The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-14

morning repast prepared at an irrevoca-
BILE hour. What If the fire will not lights
what IL 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 Off to school. What IL their gar
ments are torn; what If they do not know
their lessons; what If they have lost 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 unmasticable, 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, OF 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 IL the moth ha~ preceded you to
the chest; what II, during the year, the
children have outgrown the apparel of
last year; what If the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an apothe-
there must be medicines for all sorts Of
Understanding to loosen the Group
something to cool the burn-somethng TO
! poultice the inhammation-someth
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
OF 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 garret to cellar;
and that the God of Deborah, and Ham
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 he the especial friend and confdante
Of 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 a right to go to Christ and
tell him Of their annoyances and troubles,
since by his oath Of conjugal fidelity he is
the Christian poet, wrote two or three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes druid sery divine
Who sweeps q room, as for thy laws
Makes this and the acti, fine.
Again, there Is the trial Of severe econ
omy. Nine hundred and ninety mine
households out of the thous and are SUBJ
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-
manding 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 inf
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 weeksl This thirty years. war
against high prices, this perpetual study
of economies, this lifelong attempt 10
keep the outgoes less than the income, ex-
hausts millions OF housekeepers. o. my
sister, this Is part Of the divine disci-
pline. II It were best for you, all you
would have 10 do would be 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 Israeltes
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 have Ia
mend anything, and the air in that
hill country makes everybody well. There
are no rents to pay; everybody owns his
own house, and q mansion at that. II will
not be so great a change for you to have a
chariot In heaven II you have been In the
habit Of riding In this world. II will moi
be so great a change for you to sit down on
the bank Of the river OF life, II in this world
you had q country seat; but II you have
walked with tired feet in this world. VIII al
a glorious change TO mount celestia
equipage; and II your life on earth wal
domestic martyrdom, OF 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 eighteeI
centuriesl quarrel 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 heaver
will be kept for Christian housekeepers
OF what change from here to there
from the time when they put down tn
rolling pin TO when they take up tn
scepter. II Chatsworth Park and tn
Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth avenue wer
TO be lifted into the Celestial City, they
would be considered uninhabitable rook
cries, and glorihed Lazarus would b
ashamed 10 be going In and out Of eithe
Of them.
There are many housekeepers who coul
get along with their tolls IL II were not 70
sickness and trouble. The fact is one-hal
Of the women Of the land are more or les
invalids. The mountain lass, who ha
never had an ache or pain, may conslde
household toll incoDsiderable, and towar
evening she may, skip away miles to tb
fields and drive home the cattle, and sh
may until ten o'clock at night All the bous
with laughing racket; but oi TO do tn
work OF life with worn-out constitution
when WhoopinR cough has been ragin