The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-12
In THE HOME.
A Luxury Which Is Too Often Dis
pensed With.

penS6u WllUs
do not know q half a dozen fami-
lies in which the members exercise
toward each other positive courtesy.
| do not mean that | find most people
boorish or unkind; but this, that
while there is no lack of negative good
in the family, positive man
ners are lacking-such as are
habitual with visitors. This is plalnly
o great American fault. 1t is a fault
not chargeable to the oriental races,
nor in as great a degree to some OF the
European nations. The glory OF Jap
anese home life is tender respect Tor
parents and the utmost regard for the
feelings of brothers and sisters. mat
home life can not be truly admirable
and satisfactory on any other OASIS
needs no argument.
| believe we should insist more
upon home courtesy. From the ear
liest wears the children should be
taught to look with adherence on
harsh words, or a lack OF gentle ones
in all common intercourse. VI course
| do not argue for the f1im-fiam OF
my dear"and other CONTEMPORARIES.
They NEAR nothing and cover con
siderable. What | look after is h a
beauty of childhood and youth which
should be and a be cultivated into
perfect growth and blossomlng.
We have so little of it! The fine
faces one sees of ten or twelve are al
most all of them bearing marks OF ill
culture and i'll manners, and by twenty
or twenty-five they are mainly de-
fcient in every element OF beauty.
Why shall we have so little glorious
manhood and so little glorious woman
hood? Is it not because in u homes
our ideal is so cheap and our
SO empty? l understand well that
amer ma be fraudulent, but they
NAV also carry the spirit of gentle
ness. kindness and love.-MG7y u.
Spencer I'm 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
A Tidy Home.
Looking at some ''cluttered up"
households we are reminded OF the
philanthropic Mrs. Jellyby's family,
who, if they had possessed the entire
space of st. Paul's for a habitation,
would only have found it to be SO
much more room to be untidy in.
| People who are untidy in a small
| house are likely to be still more untldy
| in q big one. Few of us can always
achieve that comfortable doctrine OF
a place for everything and everything
in it's place. The first part of the say
| ing is about as far as a good many OF
us get. But there is no question CT us
being the only rule for comfortable
housekeeping. Take a small sitting
room. distribute about it two or three
newspapers, a box OF toys, a work
basket. a few unmended stockings
and perhaps a hat or a coat, and what
a miserable untidy place it looks.
Nor is it right for the house mother
to go about picking up after the care
less ones. Let each member OF the
household learn that things must al
way be bestowed in their proper
places. without trusting to the one
t~ireless worker to straighten things
up. The boys who always expect
ssmother" to do their tidying up. grow
into the men who nus be waited on
so constantly by their wives. Nor is
II only the boys who need a lecture in
this respect. How many girls we
know who slam down their hats and
Jackets on removing them without a
thought of laying them away.
How often the best frock is care
Iessly put aside instead OF being
shaken out and put by carefully. And
then they wonder hat their clothes SO
soon look shabby. A we'll cared for
will outlast two that are just
slammed around, and next to getting
good clothes comes taking care OF
them.-HdU's Journal Of Health.
:. Timely Invocation.
A maiden lady, who lives alone ex-
cept for her servants, owns a fine
parrot which her nephew brought
back from a visit to South America.
The bird was sent to a professional
trainer to be taught to speak, but
when it was returned it obstinately
refused to utter a word, and it's mis-
tress decided that the teaching had
been a failure. Polly's cage hung in
a. dressing room which adjoined its
mistress chamber, and at night the
door between the two rooms was left
open.
One night a burglar got into the
house. and after packing up the silver
below stairs, crept steadily up to the
chamber of the lady, where he pro-
ceeded to gather together her jewelry.
He had got most of her valuables into
a handbag without awakening her,
when suddenly an unearthly voice
from the next room called out loud
enough to rouse the seven sleep
ers:-
God bless our home! God bless
our homer
The burglar was SO startled that he
dropped his dark lantern, and then IN
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