Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-05-27
About Home Happiness.

One of the first things that all good and
sensible young people talk of, and hope for,
is happy and comfortable home of their
own. 1t is one of the brightest and best
creations Of their imaginations and, if they
are but sufficiently earnest in their endeay.
ors, the attainment Of home Of this char
acter is only question Of time with them.
The elements of home happiness are in-
dustry, patience and usefulness.
BY industry is meant that careful atten.
ton to business and to ones daily duties,
which will insure success and prosperity
in worldly affairs. No one can be idle and
be he eppy. The mind and body are so con-
stituted that they are never at ease with
nothing 10 do. A man will soon rust out
in state of inactivity, his mind become
unsettled and his body disordered. He was
created to labor, and in the wide world he
lives in there is plenty for him to do, if he
has only the will to do it. His prosperity
is proportionate to his earthly endeayors,
and if, by an upright and honest course Of
conduct, he arises in pre-eminence, and
builds for himself and his family the home
he built in his youthful fancies, he is better
satisfied with himself, and others are better
satisfied with him, than if he had wasted his
opportunities and chance Of success in idle
ness and inactivity.
By patience | mean that rare virtue that
married people so often have occasion to
use. There are none that are wholly free
from the little annoyances and petty per-
plexities that are so inseparably connected
with every day life. Over and over again
they come, from the first day Of welded
happiness to the last day, when death dis
solves the solemn and sacred contract Of
marriage. People may have an elegant and
costly habitatiop, with all the comforts and
conveniences that money will buy, and yet
they cannot even be comfortable without a
large stock Of patience. Every one has
more or less to contend with. All persons
whether wives or husbands, are bothered
and worried by circumstances Of various
kinds They must, therefore, learn to be
patient and forbearing toward one another,
and must have tender consideration for
each others faiings.
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tributes found in the human family. There
are few things that are done in this world
with purely unselfsh motive. One great
secret Of happiness for husbands and wives
to learn Is to think less Of themselves and
more of each other. No wife and husband
can be truly happy unless they regard each
others needs with a degree Of interest aud
earnestness as great as their own. They
must therefore, learn to conform to each
others wishes and ways Of thinking, for
only in so doing can they be happy aud
their homes be made beautiful.
The young bride, upon leaving her faith.
er's house, steps into another life so differ
ent in its duties and associations that, to
her, il seems not unlike entering another
world. How completely she trusts her fu.
ture happiness in the hands of the one who
has promised to love and care for her until
death divides them. To her, her marriage
is everything. 1t necessarily affects her
whole future career, for whatever her hus.
bands fortunes are, she must learn TO pa
tiently conform to them; she looks TO him
for whatever social position she occupies
for whatever home happiness she is to have
The man who is blessed with the love
aud confidence Of good and beautiful
woman is one Of the most fortunate Of be.
ings, and he has above all an inducemeni
to live and lead an honorable. useful and
noble life Next to his obligations To
heaven are the duties be owes 10 his wife
and be should feel in his very soul that he
cannot do too much for her happiness.
Industry, patience and unselfshness are
therefore, the elements Of home happiness.
If wives and husbands have disposition te
exercise these virtues, they will 6nd that II
takes but little to make home attractive
and each other happy.