Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-02


Goiag to, HoGseEeepisg.-lt is con-
enough money to buy or rent q COM
settle down to cosy housekeeping.
Until this can be done Q great many
couples think they must board. To be-
gin as their fathers and mothers did is
not to be thought of. How can they be
happy in Just two or three rooms, with
out any parlOr or any fine furniture
Household happiness, then, is a matter
of tapestries and gildings, and carvings
and draperies. Yes, in some cases, that
is all there is of it, and those whose as
piratiOns stop, with the possession of
these externals must fain content them
selves with these. But there are those
who look deeper and higher for dOmes-
tic felicity than in the mere fireside
surroundings of even the most luxuri-
GUS home. For such is this little essay
designed.
1t seems fitting that when "the
solitary are set in families they should
set up Immediately their own house.
hold gods and make sure to themselves
such seclnsion as will enable them to
lay without any disturbing influences
from without the foundations of their
domestic structure. Each family is a
unit with properties peculiar to itself, q
solution with laws of capitalization all
its own, and it is impossible for any
father or mother or friend to interfere
wisely and attempt to regulate the ac-
ton of these laws and say thus or thus
they must operate. Suggestions deli
cately given are barely admissible, but
the inner sanctuary of the home belongs
solely to the dual units any other per-
son entering there is guilty of sacrilege.
No boarding house, no private family,
no hotel can afford a married pair the
seclusiOn. the Independence, the free
dom they can have in even two or three
rooms of which they are sole pro-
prietOrs and where they keep house"
Curious eyes are prying into their
affairs, busy tongues meddle with their
actions, OfficiOus friends try to help
them, and they miss the supreme joy of
seeing the delicious grOwtls of gracious
household ways that can spring only
from the garden inclOsed of sacred
home, if they have not this seclusiOn.
If young married people, instead of
thinking what Mrs. Grundy will say
about their style, their resources and
their expenditures would put this mis-
chief-making dame entirely outside
their thoughts, and taking into sole
consideration their own requirements,
likings and abilities, act according to
the dictates of sound judgment in the
direction and management of their
affairs, what infinite happiness they
may enjoy, what untold annoyances
escaped Two that love each other can
be happy with Administer or mating.
with china or stone ware, with stuffed
damask or cane seats; these no more
create the happiness of home than
draperles create the beauty of the per-
feet human form. Though very well
in their way, they are the merest ac-
cidents, and have no vital connection
with the home. Nay, unless there is
that within which passeth show
these outside trappings are mockeries
and tOrtures to the lOve-hunary heart
1t - alsO to be considered that the out
side world knows the circumstances
(pecuniary) of young couples generally
about as well as they do themselves,
and just how much of a spread they
can afford to make. No one is deceived
by a grand display. 1t is surely not
worth while to begin life with hypocrisy.
1t is well to come into an estate by de-
grees, and the full estate of housekeep-
ing constitutes no exception to this re-
mark. The simple Joy of having q
home, however humble, all to their two
selves, is or ought to be enough in the
beginning for any reasonable pair. Let
them add little by little as they are
able and their requirements increase !;
each addition will bea separate pleasure
all the rest, and the delight
of building up home may thus be
prolonged through years of growing
wealth and felicity-nay, may be pro-
lOnged till the twain pass to that state
where there is neither marrying nor
giving in marriage.