South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-11-18
SMOKES VERY EXPENSIVE CIGARS

restaurants, he will be severe in dc.
manding domestic economies. This
10 what kills tens of thousands of wo.
housekeeping TO make five dollars
do the work of seven. How the bills
come in! The woman is the banker
OF the household she is the president
and cashier and teller and discount
clerk, and there is panic every few
weeks. This thirty years war against
high prices; this perpetual study of
economies; this lifelong attempt 70
keep the outgo less than the income,
exhausts millions ofwomen. Oh, nv
sister, this is part of divine discipline.
III IT were best for you, all You would
have to do would be to open the front
windows and the ravens would fiy in
with food, and after you had baked
fifty times from the barrel i'm the pan
try, the barrel, like the one ofZerepoth.
would be full, and the shoes of the
children would last as long as the
shoes OF the Israelites in the wilder.
ness-forty years. Besides that, this
Is going to make Heaven the more at :
tractive in the contrast. They never
hunger there, and consequently there
will be none of the nuisances ofcater-
ing for appetites, and in the land of
the white robe they never have to
mend anything, and the air i'll that
hill country makes everybody WE'LL
There are no rents to pay; every man
owns hlsown house * mansion at that.
1t Will not be so 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 SO great
a change for you to sit down on the
banks OF the river of life, if in this
world you had country seat. But
II you have walked with tired feet in
this world, what glorious thing il is
to mount celestial equipages, aud if
your life on earth was domestic mar.
tyrom, oh, the JOY of an eternity in
which you shall have nothing to do
except what you choose 10 do. Martha
has had no drudgery for eighteen CEN
turtles. L quarrel with theologians
who wan; to distribute all the thrones
IN Heaven among the JOHN Knoxes
and the Hugh Latimers. Some of
the brightest thrones of Heaven will
be kept tor Christian housekeepers
Oh, what a change from here to there
IRON the time when they put do wn
the rolling-pin to when they take % the
sceptre. 1t Chatsworth Park and
Stewards mansion on Fifth avenue
were to be lifted into the celestial city.
they would be considered uninhabita-
BILE rookeries; and glorified Lazarus
would be ashamed TO be going in and
out of either Of them.
There are many housek eepers who
could get along with their tolls If it.
were not Tor sickness and trouble. The
TACT Is, one-hsit OF the women Of the
land arc more or less invaliis. The
mountain lass who has never had an
| ache or pain may consider household
toll lnconsiderable, AMI toward evening
she may skip away miles to the fields
and drive home the cattle, and she NAV
until 10 O'Clock at night fill the house
with laughing racket. But, ali. % do
the work of life with worn-out consti.
tuition. when the whooping- has
been raging for six weeks in the house
hoid, making the night a. sleepless as
The day-that Is not SO easy. PERHAPS
this comes after the nerves have been
shattered by some bereavement that has
left desolation in every room in the
house and set the crib in the garrett be-
cause the occupant has been hushed in
ID slumber which needs no mothers
lullaby. Oh, she could provide for the
whole group a great deal better than
she can for part Of the group now that
Tue rest are gone, though you may tell
her God IS taking care Of those who arc
gone. II is motherlike TO brood both
hpcks. and one wing she puts over the
flock within the grave. There is moth
ing but
THE OLD FASHIONED RELIGION
OF Jesus Christ that will take a woman
through the trials of home life. Al
hrst there may be romance or q nov.
city that will 20 for a substitute. The
marriage hour has just passed and the
perplexItie5 of tue household are more
than atoned by the jjy Of being tozeth-
or, AM by the fact that when ii il late
they do not have 70 discuss the question
as to whether u is time 20 90. The mis-
haps Of the household, Instea Of being
matter OF anxiety and apprehension,
are m after II merrimcnt-the loaf al
bread Turned into a geological speci-
men, the slushy custsrds, the jaundiced
or measly biscuits. " is n very bright
sunlight that fails on the cutlery and
the mantei ornaments Of new home.
but after a while the romance ia al
gone; then there is something TO be
prepared for the table that the hook
called Cookery Taught in Twelve Les.
sons wilt not teach. The receipt for
making IL IS not a handful Of this, COP
OF that, aud a spoonful OF something
else. It IS not something sweetened
With ordinary condiments. or davored
with ordinary havors. or baked in ordi-
nary ovens. IL is the loaf Of domestic
happiness ant all the intfe iients come