Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-04-08

Como TO HoUsEKEEPIyG.-It is con-
sidered "a very nice thing" to have
enough money 10 buy or rent COM
Portable house, furnish it amply and
settle down to cosy housekeeping. Un-
til this can be done a great manr cou-
pies think they must board. To begin
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 p
Household happiness, then, is a matter
of tapestries and gildings, and carvings
and draperics. Yes, in some cases, that
is all there is of it, and those whose as
pirations stop with possession of these
externa!s mIst fain content themselves
with these. But there are those who
look deeper and higher for domestic fe.
licity than III the mere fircside surround
ings of even the most luxurious home.
For such is this little essay designed.
1t seems fitting that when 1.-The soli-
tary are set i'll families" they should
set up Immediately their own household
gods and make sure to themselves such
seclusions as will enable them to lay
without any disturbing influences from
without the foundations of their domes-
tic structure. Each family is a unit
with properties peculiar to itself, So
luton with laws of capitalization allits
own, and it is impossible for any father
or mother or friend to interfere wisely
and attempt to regulate the action of
these laws and say thus or thus they
must operate. Suggestions delicately
given are barely admissible, but the in
ner sactuary Of the home belongs sole
ly to the dual unit; any other person
entering there is guilty of sacrilcgc.
No boarding house. no private fami-
", 10 hotel can afford Il married pair
the scclusion. the independence, the
freedom they can have iii even two or
three rooms of which they are sole pro-
prietors and where they keep house
Curious eyes are prying into their af-
fairs, busy tongues NEEDLE with their
actions, oificious friends try to help
them. and they miss the supreme Joy
of seeing the delicious Srowths If gra-
cioas household WAYS that can spring
only from the garden inclosed Of sa-
cred home, if they have not this seclu-
sion.
II young married people, instead of
thinking what Mrs. Grundy will say
about their style, their resources and
their expenditures would put this mis-
chief-mahing dame entirely outside their
thoughts, and taking into sole eonsid-
Grafton their own requirements, Hkings
ana abilities. act according To the die
tatcs of sound Judgment III the dircc-
tion and management of their affairs,
what infinite happiness they may enjoy,
what untold anuoyances escape! 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 drapcries ere
ate the beauty of the perfect human
form. Though very wcll in their way,
they are the mcrcst accidents. and have no
vital connection with the home. Nav,
unless there is that within which pas
seth show" these outside trappings are
CRY heart. 1t is also to be considered
that the outside world knows the cir
cumstances (pecuniary) of young eou-
pies generally about rs well as they do
themselves. and just how much of a
spread they can afford 10 make. No
one is deceived by grand display. Ii
is surely not worth while 10 begin life
with hypocrisy. 1t is well to come into
an estate by degrees, and the full es-
tate of housekeeping constitutes no ex-
ception to this remark. The simple JOY
of having home, however humble al
TO their two selves, is or ought to b,
enough in the beginning for any rea
sonable pair. let them add little by
little as they are able and their require.
ments incrcase; each addition will he q
separate pleasure multiplying all tn.
rest, and the delight of building up q
home may thus be prolonged through
years of growing wealth and felicity
nay, may be prolonged till the twain
pass to that state where there is neither
marrying nor giving in marriage.