Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-08

Liz WSapCu Will WHICH sue was Sl11l
was broom or a.sewing machine or
ladle. !" You think. o man Of tn
world, that you have all the cares an,
anxieties. If the cares and anxieties O.
| the household should come upon 20,
for one week. you would be fit for tn
insane asylum. The half rested house
keeper arises in the morning. She mus
have the morning repast prepared at al
! irrevocable hour What if the fire will
not light, what if the marketing die
not come, what if the clock has stopped
no matter, she must have the morn
ing repast ut all irrevocable hour.
Cares of the Housewife.
Then the children must be got off tc
school. What if their garments are
torn, what if they do not know their
lessons, what if they have lost hat OF
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 unmastica.
BILE or the grocer has sent articles of
food adulterated. and what if some
piece OF silver be gone, or some favorite
chalice be cracked, or the roof leak, OF
the plumbing fail, or any one Of thou
sand things Occur-you must be ready.
Spring weather comes, and there must
be revolution in the family 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 tie year the children
have outsrown the apparel of last year,
what if the fashions have changed.
Your house must be ali apothecary' s
shop; it must be 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.
If, under all this wear and tear of life,
Martha makes an inpatient rush upon
the library or drawing room, be patient,
be lenient. 0 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 be 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 God
of the housekeeper. Jesus was never
married, that he might be the especial
friend and confdant 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
have right to go to Christ and |
tell him of their annoyances and trou-
bles, since by his oath of conjugal fidel- !
lty ne 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 room, as for thy laws,
Makes this and the action fine.
Divine Discipline.
A young woman of brilliant education
md prosperous circumstances was call
ID down stairs to help in the kitchen in
he absence of the servants. The door
'ell ringing, she went to open it and
ound gentleman friend, who said as
10 came in: II thought that heard
music. Was it on this piano or on this
larp?" She answered: mo, l was
'laying on gridiron, with frying pan
'ccomp animent. The servants are gone,
nd 1 am learning how 10 do this work. E"
Veil done When will women in all
ircles find out that it is honorable to
o anything that ought to be done?
Again, there is the trial of severe
economy Nine hundred ard ninety.
inc households out OF the thousand are
objected to it-some under more and
ome under less stress of circumstances.
specially if man smoke very expen-
i've cigars and take very. costly dinners {
t the restaurants be will be severe in
domestic economies. This is
hat kills tens of thousands of women
attempting to mike SIS do the work of |
I. A yoang woman about to enter the {
larried state said to her mother, How J
ing does the honeymoon last?" The '
lother answered, 1.-The honeymoon t
ISIS until you ask your husband for y
loney. How some men do dole out i
oney to their wiyesl How much do 9
ou want?' "A dollar " You are al
avs wanting a dollar Can't you do a
18th so cents?' If the husband has not o
10 money, let him plainly say so. If he Il
as it, let him make cheerful response, q
membering that his wife has as much v
ght to it as he has. How the bills O
me in The woman is the banker of
g household, she is the president, the
shier, the teller, the discount clerk, /;
ID there is panic every few weeks. q
lis 30 years war against high prices, G;
is perpetual study Of economics and h
is life long attempt to keep the out So
es less than the income exhaust in r.
merable bousekeepers. n,
Oh. my sister, this is part of the Di- :,
ne discipline If it were best for you, II
you would have to do would be to Fl
en- the front windows, and the ravens ~
'uld fly in with food, and after you h
d baked so times from the barrel in
2 pantry the barrel, like the one of nj
rephath, would be full, and the shoes &C
the children would last as long as the tt
oes Of the lsraelites in the wilderness L.
40 years. Besides that this is going re
make heaven the more attractive in ST.
} contrast. They never hunger there, tt
/ consequently there will be none of VI
} nuisances of catering for appetites, al
in the land of the white robe they til
Ter have to mend anything, and the nc
in that hill country makes every hi
ly well. There are no rents to pay. We
cry man owns his own house. and yc
nsion at that. 1t will not be SO great be