Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25
THE HOME.
THE DUTY TO MAKE 1T ATTRACT
I'VE AND LEADING.
Methods and Results of Domestic
Economy-HousehO Orna-
mentation Etc.
MAKE HOME BEAUTIFUL.

Inc most important duties OF lie are
those which we owe TO home friends-our
children, and all who, in the common par
lance, compose the home circle This
fact Is not always nderstood-many per-
sons supposing that their real duties lie
abroad among men in the great thorough
fares of life, where great questions are agi-
tated and where great deeds are done,
while, incidental to the life they are living
are the little offices of affection required by
children, by wife, by family friends gener
ally. 1t is this misunderstanding of the
true relations we sustain to the world at
large. which causes so much of the misery,
the ignorance, the want of affection among
home friends we see around us on every
band and to this alone must be attributed
large share Of the responsibility for the
existence of crime, and criminal intents
and desires. Il have a mission to per-
fornl-a work to do says the parent, and
he goes abroad to perform that work. to
fulfill that mission, when, had he been
rightly instructed, he would have remained
at home, and devoted himself to the little
cares Of his household-to cultivating the
love and esteem of his children, to smooth
inc the difficulties of all upon whom the
home burdens fall, thus preparing himself
and them for the better fulfillment of life's
missions, when the same come to him
and them demanding thought and
action. 1t is safe to say-all other
duties being well attended to-that
the apparent greater duties which
lie abroad in the common fields Of life
may be left TO take care OF themselves I'M
til they come to our doors and call us
forth with imperative voices. Then, and
only then, shall we be properly prepared
to enter upon the missions which call us
away from home and It's sweet, tender in
fuences. 1t is but a light task, and o how
rich are the rewards, to paint smiles and
roses in the faces of those we love- and did
we always know h0w to love, this would be
our chiefest pleasure and we should make
il our chiefest care Without ignoring the
wants and calls of the world without for
getting duties to neighbors, to State, to
country, to the great moral questions upon
which so much of our common good de-
pends; without taking from heaven one
thought, one aspiration, one PRAYER which
rightly belongs to our responsibilities as
worshipers, we may safely rely upon this
that the exact and full performance of the
duties we owe to those we love is the no.
bleSt, the grandest work we can do-a
work which best conseryes the interests of
the world, of society, and which must be
the most acceptable worship we can offer
to God Make home beautiful How?
Do we not all try to do this? Ask your
selves thatquestion, and let the answer come
from your own heart. Do YOU, in your
every thought, in the best of your wisdom,
in the best light of the thousand
experiences around you-do you make
your homes beautiful? Do you
always speak tenderly, with the
true emotion of love to those around Won
in the immediate circle of home? Do YOU
study to learn of and work to provide
those things which are best for all j.? Is
your home beautiful, or is it merely
place where you house your family, CON
tent if the winds Of winter do not visit
them too rudely; content if summer suns
or storms are not uncomfortablv felt there;
content if the bare walls of YOUR rooms are
sound and tight content if no pictures
smile out upon them from the walls, if no
music appeals to the angels who dwell
away down In their innermost heart, if no
little pleasures are provided for them in
the hours of idleness or when clustered
around the evening lamp? Is your home
beautiful? Have YOU pictures in abund
ance selected with care and with proper
discrimination for artistic excellence, for
them 70 gaze upon? Have YOU provided
music for them, through which they can
tell YOU the pleasant thoughts they are
thinking about Won, through which they
can pour out their evening PRAYERS, their
tenderest worship to Him who besses
them in all they think and do? Then
You have tried. and well tried, To make
home beautiful, and God viii bless your
eiiort-if not with an immediate and full
answer, certainly with the promise of rich
and good things laid up in store for vou.-
From the Cottage Hearth.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND ACCOUNT.
Contrasting the way in which the house
hold expense account is usually kept in
American and English families, saws Tie
HoGSekeepsr, and especially in the matter
Of fixed allowance for housekeeping, cloth
ing etc, p writer on domestic economy
makes these sensible remarks and surges-
tons, which, if carefully considered and
needed, would go far toward increasing the
comfort, order, and prosperity of large
class OF people: For some reason or
other American husbands are less inclined
to make this arrangement of a fixed allow
auce with their wives than husbands of
any other nation. In England, not only
do wives have their pin-monev.' but each
daughter has her separate allowance upon
which she dresses herself This amount is
hers TODD with Is she pleaSes and she must
not exceed It. Ii Is an excellent arrange
ment in every way, because il not only
saves womanS self-respect not To be
obliged TO ask for money for whatever she
needs. but ii also teaches her habits of
economy and accustoms her to disburse-
meut OF money English wives high or
low, keep household accounts with de-
gree Of system which wonld astonish many
an American house-keeper. Every penny
spent in the house goes down in The
HoUsekeeper's Book. which IS an institu-
ton in every household Every bill is
carefully filed away when receipted. In
fact, 4 perfect system of order prevails
which enables every man to know exactly
how much it costs him to keep up his es-
adjustment. Moreover, every item Of ex-
pcnditure is made with reference to IN
come. House rent must be only such a
percentage, outlay for provisions so much
and no more, servants wages such an
amount, school bills for children so much,
pew rent and charities certain amount,
and it. AT the end of the year, it is found
that the amount fixed has been exceeded
in any particular, expenses are at once cur
tailed 1t is difficult to lay down rules for
any one outside of this measure of ex-
penseS according to income What is
praiseworthy economy in one household
would be niggardlinoss i'll another"
HOUSEHOLD ORGANISATION.
A handsome tidy that has the merit Of
washing well is not often seen. One re-
Gently invented answers to this 'descrip-
ton; Choose some coarse. white crash /;
look ut ii carefully to see that ii is as
evenly woven is possible, then pull out
threads until it is barred OF, and stitches
may be counted as in canvas; work Dor
der on each end, and then begin at one
corner and work in diagonal lines. in a
common cross-stitch, all over the crash.
This is to be done with crcwel. in four
colors, red, green, yellow, and black. The
ends Of the crash should be frineed before
anything else is done. This tidy NAV be
put smoothly over a chair-back, or made