The Newtown bee., 1892-09-30

nave something TO say ABOUT Tie aSSocl-
ates of their sons and daughters and their
possible lovers. Marriage is not, of ne
cessity, a lottery scheme; even Cupid is
subject to some sort of control.
1t is not fate, but folly, which results
in more than 400 divorces, each year, in
Connecticut.
Self interest is the strongest motive
and, therefore, the best argument with
many people. But, even then, the chief
est advantage to themselves. Esau's
mess-of-pottage Argument, lest he should
die of hunger and so lose everything, is
we'll nigh universal and invincible. "A
live dog is better then dead lion" and
there is not faith enough in God to take
any risk in futures. LET well enough
alone" is the huge stumbling block of all
progress. Better to stay in the bondage
of Egypt, with plenty of onions and
abundant flesh pots, than to venture to
try to possess the land of promise. Even
the blessedness of ones loving his neigh
Dor as himself depends upon the sort of
self love one has.
"Whosoever will be chief among you,
let him be your servant" What. and do
your drudgery for you. Even so. In
deed, it would seem to mean more than
that to us. The bond servant was slave.
Not hired servant, who is more anxious
to get the wages than to do true and
laudable service, but one bound by some
law of obligation to devote his life to
you. The Lord not only taught that pre-
cept, but He exemplified it to US. He
was bound by the very law of His divine
nature to empty Himself of the glory He
had with God, the Father and to sacrifice
Himself on the altar of infinite love be-
cause we poor, unworthy creatures need
ed Him, lest we should utterly perish in
our sins.
And this is the law of the Heavenly
Kingdom, but not the law of the world.
The man or woman who would really
serve in that spirit, without regard to
the conventionalities of society,s so called,
would still be called a fool. And yet
that is just what the world most needs
and what it must at last come to. The
spirit of the world is false. It makes un-
godly and foolish distinctions and suffers
most from its own folly.
The girl in the kitchen is drudge.
The girl in the parlor, who teaches mus
sa Il laH
mer is menial, the latter is honorable !;
the one is a servant, the other is a COM
panion. But who does not we'll know,
for all that, that good. Intelligent,
faithful woman in the kitchen is infinite
ly more important to the health and hap
piness of the family than the music teach
er in the parlor, or the artist, or even the
dressmaker?
And, accordingly, you can find plenty
of women who are ready to do anything
but that which is Indispensable to good
home; but first class woman for the
kitchen or nursery you can hardly get
for love or money. The fact is. it really
needs more brain and culture and solid
Christian character in the kitchen, to do
the drudgery of a family, as the Lord
would have it done, than it does to run
the parlor part of the house.
In ancient days, it sometimes happen
ed that the slave was the superior COM
pared with his master, as in the case of
Ksop. There are probably thousands of
homes in this country in which the
woman who is hired to do the drudgery
ought to be the superior of the mistress
of the house, in muscle, mind and man.
ners, for the sake of the Kingdom of
Heaven. Here is a grand opportunity
for the girls of the rising generation. Let
them by all means educate themselves to
do the ssdrudgery' of the weak, selfish
and incompetent ladies of the land. 1t
is most pressing missionary work, and
they who serve most and best with least
reward shall be chief in the kingdom
if not in the world. The mis-
sionary work in this direction. hitherto,
has been done mostly by devoted house
wives who have vainly labored ito make
good servants out of ignorant and incap-
able girls who worked only for wages
and, as soon as they became useful, mar
ried and refused to do anybody's drudg-
cry but their own.
The time has come when the best tai
ent of the best families should enter up
on this grand work, which will do so
much to restore the broken order of the