p. 494 | JUST CHANGE ABOUT by Talmage

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 22, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 37.

JUST CHANGE ABOUT.

By Talmage

THERE are men who suppose they have all the annoyances. Let some of the masculine lecturers on placidity of temper try for one week the cares of the household and the family. Let the man sleep with a baby on one arm all night, and one ear open to the children with the whooping-cough in the adjoining department. Let him see the tray of crockery and the cook fall downstairs and nothing saved but the pieces. Let the pump give out on washing-day, and let the pudding come out of the oven stiff as a poker. Let the gossiping gabbler of next door come in and tell the disagreeable things that neighbors have been saying. Let the lungs be worn out by staying in-doors without fresh air, and the needle be threaded, with nerves exhausted. After one week's household annoyances, he would consider the clatter of the Stock Exchange rich as Beethoven's Symphony. There are many housekeepers who could get on with their toils if it were not for the sickness and trouble. The fact is one-half of the women of the land are more or less invalids.—Talmage.