The Grenada sentinel., 1899-02-18

keepers. 10 whom life IL struggle. ana
who aa 80 years OF age look as though
they were 40. The fallen at ChaIoni
and Austerlitz and Gettysburg and W.
terloo are small mum ber in compar
ison with those who have gone down
under the Armageddon Of the kitchen
60 out to the country and look owe,
the epitaphs on the tom bstones. They
are all beautiful and poetic. but II tha
tombstones could tell the truth thou.
sands Of them would says: Here liel
q woman who was killed by too much
mending and sewing and baking and
securing and scrubbing." and the weap.
on with WhiEh she was killed was Z
broom or sewing machine or ladle.
The housewife rises In the morning
half rested. Az an irrevocable hour she
must have the morning repast ready.
What if the ire will not burn? What
II the clock stop? What ii the mar
keting has not been sent in? No mat
ter that; It must be ready at the ir-
revocable hour. Then the children
must be got ready for school. But what
II the garments be torn? What II they
do not know their lessops2 What Il
the hat or sash ii aiost7 They must
be ready. Then you have the duty Of
the day or perhaps several days to plan
out But what II the butcher sends
mea, unmasticable? What II the gro
Ger furnishes you articles Of food adul-
terated2 What If the piece Of silver be
lost. or q favorite chalice be broken,
or the roof leak, or the plumbing fail.
or any one OF . thousand things oc-
cur? 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 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 changed? :?
The house must be an extempoi lied
apo,becary's shopor dispcnsary. 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, some
thing to soothe the earache. o man OF
business. If you had as many cares as
that you would be fit candidate for
an insane asylum! HMartha make un-
der 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
with which Jesus Christ met
Martha that he appreciates all your
trials from garret to cellar, and the God
Of Deborah and Miriam and Abigail is
The God of the housekeepers! Christ
never married, that He might be the
especial friend and contidant of whole
world of troubled womanhood. blun-
1ered. Christ was married. The Bible
says the church is "the Bride, the
Lambs wife," "and that makes me know
hat a woman has right to 60 to
Christ with all her annoyances and per-
plexities and fatigues, for by his oath
If conjugal fidelity He hath sworn to
George Herbert put the
thought in three or four verses. quoint
ind peculiar. but strong, and in one
verse saying:
Thy servant by this clause makes drudgery
divine;
Nho sweeps room as for thy laws makes
this and the action fine.
A young woman of brilliant educa-
ion and prosperous surroundings was
'alled downstairs to help in the alb
ence of the servant, and there was
ing at the bell. and she went to the
]oor, and an admirer entered. He said:
i thought heard music in the house.
Mas it on the piano or the harp?" She
aid: Neither; it was frying pan
accompaniment to a gridiron! In
'ther words, was called downstairs
o help. suppose some time shall
ave to learn, and have begun now."
When will the world learn that every
lind of work that is right is honor
bile?
But. oh, the Joy for the weary feet
when they step into the celestial equip
lge. and. oh, the Joy of those to whom
'olne was martyrdom on earth when
hey 60 into that home where they will
'ever have to do anything that they do
ot want to do! What a change from
he time she put down the rolling pin
o the time she took up the scepter!
I Chatsworth park and the Vanderbilt
mansion were lifted into the Celestial
'ity. they would be looked at as unin-
abitable rookeries, and Lazarus him
elf would be ashamed to be seen going !
q or out of them, 80 great are the pal
ces awaiting all Gods dear children,
nd SO much grander the Heavenly
rchitecture than the earthly. It il
ften not only the toll Of the house,
eeping, but 1t is the sickness and the
orrow that 60 along. 1t is a simple
act that one-half OF the women of the
md are invalids. The mountain lass
Tho has never had an ache nor pain
1ay consider household work of no
cry great weariness, and at the even