The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15

fine and orderly houses, but have, after all,
no home, for
| "Home's not merely four square walls,
Though with pictures hung and gilded
Home is where affection calls,
| Filled with shrines the heart hath builded.
| A homekeeper makes all the ways OF the
house conduce to the comfort of the inmates.
She allows the members of her household to
build each a shrine, and treats it as sacred,
because it is shrine to the one who has
builded it. The daughter is not called an
idle thing, because she wishes to know her
tune, and gazes wistfully toward the hori-
zon nor is the son reproved If he slams
around and wishes he was-anywhere, but
idIing at home. The homekeeper will quiet
ly aid the first to seek for beauty this side
the horizon, and the boy will find vent ior
his activity without seeing he was genty
| led to it by an overseeing love. A house
that is blessed with homekeeper has an
| influence that even strangers feel. lney
receive that rest which comes from the mt.
ting of self to its sphere" The order OF
the house may be mechanical, like that oil
loom or a harp but like these mechan-
ical things it conduces to results anu JUS
titles itself by issues OF more than siiken
fneness, and music sweeter tnah IIa' vi
the spheres. If there is houseKeeper
the housework is not in utter coniusloh' H.
perchance, one rise an hour too iate' a
breakfast. such as late risers should expect
is eaten in peace, and not in hurry Oh eA-
cuses for not having meal that 1t was I'M
possible to furnish without inconvenience
and discord in the kitchen for the who're
day. 1t is foolish to attempt to keep res,
tanrant with only the arrangements suited
to small family The peace OF many
family is destroyed by attempting sucn I'M
possibilities. Realizing that the guest re-
grets his tardiness, she lets the cold preaE-
fast suffice, but does what she can by woru'
look and act to make the best OF what can
not be helped, aud SO calls out the gratltude
of the late riser, that ever after that break
fast is bright and pleasant memory iur
he feared he was nuisance, yet wlthout III
rect word he felt that his act did not as
commode the arrangements OF the mousse.
Housekeeping can be well done by an ener-
getic woman. Housekeeping requires tnat
the woman's heart and wisdom be greater
than her house. and that she keeps the
house, only that in it life can be lived Will
love and truthfulness.
The American Builder says 10 nOt
arrange your house so as to vloiaVe "ou .
first command. Give it many WINDOWS anu
then, O housewife, keep your blinds open
during the day and your curtains drawn
aside. If you let the sun in Freely II may
fade your carpets, but if you do not IL WIN
he sure to cause i'll health to the mother
and children. The sun is a good physician n-
He has never had d1e credit for hls curative
oualities-for the bright eyes and rosy
checks that come from his healing pain.
Do YOU know how puny is the growth OF ra q
notato vine along the darkened cellar wall
Sucb is the health of human beings lVine
where the sun is intercepted by the WIN
dow's drapery. So dark wallpaper is not
only gloomy, but it is physically unwhoie-
some. Let in the sun, for with 1t come
cbeerfulness and strength! A dark room Is
an enemy of good health, good temper anu
good morals"
Dr Hall saws the best medicine in the
world more efficient in the cure OF disease
than all the potencies OF the materla iheuiGa'
are warmth. rest. cleanliness and pure ar.
Some persons make it virtue 10 pra'e uia
ease, Ito keep up" as long as they can lnoVe
foot or crook finger, and 1t sometiiiies 1.e
succeeds but in others, the powers Oh me-
are thereby so completely exhausted that the
system has lost ability to recuperate' anu
typboid fever sets in and carries the patent I
to a premature grave. Whenever walking, ne,
or work is an effort. warm bed and cool
room are the very first indispensa6les 10 a
sure and speedy recovery. Instinct leads al
beasts and birds to quietude and rest .ne
very moment disease or wounds assau the
| system.