Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-05
WHEELING WV MONDAY MORNING. APRIL 1886


domestic happiness; and all the ingred,
J ients come down from heavens and the fruits
are plucked from the tree of life, and
it is sweetened with the new wine of the
kingdom, and it 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 six hundred; and he says, writ
ing out of his own experience: BETTER is
q dinner of herbs where love is, than
stalled OK and hatred Herewith"
How great are
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF HoUsEKEEPERs.
Sometimes an indigestible article OF food,
By its effect upon commander or king,
has defeated an army or overthrown an
empire Housekeepers by the food they
provide, By the couches they spread, by
the books they introduce, by the influence
they bring around their home, are decid'
ing the physical, intellectual, moral. eternal
destiny Of the race. You say your life is
one Of sacrifice. ! know it. But my
sisters, that is the only life worth liv!'
ing. That was Florence Nightinr
gsie's life; that was Psyson's life; that
wss Christ's life. We admire it in others,
bat how very hard it is for ns 70 cultivate
ourselves. When in this city, young Doc
tor Hutchison, having spent whole night
in diphtheretic room for the relief Of
patient, became saturated with the poison
and died, we all felt as if we would like to
put garlands on his grave; everybody ap-
precistes that. When in the burning ho-
tel at St Louis, young man on the fifth
story broke open the door of the room
where his mother was sleeping, and plunged
in amid smoke and fire, crying: Mother
where are your and never came ont our
hearts spplauied that young man. But
how few Of us have the Chris,like spirit-s
willingness 10 suffer for others A rough
teacher in school called upon poorphslf
starved lad, who had offended sgsinst the
laws of the school, aud said: Take
off your coat directly. sir" The
boy refused to take it off Whereupon the
teacher said again: Take of your coat
sir," as he swung the whip through the
air. The boy refused. 1t was not be.
cause be was afraid of the lash-be was
used 10 that at home-but 1t was from
shame; he had no undergsrment, and at
the third command he pulled slowly off
his coat, there went sob through the
school. They saw then why he did not
want to remove his coat, and they saw the
shoulder blades had almost cut through
The skin, and q stopt healthy boy rose mp
and went 10 the teacher Of the school, and
said: "Oh, Sir, please don t hurt this poor
fellow whip Ice; see, he's nothing but a
poor chap; don't you hurt him, he's poor;
whip me" "Well" said the teacher: "Its
going to be severe whipping; | am will.
ing to take you ss 9 substitute.
well" said the boy, II don't care; you
whip me- if you will let this poor fellow
co." The stout healthy boy took tho
GcoprgiDg without Oh cutlery. "BravoI"
says every man-"BraVoN How many of
US are willing TO take the scourging, and
the suffering, and the toll, ard the anxiety
for other people. Beautiful thing to ad-
mire but how little we have of that spirit.
God give us that self denying spirit, so
that whether we are in humble spheres or
in conspicuous spheres, we may perform
our whole duty-for this struggle will soon
be oveF,
One of the most affecting "reminiscences
of my mother is my remembrance of her as
CHRIsTIAN HoUsEEEEPER
She worked very hard, and when we would
come in from summer play, and cit down
at the table at noon, releE.ber how she
used to come in With beads Of perspirstion
along the line Of gray hair, and how some
times she would ait down at the table, and
put her head against her wrinkled hand and
say: "Well, the fact is, I'm too tired to
eat" Long after she might have delega'
ted this duty to others, che would not be
satisfied unless she attended-to the matter
herself In fact We al preferred to have
her to do so, for somehow things tasted
better when she prepared them. Some
time ago, in an express train, | shot past
that old homestead. | looked out OF the
window, and tried to peer through the
darkness. While was doing so, one Of
my old sohoolmNtes, whom ! lad not seen
for many years, tapped me on the shoulder,
and said "DeWitt, ! see you are looking
out at tnb SCENES .! your uO1uOou W.
yes," replied ~ was looking out at the
old place where my mother lived and
died. That night, in the cars
the whole scene came back
to me- There was the country home
There was the MONDAY table. There were
the children on either side ofthe table most
OF tns4I gols ne .er to ceme back At one
end OF the table, my father, with smile
that never left his countensnce even WHEN
he lay in his ceGin. 1t was an eighty-six
vearsj srile-not the smile Of mamma.
ton, but Of Christian courage aud Of
Christian Lope. At the other end OF The
table was beautiful benignsnt hard
working aged Christian housekeepsr, my
mother. She WAS very tired. sm glad !
she had &C good 6 Place 70 rest in. "B es'
sed are the dead who diein the Lord; they
rest from theie labo:s, and tteir work do
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