Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-23

" '"e household should come upon vou sor
". week, you would be a a. c.r.
u'ua'e ior bioomingdale-I mean ;nsara
asylum. The half-rested honseLa.nar
arises an the morning. She must ho ,o ~.
morning repast prepared at an ;rrovooa0
Die hour. What if the fire win not l;oht.
what If the marketing did not co,no. 81 81.
If the clock has stopped-no mnt.s.
nave the morning repast at an ir.
,e'ocaoie hour. Then the children must
oe got OIL to school. What if their gar.
nents are torn; what if they do not know
'neir lessons: what if they have lost a hat
or sasn-they must be ready. Then Won
ave all the diet of the day, and perh,ns
Oh several days, to plan: but what if tho
Duecher has sent meat unmasticah,e ~
the grocer has sent articles of food ad,,.
.erated, and what if some piece of silver
oe gone, or some favorite chalice he
cracked, or the roof leak, or the plumbino
laii' or any one of a thousand things &C.
cur-you must be ready. Spring weather
comes, and there must be a revolution in
the FAMILY wardrobe; or autumn comes.
ana you must shut out the northern blast:
put what If the moth has preceded Won to
the chest; what if, during the wear. the
cnlldfen nave outgrown the apparel of
last year; what if the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an apothe-
cary's shop; it must be a dispensary;
there must be medicines for all sorts of
Notwithstanding to loosen the Group
something to cool the burn-something to
poultlce the misunderstanding
70 silence the jumping tooth-some-
thing to soothe the earache.
You must be in half a dozen places at the
same time, or you must attempt to be. If
under all the wear and tear of life, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon the library
or drawing room, be patient, be lenient.
"! woman, though l may fail to stir up
an appreciation in the souls of others in
regard to your household tolls, let me as
sure you, from the kindness with which
Jesus Christ met Martha, that he appreci-
ates all your work from garnet to cellar;
and that the God of Deborah, and Ham
nah, and Abigail, and grandmother Lois,
and Elizabeth Lois, and Elizabeth Frey,
ana Hannah More is the God of the house.
Keeper. Jesus was never married that he
might be the especial friend and conidante
OF G whole world of troubled w~omanhood.
l blunder; Christ was married. The Bible
says that the Church is the Lambs wife,
aud that makes me know that all Christian
women have a right to go to Christ and
tell him of their annoyances and troubles,
since by his oath Of conjugal fidelity he is
sworn to sympathize. George Herbert,
the Christian poet, wrote two or three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause .ET
Makes drudgery divine
Who sweeps Il room, as for thy laws
Makes this and the action fine.
Again, there is the trial of severe econ
omy. Nine hundred and ninetv-nine
households out of the thousand are sub
jected to it-some under more and some
under less stress of circumstances. Es-
pecially ii a man smoke very expensive
cigars, and takes very costly dinners at
the restaurants, he will be severe in de-
handing domestic economies. This is
what kills tens of thousands of women
attempting to make five do the work of
seven dollars. How the bills come in?
The woman is the banker of the household:
she is the 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 economies, this lifelong attempt to
keep the outgoes less thar the income, ex-
i,austs millions of housekccpers. O! my
sister, this is Il part of the divine disci-
, pine. If it were best for you, all you
would lave to do would be to open the
front windows and the ravens would fly in
with fpn1. md nf+n,. 1-o,, bod l,Jo1 Eft,-
times from the barrel in the pancssty, the
barrel, like the one of Zarcpa;h, would be
full: and the shoes of the children would
last as long rs the shoes of the Israelites
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 nuisances
of catering for appetites. And in the
land Of the white robe they never AVE to
mend anything, and the air in that
hill country makes everybody well. There
are no rents to pay; everybody owns his
own house, and a mansion atthat. 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 bank of the river Of life, if in this world
you had a country seat; but if you have
walked with tired feet in this world, what
a glorious change to mount celestial
equipage; and if your life on earth was
domestic martyrdom, o! the joy of an
eternity in which you shall have nothing
to do except what you choose to do. Mar
tina has had no drudgery for eighteen
centuries! I quarrel with the t~heologians
who want to distribute all the thrones of
heaven among the John Knoxes, and the
Hugh Latimers, and the Theban Legion.
Some of the brightest thrones of heaven
will be kept for Christian housekeepers.
o! what a change from here to there
from the time when they put down the
rolling-pin to When they take up the
scepter. If Chatsworth Park and the
Vanderbilt mansion On Fifth avenue were
| to be lifted into the Celestial City, they
would be considered uninhabitable rock
cries, nd glorifed Lazarus would be
ashamed to be going in and out of either
| of them.