The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-16

fail, or any one of Q thousand things 0c
cur-you must be ready. Spring weather
comes, and there must be Q revolution n
the family wardrobe; or autumn comes
and you must shut out the northern blast
but what II the moth has preceded you T.
the chest; what IL. during the year. til
children have outgrown the apparel Of
last year; what II the fashions hava
changed. Your house must be an apothe.
cary's shop; It must be . dispensary;
there must be medicines for all sorts Of
Notwithstanding to loosen the Group
something to cool the burn-something Il
poultice the mmation-somethina
to silence the jumping tooth-some.
thing to soothe the earache
You must be in half dozen places at ths
under all the wear and tear of life, Marths
makes an impatient rush upon the library
or drawing room, be patient, be lenient
o! woman, though I may fail to stir ur
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 Elisabeth Frey,
and Hannah More II 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 a right to 60 to Christ and
tell him of their annoyances and troubles,
since by his oath Of conjugal fidelity he is
sworn to sympa thize. George Herbert,
the Christian poet, wrote two or three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clanse
Makes druid gerry divine
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws
Makes this and the action fine.
Again, there 10 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 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 in?
The woman is the banker of the household;
she is the president, the cashier, the teller,
the discount clerk; and there il a panic
every few weeks! This thirty years. war
against high prices. this perpetual study
of economies, this lifelong attempt to
keep the ontgoes less than the income. ex-
hausts millions Of housekeepers. o! my
sister, this is a part of the divine disci-
pline. II it were best for you, all you
would have to do would he to open the
front windows and the ravens would fy in
with food; and after you had baked fifty
times from the barrel in the pantry. the
barrel, like the one of Zarepatl,, would be
full; and the shoes of the children would
last as long as the shoes of the Israelites
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 mono 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
hill country makes everybody well. There
are no rents to pay: everybody owns bis
own house, and a mansion at that. It will
not be so great a change for you to have a
chariot in heaven il you have been in the
habit of riding in this world. It will not
be so great change for you to sit down on
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you had a country seat; but il you have
walked with tired feet in this world. VIII at
a glorious change to mount celestial
equipage; and if your life on earth was
domestic martyrdom, o! the joy of an
eternity in which you shall have nothing
to do except what you choose to do. Mar
tina has had no drudgery for eighteen
quarrel with the theolo.ian
who want to distribute all the thrones of
heaven among the John Knoxes. and the
Hugh Latimers, and the Theban Legion.
will be kept for Christian housekeepers.
o! what a change from here to there
from the time when they put down the
to when they take up the
scepter. II Chatsworth Park and the
Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth avenue were
to be lifted into the Celestial City, they
would be considered uninbabitable rock.
cries. nd glorified Lazarus would be
ashamed to be going in and out of either
Of them.
There are many houseksepers who could
get along with their tolls il it were not for
sickness and trouble. The fact is one.half
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invalids. The mountain lass, who has
never had an ache or pain, may consider
household toll uncomfortable. and toward
evening she may skip away miles to the
fields and drive home the cattle. and she
may until ten O'Clock at night fill the house
with laughing racket: but o! to do the
work OF life with worn-out constitution,
when whooping. cough has been raging
'or six weeks in the household, making the
hight as sleepless as the day-that is not
10 easy. Perhaps this comes after the
nerves have been shattered by some be-
that has left desolation in every
Dom of the house, and set the crib in the
yarret, because the occupant has been
,ushed into a slumber which needs no
Mothers lullaby. Oh! she could provide
or the whole group q great deal better
han she can for part Of the group. now
he rest are gone. Though you may tell
Ter God is taking care of those who are
zone, it is mother-liks to brood both fiocks;
md one wing she puts over the flock in the
louse, and the other wing she puts over
he flock in the grave.
There is nothing but the old.fasbioned
'sligion of Jesus Christ that will take a
roman through the trials of home life. At
irst there may be romance or novelty
hat will do for a substitute. The mar.
ia&e hour has just pa sed, and the per.