Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-02-18
=. AcCOMAC c. H. VA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1892

Tho housewife rises in the morning
half rested At IN 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 in? No matter that !;
it must be ready at the ilrevocable
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 lessons? 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 I'M
masticablel What if the grocer fur
nishes Your articles of food adulterated7
What if tho piece of silver be lost, or a
favorite chalico be broken, OF the roof
leak, or the plumbing fail, or any one
of a 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 chest2
How if the garments of the last year
do not fit the children now2 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 fit candidate for an in
sane asylum 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. l blundered.
Christ was married. The Bible says the
church is "the Bride, the Lambs wife, .
and that makes me know that 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 room as for thy laws makes thls
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 ring at
the bell, and she went to the door and
an adnirer entered. He said: 81
thought 1 heard music in the house
Was it on the piano or the harp?' She
said: "Neither; it was afrying pan ac-
compartment to a gridironl In other
words, l was called down stairs to help
1 suppose some time I shall have to
learn, and have begun now. = When
will the world learn that every kind of
work that is right is hororable2
AS Martha opens the door look in
and / also see the trial of severe econ
omy. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
households out of a Thousand arc sub
iected to it either under the greater or
less stress of circumstances. 1t is espe-
cially so when a man smokes expensive
cigars and dimes Mt 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. 1t is amaz-
inc how solre men dole out money to
the household. IF you have not got the
money, say so. If you have, be cheer
full in the expenditure. Your wife will
be reasonable. "How long does the
honeymoon last?' 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
YOU want p GA dollar. . "a dollar
Can't you get along with 80 cents 7
You are always wanting dollar.
This 80 years war against high prices,
this everlasting attempt to bring the
outgo within the income, has exhausted
multitudes of housekeepers. Let me say
to such, it is a 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 so times from the barrel in
the pantry, like the barrel of Zarephath,
the barrel would be full, and the chill
dren's shoes would last as long as the
shoes of the Israclites 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 d g SOL
dier was asked by a friend, "Rave you
any message to send to your. father2'
eyes" said he; "tell him have gone
home. y "Well, said the friend, "have
you any message to send to your wife,"
eyes; tell her 1 have gone home.
"You have other friends Would you
like to send message to them?" eyes;
give them the same message. They
will understand it. Tell them I have
gone home" And that,heavenly home
will compensate. will fully atone. for all
the hardships and the trials and the an
noyances and the vezations OF the eartn-
" home. In that land they never hum
ger, and consequently there will be no
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