* © REV. DR. TALNAGE. FHE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY ; DISCOURSE. Buabject: “The Housewife's Perplexities” wLeossons Drawn From the Episode of Martha and Mary-Dally Trials FPre- pare One For Future Blessings. « Text: “Lord, dost Thou not cars that my sister hath left me to serve alcne? Bid her therefore that she help me.” —Luke x., . Yonder is a beautifal village homestead, The man of the house is dead and his widow has charge of the premises. It is Widow Martha, of Bethany. Yes, I will show you also the pet of the household, It is Mary, the younger sister, with a book under her arm, and in her face no sign of Gare or suigty shout anything. Company bas come, Christ’s appearing at the outside of the door makes some excitement inside the door. The sisters set back the disar- Janged furniture, arrange their hair, and in a flash prepare to open tho door. Thay do not keep Christ waiting outside until hey have newly appardle themselves or elaborately arranged their tresses, and then with affected surprise come out and, pretending not to have heard the two or three previons knookings, say, “Why, is that you?" No, they were ladies, and al- ways presentable, although perhaps they 3 not on thelr best. None of us always have on our best, Otherwise very soon our best would not be worth having on. They throw open the door and greet Christ, Theysay: “Good morning, Master! Come in and be seated!” Christ brought a com- pany of friends with Him, and the influx of 80 many city visitors, you do not wou- der, threw the country home into some perturbation. Isuppose the walk fromthe city had been a Keen appetizer, The kitchen department that day was a very important department, and I think as soon as Martha had greeted her guests she went to that room. Mary had no anxiety about the dinner. She had full confidence that her sister Martha could get up the best dinner in Bethany, and she practically said: “Now, let us have a division of labor. Martha, you cook and I'll sit down and learn.” The same difference you now sometimes see between sisters, There is Martha, in- dustrious, painstaking, a good manager, ever inventive of some new pastry, discoy- ering something in household affairs, Here Is Mary, fond of conversation, iter. 6njoIn severe saanomy At nome, TOAT 1% what kills thousands of women-—tha attempt to make #5 do the work of $7. It is nmazing how some men dole out money to the household, If you have not got the money, say so, If you have, be cheerful in the expenditure, Your wife will be reasonable, “How long does the honey moon last?’ aaid a young woman about to enter the married state to her mother, The mother answered: “The honeymoon lasts until you ask your husband for money.” ‘How much do you want?” “A dollar.” “A dollar! Can't you pet along with fifty conts? You are always wanting a dollar.” This thirty years’ war against high prices, this everlasting attempt to bring the outgo within the income, has exhausted multi. tudes of housekeepers, Let me say to such, it is a part of the divine discipline, If it were best for you, all you twould have to do would be just to open the front win- dows and the ravens would fly in with food, and after you had: baked fifty times from the barrel in the pantry, like the barrel of Zarephath, the harrel would be full, and the children’s shoes would last as lcng asthe shoes of the Israelites in thy wilderness—forty years. Ob, my friends, all these trials and fatigues of home life are to prepara you for heaven, for they will make that the brighter in the contrast! A dying soldier was asked by a friend, "Have you anv message to send to your father?’ “Yes! anid he; “tell him I have gone home.” “Well,” said the friend, “have you any message to send to your wife?’ “Yes: tell her I have gone Lome.” “You have other friends, Would you like to send a message to them?" ‘You; give them the same mes. sage. They will understand it. Teil them I have gone home.” And that heavenly bome will compensate, will fully atone, for all the hardships and the trials and the annoyances and the vexations of the earthly home. In that land they never hunger, and consequently there will be no nuisance of catering for appetite. In that land of the whita robes they have no mend. ing to do, and the air of that hilly country makes them all well. No rent to pay there, Every man owns his own house, and a mansion at that. It will not be so great a change to step into the ehariot of the skies if on earth you rode. It will not be so great a change {f on earth you had all luxuries and Satisfactions, It will not be so great a change for you to sit down on the banks of the river of life if on earth you had a country seat, But oh, the joy of the weary feet when they step into the celestial equippage, and, oh, for tha joy of those to whom home was a martyrdom on earth when they go Into ary, so full of questions of ethies she has wellare, It is noon. lor. Martha is in the kitehen, It would the opportunity of listening to Christ. But Mary monopolizes Christ, while swelters before the fire. It was very im- day, for Christ was hungry, and He did not often bave luxurious entertainment, Alas, tainment had rested with Mary! repast they would have had! thing went wrong in the kitchen, % the fire would not burn or the bread wou that ought to have been only brown, or Martha sealded he forgetting all the propristies of » OCOR- sion, with besweated brow she rushed out of the kitchen into the parlor, “Lord, dost Thou sister has left me to other, and she eried out: not care that my alone? me.” Christ scolded not were scolding, scold we than anybody else bless There was nothing acerb in the Saviour's reply. working herself almost to death to get Him something to eat, but He appreciated her kindness, and He practleally said: ‘My dear woman, do not worry. Let the din- ner go. Bit down here on this couch be- side your younger sister, Mary. Let us talk about something elise. Martha, Mar- tha, thou art eareful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful.” As Martha throws open the door I look in today, and I ses a great many household anxieties, perplexities, fatigues serve a word. If it speak if the Lord of Mary and Martha and Lazarus will help me by His grace, As 1 look into that door, in the first lace, I see the trial of nonappreciation. bat was what made Martha so vexed st Mary. Mary, the younger sister, had no proper estimate tigue. Just as now men baving annoy- ances of store and factory and shop, or at and they say, “Oh, that's nothing! You ought to be in a factorya day and have ten or fifteen or twenty or 100 subordinates, Then you would know something about annoysnce and trouble.” Oh, man, let me tell you that a wife and a mother has to conduct at the same time a university, a clothing establishment, =» restaurant, =» laundry, a library, and has to be hesith officer, police and president of the whole realm! She has to do a thousand things, and to do them well, in order to make things go smoothly. and that is what puts the awliul tax on a woman's nerves and a woman's brain. I know exceptions to the rele. will ehair of the library all day without any anxiety, or tarry on the belated pillow, and all the cares of the househoid are thrown upon servants who have large wages and great experience; but that fs the exception. I speak of the great masses of housekeepess, to whom life is a strug. fle, and who st thirty years of age look as though they were forty. The fallen at Cha. lons and Austerlitz and Gettysburg and Waterloo are & small nnmber (no comparison with those who have gone down under the Armageddon of the kitchen, Go out tothe country and look over the epitaphs on the tombstones. They are all beautiful and postie, but if the tombstones could tell the truth thousands of them would say, “Here Hes a woman who was killed by 100 mush mending and sewing and baking and seour- ing snd serubing,” and the weapon with which she was killed was a broom or a sewing muchine or a ladle, The housewife rises inthe morning half. rested. At an irrevooable hour she must have the morsing repast ready. What if the fire will not burn, what it the clock top, what ifthe marketing bas not been sent in? No matter that; it must be ready at the irrevoeabls hour, Then the ohii- dren must be got ready for school. But what if the garments be torn? What if they do not know their lessons? What if the hat or sash fis lost? They must be ready. Then you have the duty of the day, or perhaps several days, to pian out, But what if the butcher sends meat unmasti. eable? What if the grocer furnishes your articles of food adulterated? What if the plese of sliver be lost, or a favorite chaliew 1 broken, or the roof leak, or the plumb- ing fail, or noy one of a thousand things oeeur? No matter. Everything must be Sometimes you A young woman of brilliant education surroundings was called servant, and there was a rin and she went to the door an enternd, He sald: music in the house, at the bell, an admirer “I thought I heard i Was it on the plane or the Maps ihe said: “Neither; it was a fryin aceompaniment to a diiron! In other words, I was ealled rll i stafrs 10 help, Isupposs sometime I shall have lo learn, and J have a now.” When will the world learn that every kind of work that is right is honorable? As Martha opens the door I jeok in and } also see the trial of severs weonomy, Hine hundred and ninety-nine households fa d are sabjected to it either jibe greater or stress of clseam. is lly so wl » man ines at that home where they will never have to j do anything they do not want to do! What i rolling in to the time she took up the i I I scapter! derbiit mansion were fitted {nto the co | tial city, they wonld be looked at as 1 | habitable rookerles, and Lazarus his would be ashamed to be seen going in anc out of great are the {awaiting God's dear children, and so 1 { grander the heavenly architecture t! | the earthly. It is often not them, so { and the sorrow that go along. It is a sim { land are invalids. The mountain lass who | has never had an ache or & pain I household work of no very { weariness, and at the eventide i sider ie, wand until 10 o'clock ie cabin with laughing ra « Oh, to do the hard work of the | hold th a shattered constitution | six weeks’ whooping cough has the household, 3 | less as { And then this work ito be undertaken when the nerves | shattered with some bereavement that | put desolation in every room of the h alte raged | the da | and sent the crib into the garret bees | ber that needs no mother's lullaby. Oh, § ithe whole flock than to brood a one wing of care over the flock house, Dutting the other wing of care over the flock in the grave, Nothing but i | ing. They do not help. man ean be happy with two wives, much {lence he wrote—"Better is a hatred therewith," of housekeepers! ition have lost empires and | through indigestion have lost battles Oh, the responsibilities and out of 1000 married men only sighteen ! were criminals showing the power of home, { And, oh, the responsibility resting upon houseksspers! By the food they provides, i they introduce, by the influence they bring | around the home, they are helping to de | cide the physical, the intellectual, the | moral, the eternal welfare of the human i race. Oh, the responsibility! | That woman sfts in the house of God to. | day perhaps entirely unappreciated. She { Is the banker of her home, the president, the cashier, the teller, the discount clerk, and ever and anon there isa panie. God | knows the anxieties and the cares, and he | knows that this is not a useless sermon, | but that there are maltitudes of hearts waiting for the distiliation of the divine mercy and solace in their hour of trials and their home duties and their own fa- tigurs. The world hears nothing about them, They never speak about them. You could not with the agencies of an inqaisi- tion bring the truth oat of them. They keap it still. They say nothing. They en- dare and will until God and the judgment right their wrongs, It is the sell sacrificing people that are ously, so maguificently, in the deep and eternal satisfactions of the soul. Sell sa. erifice]l We all adie it In others. How littla we exercise of it! How much would we endure? How much would we risk for others? A very rough schoolmaster had a poor lad that had offended the laws of the sehool, and he ordered him to come up, “Now,” be sald, “you take off your eoat instantly and receive this whip.” The boy declined, and more vehemently the teacher sald, “I tell you, now, take off your coat, Take It off instantly.” The boy again de. clined, It was not because he was afraid of the lash; he wus usad to that in his eruel home, But it was for shame. He had no un- dergarments, and when at last he removed bis cont there want up a sob of emotion ali through the school as they saw why he did not wish to remove his coat, and as they saw ihe shoulder blades almost cutting through the skin, As the schoolmaster Hfted lis whip to strike a roseate, health boy leaped up and sald: “Stop school master; whip me, He is only a peor shap: be can’t stand ft. Whip me.” “Oh,” sald the teacher, “it's going to be a very sever, scourgiog! But il youn want to take the josition of a substitute, you ean do 1.” he boy sald: “I don’t “onre; whip me, Ill take it; he’s only a or chap, Don’t you ses the bones almost come through the flesh? Whip me.” And when the blows eames down on the boy's shoulders, this healthy, robust lad made no otitery; he sndurad it all anecomplaining- ly. Wu all say Bravo!” for that lad. rave! That is the spirit of Christ! Splen. did! How much soourging, how mueh chastisement, hew much anguish will vou and I take for others? Ob, that wé might have something of that boy's spirit! that wo might lave something of the s is Clirtst; for In all our oeen and basin and all our sacrifice for io. 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It ute to Boston, JRA 0 43 iyvesant fs e column of an adver r the re- “with but then not su 4 er all, 1e¢ states in which death are Colorado, Rhode Michigan and Wise Island the only alter isonment life, In of the goversor an execution. the pen y is forbidden land, Maine, gin, In Rhode native Is im Kansas is necessary for the signature to Joseph Jefferson says that during a recent drive in Virginia he stopped at a farmhouse dinner and was pressed take off his coat, as his neighbors did Refusing, the host eaid on: be comfortable: never mind ef yer ain't got no shirt on.” The seven principal bibles of the world are the Koran of the Mohamme dans, the Eddas of the SBeandinavians the Tripitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta and the scriptures of the Christians, PREPARED TO TELEPHONE, for to “Go There Was » lady at the Other Ead of the Wire. of it is really nothing to Jack Lawson's discredit that he is a beauly man of the uitra-British type, but the other riders of polo ponies and wielders of golf sticks at Burlingame don’t exactly like his exceeding pop- ularity with the girls, and they tell an illustrative story about him with great gusto, says the San Francisco News Letter. “Some one wishes to speak to Mr. Lawson at the telephone,” sald a servant at the club, In respectful ac- cents to the tall Liverpool product "Aw! Who is it?" was the languid in- quiry. “A lady, sir” and then Lawson moved. Hastily jumping to his feet, he fastened the lower button of his double-breasted walstcoat. which, of course, like the Prince of Wales, he al- Ways wears open when he sits. Squar- ing his shoulders, he rushed over to the nearest mirror, adjusted his neck- tie and pulled down his coat, “Here, boy,” he called. “Brush me off! Look sharp, now. 1 can’t Keep a lady walt- ing.” Then, thoroughly spruced up, he dived into the telephone room con- scious that he looked well enough to talk to any lady in San Mateo county nn —— worn “i course, A man ean gain more practical experisnce from poverty in ten days than be cau irom riches fu ten years, issn ss Br, Jacoms Orn cures Rheumatism, Br. Jacoss On, cures Neuralgia, St. Jacows O1v cures Lumbago, 81. Jacons On, cures Selation. Br. Jacoms O1t cures Sprains, fir, Jacons Om cures Bruises, Br. Jacows Or cures Soreness, 81. Jacons Orr, cures Stiffness, 81. Jacons Our cures Backache, 81, Jacons Or, cures Museuinr Aches, Sheer-shearing is done machinery ln Australia, At the stock exchanges in this country it is dons by electricity, WL ass ie ss de, on Deafasss Cannot Be Cared isa entioy other guanotyouh ts pr a i Se EEG VANITY FAIR. ! rosm— What will, in all probability, never “take” In France Is the aesthetic style of dress. Bubdued tones and clinging draperies do not at all suit French- women, whose piquant style requires tollettes of the dashing order, both as regards cut and color. In manipulat- ing the latter almost every Parisienne is herself an artist, depending not all upon the Inspirations of the con- turiere. Even the work girls who troop out hitless and happy into the Rue de la Paix at the luncheon hour know exactly what color and how much of it is becoming to their particular style of beauty. They are gowned in black, as a rule, and the color takes the form of a cunningly twisted necktie, A rib- bon twisted twice round the neck and forming a sailor's knot in front is the most popular form of neck adorn- ment. Sometimes a “consul” collar of fine batiste is placed on the ribbon, when the effect is even more dainty. At jast some signe are being shown that attempts are being made to im- part a little novelty to social enter- tainments.. For the last year or more we have been woefully humdrum and such a thing as a craze or fad, foolish or otherwise, has been practically un- known. Neither the girls nor the gilded youth, nor the young matrons have © shown any disposition to anything of the kind until now, when there 1s, happily, an indil- cation that wits are at work. In the first place an effort is being made to introduce what may be called {lius- trative dinners and no better time could have been chosen, as this season suggests all manner of ideas. An Egyptian dinner has already been suc- cessfully given, and a “Dickens” din- ner is mentioned as having been held It is now for hostesses to exercise their ingenuity in thinking out similar en- tertalnments, There is also a tenden- ey to revive “color” balls, the guests being compelled to wear only certain colors which are also employed in the decors the ballroom and sup for i850 Rives scope Queen Victoria has recently pre- sented (0 the British museum an auto- graph letter written by the prince con sort to the Shaftesbury him for a copy of the bible thanking in Chinese prep: Missionary delegate § { and Hong is dated 13, 1858." RIngLham and is couched in lowing words: haftesbury “My Dear I beg to return v which iS energy a ; De nas been the result and perseverance of the y i the . aid the spread of ie ic ay wer} wonderful Christiafity populous empire Ever yours truly, Albert” It was it is understood, the queen's wish that this letter should be@reserved in the department of manuscripts in the Brit museum The trustees have cided. In order that the have an opportunity of obtaining a facsimile copy, that the letter shal included in the fourth series of fac- similes of autographs in the British museum, which Is on the point of be- ing issued ee Rn “How do you feed eats 7° “Do you mean feed them to keep them orto drive them away / Every cough makes your throat more raw and irritable. Every cough congests the lining membrane of your lungs. Ceasetearing your throat and lungs in this way. Put the parts at rest and ive them a chance to eal. 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College diploman do not go as tickets of admisgion ut the pearly gate, 1f God takes away your flowers it is because they would fade in your hot hands, Many men put their tors under a good roof and leave themselves out in the rain, The verdict of the Srpreme Court of Heaven sets aside that of the lower court of publie opinion. Covetousness turns a man out of the warmth of his own house to stand shivering on his neighWor's doorstep.-~ Ram's Horn, sovereignty through Without beans sud blues stockings there would be no Boston, Society Women and, in fact nearly all women who undergo a nervous stramn, are compelled to regret- fully watch the grow ing pallor of their theeks, the coming wrinkles and thinness that become more ‘distressing every day, Every woman knows that ill-health 15 a fatal enemy to beauty and that good health gives to the plainest face an en- during attractiveness. Pure blood and strong nerves — these are the secret of health and beauty. 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