The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-27
Women at Home.
Mary Sidney an Farm Journal.


good advantage anywhere as she does
at home. Indeed, you do not know
her at all until you have been recip-
lent of her hospitality, enjoyed the
pleasure of her freside, and the good
cheer of her table. What greater pleas
ure in life than to gather around a we'll
filled family board. with an affable,
agreeable host at one end, and cheer
full, chatty hostess at the other? Hearts
seem to warm towards one another bet
ter while eating than at any other time.
| once heard of a man who was elected
to public office because, as he said,
'he chawed tobacco with the people.
He did not give himself the credit of
having any fitness for the position, but
simply won his votes by the adroit use
of the same weapon with which Samp-
son slew the Philistines.
CheWing ne toge5her is loving process,
bacco. But says one, you would not
have US go visiting just for the sake of
eating, would you?' Oh, no! not at
all; nor we wouldn't want you to have
to stay away because the mistress of the
house would be 'put out should you be
about at dinner or tea time. Although
one does not go visiting for the mere
purpose of eating, yet let not the good
housewife persuade herself it is a matter
of no importance how she feeds her
guests. To set clean table, with ap-
petizing food upon it, is one way of
showing kind regards. When we love
people we want to treat them the best
circumstances will permit. We never
try to do our level best in the entertain
ment of a tramp or tree agent, because
we don't love them overly much; but
the higher our estimation of our visitors,
the better we try to use them. There
are plenty of women, all up and down
the land, who would not mind enter
tanning if they could secure servants
to do the work and arrange meals in
good order, but if these can not be OBJ
tanned, then the doors must be closed,
children can go to frolics away from
home, and papa can lounge at the store
or tavern if he wants company SO bad
ly; at all events, she will not exert her.
self to furnish amusement and enjoy
ment at the family hearth.
l have no sympathy with women so
near gone with inertia, that they cannot
90 into the kitchen, roll up their sleeves.
and make things hum once in a while
themselves. Such women are nonenti-
ties. They may dress in satins and
diamonds, and try to be ornaments of
society, but their shallow, weak pateS,
and utter worthlessness, will remain to
be the most noticeable thing about
them. Barnum said: IF you want to
get something to attract popular atten-
ton, you must get something that goes
something that moves or actS. ust
put into store window one of the
choicest paintings or works of art in the
world, and put into the next window to
it some mechanical toy or figure that
and you will find for every one that
stops to look at the painting there are
a dozen who stand gazing at the auto
maton. They want to see what it's
going to do next Barnum alluded to
his own business, but it applies to wo-
men as we'll. One who goes is the
one that attracts. Loving friends are
the fruits of her well-directed hands.
Housekeeping is not SO difficult an art
but that woman can always, if in good
health, receive friend or two for a
reasonable length of time, in way to
make them comfortable and contented
if there is any 'go' in her. 1t is by our
own freside where people learn to love
us-aud we dote on being loved.
"Man's love is of mans life thing apart:
IT'S woman's whole existence"
We admire the brilliant women of
the platform and stage, but it is she
who takes us into her own habitation,
and makes us happy and welcome there,
who wins our hearts.
We may feel that our spheres are mar
row, and our work an unimportant one,
but this is a mistake. Could we only
realize what an influence for good and
for had there is going out from the
homes of the people, am sure we would
be very careful OF our everyday actions.
Says DR.. Talmage: Society to-day is
strewn with the wrecks of men who,
under the northeast storm of domestic
infelicity, have been driven on the
rocks. There are tens of thousands of
drunkards in this country to-day made
such by their wives. That is not poet
ry; that is prose- 1t is poor excuse
men give for shining, and one that will
not avail at the final rendering, that
things are not pleasant at home. But
they do it nevertheless; and it becomes
us to do our part well, and leave no
room for such charges against us. 1t is
estimated that nine-tenths of the young
men of our country never attend reilg-
ious services. Couldn't the mothers
have rectiied this in their home instruc-
tions had they made the efortP Ou1
homes and our institutions are in peril
when men trust in their own strength
entirely, and have no time or mind tc
devote to the Creator and Ruler of al
things. Let us not, dear sisters, under
value our work at home. If we have
not enough grace and understanding tt
preside with effect in our own house
holds, we are not worthy of trust ano
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