The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-01-14

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the marketing did hot come. what, il
The clock has stobped-ho mattel. sh4
must have the morning repast at an ir.
reVoeable hour. Then the children
must be got off to school. What Il
their garments are torn; what if they
do not know their lessons; what If they
have lost q hat CIR sash@thgy ifIust be
ready. Then you all have the diet OF
the day, and perhaps of several days,
to plan; but what if the butcher has
sent meat unmasticable, or the grocer
has sent articles of food adulterated.
and what Ii sohAg piece OF silver
Do gone, or some favorite
chalice be cracked, or the roof
leak, or the plumbing fail or any one
OF thousand things occur-you must
be ready. Spring weather comes, and
there must be revolution in the fam
| lily Wardrobe; or autumn comes, and
you must shut out the northern blast;
but what If the moth has preceded you
to the chest; what if, during the year.
children have outgrown the apparel of
last year; what if the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an
apothecafy's shop: ii mtist be d dis
pehsaryl there must be medicines for
all sorts of ailmen tS-something to
loosen the Group, something to cool the
burn, something to poultice the infam-
nation, something to silence the jump
ing tooth, something to seothe the
| earaehe, You must he Id half dozen
| places at the Same time, or you must
attempt to be. If, Under all this
wear and tear of life, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon
library or drawing room, be pa
tient be lenient! On, woman, though
L may fail to stir up an appreciation
IN the souls of others in regard to your
household tolls, let me assure YOU,
from the kindliness With which Jesus
Christ met Martha, that He appreciates
all your work from garnet to cellar;
and that the God of Deborah, and
Hannah, and Abigail, and Grand
mother Lois, and Elizabeth Fry, and
Hannah Mote is the God of the house
keeperl Jesus was never married, that
He might be the especial friend and
confident of a whole world of troubled
womanhood. l blunder: Christ was
married. The Bible says that the
church is the Lambs wife, and that
makes me know that all Christian
women have d 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 sub
ject:
The servant by this clause
lakes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room, for Thy laws,
Makes this and the action fine.
A young woman of brilliant educa-
ton and prosperous circumstances was
called downstairs to help in the kitch-
en- in the absense of the servants. The |
door-bell ringing, she went to open it |
and found a gentleman friend, who
said as he came in: Il thought that l |
heard music; was it on this piano or
on this harp?" She answered: ''No; 1 |
was playing on a gridiron, with a |
frying-pan accompaniment The serv-
ants are gone, and | am learning how |
to do this work" Well done! When |
will women in all circles find out that |
it Is honorable to do anything that |
ought to be done?
Again, there is the trial of severe |
economy. Nine hundred and ninety |
nine households out of the thousand |
are subjected to it-some under more
and some under less stress of circum-
stances. Especially if a man smoke
very expensive cigars and take very
costly dinners at the restaurants he |
will be severe in demanding domestic
economies. This is what kills tens of
thousands of mountaineering to
make So do the work of 81. A young
woman about to enter the married
state said to her mother: 'How
long does the honeymoon last?n
The mother answered.: 1.-The honey
moon lasts until you ask your husband
for money" How some men do dole
out money to their wives "How much
10 you want?" IA dollar" You are al
ways wanting a dollar. Can't you do
with so cents?" If the husband has
not the money, let him plainly say so.
If he has it, let him make cheerful re-
sponse, remembering that his wife has
Is much right to it as he has. How
,he bills come inl The woman is the
banker of the household, she is the
president, the cashier, the teller, the
discount clerk; and there is panic
avery few weeks! This thirty years
var against high prices, this perpetual
study of economics, this lifelong at
empt to keep the outgoes less than
he income, exhaustS innumerable
Oh, my sister, this is
BART of the Divine discipline. If it
we're best for you, all you would have
o do would be to open the front win
lows and the ravens would fly in
With food; and after you had baked
% times from the barrel in the
pantry, the barrel, like the one of
Larepath, would be full; and the shoes
# the children would last as long as
he shoes of the Israelites in the will
.erness--40 years. Besides that, this {
S going to make Heaven the more at
ractive in the contrast. They never
Iunger there. and conse quently there
will be none of the nuisances of cater
ny for appetites. And in the land of
he white robe they never have to
mend anything, and the air in that .
makes every body well. {
here are no rents to pay; every man
WINS his own house, and mansion at {
hat. 1t will not be so great change
or you to have chariot in Heaven if
GU have been in the habit of riding in '
his world. 1t will not be so great q {
hange for you to sit down on the l
anks of the River of Life, if I
a this world you had a country /
eat; but if you have walked with /
ired feet in this world, what S
glorious change to mount celestial {