The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-02-13

ready. Then you have the duty Of the da,
or perhaps several days to plan out. BuI
what If tho butcher sends meat unmas
ticablep What If the grocer furnishes you
articles of food adulteratedP What If the
| piece OF silver be lost, or favorite chalice
be broken, or tho roof leak, or the plumb
ing fall, or any one Of thousand things
occurf No matter. Everything must be-
| ready The spring Is coming, and there
must be revolution in the family ward.
robe, or the autumn Is at hand, and you
must shut out the northern blast. But
how II the moth has preceded you to the
chestp How if the garments of the last
year do not fit the children nowp What ii
all tho fashions have changed?
Trials Appreciated.
The house mliyt be an extemporixed
npothecarys shop or dispensary. There
must he relief for all styles of ailments
something to loosen the Group, something
to cool the burn, something to poultice
the inflammation, something to silence
tho jumping tooth, something to sootho
tho earache. o man Of business If you
had as many cares as that, you would be
lit candidate for an insane asylum II
Martha make under such circumstances
an impatient rush on the library or the
drawing room, be patient, be lenicnt. Oh,
my sister, though my words may not
arouse In many souls aiiy appreciation Of
your toll, let ne assure you from the kind
Illness with which Jesus Christ met Martha
that he appreciates all your trials from
garnet to cellar. and the God of Deborah
and Miriam and Abigail is the God Of the
honsokeepers! Christ never married, that
he might be tho especial friend and conf
dant of whole world of troubled woman-
hood blundered. Christ was married.
The Bible says the church Is "the aride,
the Lambs wife," and that makes me
know that a woman has right to go to
Christ with all her annoyances and per-
plDxities and fatigues, for by his oath Of
conjugal fidelity he hath sworn to SYM
pathize. George Herbert put the thought
in three or four verses, quaint and pccul-
lar, but strong, and in one verse saying
The servant by this clause makes drudsery
divine;
Who sweeps 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 q ring at the boil,
and she went to the door, and an atlnrer
entered. He said, 81 thought l heard
music In the house. Was it op the piano
or tho harp?' She said: "Neither; 1t was
afrying pan accompaniment to a gridiron!
In other words. was called down stairs
to help. suppose scnc timo .hhll have
to learn, and have i;eglm EnH." When
will the world learn that every kind Of
work that is right Is honorable?
Home E"omoM,ies.
AS Martha opens, he ioor l look in,
and also see the trial Gf severe economy
Nino hundred and ninety-ninc households
out Of o Thousand arc subjected to it either
under the greater or less stress of circum-
stances. Ii is especially SO when man
smokes expensive cigars and dimes at cost
ly Restaurants. He will ho very apt to
cnjoin severe economy Mt home. That Is
what kills thousands of womenthe at
tempt to make S. do the work of 81. 1t
IL amazing how some men dole out money
to tho household II You have not got tho
money, say 80 you nave, be cheerful
in the expenditure. Your wife will DO
reasonable. "How long does the honey
moon last!" said Il young woman about
to cDter the married STATE 10 her mother
Tho mother answered, The honeymoon
lasts until you ask ynur husband for
money" "How much do you want?" "A
dollar" "A dollar! Cant you get
nioDa with 30 cents? You are always
wanting $1." This 80 years. war against
high prices, this everlasting. attempt to
bring the outgo within the income, has ex
hausted Inultitudes of housekeepers. Let
me say to such it is part Of tho divine
discipline. II itwere best FOR you, all you
would have to do would be just to open
the front windows, and tho ravens would
fly In with food and after you had baked
90 times from the barrel in the pantry,
like tho barrel of Hacphath, tho barrel
would DO full, and the children's shoes
would last as long as the shoes OF the
lsraclites in the wilaerncss--40 years.
Period of Preparation.
Oh, my friends, all these trials and
fatigues Of home lifo are to prepare you
for heaven, for they will make that the
brighter in the contrast! A dying soldier
was asked by friend, "Have you any
message to send to your father9" "Yes,"
said he. "Tell him l have gone home"
Well" said the friend, ''have you any
message to send to your wife." eyes.
Tell her have gono home" you have
other friends. Would you like to send u
message to thems" "Yes. Give them
tho same message; they will all under
stand it. Tell them have gone home"
And that heavenly homo will compensate,
will fully atone, for all the hardshlps and
the trials and the annoyances and the
vexations Of the earthly home. In that
land they never hunger, and consequent
ly there will be no nuisance Of catering for
appetite. In that land Of the white robes
they have no nend!pg to do, and the air
of that hilly country makes them all well.
No rent to pay there; every man owns his
own house, and q mansion at that. It
will not be so great change to step into
tho chariot of the skies II on earth you
rode. 1t will not be SO great change If
on earth you had all luxuries and satls-
factions II will not be so great a change
for you to sit down on tho banks OF tho
river of life if on earth you had a country
scat
But, oh, tho Joy for tho weary feet when
they step into the celestial cquipage, and,
OH tho joy of those to whom home was a
martyrdom on earth whom they go into
that home whero they will never have to
do anything they do not want to dol
What a change from the time she put
down the rolling pin to the time she took
up the sccptcr! If Chatsworth Park and
tho Vanderbilt mansion were lifted into
the celestial city, thoy would be looked at
as uninhabitable rookeries and Lazarus
himself would be ashamed to be seen 60
ing in or out Of them, SO great are the
palaces awaiting all Gods dear children,
and so much grander the heavenly archi-
teoture than the earthly. 1t is often not
only tho toll Of the housekeeping, but it is
the sickness and the sorrow that go along
1t is a simple fact that one-half Of the wo-
men Of tho land ore invalids. The noun
tain lass who has never had an ache or a
pain may consider household work Of no
very great weariness, and at the eyentida
may skip out to the fields and drive the
cattle home, md until 10 o'clock at night
may flll the cabin with laughing racket
but, oh, to do the hard work Of the house.
hold with a shattered constitution-aftcr
six weeks whooping cough has ragged in
tho household, making the nights as sleep
less as the days, then 1t Is not SO easy.
And then this work Of the house has often
to be undertaken when the nerves are
shattered with some bereavement that has