The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-05-21

one week, you would be ut can
didate for Bloomingdale-I mean insane
ASYLUM. The half-rested housekeeper
arises in the morning. She must have the
morning repast prepared at an irrevoca-
BILE hour. What If 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-
reyocable 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 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 il the
butcher has sent meat unmasticable, or
tie grocer has sent articles of food adult
terased, and what IL some piece Of silver
be goifa or some favorite chalice be
cracked, d the roof leak, or the plumbing
fail, or any Do of a thousand things oc-
cur-you must bAready. Spring weather
comes, and there liYst be a revolution in
the family wardrobe; ~ autumn comes,
and you must shut out the northern blast;
but what if the moth has preceded you to
the chest; what ii, during the scar, the
children have outgrown the appeal of
last year; what il the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an apotheS
cary's shop; it must be a dispensary;
there must be medicines for all sorts of
Notwithstanding to loosen the Group
something to cool the burn-something TO
poultice the acknowledgements
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 / 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 garnet to cellar;
and that the God of Deborah, and Han
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 womanhood.
/ blunder; Christ was married. The Bible
says that the Church il the Lambs wife,
aud that makes me know that all Christian
women have q right to go to Christ and
tell him Of their annoy ances and troubles,
since by his oath Of conjugal fidelity he is
sworn 10 sympa thixe. George Herbert,
the Christian poet, wrote two or three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divine
Who sweeps room. as for thy laws
Makes this and the action fine.
Again, there is the trial OF severe econ
omy. Nine hundred and ninety mine
households out OF the thousand are SUBJ
jected to it-some under more and some
under less stress of circumstances. e..
pecially IL q man smoke very expensive
cigars, and takes very costly dinners at
the restaurants, he will be severe in de-
domestic economies. This 10
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 is Q panic
every few weeks. This thirty years' war
against high prices, this perpetual stady
Of economies. this lifelong attempt &c
hausts millions of housekeepers. o. my
sister, this is . part of the divine disci-
pline. II It were hest for you, all you
would haxe to do would be to open the
front windows and the ravens would hy In
with food; and after you had baked 1fty
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 ~ long as the shoes Of The Israelites
In the wilderness-torty 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
and Of the white robe they never have to
mend anything, and the air in that
all country makes everybody well. There
Ne NO rents to pay; every body owns his
,wn house, and mansion at that. It win
not be % great change for you to have .
shariot In heaven IL you have been in the
habit Of riding in this world. It win not |
- 20 great change for you to sit down ON
he bank Of the river Of life, II in this world
ron had country seat: but II you have
walked with tired feet in this world, VII 1t |
) glorious change to mount celestial |
'quipage; and II your life on earth was
martyrdom, o! the joy OF an
'tsrnity in which you shall have nothing |
Q do except what you choose to do. Mar
ha has had no drudgery for eighteen
Iquarrel with the tbeoIoeians
Who want TO distribute all the thrones of |
heaven among the John Knoxes. and the |
augh Latimers, and the Theban Legion.
lone OF the brightest thrones of heaven
vM be kept for Christian housekeepers
d what change from here to there
rom the time when they put down the
olling-pin to when they take MP the
cepter. II Chatsworth Park and the
Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth avenue were /
0 b lifted into the Celestial 'Cisy. thew
vould b considered uninhabltable rock. /
ries, and glorined Lazarus would be
'shaned 70 b going in and out Of either
them.
There are many housekeepers Who could |
et along with their tolls IL II uare mt IN.