Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-02


of art, and cheapest piano purchas
able, and yet, as you enter II, ther
comes upon body, mind and. soul
glow of welcome and satisfied AM
happy domestIcity. The holy art o
making the most comfort and bright
ness out of the means afforded, ever,
wife should study.
At the siege of Argos, Pyrrhu
was killed by the tile of a roo
thrown by woman, and Abimefecl
was slain by stone that woman
threw from the tower of Thebez
and Earl Montford was destroyed by
a rocket discharged at him by wo
man from the walls of Toulouse
But without any weapon save that o.
her cold, cheerless household arrange.
ment, any wife may slay all the at
fractions of q home circle. A wife
aud mother in prospered circum-
stances and greatly admired, was
giving her chief time to social life
The husband spent his evenings
away. The son fifteen years of age
got the same habit, and there was q
prospect that the other chill
dren as they got old enough would
take the same turn. One day the
wife aroused to the consideration
that she had better save her husband
and her boy. Interesting and STIR
ring games were introduced into the
house. The mother studied up in
terresting things to tell her children.
One morning the son said: "Fath-
er, you ought to have been home last
night. We had grand time. Such
jolly games and such interesting
Stories" This went on from night
to night, and after a while the hus-
band stayed in to see what was 60
ing on. and he finally got attracted
and added something of his own to
the evening entertainments, and the
result was that the wife and mother
saved her husband and saved her
boy, and saved herself. Was not
that an enterprise worth the atten-
tion of the greatest woman that ever
lived since Abigail at the foot of the
rock arrested the four hundred arm
ed warriors.
Do not, my sister, be dizzied and
disturbed by the talk Of those who
think the home circle too insignili-
cant for woman's career, and who
want to get you out OH platforms and
in conspicuous enterprises. There
are women who have a special out
side mission, and do not dare to in-
terpret me as derisive of their im-
Dortant mission. But my opinion is
that the woman who can reinforce
her husband in the work of life and
rear her children for positions of
usefulness, is doing more for God
and the race and her own happiness,
than if she spoke on every great
platform and headed a hundred great
enterprises. My mother never made
a missionary speech in her life, and
at a missionary meeting l doubt
whether she could have got enough
courage to vote aye or no, but she
raised her son John. who has been
preaching the Gospel and translat-
ing religious literature in Annoy,
China, for about forty years. Was
not that better thing to do?
Compare such an one with one of
these die-away, attidudinizing, friv-
olous, married coquettes Of the mod
ern drawing room, her heaven an
opera box on the night of Meyerbeer's
'Robert le Diable," the ten COM
mandments an inconvenience, taking
arsenic 10 improve the complexion,
and her appearance confused re-
suit of belladonna, bleached hair, an
timony and mineral acids, until one
is compelled to discuss her character
and wonder whether the line be-
tween a decent and indecent life is,
like the equator, an imaginary line.
What the world wants now is
about fifty old-fashioned mothers,
women who shall realize that the
highest, grandest, mightiest institu-
lion on earth is the home. 1t is not
necessary that they should have the
same old-time manners of the count
y farmhouse, or wear the old-fash-
oned cap and spectacles and apron
hat her gloriiied ancestry wore but
mean the old spirit which began
with the Hannahs and the Mother
Lois and the Abigails of Scripture
lays, and was demonstrated on the
homestead where some of us were
'eared, though the old house long ago
was pulled down and its occupants
scattered, never to meet until in the
higher home that awaits the families
If the righteous. While there are
more good and faithful wives and
mothers now than there ever were,
society has got wrong twist OH this
subject, and there are influences
abroad that would make women be-
ieve that their chief sphere is out
tide instead of inside the home.
Hence in many households child
'en instead Of a blessing are a nuis-
lnce. 1t is card case versus child's
primer, carriage versus cradle, social
versus domestic felicity.
Hence infanticide and ante-natal
murder are so common that all the
physicians, allopathic, hydropathic,
homeopathic and eclectic, are crying
,ut in horror and tits that that makes
he pulpits join with the medical pro-
ession in echoing and re-echoing the
Of Mount Sinai, which says:
Thou shalt not kill" and the Book
# Revelations which says: "All
nurderers shall have their place in
he lake which burneth with fire
md birthstone" And the man or
he woman who takes life minute
I'D will as certainly 60 straight to
lell as the man or woman who de-
troys life forty years old. And the
Widest, lopdest shrek of judgment
lay will be given at the overthrow
# those who moved in the highest
nd respected circles of earthly socie-
y, yet decreed by their own act as
ar as they could privately effect it,
he determination of the advancing
generations, abetted In the horrid
rime by a lot of internal quacks
With which modern medicine is in
ested. When, on the last day, the
riers of the Court shall with re-
ounding "Oyez," "Oyez.p declare ,
he "Oyer and Terminer" of the
Universe opened, and the Judge
With gavel of thunderbolt shall
mite the nations into a silence, and