Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-12-01

uren 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 hut near
Balmoral castle reading the New Tes-
lament to a poor dying man. Let all
the gadabouts for happiness know that
I'm kindness and usefulness and self alb
negation are to be found 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 1t. | am
acquainted. as you are. with women
who are members of so many boards
of direction of benevolent institutions
and have to stand at booth In so
many fairs and must collect funds for
so many orphanages and preside at so
many philanthropic meetings ana 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 unattractlve
| that the husband spends his evening at
the clubhouse or the tavern. The chil
| 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 tollng so industriously. by
all means let Christian women foster
charitable institutions and give them
as much of their time as they can
snare. but the first duty Of that mother
is the duty she owes to her home.
Hired help is a great advantage 10
the homestead that can afford 1t, ana
we have all had in our homes a hdellty
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
boldsl And who will ever do justice to
those who were affectionately called
and I believe, are still called the
"mammies" of the south? | nave nau
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
enployment those so near and dear to
us that we went to them In childhood
and told them all our griefs and all our
ioys, and they sympathized with copi'
Gus tears and resounding laughter
: Mothers Mistakes.
: Rut no one can take mothers place
: and 1t is an. awful mistake that thai
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 un
derstanding this. we mistake when we
try to give statistics as to how many
Christians there are in our churches
and in the world. We understate tnt
facts. We look over our church au
diences Oh the Sabbath or our weeH
night service and conclude that they
! represent the amount of plety In tha'
} neighborhood. Oh, mol There are
2 many most consecrated souls that are
5 NOT found in churches. Look into those
houses with large families of children
e and little or no hired help. For mucf
: of the wear there Is some one Ill. and
5 special, guardian care is requisite. How
: much time can that mother give u
churches and prayer meetings whei
t most of the family are down with scar
: LOT fever or have colds that threateI
e now one kind of disease and now an
$ other? That mother watching at hom'
e as much Dleases the Lord as the moth
:, or who at church takes the sacramen
T or In the mission school tells the waif
r Of the street how they may become
{ sons and daughters of the LORD Al
:. mighty. That mother at home IS de
Gliding the destiny of the state by tn
: way she leads that boy into righ
u thinking and acting and is deciding
q the welfare of some future home b.
the example she is setting that girl. ant
l though the world does not appreciat
the unobserved work heaven watche
and rewards. On the other hand' yo'
e have known women who are oil a
n meetings humanitarian and philan
y thropic planning for the destitute ant
the outcast while their own childrel
|
n ments needing repairs. their manner
? inn ndent and themselves a genera
y nuisance to the community in whicl
they live.
- The book of Samuel gives a photo
- graph Of Mephibosheth lame in Dotl
- feet. When we see any one lame II
:, one foot or lame in both feet, we al
- ways wonder by what accident he wa
, lamed. Perhaps it may have been Il
a battle for his country, or he may nav
>, been run over by some reckless drive
20 or some explosion did the damage )
you wonder how Mephibosheth becam
!; lame in both feet. The Bible for goo
"A reason gives us the particulars. Ii tell
n us that when he was child his nurs
Ie dropped him. She must have droppe
v him very hard, for he never again &c
n