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By the time this rule had been established for twenty-four hours, the house would be immaculate, and the mother find ample time for her mission, if she has any beside general chink-filler for the family. If not, she will have an opportunity to rest.
He isn't now!" But will not my readers agree with me that she was a genuine wife, mother, housekeeper, in short, a "chink-filler?" "A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life," one of the most charming, as well as one of the most helpful of Adeline D.T. Whitney's books, was sent into the world over a quarter-century ago.
Does it ever occur to the self-named commonplace woman that her heaven-appointed task is as high a "mission" as any that may be taken up by her more gifted sisters? It requires vast patience and much love for one's fellow-man to be a chink-filler.
Like a good spirit, our chink-filler glides in and out among the fallen threads in the tangled web of life, picking up dropped stitches, fastening loose strands, and weaving the tissue into a harmonious whole, and yet doing it all so unobtrusively that the great weavers, looking only at the vast pattern they are forming, are unconscious that, but for the unselfish thought and deft fingers of the commonplace woman, their work would be a grand failure.
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