Connecticut western news., 1898-01-06


 food adulterated. and what if some piece of silver be gone, or some favorite chalice be cracked, or the roof leak, or the plumbing fail, or any one of Q 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 shut 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 m apothecary' s shop; it must be dispensary; there must be medicines for all sorts of ail- understanding to loosen the cronp, 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 Ii, 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 garret to cellar, and that the God of Deborah and Hannah and Abi- 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 contidant of whole world of troubled womanhood. 1 blunder Christ was married. The Bible says that the church is the Lambs wife, and that makes me know that all Christian women have a right to go to Christ and tell him of their annoyances and trou- bles, since by his oath of conjugal 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 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 found gentleman friend, who said as he came in: II thought that I heard music. Was it on this piano or on this harp?" She answered: "No, I was playing on a gridiron, with frying pan accompaniment. The servants are gone, and am learning how to do this work. |" We'll donel 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 circumstances Especially if man smoke very expen. sive 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 women attempting to make $5 do the work of $7. A young woman about to enter the married 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 "How much do you want?" "A dollar. 1" "You are al ways wanting dollar. Can't you do with 50 cents?" If the husband has not the money, let him plainly say so. If be has it, let him make cheerful response, remembering that his wife has as much right to it as he has How the 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 every few weeks. This 80 years war against high prices, this perpetual study of economics ard this life long attempt to keep the out goes less than the income exhaust in- numerable housekeepers-
 Oh, my sister, this is part of the Di- vine discipline! If 1t were best for you, all you would have to do would be to open the front windows, and the ravens would fly in with food, and after you had baked 50 times from the barrel in 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 wilderness 40 years Besides that this is going to make heaven the more attractive 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 every body we'll. There are no rents to pay. Every man owns his own house. and a mansion at that. It will not be so great change for you to have chariot in heaven if you have been in the habit of riding ill this world. It will not be so great 8 change for you to sit down on the banks of the river of life if in this world you had country seat, but if you have walked with tired feet in this world what glorious change to mount celestial equipagel And if yous life on earth was domestic martyrdom, oh, the joy of an eternity in which you shall nave uOkUluS tO uO eAC6pb Wudb you choose to dol Martha has had no drudg- cry for 16 centuries I quarrel with the theologians who want to distribute all the thrones of heaven among the John Knoxes and the Hugh Latimers and the Theban legion. Some of the bright est thrones of heaven will be kept for Christian housekeepers. Oh, what a change from here to there-from the time when they put down the rolling pin to when they take up the scepter If Chatsworth park and the Vanderbilt mansion were to be lifted into the ce- lestial city, they would be considered uninhabitable rookeries, and glorified Lazarus would be ashamed to be going in and out of either of them.
 God Is Taking Care.
 There are many housekeepers who could get along with their tolls if it were not for sickness and trouble. The fact is, one-half of the women of the land are more or less invalids The mountain lass who has never had an