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

1OT you 10 HuNc u III ~
you have been in the habit of riding In
this world. II will not be SO great &
| change for you to sit down on the
banks OF the River of Life. i
in this world you had country
seat; but II you have walked with
tired feet in this world. wha,
a glorious change to mount celestial
equ ipnge! And il your life on earth
was domestic martyrdom, oh, the Joy
of an eternity in which you shall have
nothing to do except what you choose
to do! Martha has had no drudgery for
10 centuries! quarrel with the
theologians who want to distribute al
the thrones OF Heaven among the John
Knoxes, and the Hugh Latimers, and
the Theban Legion. Some of the
brightest thrones of Heaven will be
kept for Christian housekeepers. Oh,
what IA change from here to there
from the time when they put down the
rolling-pin to when they take up the
sccpter. If Chatsworth park and the
Vanderbilt mansion were to be lifted
into the Celestial City they would be
considered uninhabitable roolSeries,
and glorifed Lazarus would be
ashamed to be going in and out of
either of them.
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
ache or pain, may consider household
toll inconsiderable, and toward even
ing she may skip away miles to the
fields and drive home the cattle, and
she may until ten o'clock at night fill
the house with laughing racket; but,
oh, to do the work of life with worn
out constitution, when whooping
cough has been raging for six
weeks in the household, making
the night as sleepless us the day
that is not SO easy! Perhaps this
comes after the nerves have been
shattered by some bereavement that
has left desolation in every room of
the house, and set the crib in the
garnet, because the occupant has been
hushed into slumber which needs no
mothers lullaby. Oh, she could pro-
vide for the whole group great deal
better than she can for part of the
group, now that the rest are gone.
Though you may tell her God is talk
ing care of those who are gone, it is
mother-lilie to brood both fiocks; and
one wing she puts over the flock in the
house the other wing she puts over
the flock in the grave.
There is nothing but the old-fash-
Toned religion of Jesus Christ that will
take woman happily through the
trials of home life. at first there may
be romance or a novelty that will do
for substitute. The marriage hour
has just passed. and the perplexities of
the household are more than atoned
by the joy of being together, and by
the fact when it is late they do not dis
cuss the question as to whether it is
time to go. The mishaps of the house
hold, instead of being matter of anx-
iety and apprehension, are u matter of
loaf of bread turned
into geological specimens; the slushy
custards; the jaundiced or measlcy bis
cults. 1t is very bright sunlight that
falls on the cutlery and the mantel
of IL new home.
But after awhile the romance is all
gone, and then there is something to
be prepared for the table that the
book called Cookery Taught in
Twelve Lessons" will not teach. The
receipt for making it is not handful
IF this, a cup OF that, and Il spoonful of
something else. 1t is not netting
'weetened with ordinary condiments,
'r favored with ordinary ilavors, or
baked in ordinary ovens. 1t is the
oaf OF domestic happiness; and all
he ingredients come down from
heaven, and the fruits are pluclsed
med with the new wine of the king
lom, and it is baked in the oven of
lone trial. Solomon wrote out of his
,wn experience. He had wretched
lone. A man can not be happy with
wo wives, much less 600; and he SAYS,
writing out of his own experience:
: Bette is dinner OF herbs where love
S, than stalled OK and hatred there
with"
OhC Va Vic ahSSbihb
,ences of my mother is my remem.
France of her as Christian house
leeper. She worked very hard, and
when we would come in from summer
,lay, and sit down at the table at noon,
remem Der how she used to come in
With beads of perspirations along the
inc of gray hair, and how sonnet times
he would sit down at the table and
,ut her head against her wri nix led
rand and say: "Well, the fact is, IN
90 tired to eat" Long after she might
lave delegated this duty to others, she
would not be satisfied unless she at
ended To the matter herself. In fact,
We all preferred to have her do SO.
or somehow things tasted better
When she prepared them. Some
lime ago, in IN express train, shot |
,ast that old homestead. 1 looked out
# the window, and tried to peer
through the darkness. While was do
ny SO, one of my old schoolmates,
whom l had not seen for many years, |
apped me on the shoulder, and said: |
Dewitt, l see you are looking out at
he scenes of your boyhood." "Oh,
'es; l replied, Il was looking out
It the old place where my mother
ived and died" That night, in the
ars, the whole scene came back to Inc. |