Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-03-08

Wisconsin; they keep out of debt only
by the utmost frugality. In an cn'iosy
year, horse dies, some one is sick,
NO one can be hired 20 help, and in
these days of darkness the little home
has to be mortgaged in order to pur-
chase another horse, and pay the doc
tors bills; crops are poor and nothing
can be sold off the farm. As years
pass by we find that home paid for, an
extra good seasons crop he's been har--
vested, and now, after years of toll and
hardship we find the occupants sitting
underneath their own roof. Perhaps
il is poor, but it is paid for, and paid
with money that has been earned by
the sweat of their brows.
They need a good b..rn, and the
father says, "now, if | only had some
one TO do the chores, would go into
the pine woods with my team and see II
cannot earn enough to build nae one;
our log stable. covered with straw, is
tumbhpg down." The ready witted
little woman says, "go on; will see to
things while you are gone" In the
early spring the loving husband turns
his face homeward, tired with the hard
winters work; but he is lisht-hearted;
for he has worked i've long long months,
some time has been lost on account OF
storms, etc yet he has nearly enough
to build the coveted barn, new dress
for mother" suit of cheap clothes
for the son, a calico dress for each of
the girls. Think you that home is not
beautiful?
Reader, make your home beautiful,
but don't do it at sacrifice of any
other person. There is that shout the
home more beautiful than acres of
flowers or groves of evergreens. The
home is paid for, and these hard-hand-
ed Sons and daughters of toll are as
happy as lsrks on bright summer
morning.
These fancy pictures of ho,U to make
home beautiful are to much like the
lessons to be gained from lilies. Look
at them, robed in all the loyeliuess that
an all-wise Creator can clothe them
with. They toll not neither do they
spin" So the painters of the fancy
pictures of how to make home beautl-
full, clothed in cashmere, satin and fine
linen do not toll, nor do they lift the
burden of work by any exertion OF
their OVID, only to order how this and
that shall be done. They sit in the
softly carpeted, heavily draped, and
fine upholstered room, monarch of al
they survey, and exclaim: How
beautiful. | vii Just write an article
on making home beautiful" This is 8
beautiful home, but who made it so
Did this lady whose head is covered
with Saratoga waves" whose dress il
rich and deliberately made, whose fipg
ers are covered with costly ripgs-dic
she make it so beautiful? Ninety-nin,
times out of every hundred, the answer
would be no-hired help did it.
This lady of culture and rehnemen
has no knowledge OF landscape garden
ing. or of anything else that pertains t
making the home beautiful. There
fore sum up the entire argument anC
it is this, Hire help and make you
home beautiful"
| My idea il, use your best endeavor
to make your heme happy and it vii
of necessity be beautiful. Use industry
economy and frugality; don't hire q
days work done unless it will bring it
own worth back. Poverty is no dis
grace, yet at the present time thu
young American is taught TO despis'
the poor but honest tiller of the soil, o
the pale faced seamstress, or the hiret
help on the farm and about the house
Have | overdrawn my own picture
Reader, did you ever see a beautiful
hume that was not surrounded by tn
luxuries of wealth? If not, you are L
be pitied. Beautify your homes, bu
be sure you beautify the mind and tn
character. Never mind if the pig PEI
is between the house and barn; pei
haps the pigs do full as well there 3
flowers would, if they had to be left t
the tender mercies of bejeweled finger
to pull the weeds away and let in th
bright and God-given light of the sur