The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-01-25

store of a brother, the leading mar
chant of the town. to consider the
situation. The amount needed to
/ liuuidate all Indebtedness and car
ry on the work of the church dur
ing the year was ascertained. Ev-
cry brother, the merchant said, if
the members of this church will
give to the church as much as they
| pay me for tobacco, | will see that
the full amount is raised. Tney
did not agree. l raise The question
whether there is not a big sin in
such case-in the waste Of so
much money. But, really, is it
not hard on us to have to give to
the Lords cause out of the little
| left after we have paid for all the
tobacco, not to mention whisky
and other things we do not need?
"Let me put a luminous case ov-
er against the two ! have cited. In
New Orleans, years ago, was q
Northern brother in business
through the winter. His life was
simple and free from waste. He
sent check once, as | happened
to know, to help a brother. 1t was
for 500 These words went with
it: If this amount from me, who
wastes no money on tobacco or
other useless things, Will help you
/ am glad to be able to send it,
He was able to give largely by
saving. How does he who became
poor that we might be made rich,
look on these representative cases?
And is it not time we were putting
some conscience in our expendi-
lures?
"Lot us look into our modern
well TODD homes. One Of the spe-
cial evils of this rushing period is
the nervous strain upon women,
especially women with young chill.
drcn. A really quiet home now is
hard to find. Housekeeping is
growing more difficult all the time.
Why is it? Because domestic ser.
vice is poor?
Yes, that is it in part, bat on
ly in small part. In our cities we
have gas or electric lights and wa
ter all over the houses-conven-
fences unknown to our mothers
but with all these, housewives are
worked and worried beyond the
point of comfortable existence for
themselves or anyone else. What
alls them? Let us look into the
parlor and see if there is any sug-
gestion OF the trouble there. Here
are pictures, bric-a-brac, music
mostly unused, books piled about
in kind of reckless order. The
furniture is delicate and hard to
keep, while the chairs are so
adorned that one is constantly in
danger of carrying something not
his own away on his back. All
this wilderness of elegance re-
qulres time and labor.
IF We go through the house we
will find everything laid out on
the same general plan. The up
shot of the whole business is that
our homes worry us out of all COM
fort. The further view of the same
thing is that while we are buying
ourselves poor to fit up fantasti.
cal homes. we make,bard it in the
house and hard when we 90 on the
street and meet merchants with
bills we cannot pay.
"rhese sort of things in dress,
in supposed needed recreations,
etC'' MAKE ana perpetuate hard
times. The modern mother must
have SO or $40 cradle to rock
the baby in, while she was rocked
in box rugged up for the purpose
some rainey day by her common
sense, debt-paying, fearing,
quiet father. The same baby must
/ ave a $50 carriage to go on dress
parade on the street. 1t was not
ever thus. The salary of the
young father will not meet all these
bills, with cigar and whisky bills
and club fees thrown in. Here is
a line boy who needs father very
much to drill him in the first prin.
clples Of honest, easy living. The
boy needs exercise, and the father
pays $50 for a bike" and then
hires a darkey to hoe the garden.
The like of this is making hard
times for fnp,ilioc ,yb;oL o,l4