Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-02-13

years of age look as though they were
40 The fallen at Chalons and Auster-
litz and Gettysburg and Waterloo are
a small number in comparison with
those who have gone down under the
Armageddon of the kitchen. Go out to
the county and look over the epitaphs
on the tombstones. They are all beauti-
full and poetic, but if the tombstones
could tell the truth thousands of them
would say, Here lies woman who
was killed by too much mending and
sewing and baking and securing and
scrubbing," and the weapon with which
she was killed was a broom or sewing
machine or ladle.
The housewife rises in the morning
half rested. At an irrevocable hour she
must have the morning repast ready.
What if the fire will not burn, what if
the clock stop, what if the marketing
has not been sent inP No matter that !;
it must be ready at the irrevocable
hour. Then the children must be got
ready for school But what if the gar
ments be torn? What if they do not
known their lessons2 What if the hat
or sash is lost2 They must be ready.
Then you have the duty of the day, or
perhaps several days, to plan out. But
what if the butcher sends meat un-
masticable? What if the grocer fur
nishes your articles of food adulterated2
What if the piece of silver be lost, or a
favorite chalice be broken, or the roof
leak, or the plumbing fail, or any one
of thousand things occur? No mat
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 now? What if
all the fashions have changed2
Relief For Ailments.
The house must be an extemporized
apothecary's shop or dispensary; there
must be relief for all styles of ailments;
something to loosen the Group, 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 bust
ness, if you had as many cares as that
you would be a 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 housekeepers Christ never mar
ried, that he might be the especial
friend and confident of whole world
of troubled womanhood.' I Numbered.
Christ was married. The Bible says the
church is ''the Bride, the Lambs wife, -
and that makes me know that a woman
has a right to go to Christ with all her
annoyances and perplexities and ia
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-
lar, 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
and the action fine.
A Young woman of brilliant education
and prosperous surroundings was called
down stairs to help in the absence of
the servant, and there was a ring at
the bell, and she went to the door and
an admirer entered. He said: 81
thought I heard music in the house
Was it on the piano or the harp2" She
said: ''Neither it was frying pan &C
compartment to a gridironl In other
words, 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 honorable2
AS Martha opens the door I look in
and 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 So do the work of 81. 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
full in the expenditure Your wife will
be reasonable. Glow long does the
honeymoon last p said young woman
about to enter the married state to her
mother. The mother answered, ''The
honeymoon lasts until you ask your
husband for money" Glow much do
Won want Pr ga dollar" ga dOllarf
Can't you get along with so cents ?
You are always wanting a dollar"
This 80 years war against high prices,
this everlasting attempt to bring the
outgo within the income. has exhausted