Connecticut western news., 1899-02-16

ter Everything must be ready. The spring is coming, and there must be revolution in the family wardrobe, or the autumn is at hand, and you must shut out the northern blast But how if the moth has preceded you to the chest How if the garments of the last year do not fit the children now2 What if all the fashions have changedT
 Relief For Ailments.
 The house must be an extemporized apothecary's shop or dispensary; there must be relief for all styles of ailments; to loosen the croup, some thing to cool the burn, something to poultice the inflammation, something to silence the jumping tooth, something to soothe the earache. Oh, man of busi- Aess, if you had as many cares as that you would be fit candidate for an in- sane asyluml If Martha make under such circumstances an impatient rush on the library or the drawing room, be patient, be lenient. Oh, my sister, though my words may not arouse in many souls any appreciation of your toll, let me assure you from the kindliness with which Jesus Christ met Martha that he appreciates all your trials, from gar ret to cellar and the God of Deborah, and Miriam, and Abigail is the God of the housekeepersl Christ never mar ried, that he might be the especial friend and confident of whole world of troubled womanhood. I blundered. Christ was married. The Bible says the church is sthe Bride, the Lambs wife, '' and that makes me know that a woman has right to go to Christ with all her and perplexities and fla tigues, for by his oath of conjugal fidel- ity he hath sworn to sympathize. Geoge Herbert put the thought in three or four verses, quaint and pecul- far, but strong, and in one verse saying: The servant by this clause makes drudgery
 divine;
 Who sweeps a room as for thy laws makes this
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 A young woman of brilliant education and prosperous surroundings was called down stairs to help in the absence of the servant, and there was ring at the bell, and she went to the door and an admirer entered. He said: 'I thought heard music in the house. Was it on the piano or the harpf" She said: Neither it was frying pan ac- to gridiron In other words, I was called down stairs to help. I suppose some time I shall have to learn, and I have begun now" When will the world learn that every kind of work that is right is honorables
 As Martha opens the door I look in and I also see the trial of severe econ- omy Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand are sub- jected to it either under the greater or less stress of circumstances. It is espe- cially so when man smokes expensive cigars and dimes at costly restaurants He will be very apt to enjoin severe economy at home. That is what kills thousands of women-the attempt to make $5 do the work of $7. It is amaz- ing how some men dole out money to the household. If you have not got the say so. If you have. be cheer ful in the expenditure. Your wife will be reasonable. Glow long does the honeymoon last 2" said 8 young woman about to enter the married state to her mother. The mother answered, 1.-The honeymoon lasts until you ask your husband for money" "How much do you wantf" "A dollar. ''A dollarl Can't you get along with 50 centsf You are always wanting dollar" This 80 years war against high prices, this everlasting attempt to bring the outgo within the income, has exhausted of housekeepers. Let me say to such, it is part of the divine dis cipline. If it were best for you, all you would have to do would be just to open the front windows and the ravens would fly in with food, and after you had baked 90 times from the barrel in the pantry, like the barrel of Zarephath, the barrel would be full, and the chil- dren's shoes would last as long as the shoes of the Israelites in the wilderness 40 years
 Will Make the Contrast Brighter.
 Oh, my friends, all these trials and fatigues of home life are to prepare you for heaven, for they will make that the brighter in the contrast A dying sol dier was asked by a friend. 'sHave you any message to send to your fatherf 2" ''Yes," said he; ''tell him have gone home ? Well, said the friend, ''have you any message to send to your wife2" "Yes; tell her I have gone home. " "You have other friends. Would you like to send message to themf'' "Yes; give them the same message. They will understand it. Tell them 1 have gone home" And that heavenly home will compensate, will fully atone, for all che hardshipe and the trials and the an- noyances and the vexations of the earth ly home. In that land they never hun ger, and consequently there will be no nuisance of catering for appetite. In that land of the white robes they have no mending to do, and the air of that hilly country makes them all we'll No rent to pay there. Every man owns his own house, and mansion at that. It will not be so great change to step into the chariot of the skies if on earth you rode. 1t will not be so great a change if on earth you had all luxuries and satisfactions. It will not be so great change for you to sit down on the banks of the river of life if on earth you had a country seat
 But, oh, the joy for the weary feet when they step into the celestial equi- page. and, oh, the joy of those to whom home was a martyrdom on earth when they go into that home where they will never have to do anything they do not want to dol What change from the time che put down the rolling pin to the time she took up the scepteri If Chatsworth Park and the Vanderbilt were lifted into the celestial city, they would be looked at as unin- habitable rookeries, and Lazarus him. self would be ashamed to be seen going in or out of them, so great are the pal aces awaiting all Gods dear children, and so much grander the heavenly ar chitecture than the earthly. It is often not only the toll of the housekeeping,