The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-01-07

number compared with the slain IN the
great Armageddon of the kitchen. You
60 out to the cemetery, and you Will see
that the tombstones all read beautifully
poetic but if those tombstones wCdld
speak the truth thousands of them
would say: "Here lies woman killed
by too much mending and sewing and
baking and scrubbing and securing
The weapon with which she was slain
was broom or a sewing machine or
ladle You think, o man of the
world, that you have all the cares and
anxieties. If the cares and anxieties OF
the household should come upon you
for one week, you would be fit for the
insane asylum. The half rested house
keeper arises in the morning. She must
have the morning repast prepared at an
irrevocable hour. What if the fire will
not light, what if the marketing did
not come, what if the clock has stopped
no matter, she must have the morn
ing repast at an irrevoCable hour.
Cares of the Housewife.
Then the children must be got off to
school. What if their garments are
torn, what if they do not know their
lessons, what if they have lost hat or
sash-they must be ready. Then you
have all the diet of the day, and per-
haps of several days, to plan; but what
if the butcher has sent meat unmastlca-
BILE or the grocer has sent articles of
food aduIterated, and what if some
piece of silver be gone, or some favorlte
chalice be cracked, or the roof leak, or
the plumbing fail, or any one of thou
sand things occur-you must be ready
Spring weather comes, and there must
be a revolution in the family WARDROBE
or autumn comes, and you must SIN
out the northern blast; but what if the
moth has preceded you to the chest,
what if during the year the children
have outgrown the apparel Of last year,
what if the fashions have changed.
Your house must be an apothecary's
shop; it must be a dispensary; there
must be medicines for all sorts of all
understanding to loosen the Group,
something to cool the burn, something
to poultice the inflammation, some
thing to silence the jumping tooth,
something to soothe the earache. You
must be in half dozen places at the
same time, or you must attempt to be.
IT, under all this wear and tear of life,
Martha makes an impatient rush upon
the library or drawing room, be patient,
be lenient. O woman, though l may
fail to stir up an appreciation in the
souls of others in regard to your house
hold 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 Abb
gail and Grandmother Lois and Eliza.
beth Fry and Hannah More is the Goo
of the housekeeper. Jesus was never
married, that he might be the especial
friend and contdant of a whole world
of troubled womanhood. l blunder
Christ was married. The Bible says
that the church is the Lamb S wife, and
that makes me know that all Christian
women have right to go to Christ and
tell him of their annoyances and trou-
bles since by his oath of oonjugal fidel-
ity he is sworn to sympathize. George
Herbert, the Christian poet, wrote two
or three verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divine
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes this and the action fine.
Divine Discipline.
A young woman of brilliant education |
and prosperous circumstances was call |
ed down stairs to help in the kitchen in |
the absence of the servants The door
bell ringing, she went to open it and
be came in: Il thought that heard
music. Was it on this piano or on this
harp" She answered: "No, l was
playing On gridiron, with frying pan
accompaniment. The servants 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
10 anything that ought to be done?
Again, there is the trial of severe
Nine hundred and ninety
line households out of the thousand are
subjected to it-some under more and
some under less stress Of circumstances.
if a man smoke very expen-
sive cigars and take very costly dinners
At the restaurants he will be severe in
domestic economies. This is
what kills tens of thousands of women
to make So do the work Of
81. a young woman about to enter the
married state said to her mother, How
ong does he honeymoon last?" The
mother answered, 1.-The honeymoon
asts until you ask your husband for
money!" How some men do dole out
money to their wives! "How much do
,ou want?'' "a dollar - "You are al
ways wanting a dollar. Can't you do
With so cents?' If the husband has not
he money, let him plainly say SO. If he
las it, let him make cheerful response,
that his wife has as much
light to it as he has. How the bills
ONE in The woman is the banker of
he household, she is the president, the
asher, the teller, the discount clerk,
nd there is a panic every few weeks.
his 30 years war against high prices,
his perpetual study of economics and
his life long attempt to keep the out
oes less than the income exhaust in
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