Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-07
WOMAN AND HOME.
ADVICE THAT IF FOLLOWED WOULD
MAKE HAPPIER HOMES.
How to Set n Table Properly.
u lead aches Among Girls-Don't Scold-
Southern Women in Colleges - Ameri-
can Women's Jswels-The Usefulness oi
Dyes--A Queens Influence ON Fashions.

am privileged visitor at the breakfast
table of certain friends. When one, by the
way, understands the charm Of such break
fasts, he will have discovered one OF the
rarest of all delights that fall in the way of
a wanderers life. There is, first, the little
stroll in early morning, with the freshness
of dawn still in the air There are the
greetings full of welcome by the house dog;
then the merry chirp-there is no other
word-of the child coming down the stairs
to meet you. Then there is the well known
crackle Of new logs behind the shining
fender, which, the family being somewhat
late, you aud the child enjoy for moment
alone. All, that tlrel Never is even the
fire at twilight SO fine as this of new lit
logs in the morning.
There are freshness and a lightness
about it, snap and a sparkle, rush. and
even an airiness, that stimulate you with
enthusiasm quite rs much as they cheer or
even warm. You are affected by this
enthusiasm, you feel this atmosphere on
the very threshold of the room, and these
so ill you and so sway you after you
have stood on the hearth rug little that
you throw into your greetings of your own
hosts as they enter an enthusiasm and u
glow no mere diner out even knows how
to feel.
With the family come the tea urn and
the kettle, the merry faces about the board,
and then-the letters Being privileged,
as / began by saying, hear many of these,
and that is how | happened to hear one
from an old Aunt Molly, in another part
of the country, who had written a CON
gratulatory letter to her niece on her en-
gagement. The letter differed little from
others of its kind, except that in under
scored capitals it contained this one bit Of
advice, Don't nag"
How like Aunt Mollyl every one said
with laugh. But for myself, | found
much food for meditation in what she had
said. For ! remembered with how many
| people this perpetual nagging was going
on. How many fathers were forgetting
how their sons had grown, and were con-
stantly correcting them before others, only
to wonder afterward why their influence
had lessencd. | remembered now many
mothers were always at their daughters
about the way they held their feet and
| hands, or how they laughed and spoke,
and all this before the embarrassed visitor,
instead of In quiet talk up stairs | began
| to think Aunt Molly the wisest Of women,
for ! remembered husbands and wives
were not always altogether exempt from
~ W
as playful fun often degenerated into dis
agreeable teasings, into writings about
peculiarities, about personal tastes and
failings, unpl ,lsant for Others to hear, and
alternating to those who indulge themselves
that way.
| And then | remember how old fault
this was, this naggng, and to refresh my
own memory turned to this testimony,
in all its quaint phraseology, from Lady
Jane Grey:
When am in presence either of father
or mother, whether speake kepe silence
stande or go, cate, drink be merle or sad,
be sewyin9, playing, danncing or doing
anie thing else, | must do it as it were in
such weight, mesure and number, even so
pertitelie AS God made the world, or els I
am so sharply haunted, so without measure
mesordered, that | thinke mysefe in hell
till TYNE cum that must 90 to NJ. Elmer.
-Harper's Bazaar.