The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-21

GhaG every KIM or Work that Is r1Sht Is nom
| orable!
As Martha opens this door look in and
alsv see the trial Of severe economy. Nine
| hundred and ninety-nine households out OF
thousand are subjected to it either under
greater or less stress Of circumstances. 1t Is
especially so when a ruan smokes expensive
cigars and dimes at costly restaurants. He
| will be very apt to enjoin severe
economy at home. That is what
kills thousands Of women, the
attempt to make five dollars do the work Of
seven, 1t is amazing how some men dole
out money to the household. II you have
| not got the money say 80. If you have, be
cheerful in the expenditure. Your wife Will
be reasonable "aow long does tho honey.
moon last" said a young woman about to
enter the married state, to her mother. The
mother answered: "The honeymoon lasts until
much gU% h do YOU YOU wantT' "A dollars "a dol
lar! Can't you get along with fifty cents:
You are always wanting a dollarr'
This thirty years war against
high prices, this everlasting attempt to
bring the outgo. within the income has ex-
saw to such, it is part of the Divine disci-
pline If it were best for you all you would
have to do would be just to open the front
windows and the ravens would fly in with
food, and after you lad baked fifty times
from the barrel in the pantry, like the barrel
of Zarephath, the barrel would be full, and
the children's shoes would last as long as the
shoes of the Israelites in the wilderness, forty
years. Oh, my friends, all these trials
and fatigues Of home life are to pre-
pare you for heaven, for they will
make that the brighter in the contrast A
dying soldier was asked by friend, Have
fo md fN fo{h {ha.1
''Yes," said he; 'tell him I have gone home. u
sage to send to your wife?" Eyes; tell her
have gone home" 'You have other friends;
would you like to send message to them?''
"Yes; give them the same message; they
! will all understand it, Tell them have gone
home" And that heavenly homo will COM
| pensate, will fully atone fer all the
hardships and the trials and the annoy
ances and the vexations Of the earthly
home. In that land they never hunger, and
consequently there will be no nuisance Of
| catering for appetites. In that land of the
white-robed they have no mending to do and
the air of that billy country makes them all
WELL No rent to pay there; every man owns
his own house, and a mansion at that. 1t will
not be SO greata changeto step into the chariot
be 80 great change If on earth you had oil
luxuries and satisfactions. 1t will not be
50 great a change for you to sit down
| On the banks of the rivsr Of life if ON earth
you had a country seat But, oh, the joy for
the weary feet when they step into the celes-
| tial equipage. and oh, the joy Of those to whom
home was amartyrdom on earth, when they go
| into that home where they will never have to
do anything they do not want to do. What
rolling pin to the time she took up the scep-
ter! II Chatswork park and the Vanderbilt
mansion were lifted into the celestial city
they would he looked at as uninhabitable
rookeries, and Lazarus himself would be
ashamed to be seen going in or out OF
either of them, 50 great are the
palaces awaiting all Gods dear children and
80 much grander the heavenly architecture
than the earthly. 1t is often not only the
toll of the housekeeping but it is that the
sickness and the sorrow 60 along. 1t is a
simple fact that one-half the women of the
land are invalds. The mountain lass who
has never had an ache or pain may con-
slider household work Of no very great weari-
ness, and at the eventide may skip out to the
fields and drive the cattle home, and until 10
o'clock at night may fill the cabin
do the hard work Of the household with q
shattered constitution-after six weeks
whooping cough has ragged in the household,
making the nights as sleepless as the days,
then it is not so easy. And then this work
of the home has often to be undertaken when
the nerves are shattered with some bereave-
ment that has put desolation in every room OF
| the house, and set the crib into the garrett be-
cause its occupant has been hushed into q
slumber that needs no mother RS lullaby. Oh,
! it was great deal easier for her to brood the
whole flock than to brood a part Of
them, now that the rest have gone.
You may tell her that her departed children
are in the bosom of a loving God, but mother
like she will brood both f1ocks, putting one
wing of care over the flock in the home,
putting the other wing Of care over the flock
in the grave. Nothing but the old-fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ can take woman
happily through home trials All these mod
ern religions amount to nothing. They do
When there is dead babe in
the house. Away with them, and give us
the old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ that
has comforted so many in the days Of sorrow
and trouble. Romance and novelty may for
q while seem to be substitute. The mar
| riage day has only gone by, just gon,
| by, and all household cares are atoned for
by the joy of being together and by the fact
| that when it is late at night it is not neces-
sary to discuss whether it is time to 60. All
| the mishaps of the newly-married couple in
| the way OF household affairs are not matters
| Of anxiety or apprehension, but Of merri-
| ment The loaf Of bread turned into a geo.
| logical specimen, the slushy custards and the
| jaundiced and measly biscuits. Oh, it is a
very bright sunlight that falls upon the cut
| lery and mantel ornaments Of new home.
Romance and novelty will do for a little,
| but after while the romance is all gone and
| there is loaf to be made, loaf that cannot
be sweetened by any earthly condiments and
cannot be favored with any earthly favors,
| and cannot be baked in any ordinary oven.
| 1t IS the leaf of domestic happiness. All the
| ingredients from heaven. Fruit from tho
| tree Of life and sweetened with the new wine
| of the kingdom, and baked in the oven OF
home trial. God only can make that loaf.
! make it. Solomon wrote out Of
his own miserable e1perience-he had a
| wretched home-no man can be happy with
| two wives, much less with seven hundred
| and out of his wretched experience, he wrote:
"Better is dinner Of herbs and love there.
| with than stalled OK and hatred Herewith. "
| Oh, the responsibilities Of houseSeepers.
empires and generals through indigestion
have lost battles. One Of the
great statisticians says that out out of a
| thousand unmarried men thirty-eight were
| criminals and out of a thousand married men
| only eighteen were criminals, sho wing the
power Of home. And oh, the responsibility
resting upon housekeepers. By the food they
provide, by the couch they spread, by the books
they introduce, by the influences they brihg.
around the home they are helping to decide
the physical, the intellectual, the NORA, the
eternal welfare Of the human race. Oh,
the responsibility. That woman sits in
the house of God to-day, perhaps entirely
unappreciated. She is the banker of her
home, the pres:d ,nt, tho cashier, the
teller, the discount clerk, and ever and
anon there is panic. God knows the
| onriaties md tho roros and He knows th ar