The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-22
THE PASTORS WIFE.

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 There was published in a recent Sun- day issue O. The Tribune a descriptive account of typical day of busy pastor which set forth in amusing yet
 withal pathetic detail certain of the trails and harassments that, all unsus- pected by the world without, beset the personal life of the modern clergyman. To-day another pen picture shall be l.n- iveiled-this time of a day out of the life lof a clergyman's wife. The subject of the sketch, be it well understood, is not the spouse of any $15,O0O-a- year favor ite of fortune, with great social prestige behind her unlimited resources at her command but the earnest, true hearted helDmeet of mere average provincial minister, possessed of an average in- icome, occupying an average social posi- ton, and in short, resembling in every lpurely mundane respect ninety eight | out of every hundred other ministers wives. Her home is situated in city of fair size and importance; her husband 1 is a man of such attainments and re- sources as the average modern theolo- gian of good family and university training may reasonably be expected to possess.
 "A day out of my life?" she echoed, when Tribune reporter ventured her
 somewhat unusual request. "A mere average day you say? Why Why my dear, every day is so brinful of work and Imovement--not little of which is of a wholly unexpected sort-that I am afraid should find 1t trifie difficult to single out any one day as really typical los all the rest. Moreover, fear"-this with faint little smile-.that you will find my story rather a long one and per lhaps, a little tedious too, for my days
 work begins with my earlist emergence I from my bedroom, and often does not
 end until the wee, sma' hours are un-
 comfortably near, if not actually with us.
 T begin the day with a visit to the kitchen, in order that may convince myself that my maids are really up at work; for, did I omit this duty there
 would almost inevitably be an annoy ling delay about breakfast, which must be served punctually at 8, if the child Iren are to get off to school at the proper hour. Next, I see that the dining room 1 is well aired and well heated, arrange the breakfast table (this duty always prefer to perform myself, as Jane is. rather inclined to be slovenly,) and then run upstairs to see how the children are progressing with their toilet and remind them of their prayers. There are five of my little people, you know, and none of them old enough to be entirely inde- lpendent of nammas s help; while the only nursemaid can afford at present is young slip of girl, whose beauti- full willingness Is only equalled by her colossal inexperienoe.
 l Tt would be very singular thing in- deed if there were not by this time one or more distressed individuals wanting my help--or, possibly, my husbands and pathetically waiting for it at the side door. On this particular morning I have not been long upstairs when: 1 Please, ma ann! calls Mary, the cook l up the back stairway, Mrs. Jones' re- sDects. and can you please spare a bit ] O bread for the children's breakfasts? i It's the litle boy, ma am, an he says 1 they haven't bite in the house. run down stairs in a hurry, give the poor 1 little fellow loaf and a milk ticket is- sued by our own milkman, and promise to come and see his mother before noon. am no more than upstairs again when Jane, the chambermaid, comes after | me, with: If you please, ma a'am
 there's poor man at the side door, and he wants to know if he can chop bit of wood for his breakfast Again I go down to investigate, observe that the man is blue with cold and nearly starved, bid Mary give him cup of hot coffee and some bread and meat.
 after minute or two of cogita- tion, and donning my marketing suit, hurry out to do my husbands bidding on the way pausing once or twice to leave my previously written orders with
 our tradesmen.
 Mrs. Browns needs are insistent- poor woman!- and before bend my steps homeward I have sent one of her children for doctor, another for the good women who acts as our parish nurse on occasions, and have mean
 while kept the third-and eldest-busy lhelping me to bring semblance of or