The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-14
oman through the trials Of home life. A


plexities Of the household are more than
atoned by the Joy of being together, and
by the fact that when II is late they do not
have to discuss the question as to whether
It is time to go. The mishaps Of the house,
hold, instead Of being matter of anxiety
and apprehension, are matter Of merri'
ment-the loaf of bread turned into a geo-
logical specimen; the slushy custards; the
jaundiced or measly biscuits. 1t is very
bright sunlight that falls on the cutlery
and the mantel ornaments of new home.
But after awhile the romance Is all gone,
and then there is something to be prepared
for the table that the book called Cookery
Taught in Twelve Lessons" will not teach.
The receipt for making it is not a handful
of this, cup Of that, and a spoonful of
something else. 1t is not something
sweetened with ordinary condiments,
or favored with ordinary favors,
or baked in ordinary ovens.
1t is the loaf of domestic happiness; and
all the ingredients come down from Heav-
en-, and the fruits are plucked from the
tree OF life, and it is sweetened with the
new wine of the kingdom, and IL is baked
in the oven Of home trial. Solomon wrote
out OF his own experience. He had
wretched home. A man can not be happy
with two wives, much less six hundred;
and hs says, writing out Of his own expe-
riencs: "Better is a dinner Of herbs where
love is, than stalled OK aud hatred there
with.D
How great are the responsibilities Of
housekeepers. Sometimes an indigestible
article Of food, by its effect upon COM
mandsr or king, has defeated an army or
overthrown an empire. Houskeepers, by
the food they provide, by the couches they
spread, by the books they introduce, by
the influences they bring around their
home, are deciding the physical. intellect.
ual. moral, eternal destiny of the race.
You say your life is one OF sacrifice. I
know IL. But my sisters, that Is the only
| life worth living. That was Florence
| Nightingale's life; that was Payson's
life; that was Christ's life. We admire il
in others, but how very hard II Is for us to
cultivate ourselves. When In this city
young Doctor Hutchinson, having spent a
whole night in diphtheritlc room for the
relief Of a patient, became saturated with
the poison and. died, we all felt as IL we
would like to put garlands on his grave;
everybody appreciates that. When in the
burning hotel at st. Louis, young man
on the fifth story broke open the door of
the room where his mother was sleeping,
and plunged In amid smoke and fire, cry
ing: "Mother where are you" and never
! cama ont our baayts n plaud ad III at ,,o,,,, a,
man. But how few Of us have the Christi
like spirit-a willingness to suffer for
others. A rough teacher in school called
upon poor, half starved lad, who had Of
Tended against the laws of the school, and
said:
"Take of your coat directly, SIR"
The boy refused to take it off. Where.
upon the teacher said again:
"Take off your coat, SIR" as he swung
the whip through the air. The boy re-
fused. 1t was not because he was afraid
Of the lash-he was used to that at home
but IL was from shame; he had no UNDER
garment, and as at the third command he
pulled slowly off his coat, there went a
sob through the school. They saw then
why he did not want TO remove his coat,
and they saw the shoulder blades had
almost cut through the skin, and a stout,
healthy boy rose up and went TO the
teacher Of the school and, said:
"Oh, sir, please don't hurt this poor fel.
low; whip me; see, he's nothing but a poor
chap; don't you hurt him, he's poor; whip
me-"
"Well," said the teacher, "it's going to
be a severe whining: I am willing To take
Won as a substitute.D
"Well," said the boy, ~ don't care; you
whip me, II you will let this poor fellow
go.n
The stout. b4altv how took the Seour0inp
without an outcry,
mBravow saws sverv man-uHrav vo -,
How many Of us are willing IN tale this
scouroin0. and the ,uffsrin0 and the toll.
and the anxiety for other peopIeY Beauti.
ful thing IN admire. but how little we have
Of that spirit. God gave us that self.denv.
ing spirit, 90 that whether we are In hum-
bls snhnres mr. In consnicpous snberss. wa
NAV nsrform our whole duty-for thi,
strnggle will soon be over.
One Of the most affecting remIniscencs,
of nv mother is nv remembrance of her
a. cyhr,s,,o, bo,saLoonor sbo bod
verv hard. and when wa would
coma In from summer nlav and sit
down AZ the tabla AZ noon re.
member how sba wouId come IN With
heads NJ nsrsnirotion along the line q,
orav hair and how some times sha ,voulf
sit down NJ the table and nut her beol
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