Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-16
IDEAS o HOME.
Miss Clevelan'ds Views on a Question OF
Interest TO Everybody.

Miss Clevelan'ds Views on a Question OF
Interest to Everybody.
This item Of proprletorshlp III 'he
home should be shared by each men,
Der of the household. If he is a worthy
member this proprietorShip Is his right
Perhaps here, in order to avoid any
possibility OF being misunderstood |
should drop the generic term Fnd
write down the species | have in mind
For | mean here to emphasize the She
as well as the he. Here in the home'
wherever else II difference is maize,
there should be none. The man and
woman, the boy and the girl, should
make equal demand and receive equal
concession. The sister, should in some
practical way, have her stock share IN
the home alike with the brother. Up
to that time when the old home is rN-
changed for a new one there should be
something in it, upon which each Ont
to whom it is home can lay the hand
and say-"This is mine; and it is part
of the property If you wish to en-
dear the place you call your home to
YOUR son, your daughter, your brother
or your sister, give them shares IN the
capital stock. This rule will work
both ways and to the advantage OF
each. The man or woman, boy or glrl,
who ha, a right to the roof that is his
or her shelter, will have a pride in the
place, and that noble natural pride
will work to its benefit, in all those
numberless little cosy and ingenious
touches that transform a house into a
home.
Every woman who passes the age of
twenty-five should feel, in some de-
, gree. the responsibilities which come
from independence in the items OF hcl
food and shelter. There can be ne
mature development where there is NJ
, conscious responsibility; and there
i can be no responsibility with
+, out independence. When a woman
has passed the irresponsible glrlhoot
of her life, there is nothing which 81
/. contributes to that dignity withou
l which she is, and will remain, a hu
man inyertebratc, as the CONSCIOUSNESS
of her legal right to her abiding-plact
a place to rest in, to grow in, to Ind
% in: and one which car not by any Leg
Al right or wrong be wrested from her.
: is sad that many ome realize this
IL their great necessity late in life. 81
it is better late than w
IL, A noble nature does not stand id
Ill by until some stray wind OF circun
C. stance shall blow her-fOr ! am thin
+ ing of women now-into some positio
X which is suitable and becoming to he
OF There is, perhaps, but one suitable an
IL becoming fate which selects the WON;
quite irrespective of the woman's 5
lection Of it; and that is a suitable al
becoming marriage. This is the on
ny thing in the career of a oma whi'
n, comes without seeking and Il II
Oh come Suitably and becomingly)
eo seeking. | am aware that this prop
a sition of mine--in passing-lies op
M to much Philistinism; and, indeed,
acknowledge that it may be mu
qualified: but it is not with argume
over this point that | am permitted
me- concern myself or my readers in t
~ little space left to this article. 1t
Il the counter proposition which its ent
Vs. citation serves to make more pointed
'le that all things which are suitable a
gre becoming to woman, excepting a su
cry able and becoming marriage, mi
Vi come into her life as IN achivem'
-, rather than a happening.
sh, A woman who marries for a no
nlu does not often get a home; she get
'yle house and a husband. but it is not
this way that a home is gotten,.-R
= Elizabeth Clereland. IN C|hdutauquan