Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-12-01


trains, like time and tide, wait for man. TO his
wife home is bower Of beauty q haven of rest
where she can reflect and wait Unfortunately in peace
She waits for the baby to get through teething;
waits for summer time waits for the children to
grow up waits for her liege lord to come to dinner
"a life spent in exharaton and waiting. To the
impecunious man Of family home is sort of bot
tomless pit where he sinks his salary before he
earns it, 1t is a place where bills and babies come,
unlimited; where the water pipes burst; where TIE
hard coal fire goes out ON cold nights, and where
he grows gray and cultvates gratitude for daily
bread. To the wife home contans-besides her
loving heart, that comforts and sustains-the
mending basket, unpatched gowns and unsewed
buttons; willing hand in the morning, weary
head at night, prayer for patience and things left
undone. TO the boy home is an essential posses
sion; it is place where bruises and wounds are
bound up and healed with rags and kisses and love.
1t is place where marbles, string, kite-tal and
other true joys are to be found; place where
stray pieces OF pie inger briefly; where cake never
gets dry, and daintles never spoil. Mother is a
convenient household attachment for making pants
and cookies; sympathetic auditor a truly kin
dred spirit. In all life there is no one like boys
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place during temporary session just previous to
the inevitable marriage ceremony, after which she
can do as she pleases, and not have to mind her
mother. To the base ball enthusiast home is
well, home comprises his postoffice address for
sporting organs up on base ball it is a retreat
where he can recuperate between games and direc-
tors meeting. People who board find home to be
q sort of hole in the wall-a kennel to crawl into
where they become convenience to the Golfers OF
the landlady. These have no home-save the one
in heaven to which they soon learn to look forward
TO the fashionable woman 'home' means house
better than the one next door, or the best one in
uno plvvh. IT a oviiovtivn Of Icvvut inuu-
vations in bricabrac and art furniture, gilt easels
silk scarfs and plaques; prayer rug, spinning
wheel and bewildering window draperies. With
these breeders Of dissensiou and divorce she plays
at what Ruskin calls precedence with her neigh
bor." Surely this is another place in which the
word "home" is misappled. Bric-a-brac and its
daily Encouragement by the professional buster
cannot produce it, and if the shade Of the thrifty
great-grandmother could step into the bay window
where rests the old spnning-wheel draped in a
raspberrytnted scraf she would be apt to hesitate
ere she pronounced it more conducive to happiness
sly.
Oh, temporal Oh, mores! How great is the
change.
Cone baskets, and wire paper-holders, Glove
apples, and "God Bless Our Home" in worsted
and cardboard, are things Of the past. But some
homes there that are not mere effects in furni
ture-art furniture on monthly payments. A place
it is that is refuge from care-a sanctum of sane
tums-where the light Of kitchen fire lends a
glow that no vanished register, no gilded heater
can infuse; where the CHEEKY song Of the teakette
sends thrill of comfort that no music-box can in
spire. home with loving hearts, hearthstone,
and an atmosphere Of contentment.
Even in this advanced age when everything has
been revised, from the Bible down to cuckoo clocks
even though the perfection Of the prayer book
seems to have passed under a cloud, there has yet
been no improvement suggested in the atmosphere
of genuine home Loving hearts that depend