The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-03-02
Mem. Part in IIorne-Making.

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have been aimed ut the wOmen.-
This is natural enough, for they are
the home makers of the world. But
lust now we desire to nudge the
head of the households, aud ask
them how they are performing their
responsible part in the realm of the
home. Most men seem To think they
have little to do in creating an sat
musphere of home." Their forte lies
ia breathing and enjoying the atinos-
phere after somebody else has made
lt-aiid not il few cant get along and
make known their authority without
.r..,slug IA breeze in it. Men are
too ,,i~N-. too much pre-Occupied, too
impatient aud tiioughtless, aDd-it
must lac SAID of some of them too
selfish 10 do their fair share of that
prc-emlnently millennial work, the
creating of II happy home, wherein
love ieigns supreme, and alniabliity,
aitecii IN, cl,eeriulness, Joy and peace
are the natural conditions of family
life.
Now, in certain things, man has
been Il constitutional shirk from the
DAYS OF Adam-if the scientific gen
tiemen have left us any Adam-down
to this day. Men will fight for their
homes and make slaves of them
selves to their business to maintain
them; but, like the Proverbial man
VINO would die for IL woman, but
never would bring up scuttle vi
coal, they can't tell what their chill
dren are studying ut school, who
THEN mates are, what they are learn
ing of good or evil, nor hardly any
thing else that Il father ought To
know concerning his offspring. 1t
is so SAD il fact as TO spoIi the satire
when it is said that many II father
finds his Sundays and holidays too
few to enable him to ''becoine ac-
quainted with his boys But we
maintain that Il man VINO hasn't time
90 be a father to his children, with
all that it includes, has no right to
have any. lie WRONGS them, robs
himself, puts AN UNJUST responsible
ty upon the mother, and neglects his
highest duties, human and divine.
There are so many ways ia which
Il tather may contribute to a happy
iiome-liie that il seems strange the
number of HOUSES should SO greatly
exceed the homes. Ii takes SD little
To make children happy at home that
it is wondryus pity so many little
ONES are miserable, uneasy, OF dis
contented. II, for an hour after the
evening meal, the father should give
himself 10 the children, would the
mother. wear out So fast, or the chill
dren be so liiwless, Troublesome and
? What ministry
for good to both parties IS papa's
IroiIc with the oaoies What an in
terest is added to the books, the
drawings, the games, or even the
studies, If father enters into them.
Aside from the children, and in
homes where there are none, men
sui have. IL more direct part than
most OF them are ready 10 bear, in
inahlBg the daily lie pleasant. We
hardly need say that u man should
set the example for the family in
patience, clIceriulness, courtesy, for
bearance, and all the amiable moods
aud giaces that are the soul of home
happiness. The sort OF men who
display all their spavity aud polite
ness on tile street or at their bust.
ness places, and save the storms and
sulks and sourness, and all the evil
brood Of tlevilish dispositions that
they characterize by the c Dnvenient
euphemism of .'moods" = well, we
have our opinion of them! and if
they will come Within range we
don't mind expressing it privately
but we are afraid it wouldn't look
well in print.
The whole tribe of hume tyrants
men who make the entire household
revolve around them AS the center
whose Tongues are clIronically ''fur-
red Ill the morning, and nerves so
upset in the evening, that the whole
family must keep silence while they
read and smoke; who cant bear
the noise OF innocent and natural
VINO have to he tnl-
died aud tended and humOred they
ought all OF tlrm to be doomed To
lass their days in shabby genteel
boarding llouses, without sight OF
wife or children - with hash for
breakfast, warmed-over pancakes
for lunch, and lean mackerei and
hens for supper, with the
ledger overhead always learning the
trombone and servant girls that
steal the hair oil. They don't de-
serve "a home, and M man does who
will do nothing to make il. For
mans rights do not iuelude the right
to all the comforts OF home with
out amy OF the work, or worry, or
self sacrifice, or th0ughtfnlness AND
weli-dolng Incident to its creation
lld maintenance.