The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-03

..#H appreciation in the souls Of others
~ 2ard to your household tolls, Let me
YOU, from the kindness with which
u. CHRIST met Martha, that he apprc-
.ft. all your work from garnet to cellar:
ant nat the God of Deborah, and Hannah
ati Abigai, and Grandmother Lois. and
az oeth Fry, and Hannah More is the
God of the housekeeper! Jesus was never
led that he might be the especial
fr,a"d and conGdant of a whole world of
u ed womanhood. I blundor. Christ
was married The Bible says that the
'Hlsn Is the Lambs wife, and that
makes me know that all Christian women
HaVe p right to go 10 Christ and tell him of
1eI lnnoyances and troubles, since by his
oath of conjugal fidelity he is sworn TO
F}mpathize. George Herbert the Christian
poet wrote two or three verses on this sub
jr-t.
The servant by this clause
Makes drudSery divine;
no sweeps room, as for Thy laws,
Makes this and the action fine"
A Young woman of brilliant education
and prosperous circumstances was called
downstairs to help in the kitchen in the
absence of the servants The door-ben
ringing, she went to open it and found a
gentleman friend. who said as he came in:
II thought that / heard music; was il on
this piano or on this harp?" She an
swered: mo / was playing on a grid
iron, with frying pan accompaniment.
The servants are gone, and I am learning
how to do this work" Wei done! When
viii 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 econ
omy. Nine hundred and ninety mine
households out Of the thousand are
subjected to it-some under more and
afa-4
Especially if man smoke very expensive
cigars, and take very costly dinners at the
restaurants, he will be severe in demand
ing domestic economies. This is what
Kills tens of thousands of women-at-
tempting to make s. do the work Of seven
young woman about TO enter the mar
ried state said to her mother: How long
does the. honeymoon last?" The mother
answered. 'The honeymoon lasts until
you ask your husband for money" How
some men do dole out money to their
wivesl ''EIow much do you want?' "A
dollar" You are always wanting dol
lar. Can't you do with 80 cents?" II
the husband has not the money, let him
plainly say so. If he has it, let him
make cheerful response, remembering that
his Wife has as much right to il as he
has. How the bills come in! The woman
is the banker of the household, she is the
president, the cashier the teller the dis
few weeksl This thirty years war against
high prices, this perpetual study of econ
omlcs, this lifelong attempt 10 keep the
outgOes less than the income, eXhausts in
Vulnerable housekeepers Oh, my sister
this is a part of the divine discipline II
1t were best for you, all you would have
60 do would be to open-the front windows
and the ravens would fly in with food; ana
after you had baked fifty times from the
barrel of the pantry, the barrel like the
one of Zarephath. would be full; and the
shoes of the children would last as long as
the shoes of the Israelites in the wilder
ness-furty years. Besides that, this is
going to make heaven the more attrac-
tive 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 robe 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 a mansion at
that 1t Will not be so great a change for
you to have a chariot in heaven if you
have been i'm the habit of riding in this
world. 1t will not be So great change
for you to sit down on the banks of
the river of life, if in this world you had
a country-seat; but if you have walked
with tired feet in this world. what
a glorious change to mount celestial equip
age And if your life on earth was do
nestle martyrdom, oh, the joy of an eter-
nifty in which you shall have nothing 10
do except what you choose to do! Martha
has had no drudgery for eighteen centu-
ries, l quarreled with the theologiaus who
want to distribute all the thrones of heav-
en- among the John KnoXes, and the Hugh
Laumers and the Theban Legion Some
of the brightest thrones of heaven viii be
kept for Christian housekeepers. oh.
what a change from here 20 there-from
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