Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-26

wOmanhood sacrificed in that way in
our cities than in any other way The
Judgment day only can reveal the aw
full holocaust of tangled nerves and the
suicidal habits of much of our social
life. The obituary of such reads well,
for the story is suppressed about how
they cot their death while standing in
attire of gauze waiting for the carriage
on a raw night on the front steps.
While in their lifetime they possessed
all the ability for the relief Of pain and
impoverishment, yet they have no time
for visitation of the poor or to win the
blessing of such as comes upon those
who administer to those who are ready
to perish. Enough flowers in their din
ing halls to bewitch a prince, but not
one tuft Of heliotrope to perfume the
room of that rheumatic on the back
street, to whom the breath of one flow
er would be like the opening of the
front door Of heaven. Find me one
man or one woman who in all the
rounds of pleasure and selfshness has
found a piece of happiness as large as
that half dollar which the benevolent
and Christli1e soul puts into the palm
of the hand of that mother whose chill
dren are crying for bread Queen Vic
toria, riding in triumph through Lon
don at her jubilee, was not so sublime
a figure as Queen Victoria in a hut near
Balmoral castle reading the New les
lament to a poor dying man. Let all
the gadabouts for happiness know that
in kindness and usefulness and self alb
negation are to be found a satisfaction
which all the gayeties Of the world ag-
gregated cannot afford.
Advice For Women.
Among the race of gadabOuts are
those who neglect their homes in order
that they may attend to institutions
that are really excellent and do not so
much ask for help as demand it. [ am
acquainted, as you are, with women
who are members of so many boards
of direction of benevolent institutions
and have to stand at a booth in so
many fairs and must collect funds for
so many orphanages and preside at so
many phiIanthrOpic meetings and are
expected to be in so many different
places at the same time that their chill
dren are left to the care Of irreSpOnSi-
BILE servants and if the little ones wait
ed to say their prayers at their moth
er'S knee they would never say their
evening prayers at all. Such a woman
makes her own home so unattractiye
that the husband spends his evening at
the clubhouse or the tavern. The chill
dren of that house are as thoroughly
orphan as any of the fatherleSS and
motherless little ones gathered in the
orphanage for which that gadabOut
woman is toiling so industriOusly. By
all means let Christian women foster
charitable institutions and give them
as much of their time as they can
spare, but the first duty of that mother
is the duty she owes to her home.
Hired help is a great advantage to
the homestead that can afford it, and
we have all had in our homes a fidelity
on the part of such employees as will
stir our gratitude as long as life shall
last. How they watched in time of
sickness and always gave the medicine
at the right time, and but for their
vigilance there are members of our
families now living who would long
ago have disappeared from the home
circle. Blessed the ships that brought
those employees to our shores. Blessed
the day when they entered our house
holds. And who will ever do justice to
those who were affectiOnately called
and, l believe, are still called the
'mammieS' of the south? | have had
governors and senators of the United
States with tears in their eyes talk to
me about those old cOlored women of
the south who rocked them in their
cradles and bound up their wounds
when they got hurt and wept with
them at graves and looked in from the
hall door at the weddings and greeted
them home from college or from the
wars with mOtherly endearment. ASK
those who know them best about those
old mammies We have all had in our
employment those so near and dear to .
us that we went to them in childhood
and told them all our griefs and all our
joys, and they sympathized with copi-
Gus tears and resounding laughter
Mothers Mistakes.
But no one can take mothers place,
and it is an awful mistake that that
mother makes who sacrifices home du-
ties for any church meeting. however
important or any hospital, however
merciful. or any outside beneficence,
however glorious and grand. Not I'M
OerStanu1nS InlS, we mistake Wnen we
try to give statistics as to how many
Christians there are in our churches
and in the world. We understate the
facts. We look over our church au-
diences on the Sabbath or our. week
night service and conclude that they
represent the amount of piety in that
neighborhood. Oh, no! There are
many most consecrated souls that are
not found in churches. Look into those
houses with large families of children
and little or no hired help. For much
of tho rnar. thnra is some one Ill and q