Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-15
EECnae C0ssr1csles.
TFrom Harper's Magissrate.l


Now, YOU young fellow at the table
reading the evening paper and nod.
ding in surly way to your mother and
sister, take test. 1t your clothes
breathed delicious fragrance-sny of
heliotrope or roses, but would do so
when you were at home, or only
when you went abroad, which would you
choose Would you have perpetual
climate of rare odors in your own house,
or elsewhere OF course you would
have it at home for your comfort and
enjoyment, you curmudgeon, it for
nothing else But what is domestic
courtesy bat the breath of hellotropes
and roses at home? 1t is as much for
your own pleasure that you should be
pleasant as it is for that OF others The
happiest household in the world is that
In which courtesy is new every morning
and fresh every evening. like the celes
tial benedict ona.
How many of us brothers aud sis
ters, make home the rag bag OF Ill
humours aud eapriees. and wretehed
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 slip tidy
over the worn ed1e Of the sofa cushion,
aud lay prettily bound book over the
ink stain on the parior table cloth ;
and so at his coming the flying hair is
smoothed and the sullen look Is gildcd
with smile, and the sour tone is sud
denly wonderfully sweet. Shriveled
old Autumn blooms in a moment into
rosy spring. And how is youth to
know that this house, whore every
thing seems to smile. is not always the
warm and sunny home that he finds it
Yet this same young woman, so neatly
dressed, SO quietly hammered, and SO
facinating to the young man, may be
the most '.inellicient' OF human beings
Still he can never know it until 1t is
too late. He can not pnt it to the
proof He takes the divinity upon
trust. All that he knows is ttat she is
a woman, and that he loves. And
waeiher be thinks that household>intel
ligence, aud thrift and endless courtesy
come by nature, like Dogberry,s read
ing and writing, or whether he assumes
that, having mother, his peerless
princess has beea carefully taught all
the duties Of queen, or whether, AS is
most probable, he knows only that he
loves, the duty of the parent is the
same X x *
But to the ordeal of the household
who can come SO well prepared. And
what pareut, what human being who
has learned by experience, but would
gladly equip every child with the most
perfect equipment? No, Dorinda Jane,
to whom the youth, crusty at home.
will presently come sweetly smiling, it
is not the flowing hair, and the graceful
dress, and the bloom upon the check,
and the soft lustre Of the eye, that will
make him happy. No, nor is it his
horses aud plate, and the luxury and
ease he promises. II he is harsh and
short, and grabbed, what if he bas fifty
thousand year? IF you are careless
and ignorant and helpless, the victim
instead Of ruler Of your house, what il
your,eyes are black and your cheeks a
divine carnatiou? And you, dear Sin
and Madam, who permit that boor tc
sit surly as the table, aud to growl il
monosylables at home, you who suffer
that fair faced girl to grow up utterly
unequal to the duties to which she vii
be called, are you responsible.
"What il a rebus?" innocently ask.
ed lovely miss of black eyed lad
lmpripting kiss on her breathing lips
he replied, iii you return the compli'
ment, that will be rebuss 7" She
was satisfied with the information.