The southern sentinel., 1886-06-18

asylum. The half-rested housekeeper
arises in the morning. She must have the
morning repast prepared at an irrevoca-
BILE hour. What IL the fire will not light;
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 of to school. What IL their gar.
ments are torn; what il they do not know
their lessons; what il 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 il the
butcher has sent meat unmasticable, or
the grocer has sent articles of food adul-
terated, and what IL 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 II the moth has preceded you to
the chest; what IL, during the year, the
children have outgrown the apparel of
last year; what IL the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an apothe-
cary's shop; it must be dispensary;
there must be medicines for all sorts of
Misunderstanding to loosen the Group
something to cool the burn-something to
poultice the nfammation-somethin
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. II,
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 1 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 be the especial friend and confidante
of whole world of troubled womnnhood.
blunder; Christ was married. The Bible
,ays that the Church is the Lambs wife,
lud that makes me know that all Christian
women have right to go to Christ and
ell him of their annoya ances and troubles.
Iince by his oath of copjugal fidelity he is |
worn to sympatb George Herbert. |
he Christian poet, wrote two or three |
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divine
Who sweeps room, ~ for thy laws
Makes this aud the action fne.
Again, there is the trial OF severe econ
my. Nine hundred and ninety nine |
out Of the thousand are sub
ected to it-some under more and some
lnder less stress of circumstances Es.
'ecially II man smoke very expensive
igars. and takes very costly dinners at
be restaurants, he viii be severe in de-
handing domestic economies. This 10
that kills tens Of thousands of women
tempting to make Eve do the work of
even dollars. How the bills come in?
he woman Is the banker OF the household:
be IL the president. the cashier, the teller,
10 discount clerk: and there In . panic
very few weeks! This thirty years. war
gainst high prices, this perpetual study
economies, this lifelong attempt to |
eep the outgoes less than the income, ex-
austs millions Of housekeepers. o! my
ster, this Is . part of the divine disci.
line. II It were hest for you, all you
'ould have to do would be to open the
ont windows and the ravens would Nv In {
fth food; and after you had baked flfty
mes from the barrel in the pantry, the
arrsi. Ike the one Of zarepath. would b
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