Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-05

marketing did not come; what il the
! clock has stOpped-no matter, she must
have the morning repast at an irrevocabe
hour. Then the children must be got off to
school. Whatif their garments are torn;
what if they do not know their lessons;
what II 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 If the butcher has sent meat un-
! masticable, or the grocer has sent arti-
cles of food adulterQted, and what IL some
| piece OF silver be gone, or some favorite
| chalice be cracked, or the root leak, or
the plumbing fail, or any one Of thous-
and things occur-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 out
! grown the apparel of last year; what IL
the fashions have changed. Your house
must be an apothecary's shop; it must be
a dispensary; there must be medicines
| for all sorts Of Notwithstanding to
! loosen the croup-something TO cool the
| burn-sOmething to pOultlce the intlam-
mation-something to silence the jump
ing tOoth-something to sooth the ear
ache. You must be in half-a.dOzen places
!
| to be. II, under all this
wear and tear Of life, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon the libra
! ry or drawing room, be patient, be leni-
| ent. OF woman, though i may fail to stir
up an appreciation in the souls of Others
in regard to your household tolls, let me
assure you, from the kindIiness with
which Jesus Christ met Martha, that he
| appreciates all your work from garret to
! celler, and that the God of Deborah, and
! Hannah, and Abigail, and Grandmother
! Lois, and Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah
Moore is the god Of the housekoeper.
Jesus was never married that He might
! be the especial friend and cOnfdante of a
whole world of troubled womanhOod. /
| blunder; Christ was married. The Bible
says that the Church is the Lambs wife,
and that makes me know that all Chris
| tian women have right to 90 to Cbrlst
and tell Him OF their annOyances aud
| troubles, since by His oath OF conjugal
| fidelity He is sworn to sympathze
! George Herbert, the Christian poet, wrote
two or three verses on this subject:
"The servant by this clause
| Makes drudgery divine;
w WhO sweeps a room, as for Thy laws,
Makes this and the action tine."
Again, there is She trial OF severe econO-
| my. Nine hundred and ninety house
holds out of the thousand are subjected TO
| it--sOme under more and some under less
stress of circumstances. Especially II a
man smokes very expensive cigars and
| take very costly dinners at the restau-
rants he will be severe in demanding do
nestle economies. This Is what kills tens
| OF thousands Of women attempting to
| make five dollars do the work OF seven
How the bills come inl The woman is the
banker OF the household; she is the presi-
dent, 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 ecOno-
mics, this lifelong attempt TO keep
the Outg0es less than the income,
exhausts millions OF hOusekeepers.
O! my sister, this is a part OF the
Divine discipline. II it were best for you,
all you would have to 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 ofZerepath, would
be full; and the shoes OF the children
would last as long as the shoes OF the Is
raelites in the wilderness-foTty years.
| Beside that, this is going to make heaven
the more attractive in the contrast. They
never hunger there, and consequently
| there VIII be none of the nuisances OF
catering for appetites. And in the land
OF the white robe they never have to mend
| anything, and the air IN that
bill country makes everybody well.
| There are no rents to pay; every
man owns his own house, and
mansion at that. 1t will not be so great
change for you TO have chariot IN
heaven If you have been in the habit of
riding in this world. 1t will not be so
| great change for you TO sit down on the
banks of the river OF life, II in this world
| you had country seat; but II you have
walked with tired feet in this world,
| what a glorious change to mount celes-
| tiaFequipage; and if your life on earth
was domestic martyrdOm; Oh the joy Of
an eternity in which you shall have moth
ing TO do except what you choose TO do.
Martha has had no drudgery for eighteen
centuriesl Iquarrel with the theolOgians
| 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 10 there
| from the time when they put down the
rOllIng-pin TO when they take up the scep.
tre. ifChatswOrth park and the Wander
! bilt mansion on Fifth avenue were TO be
lifted into the Celestial city, they would
be considered uninhabitable rOOkeries,
and glorfed Lazarus would be ashamed
TO be going in and out Of either of them.
There are manV hOusekeepers who
tbulu ANb dlDiH WIN huSAA bniAH ~ ~ Wtit
not for sickness and trouble. The fact Is,
One-half OF the women OF the land are
more or less inYalids. The mountain lass,
who has never had an ache or pain, may
consider household toll incOnsiderable,
and toward evening she may skip away
miles 90 the fields and drive home the
cattle. and she may until 10 o'clock at
night MI the house with Laughing racket;
but o, 10 do the work Of life with worn
out constitution, when whOOping-cough
has been raging for six weeks in the
household d,making the night as sleepless as
the day--tbat is not 80 easy. Perhaps this
comes after the nerves have been shattered
by some bereavement that has left desO-
lation in every room OF the house, and set
the crib In the garret, because the occu-
pant has been hushed into slumber
which needs no mothers lullaby. Ohl
she could provide for the whole group a
great deal better than she can for a
part Of the group now the rest are gone.
Though you may tell her God is taking
care of those who are gone, 1t is mother
like 10 brood both fiOcks; and one wing
she puts over the flock In the house, the
other wing she puts over the flock in the
grave.
There is nothing but the old-fashioned
religion OF Jesus Christ that will take a
woman through the trials Of home life
Az first, there may be n romance or a
novelty that Will do for n substitute. The
marriage hour has just passed, and the
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