Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-08


clock has stoppcd--no matter, she mus
have the morning repast at an irreyocabl
hour. Then the children must be got oil
10 school. what II their garments ar
torn; what II they do not know their les
sons; what IL they have lost a hat o
sash--they must be ready. Ihei
YOU have all the diet OF tn
day, and perhaps Of several days, 20 plan
but what II the butcher has sent inca
unmasticable, or the grocer has sent arti
/ cles OF food Rdulterated; and what I
II some piece OF silver be gone, or som'
favorite challce be cracked, or the roo
4 leak, OF tho plumbing fail, or any one o.
a Thousand things occur, you must b.
ready. Spring weather comes, and there
must be a revolution In the family ward
\ robe; or autumn comes, and you must
I shut out the northern blast; but what II
the moth has preceded you to the chesti
1 what ", during the year, the children
| have outgrown the apparel Of last YEAR,
what Il the fashions have chaugedl Your
/ house must be an apothecary's shop; Il
must DO a dispcnsary; there must be
medicines for al sorts Of ailmente--Some-
thing to loosen the croup-something 70
cool the burn--something 70 poultice the
! inHammatlou-so something to silence the
/ Jumping tooth something 70 sooth the
eaIache. You must be In half dozen
| pisces at the same time, or you must at
tempt to be. II, under all this wear and
F, tear OF life, Martha makes an impatient
1 rush upon the library or drAwing.room
be patient, be lenlent. o woman,
though may fail % stir up an apprecia-
tion 10 the souls Of others in regard 70
your household tolls, let me assure you,
from the kIndliness with which Jesus
Christ met Martha, that he appreciates all
your work from garnet 10 cellar, and that
the God Of Deborah, and Hannah, and
Abigail, and Grandmother Lois, and
Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah Moore, Is the
God Of the housekeeper. Jesus was never
married that He might be the especial
friend and con1dant OF n whole world of
troubled womauhoOd. blunder; Christ
was married The bible says that the
church was the Lambs wife, and that
makes me know that all Christian women
have a right to 90 to Christ and tell Him
Of their annOyanccs and troubles, since
by His oath Of coujngal fidelity lie Is
sworn to syinpathlzs George fIecDert,
the Christian poet, wrote two or three
verses on this subject;
The servant by this clause
Makes dfndgery divine;
Who sweeps q room, as FOR Thy laws,
Makos thi and the action nue"
Again, there Is the trial OF severe econ
omy Nine hundred aud ninety-nine
households oat Of the thousand are sub.
jcctcd 70 it--some under more and some
uudcf less stress Of circumstances Ia.
pecnAy II o man smoke very expensive
cigars aud lake very costly dinners at the
restaurants, he VIII be severe IN demand
ing domestic economies. This is what
Kills ,Gns OF thousands Of wOmen-at-
tempting 70 make Owe dollars do the work
of seven. How The bills come int The
woman IS the banker Of the household;
she Is the pres ident, the cashier the dis.
count clerk; und there is a panic every
few weeks This thirty years. war against
high prices, this perpetual study Of econ
omies, this lifelong attempt 10 keep the
oulgoes lees than HE income, exhausts
millions of housekecpers. Oh, my sister,
this is part OF divine dis lpline. IL 1t
We're beat for you, al you would have 20
do would be TO open the front windows
aud the ravens would fly in with
ioodi and after YOU had baked
In the pantry, the barrel, like one OF |
Iarepaih, would be full; aud the shoes of |
the children would last az long as the |
shoes u the lsraolitcs 10 the Wilderness |
-icrty years Beside that, this Is going |
10 make heaven the moro attractive IN |
me contrast. They never hunger there, |
md consequently there viii be none Of |
.he nuisances Of catering for appetites. |
And Ia the land Of the white robe they |
never have TO mend anything, and the !
str la that hill-country makes every |
lody well. There are no rents to pay |
every man owns his own house, and a |
mansion at that. II will not be so great |
, change for you 20 have chariot in |
heaven Il you have been IN the habit OF |
'idiug IN THIS world 1t win not be so |
great change for you to sit down on the
banks OF the river " life, II In this world |
iou mad a country seat; but II you have !
walked with tired feet Ia this world, what |
glorious change to mount celestial !
.quipagej and II your life on earth was
domestic martyrdNm, OH the ioy OF an |
,tcrnlty in which you shall have nothing
@ do except what you choose TO do, |
Martha has had no dmdgerY for eighteen |
'enturiesl quarrel With the theologlans
who want to distribute all the thrones of |
leayen among the John Knoxes, aud the |
Hugh l.stimers, and the rheban Legion.
some Of the brightest thipnes of heaven
VIII be kept for Christian housekeepers, |
Oh what change from hire TO there
rom the time they pnt dow, the rolling |
pin TO when they take up th6sceptre. Ii |
lhatsworth park and the Vanderbilt man |
sion on Fifth avenue were tA be lifted
into the celestial city, they woNd be con.
sidered uninhabltable rookerss, and
Z drilled Lazarus would be ashanRd to be
going In and out OF either Of themA
There are many nouseKeepers wnocould
get along with their tolls II It wen not
Tor sickness aud troubles The iacl is,
one-haf OF the women OF ME
land are more or less inyalids. NE
lass, who has never had aQ
ache or pain, may consider household
toll lnconsldcrable, and toward evening
she may skip away miles TO the fields and
drive home the cattle, and abe may until
10 o'clock at night an the house with
laughing racket; but OH 70 do the work
OF lite with worn-out constitution, when
whooping-cough has been raging for six
weeks IN the household, makIrg the night
as Sleepless as the day--that ~ not so
easy Perhaps this coules'after the nerves
have been shattered by some be-
reayement that has left des0lation in
every room of tie house, and set the crib
In the garnet, because the occupant has
been hushed into slumber which needs
no mothers lullaby on she could pro-
vide for the whole group great deal bet.
ter than she can for part OF the group,
now the rest are gone, Though you may,
tell her God is taking care OF those who
arr gone, il is mother-like to brood boU
flocks, and one wing she puts over y
hock Ia the house, the other wing AZ
puts over the flock In the grave.
There IA nothing but the old.faskned