The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-19
Cheerful Homes.

A cheerful, happy home is the greatest safeguard
against temptations for the young. Parents should
spare no pains and begrudge no money to make
home an attractive spot. There should be pictures
to adorn the walls flowers to cultivate the finer
sensibilities; the choicest and most entertaining of
books, and heightened and instructive newspapers
and periodicals. These things, no doubt, cost money,
but not a 1.-THE the amount that one Of the lesser
vices even will cost--vices which are sure to be &c
quired away from home, but go seldom there. Then
there should be social pleasures-a gathering of
yound and old around the veranda a warm well
come Of the ~neighbor who drops in to pass a pleas
ant hour. There should be music, and games aud
reading. The tastes Of all should be consulted
until each member of the family looks forward to
the hour of reunion at home as the brightest one in
the whole twenty-fonr. Wherever there is found a
pleasant, cheerful, neat, attractive, inexpensive
home, there you may be sure to end the abode Of
the domestic virtues there will be no dissipated
husbands, no Disseminated or discouraged wives.
no " fast " sons nor frivolous daughters. The fol-
lowing weighty remarks en- this subject from a
leading journal are worthy of the most thoughtful
consideration, and certainly point 20 tie true
remedy OF an evil that is becoming Interestingly
characteristic of the age =" Recreation Is a neces-
sity of bar dwoTking, OTeTgtrained life. Men and
women need 1t, and will have il. But should they
go from nome TO nud III Is nome nothing but q
place to sleep, eat and drudge in Plainly false
aud Injurious is such a view. but it seems 10 be that
which widely prevails among rs. The members Of
the household seek their recreations abroad. Yield
ing 10 different tastes, or controlled by different
circumstances, they seek i: in different places.
Husbands and wives, parents and children, thus
separate from one another in their associations /;
the family unity disappears and the seeds of dis
cord are planted in the home circle. Under this false
and fatal idea, that il is necessary to go abroad TO
seek after enjoyment. sociey has become a travel
ling association of pleasure-bunters as if pleasure
could be found by thus hunting for it. The old.
happy home-life is disappearing-and with it is
vanishing, not only the true5t enjoyment. but also
the greatest safeguard Of our social state. Misera-
BILE or guilty is the man who quits home to ind en-
joyment. Lost is that woman who does it. I'm
happy is the son or daughter who does not end
home the happiest spot on earth. The family circle
is a misnomer, as applied to the meabera Of house
holds thus separate in their association and pleas
ures. With them there can be no golden chain Of
holy affection, strengthened and kept bright by
loving association aud the communion of the limo
cent Joys and sacred SORROWS of the family. Home
should be the dearest spot on earth to every iEdi-
vidual. There the weary man Of business should
Gnd his needed rest. There th0 wife and mother
should find her purest. deepest pleasure. And there
children should Bnd attractions stronger than all
the world can present" 1t il, we fear, too true
that we tinker away at the evils of society and go
on making new " societies F" - amuse, Instruct,
or restrain our people whes the great want is
homes,