The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
HOUSE HOLD SNAGS.
Little Things That Often'Destroy q Whole
Days Happiness.

such rs iEpatience, Islander, Suikiness,
ETC., are well defined, and marked dam
gerous, being pointed out almost rs
soon as one is old enough to understand
their meaning; but the little snags have
been but slightly dealt with, or neglect
ed altogether, and so become towers Of
strength in helping evil forces to drive
out good intentions upon the rocks Of
greater sins.
These little snags are very commons
place, and yet. like the tiny moth that
got into the Queens wardrobe and ate
her robes all up, they often destroy a
whole days happiness, not only for
ourselves, but also for all about us.
Who would suppose that a bitof linen
= few inches in length, and scarcely
hatf az inch in width. could have the
power to wreck the happines of a day?
And yet many a day has ben spoiled
for the housewife and untitled fos others,
by SO simple a thing as an uncom-
Portable collar. 1t scratched the neck,
was unevenly set. or constantly came
u%npinned. The first feeling WEI one
of irritation at the collar, the next at
self. and then it was easy, nay, almost
pleasant, to be cross with every one
else. Five momen spent in setting a
collar in your dress firmly and neatly
may save a days happiness and
prevent q great deal of sin.
There is nothing more conducive to,
happiness than q comfortable house
dress. The idea that any thing is good
enough about the house and in the
kitchen is a very grave mistake; even a
cast-of' street dress is apt to be too
tight in the waist or sleeves, and so it
soon wears under the arms, or is too
full in the skirt, while the rut1es and
trimmings are almost sure, specially
on nervous, quick woman. to catch on
stove or closet knobs, and beipre one is
aware the tight sleeve or waist, the flying
rut1e or ribbon, has proved a snag too
strong for the strongest good inten-
tons, with regard to our temper. A
plain, short dress, comfortably made, is
q very regiment of strength; and wash
ing goods are decidedly preferable. be-
cause, with q clean dress, even if it ls
only a cheap print or %honespun, q
woman puts on a kind of beauty. and
there is something in clean clothes
m%arvelously helpful to being dean-
tempered.
There is an old maxim that there i
solid comfort in an old shoe; SO there
is; but it is equally true that there is
solid misery in a slipper or Shoe broken
at the side or toe; and of all the ways
of counting personal discomfort and
bad temper, an unbuttond boot is the
best. The uppers keep Topping about
danger of dropping of, or hangs loosely
on the foot in a manner calculated to
drive q nervous woman frantic. and
make her cross and fretfui at every M
except herself and the boot, who are
tbs real culprits.
Who would imagine that Mc house
keepers hair had any thing to do with
the household happiness? And yet it
has, simply because it may Il her
personal discomfort. If It is just knot
ted back, uncombed and unhrushc1. she
feels untidy and uncomfortable. and no
woman can be good-tempcred when she
has a sense of looking badly Or to . dis
advantage; the hair-pins, too will drop
out of uncombed hair, and consequent
ly it is in constant danger of tumbling
about her face and shoulders, aAd if it
does manage to fall, it is sure to do it
Just when her hands are employed in
same task the very antipodos Of con.
~venient hair dressing. and what wom-
an, unless she were an angel, would
not lose her temper at such Il moment.
Therefore, rs sinners are more abund-
ant in the kitchen than angels, a few
IlOIleuls VtNOttN ~ uNN ulo
earnestly to be desired. not snY for the
good of the household in general. but
also for the self-respat of the house.
keeper herself.
Tidy hair, y comfortable dress and a
neat slipper or boot that does not creak
make a woman respect herself, and 50
aid her to be good-tempered. besides
making her pleasant for the rest OF the
household to look at: for any disorder
in a woman's dress is verse than 4
bodily deformity in its effect upon those
about her, while her ''Good-nNrning,"
is almost sure to meet with a CHEEKY
answer if she is pleasant to look mt, with
that beauty which all may possess
clean clothes, tidy hair aud kect and .
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