, 1886-04-11

or the roof leak, or the plumbing fail, or any
one OF q thousand things occur-youm must be
ready. Spring weather comes, and there
must be a revolution In the family wardrobe;
or autumn comes. and you must shut out
the northern blast; but what II the moth has
proceeded you TO the chest; what II. during
the year, the children have outgrown the APP
parel Of last year; what II the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an apcthecn-
RVS shop; II must be a dispensary there
must DO medicines for all sorts OF ailments
something TO loosen the Group, something to
cool the burn, something to pouiticc the In
fammntion. something to silence the Jumping
tooth. something to soothe the earachs. You
must be In half-a-dozsn places at the same
time, or you must attempt to be. II. under
all this wear and tear OF life, Martha makes
an impatient rush upon tho library or draw
ing be patient, be lenient. OF woman,
though l may fail to stir up an appre-
citation in the souls OF others in regard
to your household tolls, let me assure
you. from the kindlipess with which Jesus
Christ met Martini, that He appreciates all
your work from garret to cellnr, and that
tho God of Deborah, and Hannah, and Abb
gail, and grandmother Lois, and Elizabeth
Fry, and Hannah Moore is the God Of the
housekecper. Jesus WAS never married that
Ho might be the especial friend and conf
dant OF a whole world Of troubled woman
hood l blunder; Christ was married Tho
Bible says that the Church il the Lambs
wife. and that makes me know that all
Christian women have a right to go to Christ
and tell him Of their annoyance and troubles,
since by His oath OF conjugai- fidelity He Is
sworn to sympathize. George Herbert, the
Christian poet, wrote two or three verses on
this subject;
The servant By this ella use
hakes drudRey divine;
Who sweeps a room. as for Thy lava
Makes this and the action nne. .l
Again, there Is tho trial OF severe economy.
Nine hundred and n~inety-nine households out
of the thousand are subjected to 1t, some
under moro and some under less stress Of cir
cumstances, Especially II q man smoke very
expensive cigars and tax very costly dinners
at the restaurants he will be severe in de-
m~anding domestic economics This Is what
kills tens OF thousands OF women, attempting
to make s. do the work OF 81. How the bnls
como inl The woman Is the banker Of
the household; she Is tho president, the
cashier, the teller, the discount clerk, and
there is a panic every few weeks. This thirty
years war against high prices, this perpetual
study Of e~nconomics, this lifelong attempt TO
keep tho outgoes less than the income, ex-
hausts millions of housekeepers- Oimy sister,
this is a part Of the divine discipl ne. II 1t
were best for you, all you would hnve to do
would DO to open the front windows and the
ravens would fly In with food, and after you
had baked fifty times from the barrel in the
pantry, the barrel. like the one OF Zarepath,
would be full; and the shoes Of the children
would last as long as the shoes of the Israel
tics in the wilderness-forty years. Beside
that, this is going to make heaven
the more attractive In the contrast
They never hunger there, and consequently
there will be none Of the nuisance OF catering
for nppetites. And in the land OF the white
robo they never have to mend anything, and
the air in that hill country makes everybody
well. There are no rents to pay; every man
Owns his own house, and a mansion at that
1t will not DO so great a change for you to
have a chariot in heaven II 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, II in this world
/ you had a country scat but II you have walked
with tired feet in this world, what a glorious
change to mount celestial equipage, and II
your life on earth was domestic martyrdom,.
OF the JOY of an eternity in which you shall
have nothing to do except hat you choose
TO do. Martha has had no drudgery for
eighteen centuries l quarrel with the theo-
logians who want to distribute all
the thrones OF heaven among the
John Knoxes and the Hugh Lati-
mers, and the Theban legion Some OF
tho brightest thrones OF heaven win be kept
for Christian housekeeperl OF what .
change from here to there-from the time
when they put down the rolling pin to when
they take up the scepter. II Chazworth
park and the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth
avenue were to be lifted into the Celestial
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rookeries, and glorihed Lazarus would be
ashamed to be going in and out Of either OF
them.
There are many housekeepers who could
get along with their tolls il it were not for
sickness and trouble. The fact Is, one-half Of
the women of the land are more or loss In
validx Tit mountain lass, who has never
had an ache or pain, may consider household
toll inconsiderable, and towards evening she
may skip away miles TO the fields and drive
home the cattle; and she may, until 10 o'clock
at night, I'LL the house with laughing racket;
but o TO do the work OF life with worn out
constitution, when w%hooping cough has been
raging for six weeks in the household,
mekiDg the night as sleepless as the day-that
is not so easy. Perhaps this comes after
the nerves had been shattered by some
bereavement that has left desolation in every
lOpih VI lut hou<tf hAAa tth IN dlb III lnf
garnet, because the occupant has been hushed
into a slumber which needs no mothers
lullaby. OF she could provide for the whole
group a great deal better than she can for a
part OF the group now the rest are gone.
Though you may tell her God is taking care
OF those who are gone, IL Is mother-hke 10
brood both focks; and one wing she puts over
the flock in the house, the other wing she
puts over the flock in the grave.
There IL nothing but the old fashioned re-
ligion Of Jesus Christ that will take a woman
through the trials Of home life. At first,
there may be a romance or a novelty that
will do for a substitute. Tn marriage hour
has just passed. and the perplexiIies OF the
household are more than atoned by the Joy
OF being together. and by the fact that when
IL Is late they do not have to discuss the ques-
ton as to whether 1t Is time TO goi The mis-
haps OF the household, insead OF being a mat
ter Of anxiety and reprchenslon. are a matter
of merriment-the loaf OF bread turned into
a geological specimen. the slushy custards,
the jaundiced or mensly biscuits Il il a very
bright sunlight that falls on the cutlery and
the mantel ornamen OF a new home
But after awhile the romance Is all gone,
and then there is something TO be prepared
for the table that the book called Cookery
Taught IN Twelve Lessons will not teach
The receipt for making 1t Is not a handful OF
this, a cup OF that and n spoonful Of some
thing else 1t IL not something sweetened
with ordinary condiments, or novored with
ordinary favors, or baked in ordinary
ovens 1t Is the loaf OF domestic
happiness; and all the Ingredients come
down from heaven, and the fruits
mc pluckcd from the tree OF hfc, and
II h sweetened with the now wine Of the
kingdom. and It is bal ed In the oven Of home
trial solomon wrote out Of his own expert
snce. lie had a wrrtchcd homo A man
cannot be happy with two wives, much le-s
600. and he says, writing out OF his own ex-