The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-08

You 90 out to the cemetery and yor
will see that the tomb stones all read
beautifully poetic; but il those tomb
stones would speak the truth, thou
sands of them would say: ''IIers
lies n woman killed by toe
much mending, and sewing, aud
baking and scrubbing, and scour-
ing; the weapon with which she was
slain was broom, or u sewing ma
chine, or ladle." You think, o mar
OF the world! that you have all the
cares and anxieties. IL the cares and
anxieties OF the household should come
upon you for one week, you would be
fit for tn. insane asylum. The half
rested housekeeper arises in the morn
ing. She must have the morning re-
past prepared at an irrevocable hour.
What IL the fire will not light; what II
the marketing did not come; what il
the clock has stopped-no matter, she
must have the morning repast at an ir-
revocablc hour. Then the children
must be got off to school. What If
their garments are torn; what if they
do not know their lessons; what il they
have lost a hat or sash-they must be
ready. Then you all have the diet OF
the day, and perhaps Of several days,
to plan; but what IL the butcher has
sent meat unmasticable or the grocer
has sent articles of food adulterated,
and what IL some piece of silver
be 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 II the moth has preceded You
to the chest; what if, during the year,
children have outgrown the apparel of
last year; what il the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an
apothecary's shop; it. must be dis
pcnsary; there must be medicines for
all sorts of ailments-someth thing to
loosen the Group. something To cool the
burn, something TO poultice the inflam-
nation, something to silence the jump,
ing tooth, something to soothe the
earache. You must be in half a dozen
places ut the same time, or you must
attempt to be. If, under all this
wear and tear of lite, 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
tolls, let me assure you,
from the kindliness with which Jesus
Christ met Martha, that lie appreciates
nil your work from garnet to cellar;
and that the God Of Deborah, and
Hannah, and Abigail, and Grand
mother Lois, and Elizabeth Fry, and
More is the God of the house
keeper! Jesus was never married, that
He might be the especial friend and
OF whole world of troubled
womanhood. l blunder: Christ was
The Bible says that the
church is the Lambs wife, and that
makes me know that all Christian
have right to go to Christ and
ell Him of their annoyances and
,roubles, since by His oath of conjugal
idelity lie is sworn to sympathize.
ieorge Herbert, the Christian poet
wrote two or three verses on this sub
ect: -
Tho servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divi me-
Who sweeps II room as for Thy laws,
Makes this and the action fine.
A young woman of brilliant educa-
ion and prosperous circumstances was
alled downstairs to help in the xitch-
m in the absense of the servants. The |
loor-bell ringing, she went to open it |
md found a gentleman friend, who |
aid as he came in: IL thought that | |
leard music; was it on this piano or
N this harpY She answered.: "No; / |
vas playing on n gridron, with
rying-pan accompaniment. The serv-
.nts are gone, and / am learning how |
o do this work" Well done. When |
will women in all circles find out that |
t is honorable to do anything that |
'ught to be done?
Again, there is the trial of severe |
economy. Nine hundred and ninety |
line households out of the thousand |
re subjected to it-some under more
nd some under less stress of circum-
tances. Especially il man smoke |
cry expensive cigars and take very |
ostly dinners at the restaurants he |
will be severe in demanding domestic |
economies This is what kills tens of /
thousands of mountaineering to |
make S. do the work of 81. A young
about to enter the married |
tate said to her mother: "How |
ong does the honeymoon last?"
he mother answered.: THE honey
noon lasts until you ask your husband
or money" How some men do dole |
nut money to their wives. GLOW much
% you wanty" "A dollar" You are al |
Ways wanting dollar. e Can't you do
With 80 cents?" If the husband has
lot the money, let him plainly say so.
I he has it, let him make cheerful re-
ponse, remembering that his wife has
$ much right to it as he has. How
he bills come inl The woman is the |
anlSer Of the household, she is the
resident, the cashier, the teller, the
iscount clerk; and there is a panic
very few wecks! This thirty years
var against high prices, this perpetual
tudy of economics, this lifelong at
empt to keep the outgocs less than
he income, e2hausts innumerable
ousekeepcrs. Oh, my sister, this is