Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-24
The SUNNY Home

know a room where sunshine ALWAYS fingers
and there is breath OF summer and mignonette
in the air whenever think OF it. There A tired
man comes home, and throws Off overcoat and
hat without looking to see what becomes of
them. There is a broad table in the light strewn
with papers and magazines and wOman's work
with a few rOse-leaves dropping over them from
a central vase. There Is a wide sofa of the DAYS
of the Georges, fresh-cOvered i'm chintz, with
ferns and harebells for patterns, and the tired
man goes down there with great ruffied
pillow under his shoulders, and opens parcels
and letters, dropping them as he gets through
ON the moor, the most natural place for them.
and paper lie on the side table, Just as she left
them to rush away for an imprOmptu ride /
have never been able to discover any dsar-
rangement Of the household economy by this
flight Somebody left a shawl on q chair
There will be nothing said about it at breakfast
next morning. There are no laws here against
playing with the curtain tassel, no regulations
as to how often the snowy muslin curtains NAV
be put up or let down. They do not last the
season out, crisp and speckless, as our neigh
bors do across the way, but the OAly conse-
quence is they are Oftener new and clean.
There is nothing very fine about this house,
but things are renewed Oftener and look brighter
than they do in statelier houses. The chairs
have no particular places, and anybody feels at
liberty to draw the sofa out when it pleases him.
There is no primness about the place. If there
is grass on the lawn, it is meant to be walked
on, and the geraniums are fOndled and petted
and caressed as if they were children. Do YOU
know there is magnetism in green leaves and
growing flowers derived from the earth 8 heart,
that makes it good to handle and feel them?
This is known as the house where one dares to
be late at breakfast. There is no ceremony Of
waiting. Coffee and cakes are put up when
they will be hot the table is cleared to suit the
hOusekeepers convenience, and q small one set
for the late conner. Nobody lies awake at night
till the light ceases to shine under your chamber
door, If you want to sit up and read your novel
through.
There is an unwritten law Of convenience for
the household, which regulates everything bet
ter than any code NapOleOHic. And the benefit
OF allowing people to be a law unto themselves
is, that they are much better natured about il
when they do obey. There is indulgence and
repOse in this lovely home, and a great deal of
time for things which most people cut short, an
hours play with the children, a fright down
good" chat with neighbor, day of letter
writing once a fortnight. And the worth of
these merry, comforting letters quite outweighs
the fact that there are cigar as.as on the man
tel, and pile of work on the sofa Disorder
does not imply dust or soil of any kind. It does
not include shabbiness or mean chaos. 1t
means "leave to be" in most cases, thinking of
people more than things. Order is simply har-
mony OF a few notes. Disorder is the fiowering.
branching melody II one theme-and that theme
aividuality.-Shiriey Dare.