Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-03-15
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III is well TO TALK aDOuC making
home beautiful, but it is quite an
other thing to accomplish. To most
women, home life is very monoto-
nous, although they don't realize it
half the time, because they have
grown so used to the dull routine
which was followed by their mothers
before them. Women. farmers
wives especially, do too much. They
spend a good part of their lives in
trying to manage the details of do
nestle life, so that there will be no
extravagant drain on the husbands
resources. They put too little bright
ness into their lives, too much of the
shade and too little of the sun.
When they meet each other they
talk of work and economies, not of
their pleasures and blessings. They
have so few pleasures. They do
not think they are in duty bound,
for the good of both soul and body
to take recreation.
The husband grows so accustomed
to seeing his wife always at home
and at work that he would be quite
surprised if she asked for the use of
the carriage for a day. He would
hardly believe he was in possession of
his sober senses to see her dress up
in her best, for the purpose Of at
tending concert in town. And
she would probably not enjoy these
things herself. She would think it
more profitable to be at home look
ing after the ways of her household.
That is because she did not begin
right. She began by thinking it
saving to wear her clothes as long as
there was anything left of them, no
matter how old-fashioned or worn
they became, or how dowdy she ap-
peared.
How we'll I remember a bride who
came to live in our neighborhood not
many years ago. She and her young
husband spent an evening at our
house, not long after they had set up
housekeeping. She had rather d
pretty face, but an overgrown figure.
The dress she wore displayed her
large hands and feet to advantage,
the sleeves of her dress being three
inches short, and the length of her
skirt reaching only to the tops of her
boots, white lace fell over her hands
to make up for the length of sleeves,
, and certainly her figure was quite lu-
dicrous. She made the remark, dur
, ing the evening, that she had worn
the dress over four years without
: making it over, and now she was
married, it would serve her -four
years more without renewing, as they
should have to ''save." A few years
of rigid economy, going nowhere and
seeing but little company, brought {
sorrowful look to her young face
and many gray hairs among the ra
ven locks. AS the years of experl
ence came to her, she profte1 b,
:. them, and out of the shade into tn
sunlight she is still reaching. Ma
God bless and strengthen her in tn
wise way she has chosen.
1t is not expensive, but rattle
, ecomical than otherwise, to pay al
tention to our appearances. 1t is til
;, sloven who is generally the most eS
travagant in dress. 1t requires cor
. tinually to be renewed. 1t may tax
" little time to change the dress an
:. brush the hair anew before takin
40 tea, but it is time profitably spen
ne The woman or child who feels wors
CHI dressed than those with whom 81
no associates, will feel awkward, al
behave with a self-consciousnel
let which is painful to the looker-on.
its To make home beautiful, ket
on only one eye on profit. Best of {
III never look away off for happines
In Remember "'tis a plant that on
are thrives by home cultivation" New
coax up future trials to be borne
Je- the present time, but live your tria
at as you exert your faith, a day at
I'd time, remembering that each d.
md makes you stronger and better a
ce. quainted with this grand old worl
Now, believe, that home on