Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
HOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
Ahe Importance and Influence of q Hand.
some Door-Yard.

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Tho Importance and Influence Of . Hand.
some Door-Yard.
one OF the greatest mistakes hus-
oand can commit is. in the presence of
ms 1amily, to be constantly speaking
OF selling his home. If he wants to
quench all ambition and desire in his
wne and children to beautify and make
the place attractive, he can employ no
surer method.
1t is the pleasant door-yard. tn.
r ehmoing vines. the thrifty small fruits,
that hrst appeal to the eye of a buver'
and make him possible purchaser:
out 1t is not in human nature. particu-
larry IN woman nature to feel the same
interest in fixing up home attractive
~ II she knows that William will sell
1t next month if he gets the chance. A
man is apt to look on the sale of
nome in the same light that he does
any other business transaction. His best
efforts and skill are put into the manu-.
1acture of the wagons, reapers. and
other things that he expects to sell. Ii
ne IS a merchant, he aims to place his
goods tesore the public in the most ad-
Vantageous way that will bring him
customers. but he loses sight of the fact
that the ownership of q home is of
widely different character.
In this busy. unsettled American life
OF ours. change of residence is a COM
mon occurrence, but the sunderinp of
the ties that always bind one to his
home, no matter how humble that home
may be, can not but be a subject of
sadness. No reasonable wife will abso-
lutely refuse to part with her home. if
she knows it is decidedly for the inter-
est OF her family to do so. and she
looks forward with pleasure to the
nope OF speedily being established in
another; but when it comes to a syste-
matte, chronic plan on the part of the
husband to sell out because he can
make few hundred dollars on the
fruit OF her labor and taste, do not let
us blame her too much if she rebels.
Many woman has made an unculti-
waited, bald looking yard a veritable
bower OF beauty by the outlay of her
own physical strength. She has not
begrudged the labor spent in making
and caring for flower beds, whose bril-
liant blooms elicit the admiration. of
weary passers-by. With her own hands,
and with weary step, she has lugged
basketful after basketful of rich mould
to place about her choice plants, feel
ing fully repaid for all her pains as she
sees the barrenness and ugliness give
way to blossom and verdure.
William realizes that his house and
lot have grown prettier, and forthwith
begins to ponder on the market value
of the spot. If he were only wise, he
would keep these speculations to him
self. but when he says complacently:
t'Well. Maria, we have one of the most
desirable homes in town; if | can make
$500 over what it cost me, I'll sell it;
Jones is looking around for nice
property. and believe it would just
suit him''-he is putting a dampener
on his wife from which she W. III hardly
recover.
Poor Martial If she is soft-hearted
little thing. more than likely she will
not be able to keep back her tears, as
she falters out: '.And where should we
gop'
''Oh. that's an easy matter" briskly
answers the husband; plenty of other
houses we can get" And so Jones
gets the home, and sweet William
chucks the money down into his pock-
ct, giving b s wife no share of it, and
never once dreaming that it was Ma
ria S clustering vines, well-kept yard
and snowy shrubs that charmed the
Joneses. and which made the property
marketable.
BY the time this wife has beautified
iwo or three yards, and seen them sold
away from her, she will very probably
begin to feel Indifferent as to the APP
pearance of their premises. whats
the use of making flower beds for
somebody elseP" she argues. ''Just as
soon as things get to growing nicely,
We'll sell the place, and therefore it
wont pay for me to expend my strength
on it." The result is that nobody
wants to buy, and she has the privilege
of staying In her home, but only be-
cause it is unprepossessing. She never
grows attached to it as she did to those
former homes where every leaf and
bud had been cultivated by her own
hands. In fact, she feels no special in
terest in the place, and would as soon
sell it as not. while William, unwise,
short-sighted William, fame es that she
must be IN failing health because she
don't care to dig in the yard any more.
and he posts off to the drug store and
buys her bottle of somebody's cele-
brated liver tonic!
just such strange creatures are men.
Or, we will suppose that he does not
actually sell his home, but if he is con-
stantly talking of doing it, and W sh-
ing for a purchaser. the depressing
effect on his family will be just the
same If the mother has lost her en-
thusiasm we can not expect to find any
in the children who generally follow
her lead in such matters and thus the
grounds, with all their pleasant posi-
bilities, take on a look of neglect or
unsightliness. that conveys desolate
look to the house itself.
Too many husbands place too low an
estimate on the Importance and in
fiuence of a handsome door-ya ard. and
begrudge dollor of outlay toward its
establishment, forgetting that one
story cottage. with a climbing rose or
fragrant clematis covering a pretty
porch, comes nearer the ideal spot of
beauty than its big two or three stored
neighbor, with its bald windows blink |
ING in the sun. unshielded by the |
shadow of graceful leaves on the case
ment. or twining vine over the door. |
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