St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-04-17

| cemetery, ana you VIII see thaC the TOMB
stones all read beautifully poetic; but if
those tombstones would speak the truths,
thousands of them would say: "Here lies
a woman killed by too much mending,
and sewing, and baking. and scrubbing,
and securing; the weapon with which she
was slain was broom. a sewing ma
chine, or a ladle." You think, oh! man
of the world, that you have all the cares
and anxeties. If the cares and anxieties
of the household should come upon you for
| one week, you would be fit can
didate for Bloomingdale- mean insane
asylum.
| If. under all the wear and tear, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon the library
/ or drawing room, be patient, be lenient.
I O! 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 Eliza beth Lois. and Elizabeth Frey,
and Hannah More is the God Of the house,
keeper. Jesus was never married that he
might DE- Tile especial lTleHu ana cOnlluanCo
of whole world of troubled womanhood.
l 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 go to Christ and
tell him of their annoyances and troubles,
since by his oath of conjugal fidelity he is
sworn to svmpa thize. George Herbert,
the Christian poet. wrote two or three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes druid gerry divine
Who sweeps n room, as for thy laws
Makes this and the action line.
Again. there is 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 viii he severe in de-
handing domestic econ mies. 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 thare 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, ex-
hausts millions of housekeepers O.. my
sister, this is part of the divine disc-
pline. If it were hest for you, all Won
would have to do would be to open the
front wiz
with food; and after you had baked fifty
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 as long the shoes of tile 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 he none 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
bill country makes everybody well. There
are no rents to pay; everybody owns his
own house, and a mansion at that. 1t will
not be so great change for YOU to have a
chariot in heaven if You have been in the
habit OF riding in this world 1t will not
be so great change for you to sit down on
the bank of the river of life, if in this world
you had country seat: but if 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 jov of an
eternity in which you shall have nothing
TO do except what you choos TO do. Mar
5ha has had no drudgery for eighteen
centuries! quarrel with the theologians
who want to distribute all the 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 housekeepers.
There are many housekeepers who could .
ret along with their tolls if it were not for
sickness and trouble. The fact is ne-half !
It the women Of the land are uore or less :
nvallds. The mountain lass, who has ,
lever had an ache or pain, may consider 7
toll inconsiierable. and toward .
vening she may skip away miles to the ,
leids and drive home the cattle, and she :
nay until ten o'clock at night fill the house 3
With laughing racket: but OF to do the :
work of life with worn-out constitution, '
When whooping cough has been raging :
Or six weeks i'll the household, making the
light as sleepless as the day-that is not -.
o easy. Perhaps this comes after the
erves have been shattered by some be-
eavement that hes left desolation in every
DOM Of the house, and set the crib in the :
arret, because the occupant has been !
ushed into slumber which needs no
1other's lullaby. Oh! she could provide
Or the whole group great deal better :
han she can for part of the group, now =
he rest are gone. Though you NAV tel, =
er God is tax ing care of those who are =
one, it is mother like to brood both flncks. :