The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-09-28
Make Home Attractive.

will love home simply because il
has tho name of one. 1.-Two woulc
have our children love it, we mus,
make it lovely-we must give them
something so love in the home.
Now itthe principle ideas which
child has of his home are, that
it is a place where he gets his
meals and where he sleeps; where,
if he is little, he is perpetually
found fault with; where be must
keep quiet; where at night'fall he
must sit stupidity waiting till bed,
time; or, if he has grown older, be
can only deem it a dreary room in
which be must employ himself as
best he may, while the father
sits at his paper or dozes in his
chair, and the mother is silently
busy with her sewing or her book ;
if such be the aspect of home, one
need not wonder that children
learn to look elsewhere for pleas
ure and seek to find amusement in
other circles. or that home is for
saken as soon as it is possible to
leave it.
1t is practicable to make it so
delightful that children shall have
no disposition to wander from it
or prefer any other place lit is pos
slble to make it so attractive that
it shall not only firmly hold it's
own loved ones, but shall draw
others into its cheerful cir
Gle. Let the house, all day long,
be the scene Of pleasant looks,
pleasant words, kinu and affection
ate acts; let the table be the hap
py meeting place Of a merry
| group, and not dull board where
d silent, if not sulIen company Of
animals come to feed let the meal
be the time when a cheerful laugh
is heard and good things are said
let the sittiug-room, at evening, be
the place whore smiling company
settle themselves to books or
games till the round Of goodnight
kisses are in order; let there be
some music in the household, mn
sic not kept like silk and satins to
show the company, but music in
which father and mother aud
sister and brother join; let the
young companions be welcomed
and made tor the time part Of
the group, so that daughters
shall not deem it necessary to
seek the obscurity Of back par
lors with intimate friends, or to
drive father and mother to distant
apartments; in y word, lot the
home be surrounded by an air of
cozy and cheerful goodwill; then
children need not be exhorted to
love it, you will not be able to
tempt them away from it.
The ties which bind a child to
home are created not SO much
out Of great as from little things;
some Of them l have hinted at, and
many more will suggest themselves
TO a wise parent. There should
be q good many holidays in the
home. / believe in anniversaries.
and I love, by observing them,
to connect time with events, and
40 give to both deeper interest.
The birthdays of s. family should
be always noticed, and in some
way, celebrated. The busy prepa-
ration of the whole household to
make some present to father or mo-
ther, sister or brother on q birthday
or holiday;the many plannipgs, the
workings in by-corners at odd
times; the bundling of work out
of sight as the step Of the favored
one is heard the careful slowing
Of gifts away till the appointed
time; and then, when the looked-for
Gay has come, the presentations,
the confused and merry voices, the
filled eye, the choked voice, the
heart too full to speak in words,
memory touched as with an angels
hand, love that can only look it's
thanks-all these! who can tell
their sweet and mighty power ?
4 homo familiar to such scenes,
will it, can it be one that children
shall not love? No, no; from it,
when the inexorable time comes
to 60 away, daughters shall pass
with sobs of sorrow, and sons with
pressed lips and swimming eyes,
and while mother lives it will be a
homo still, home, though years
have gone and other homes have
claimed thcm.-Aikman's Life at
-Homs.