Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-14

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/ Pennsylvania and the same question Of
the manager of an insane asylum in
Massachusetts and got the same reply,
1--WE have on our rolls for treatment
more farmers wives than persons COM
ing from any other class" That an
sWer will be q surprise to some 1t
was no surprise to me. The simple
| reason is farmers wives as a general
thing have no diversion. 1t is break
fast, dinner and supper, sewing, scour-
ing, scrubbing, knitting, mending, year
in and year out. That mother is the
milliner, the mantuamaker, the nurse
the doctor, the accountant, of the whole
family. She plans the wardrobe of
spring, of summer, of autumn, OF win
ter, cutting, fitting, completing gar
ments, out of which the children soon
grow and must have something else
The newspaper does not come, or if
coming there is no time to read it. No
selection of good books. The neighbors
calling in are full of the same grinding
routine. No wonder so many of them
go into dementia. Oh, the country is
beautiful to look at and a recuperative
place in which to spend summer, and if
you have the means to bring yourself
amusements or go where they are or
you can surround yourself by inspiring
social life it is a good place to stay all
the year round. But alas for the thou
sands Of good and noble women who
are dying by inches in it's solitudes!
Now, the mother of whom I speak
as living on the banks Of that great
ri in 10 h hos
gone through all the drudgery mention
ed, and her children have turned out
well, good and useful men and women,
ornaments Of society, pillars in the
house Of God, and that whole family,
after the years have passed by and
their work is done, will meet in the
heavenly country. From such family
some will certainly have preceded her,
and the time of her expected arrival
will be announced to all the members
of that family already glorified and to
the old earthly neighborS who put
down their tolls a little sooner than she
did, and she will have the warmest
kind of home coming, and she will go
through the gate as easily as ever she
lifted the latch of her front door COM
house where she used to worship. Go
in, mother! Heaven has been waiting
for you a good many years. Got rid
of all your aches and pains and weari-
ness, have you? Go anywhere in
heaven, and they will be glad to see
you. On the highest throne you will
find one who said, Behold thy moth
err Sit anywhere you please. You
will be at home anywhere. Take your
pick out Of that sheaf of scepters.
What! The wrinkles have all gone out
of your face, and the once rheumatic
step has become like that of the bound
ing roe. Just as l expected, you aged,
glorifed soul, you had an abundant
entrance.
The Gates Thrown Wide.
There is another kind Of spirit who
will have radiant admission to the up
per dominion. There is fact which
ought to have most emphatic pro-
nouncement. All over the world today
there are men and women of conse-
Grated wealth. They are multiplying
by the day and hour. People who feel
themselves the Lords stewards, and
q distribution which pleaseS the heav-
ems. The checkbook in the office draw
er of that man has on its stubs a
story of beneficence clear up into the
sublime. In all the round of the worlds
suffering and ignorance and woe you
cannot mention one worthy object to
which that prosperous and good man
has not made contribution. He is not
irritated, as many are, by solicitation
for aims. In some poor woman, in
thin shawl, holding in her arms a child
with rheum in it's eyes, this good man
sees the Christ who said, 'Inasmuch
as We have done it unto one Of the
least of these, We have done it unto
me-"
Well, this man Of consecrated affiu-
ence is about to go out Of this world.
He feels in brain and nerve the strain
Of the early struggles by which he won
his fortune and at 60 or 70 years col
lapSes under the eXhauStions of the
twenties and thirties of his lifetime.
When the morning papers announce
that he is gone, there is excitement not
only on the avenues where the man
sions stand, but all through the hospi-
tails and asylums and the homes Of
those who will henceforth have no
helper. But the excitement of sadness
on earth is very tame affair cOmpar-
ed with the excitement of gladness in
heaven. The guardian angel of that
good mans life swept by his dying pill
low the night before and on swift wing
upward announced that in few hours
he would arrive, and there is a mighty
stir in heaven. "He comesv' cries SER
aph to seraph. The Kings heralds are
at the gate to say, "Come, We blessed"
and souls who were saved through the
churches that good man supported and
hundreds who went up after being by