The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-05-06

ASYLUM. The half-rested housekeeper
arises in the morning. She must have the
morning repast prepared at an irrevoca-
BILE hour. What if the fire viii not light;
what if the marketing did not come; what
il the clock has stopped---no matter; she
must have the morning repast at an ir-
revocable hour. Then the children must
be got of to school. What if their gar
ments are torn; what If they do not know
their lessons; what if they have lost a hat
or sash-they must be ready. Then you
have all the diet of the day, and perhaps
of several days, to plan; but what II the
butcher has sent meat unmasticahle, or
the grocer has sent articles Of food adul-
terated, and what if some piece Of silver
be gone, or some favorite chalice be
cracked, or the roof leak, or the plumbing
fail, or any one of thousand things oc-
cur-you must be ready. Spring weather
comes, and. there must be revolution in
the family wardrobe; or autumn comes,
and you must shut out the northern blast;
but what if the moth has preceded you to
the chest; what if, during the year, the
children have outgrown the apparel of
last year; what if che fashions have
changed. Your house must be an apothe-
cary's shop; it must be dispensary;
there must be medicines for all sorts of
ments-something to loosen the Group
something to cool the burn-something to
poultice the nfiammation-somethi
to silence the jumping tooth-some-
thing to soothe the earache.
You must be in half 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.
o.! woman, though I 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 Han
nah, and Abigail. and grandmother Lois,
and Elizabeth Lois, and Elizabeth Frey,
and Hannah More is the God of the house,
keeper. Jesus was never married that he
might be the especial friend and confidante
of a whole world of troubled womanhood.
/ blunder; Christ was married. The Bible
says that the Church is the Lambs wife,
aud that makes me know that all Christian
women have right to go to Christ and
tell him of their annoy ances and troubles,
since by his oath of conjugal fidelity he is
sworn to sympa tbize. George Herbert,
the Christian poet, wrote two OF three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divine
Who sweeps room, as for thy laws
Makes this aud the action fine.
Again, there is the trial of severe econ.
| omy Nine hundred and ninety mine
| households out of the thousand are sub
| jected to it--some under more and some
under less stress of circumstances. Es-
| pecially il man smoke very expensive
| cigars, and takes very costly dinners al
the restaurants, he win be severe in de.
manding domestic economies. This ID
/ 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 q panic
every few weeks! This thirty years. wal
| against high prices, this perpetual study
| of economies, this lifelong attempt tx
| keep the outgoes less than the income, ex
/ hausts millions of housekeepers. OF my
/ sister, this is a part of the divine disci
| pline. IL it were best for you. all yo,
would have to do would be to open tn,
front windows and the ravens would fly il
with food; and after you had baked fifty
times from the barrel in the pantry, th,
barrel, like the one of Zarepath, would b.
full: and the shoes OF the children woult
last as long as the shoes of the Israelite
in the wilderness-forty. years. Besid
that, this is going to make heaven tn
i more attractive in the contrast. The,
never hunger there, and consequent,
there viii be none of the nuisance
of catering for appetites. And in tn,
land of the white robe they never have t,
! mend anything, and the air in tina
hill country makes everybody WELL Their
are no rents to pay; every body owns hi
own house, and a mansion at that. 1t will
not be so great change for you to have
chariot in heaven it you have been in tn,
habit of riding i'm this world. 1t will no
be so great a change for you to sit down OIL
the bank of the river of life. il in this worl,
You had country seat; but it you hav
walked with tired feet in this world, VIII q
glorious change to mount celestia
equipage; and if your life on earth wa
domestic martyrdom, o! the joy of Al
eternity in which you shall have nothing
to do except what you choose to do. Mar
tina has had no drudgery for eightee
centuries! Iquarrel with the theologian
who want to distribute all the thrones o
heaven among the John Knoxes. and tn
Hugh Latimers, and the Theban Legion
Some of the brightest thrones of HEAVIER
will be kept for Christian housekeepers
o! what change from here to there
from the time when they put down th
rolling-pin to when they take ND tn
scepter. If Chatsworth Park and th
Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth avenue wer
to be lifted into the Celestial City, the,
would be considered uninhahitable rock
cries, and glorified Lazarus wonld b
ashamed to be going in and out of eithe
of them.
There are many housekeepers who coul
get along with their tolls il If were not fo
sickness and trouble. The fact is ono-hal
OF the women of the land are more or les
invalids. The mountain lass, who ha
never had an ache or pain, may conside
household toll inconsiderable, snd towar