
was domestic maTtyrdom. Oh, the Joy
Of an eternity in which you shall have
~ nt 20 a. n hok phr
do. Martha has had 10 drudgery for
eighteen centuries. l quarrel with the
theolOgians who want to distribute all
the thrones of heaven among the John
Knoxes and Hugh Latimers and the
Iheban Legion. Some of the brightest
thrones of heaven will be kept for Chris.
tian housekeepers, Oh, what a change
from here to there-from the time when
they put down the rolling pin to when
they lake up the scepter If Chatsworth
Park and Stewards mansion on Fifth av.
enue were TO be lifted into the Celestial
city, they would be considered uninhab.
table rookeries, and glorified Lazarus
would b ashamed to he going in and out
Of either Of them.
There are many housekeepers who
could get along with their tolls if it were
not for sickness and trouble. The fact
g, one half the women of the land are
more or less invalids. The mountain
ass, who has never had one ache or pain,
n consider household tolls inconsider.
lbl' and toward evening she may skip
.way miles to the fields and drive home
he cattle, and she may, until 10 O'Clock |
It night fill the house with laughing
'aCker. But Oh to do the work of life |
With broken down constitution, when |
be whooping. cough has been raging for
TX weeks in the household, making the |
hight as sleepless as the day that is not
10 easy. Perhaps this comes after the
nerves have been shattered by some be.
that has left desolation in ev-
,ry room Of the house, and set the crib |
n tue garret because the occupant has |
)een hushed into slumber which needs |
10 mothers lullaby, Oh, she could pro-
7ide FIR the whole group a great deal
)etter than she can for part OF the group |
low that the rest are gone, though you
nay tell her God is taking care of those
fuO are BOuts IL IL ulOJDeTsllk6 TO DfOOQ |
10Th hOCks, and one wing she puts over
he flock in the house and the other over
he flock in the crave, There is nothing
)ut the old. fashioned religion of Jesus |
chris that will take woman through |
he trials of home life. At first there |
nay be a romance or a novelty that will |
10 for substitute. The msrriage hour
las just passed, and the perplexities OF |
he household are more than at.ned by |
he joy Of being together, and by the fact |
hat when it is late they do not have to |
llsCuss the question whether it is time
0 60, the mishSps Of the household, in.
gead of being matter of anxiety and |
apprehension, are matter of merriment |
the loaf of bread turned into geolog. |
cal specimen, the sushy custards, the |
measley biscuits. 1t is a
'ery bright sunlight that falls on the cut.
cry and the mantel ornaments of new
lome. But after awhile the romance is |
VI gone, and then there is something to
u prepared for the table that the books |
allied Cookery Taught in Twelve Les.