Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-16

NOW, YOU young AclOw ~ IAc taulc,
reading the evening newspaper, and nod
ding In 8 alrlyl way to, your mother and
sister, take test. If your clothes breathed
q delicious fragrance Of heliotrope or
roses--but would do 90 only when you
were at home, or only when, You went
abroad, which would you chooseg Would
YOU smell sweet at home, or when you
vent away from homer Would you have
perpetual climate, of rare odors in your
own house, or elsewhere? OF course
you would have II at home for your own
comfort and enjoyment, you cuTmudgeon.
if FOX nothing else. But what Is domestic
courtesy but the breath Of heliotrope and
roses at homer tits az much for your own
pleasure that You should be pleasant - it
Ii for that of others. The happiest house
hold in the world Is that In which cour
tesyiis new every morning and fresh every
evening, like the Celestial benedictions
How many of us, brothers and sisters,
make home the rag bag Of ill-hunors and
capgices, and wretched moods Of every
kind, while we, carefully hide them from
the stranger! When the guest arrives we
slide chair over the rent in the carpet,
and slipa tidy over the worn edge Of the
sofa cushion, and lay q prettily bound
book over the ink -stain upon the parlor
tsble-cloth; and so at his coming the fly
Ing hair is smoothed. and the sullen look
IL Tilded with smile, and thu sour tone
il suddenly wonderfully sweet. Shriv-
eiod old autumn blooms In moment into
rosy spring. And how is q youth to
know that this house, where everything
seems to smile, Is not always as warm and
sunny - he flnds iti ta E'%t ="
Yet this young woman, 30 neatly dress
ed. 80 quietly hammered, SO facinating to
the Young man, may he be the most ain
efficient" of human beings. Still he can
never know il until too late. He cannot
put it to the proof. He. takes the divinity
upon trust. All that he knows is that she
is q woman, and that he loves. And
whether he thinks that household intelli-
gence and thrift and endless courtesy come
by nature, like Dogberry's reading and
writing. or whether he assumes that, hav-
ing mother, his peerless princess has
carefully been taught all the duties of a
queen, or whether, as Is most probable, he
knows only that he loves, the duties OF q
parent il still the same. = lea. +,
But to the ordeal Of the household who
can come too we'll preparedS And what
parent, what human being who has learn
ed by experience, but would gladly equip
every child with the most perfect equip
mentss No, Dorinda Jane, to whom the
youth, crusty at home, will presently come
quickly smiling, it is not the flowing hair,
and the graceful dress, and the bloom upon
the cheek, and the lustre of the eye, that
will make home happy. No, nor Is 1t his
house and plate, and the luxury and ease
he promises. IF he II harsh and short and
Grabbed, what il he has fifty thousand q
YEAR, If you are careless and ignorant
and helpless, the victim instead Of ruler
OF your house, what If your eyes are
black. and your cheeks dim carnation.
b And you, dear sir and madam, who
hermit that boor 10 sit surlily at the table,
and to growl in monsyllables at home,
you who suffer that fairfaced girl utterly
unequal to the duties to which she will be
called, you are responsible. Editors Easy
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