News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-28
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Miss Rose CIeveInnd's Idens About Home.


From the Chadtauquan.1
This item of proprietorship in the
home should be shared by each mem
Der of the household. If he is worthy
member this proprietorship is his right
| erhaps here, in order to avoid any
possibility of beng misunderstood, |
should drop the generic term and write
down the species have in ind. For
| mean here to emphasize the she as well
as the he. Here in the home, wher-
ever else a difference IS made, 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 Sine when
the old home is exchanged for new
one there should be something in it up
on which each one to whom it is home
can lay the hand aud say-''this is mine;
and 1t Is part of the property" If you
wish to endear the place you call their
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
girl, who has a right to the roof that
is his or her shelter, will have pride in
the place. and that noble natural pride
will work to its benefit, in all those
numberless little cosey and ingenious
touches that transform a house into a
home.
Every woman who passes the age of
twenty-five should feel, in some degree,
the responsibilities which come from in
dependence in the items of her food and
shelter. There can be no mature devel-
opment where there is no conscious re-
sponsibility; and there can be no re
sponsibility without independence.
When a woman has passed the irrespon-
sible girlhood of her life, there is moth
ing which so contributes to that dignity
without which she is, and will remain,
human invertebrate, as the conscious
ness of her legal light to her abiding
place; place to rest in, to grow in, TO
hide in; and one which cannot by any
legal right or wrong be wrested from
her. 1t is said that many women rea-
lie this as their great necessity late in
life. But it is better late than never.
A noble n:.ture does not stand idly
by until some stray wind of circumstance
shall blow her-for | am thinking of
women now-into some position which
is suitable and bec1ming to her. There
is, perhaps. but one suitable and be-
coming fate which selects the woman
quite irrespective of the woman's selec-
tion of it, and that is a suitable and be-
coming marriage. This is the only thing
in the career of a woman which comes
without seeking and cannot come suit
ably and becomingly) by seeking. lam
aware that the proposition of mine-in
passing-li.s open to much Philistin-
ism; and, indeed, l acknowledge that it
may be much qualified; but it is not
with argument over this point that am
permitted to concern myself or my
readers in the little space left to this
article. 1t is the counter proposition
which its enunciation serves to make
more pointed that all things which are
suitable and becoming to woman, ex-
cept a suitable ard Incoming .s3a.,;esse,
must come into her life as an achieve
ment rathe than a happening
A woman who marries for home does
not often get a home; she gets house
and husband, but it is not in this way
that home is gotten.