Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-08

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 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 shoresi And
who will ever do justice to those who
We're affectionately called and I be-
lieve are still called the "mammies"
of the south? 1 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 child
hood and told them all our griefs and
all our joys, and they sympathized
with copious tears and resounding
laughter.
The Mistake of Mothers.
But no one can take q mothers
place, and it is an awful mistake that
that mother makes who sacrifices
home duties for any church meeting,
however important, or any hospital
however mercifu1 or any outside bene-
ficence, however glorious and grand.
Not understanding this, we mistake
when We try to give statistics as to
how many Christians there are in our
churches in the world. We understate
the facts. We look over our church
audiences on the Sabbath or our
weekly 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 the year there is some
one i'll, and special guardian care is
requisite How much time can that
mother give to churches and prayer
meetings when most of the family
are down with Scarlet fever or have
colds that threaten now one kind of
disease and now another? That moth
er watching at home as much pleases
the Lord as the mother who at church
takes the sacrament or in the mission
school tells the waits of the street how
they may become sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty. That mother
at home is deciding the destiny of the
state by the way she leads that boy
into right thinking and acting and is
deciding the welfare of some future
home by the example she is setting
that girl, and though the world does
not appreciate the unobserved work
heaven watches and rewards. On the
other hand, you have known women
who are off at meetings humanitarian
and philanthropic, planning for the
destitute and the outcast, while their
own children went lnwashed and un-
kempt, their garments needing repairs,
their manners impudent and them
selves a general nuisance to the COM
munity in which they live.
The Distribution of Scandal.
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas
culine or feminine, are sure to get
and that is of scandal distribution
They hear so many deleterious things
about others and see SO much of
wrong behavior that they are
loaded up and loaded down
with the faults of Others and
they have their eyes full, and their
ears full, and their hands full, and
their mouths full of defamation. The
woman who is endowed of gossip can
SO easily unite her bonnet strings. and
sit down to spend the afternoon. A
man can afford you cigar as 9 re-
tainer if you will patiently hear all he
has to say about those who cannot pay
their debts, or are about to fail, or are
guilty of moral mishap, or have
aroused suspicion of embezzlement.
All gadabouts are peddlers, who un-
pack in your presence their large store
of nux vomica and nightshade. Such
gadabouts have little prospect of hea-
ven- If they got there, they would try
to create Jealousy among the different
ranks of celestials, and make trouble
among the heavenly neighbors, and
start quarrels seraphic, and would be
on perpetual run, now down this
street and now up that, now in the
house of many mansions, and now in
the choir of the temple, and now on
the walls, and now in the gates, until
they would be chased down and push
ed out into the pandemonium Of back
biters and slanderers after jeremiah
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