Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-04-15

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Your house must be an spothecarys shop;
4 Il must be dispensary; there must be med
icines for all sorts Of ailments-something
TO loosen the group, sonisthing 10 cool tbs
burn, something to pouiilre the infamma-
ton, something to -ilence the jumping
tooth, something to soothe the earache.
You must be IN halt dozen places at the
same time, or you must attempt to be. II,
under all this wear aud tear Of life, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon the library
or drawing room, be patient. be lenient. o
woman, though may iail 10 stir up an ap-
pIeciation in the souls of others in regard
to yonr household tolls, let me assure you,
from the kindliness with which Jesus
Christ met Martha, that He appreciates all
your work from garret to cellar; and that
the God of Deborana, and Hannah, and
Abigail, and Grandmother Lois, and Eliza
beth Fry, and Hannah Moore is the God of
the housekeeper. Jesus was never mar
ried that He might be the special friend
and confdant of whole world of troubled
womanhoed. blunder; Christ was mar
ried. The Bible says that the church is
the lambs wife, and that makes me know
that all Christian women have right to go
to Christ and tell Him of their annoyances
and troubles, since by His oath of conjugal
fidelity He is sworn to sympathize. George
Herbert, the Christian poet, wrote two or
three verses on this subject: li,'
The servant by this clause ss 10
. Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps room, as for Thy laws,
Makes this and the action fine. b.
Again, there is the trial of severe econ.
omy. Nine hundred and ninety mine house.
holds out of the thousand are subjected to
it-some under more, and some under less
stress of circumstances. Especially if q
man smoke very expensive cigars, and take
very costly dinners at the restaurants, he
will be severe in demanding domestic econ
omies. This is what kills tens of thousands
of women attempting to make $5 do the
work of 81. 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 a panic
every few weeks. This thirty years war
against high prices, this perpetual study OF
economies, this lifelong attempt to keep
the outgoes less than the income, exhausts
millions of housekeepers. Oh, my sister,
this is part Of the divine discipline. If il
were best for you, all you would have to do
would be to open the front windows and
the ravens would fly in with food; and after
you had baked fifty times from the barrel
in the pantry, the barrel, like the one of
Zare path, would be full; and the shoes Of
the children would last as long as the shoes
of the Israelites in the Wilderness forty
years. Besides that, this is going to make
heaven the more attractive in the contrast.
They never hunger there, and consequently
there will be none of the, nuisances Of
catering for appetites. And in the land Of
the white robes they never have to mend
anything, and the air in that hill country
makes everybody we'll. There are no rents
to pay; every man owns his own house, and
mansion at that. It will not be so
great o change for you to have q
chariot in heaven if you have
been in the habit Of riding in this world. Il
will not be so great a change for you to sit
down on the hanks of the river of life if in
this world you had . county seat; but If
you have walked with tired feet in this
world, what a glorious change to mount
celestial equipage; and If your life on
earth was domestic maItyrdom, oh, the
JOY of an eternity in which you shall have
nothing to do except what you choose to
do! Martha has had mo drudgery for
eighteen centuries! quarrel with the
theologians who want to distribute all tho
thrones of heaven among the John Knoxes,
and the Hugh Latimers, and the Theban
Legion. Some of the brightest thrones Of
heaven will be kept for Christian house,
keepers. Oh, what change from here to
there-from the time when they put down
the rolling pin to when they take up the
srept.r. If Chatsworth park and the Van
derbilt mansion on Fifth avenue were to be
considered uninhabitable rookeries, and
ry1n Tay mo haf afouk f<> hA
going in and out of either of them. .nfs
There are many housekeepers who
could get along with their tolls if it were
not for the sickness and trouble. The fact
is, one-haf Of the women Of the land are
more or less invalids. The mountain lass,
who has never had an ache or pain, may
consider household toll uncomfortable,
anil toward evening she may skip away
miles to the fields and drive home the
cattle, and she may until 10 O'Clock at night
fill the house with laughing racket; but oh,
to do the worksof life with worn -out con-
stitution, when whooping- cough has been
raging for six weeks in the household,
making the night as sleepless as the day.
thatis not SO easy. Perhaps this comes
after the nerves have been. shattered, by
some bereavement that has left desolation
AL ONC1y AOOAu LII Ulo AOuocy hnu ,bGt Lu0
crib in the garret, because the occupant has
been hushed into slumber which needs
no mothers lullaby. Oh, she could pro.
vide for the whole group q great deal better
than she can for part Of the group now
the rest are gone. Though you may tell
her God is taking care Of those who are
gone, it is mother-lik to brood both focks,
and one wing she puts over the flock in the
house, the other, wing she puts over the
flock in the grave. ,,l,r,a y ~ fa,,,,,s
There is nothing but, the old fashioned
religion Of Jesus Christ that VIII take wo-
man through the trials Of home life. At
first, there may be o romance or aanovelty
that will do for atsubstitute. The mar.
riage hour has just passed. and the per-
atoned by the joy of being together, and by
the fact that whsr Il is late they do not
have to discuss the question as to whether
it is time to gold The mishapsa Of the
household, instead Of being O. matter, of
anxiety and apprehension, are o matter, of
merriment-the loaf Of bread turned into o
geological specimen; the alushy scustards;
the, jaHndiced or measly. biscuits; II 10 q
very bright sunlight that falls on the, cut
lery and the nnantel ornaments of nev
home, '4i'fs = A1t1i6 a'leH stf' STH4
But after while the romance il all gone,
and then there is something TO be prepared
for the table that the book called aCookefy
Taught In Twelve Lessons will, not teach.
The recipe for making il is not ., hsndonl
of this, a cup Of. that, and a spoonful of
something else. It ID not something sweet.
ened with ordinary condiments, Or favored
with ordinary favors, or bakedin ordinary
ovens. Itis the loaf of domestic happi-