Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-08-13

lng- PIN 10 Wbcn they lake up the scep-
tire. 1t Chatsworth Park aud Stewart =
mansion on Fifth avenue were to be life
ed into the celestial city they would be
considered uunbabltable rookeries, aud
glorili-d Lazarus would be ashamed to
be g9ing in aud out OF either of them.
There are many housekeepers who
could get along with their tolls if it were
| not Tor sickness aud trouble. The fact
I is, more than one-half the women of the
| land are more or less invalids. The
mountain lass who has never had az
ache or pain may consider household
toll incousiderable. and toward evening
she may skip away miles to the fields
and drive home the cskile, aud she may.
until 10 O'Clock at night. fill the house
with laughing racket. But oh ! to do
the work of lie with WORKOUT constitu
ton, when the whooping cough has been
raging for six weeks in the household,
making the night as sleepless as the day.
that is not so easy. Perhaps this comes
after the nerves have been shattered by
some bereavement that has left desola-
ton in every room of the house, and set
the crib in the garrett because the occu
pant has been hushed into slumber
which need nos mothers lullaby. Obi!
she could provide for the whole group a
great deal better than she can for part
OF the group. now that the rest are gone.
though you may tell her God is taking
care Of those that are gone. 1t is moth
erlike TO brood both focks, aud one wing
she puts over the flock in the house and
the other wing she puts over the flock in
the grave. There is nothing but the
oldfasbioned religion of Jesus Christ
that will take n woman through the
trials of home life. At first there may
be romance or a novelty that will do
for substitute. The marriage hour
has just passed, and the perplexities of
the hour are more than atOned by the
jny Of being together, and by the fact
that when it is late they do net have to
discuss the question as to whether it is
time to 60. The misbaps of the house
bold, instead of being matter OF ankle
ty and leprehensve, are matter OF
meri snent-,he leaf of bread turned in
to a geological specimen, the slushy
custards the jaundiced or measly bis
cults. Il is very bright sunlight that
fails on The cutlery aud the mantle orna-
meuts Of a new home.
But after while the romance is al! |
gone, and then there is something to be |
prepared for the table that the book call |
ed - Cookery Taught in Twelve Les
sons " will not teach. The receipt for
making it is not handful of this. a cup
of that, and spoonful of something
else Ii is not something sweetened
with ordinary aavors, or baked in ordi-
nary oveus. l. is the loaf OF domestic
happiness. and all the ingredients come
down from heaven, aud the fruits are
plucked from the tfe3 of lite, aud it is
sweetened with The new vine of the
kingdom, aud il is baked in the oven of
home trial Solomon wrote out of his
own experience. He had wretched
home. A man cannot be happy with
two wives. much less with six hundred
and he says. writing of his own expert
ence, 20 Better is dinner of herbs where
love is than a stalled OK and hatred
herewith" How great are the respon-
sibilities OF housekeepers. Sometimes an
indiges,ible article OF food by its effect
upon a commander or king has defeated
an army or overthrOgn an empire
Housckeepers, by the food they provide,
by the coucbes they spread. by the books
they introduce, by the influences they
bring around their homes are deciding
the physical, int ll-ctual, moral, eternal
destiny OF the race You say your life
is one of sacrifice. | know IL. But, my
sisters, that is the OF life worth living.
That was Florence NIgh,iug1le's lite,
that was Paysou's life. that was Chri,t's
life. We admire it in others, bat bow
very hard it is FIR US 10 cultivate it our
selves. When young DR.. Hutchinsou.
having spent whole night 10 dipthe.
relic room fJr the relief of the patient,
became saturated with the poison and
died, we all felt as if we would like TO
put garlands on his grave. Everybody
appreciates that. When in the burning
hotel at St. Louis young man on the
fifth story broken open the door of the
room where bis mother was sleeping and
plunged in amidst smoke and fire, cry
ing, Mother. where are your" aud
never came out, our hearts applauded
that young man. But how few OF us
have the Cbrist-like spirit-a willing
ness to suffer for others A rough teach
er in a school called upon a poor. half
starved lad who had offended against the
laws of the school, aud said. "Take off
your coat directly, sir The boy re-
fused to take it off. whereupon the teach
er said again. take off your coat. sir"
az he swung the whip through the air.
The boy refused. 1t was not because
he was afraid of the lash-be was used
to that at bome-but it was from shame.
He had no undergarmentS, aud as at
the third command he pulled slowly off
his coat, there vent sob all through
the school They saw then why he did
not want to remove his coat, aud they
saw his shoulder.hlades had almost cut
through the skin. And stout. healthy
boy rose up and went to the teacher of