St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-14
The Need of a Home for
Woman--How Dakota Sup
plies the Want.
Why the Husband There Must
Walk Straight and Play
Fair.
The Wife a Queen--No Di-
vopces Break Up Happy
Homes.

is asked as often as any about the great
West.
Let us see what kind of place it
really is for woman to live and chill
dren to grow up.
The word home embraces more than
any single word known to language. A
volume might be written without cover
ing or expressing all the various con-
ditions and relations arising from it.
We are told that ''home is not four
square walls" but place ''where affec-
tion dwells.'"
Put .'four square walls" and ''affec-
tom together and still little something
more is needed to satisfy the longing Of
affection and have it ripen into the rich
fruit of happiness. Affection has an
appetite. Affection is the result of
planting, a cultivation and growth, the
same as anything which grows from
seed and blossoms and bears fruit. The
delicate flowers which fill the air with
sweet perfumes, will grow wild and
blossom in state of nature for brief
season. But to have them remain and
continue to flourish and bloom, they must
have care and attention. Ii covered by
glass and placed beneath the genial rays
of light and heat, they will blossom
through long, cold winter, or even
blizzard If the soil and elements are
right a given result is almost certain.
The same is as true OF
HOME AND HAPPINESS
as of plant. In the beginning all sow
one seed. but the harvest is strangely
varied, and promScuOus crop to be-
hold. The first seed sown is fancy.
Love is the tree which grows from it.
The blossoms are affection, and happl-
ness the golden fruit. 1t is sometimes
a long hard road to travel, OF a long
hard row to hoe, before the seed of
fancy is made to bear the fruit of happl
ness.
There is plenty of this seed which
springs I'D and grows into love, on which
blossoms and fruit never appear. Lit is
not only strange, but hard sometimes,
to see the difference in the yield and ma
ture of the vestreaped from scattered
fancies. If the anticipati0nS and ambi-
tons planted in rosy youth would al
ways develop into majestic tree, and
spread it's green and Sheltering
branches, laden with golden fruit, to
protect and strengthen declining age,
what a world this would be. But in
stead of this, how many are seen at sun
set in life surrounded by thorns and
brambleS on barren waste, entering
approaching darkness, yelled in disap-
pointment. When from poor Judgment
or want of knowledge the wrong thing
is fancied or chosen,
WHAT AWFUL DOSES
sometimes have to be taken. A week or
a month could be spent relating how
different ones have been called upon to
swallow bitter medicine and the faces
they made up when it went down.
What photographs could be made OF
cleaners reaping from the seed of fancy.
Sometimes the nice young man chosen
above all others furnishes the subject
for a harvest of disappointment and
sorrow-blinding tears.
While the field is broad and inter-
esting one to ramble IN. it would be UNI
fair to the reader to consume time and
space on the result of fancies when the
real theme and
SUBJECT is DAKOTA
something solid and substantial. So
few questions can be answered or ideas
advanced in letter, it will not do to
wander from the text-Dakota.
"HOw can woman content herself on
an open prairie during long, cold will
ter?" This question does seem little
more serious than humorous when first
thought of. Nevertheless, she contents
herself, and comes out in the spring as
friSky as colt And after once getting
onto the advantages of a Dakota winter,
she grows bright and happy under
them.
1t is safe to say that IS per cent of the
women in the world would give more
for a quiet home, over which they could
preside and devote themselves to the
care and advancement of family, than
for all the hollow show of society there
is going. By hollow show, | mean imi-
tating women who mop the floor with
long trails instead of a mop on stick,
and fellows who think spike-tailed
coats
SUBSTITUTES FOR BRAINS.
Deep-freeZing and long, cold winters
are not only the foundation Of Dakota's
crop productions, but source of happi-
ness to the people. They promote hap
pineSs by throwing shield around the
moral character and a safeguard around
the home. They are an adhesive plas-
ter on the family circle, which strength
ems and keeps it together.
And, strange to say, on all these points
of advantage the people have remained
modestly and unasSumingly quiet. Any
one familiar with the true nature
and worth of woman's character.
knows she will endure great deal very
cheerfully for the sake of her family
and the privilege of having them around
her. There is one supreme satisfaction
a woman has here. A husband has to
walk straight and play square with her.
He can't fool around and
STAY OUT NIGHTS
in the winter. and tell her he had to stay
down town to inject man," when the
fact is he got home about daylight full
of whisky, and went to sleep in the hay
NOW. to keep her from smelling his
breath. In warm climate man can
dodge around and deceive his wife, but
he can't do it here. A cold winter is
complete bar to connubial deception.
One night out in January to ''meet
man" will cure the hardest case. He
will walk up and confess his sins like
man; ring the front door bell to get in
and ask his wife's forgiveness. II is
pretty hard to do this sometimes, but it
feet amputated for staying out. You
might think it little hard for woman
to let her husband in forty below, but it
is not; her eye wrinkles when she does
it. She knows as soon as he thaWS out
she will hear
WHAT KEPT HIM.
There is an honest virtue and military
sternness in Dakota winter. The hus-
band and father and hayward son all
have a wholesome respect for it, and
they start for home before it gets late or
dark. If the faithful and. loving wife
has husband here whose society she
particularly enjoys, she has the pleas
ure of having him by her side winter
evenings, and he is not fretting and
whining about it. either.
If a woman doesn't possess all the per-
sonal charms and attractions, in Dakota,
by having the climate and elements at
her back to support her as queen of the
household, she soon rises to a state of
dignity and influence, and it is no small
amount of influence, either. Shut two
people up in house in the fall and one
is sure to hold the reins before spring.
NinetY-nine times out of a hundred in