Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-25
Home Society.

One or tue dangers which threaten home
life is monotony We are an active peo-
pie. but Cur activities have tendency to
divert Us from our home life. Business
pleasure. church and phianthropic aetivi-
ii s. and our cIubs-all have a tendency to
send TO the nome worn out or absorbed
members of the family, whose chief inter
est is not in the fact that they are mem
bers OF the family hut members Of firm,
church, committee, club, or a society.
Home is the place in which to make ar
engagements to carry on the outside bust
ness. TOO many homes have no common
center OF interest The several members
of the family have as many outside in
erests as there are persons in it; and al
too frequently the work, or play, of the
one H. ember is not treated by the other
members of the family with the courtesy
which should be extended if only because
such an attitude would be polite. We
know that outside intimacies develop, no.
because the members of the same family
prefer to form outside intimacies, but be-
cause tine human heart Graves sympathy,
and must have it, and it is not always to
be found within the shelter which we call
lone.
Husbands and wives too often form
themselves into a committee of ways and
means; the financial management OF the
family is the subject they discuss con
stantly when together; it is allowed to
absorb every interest, even in families
where settled income would seem to
make a wise division an easy problem.
Not only do financial affairs become the
absorbing subject when the husband and
wife are together, but they form the all
absorbing problem when they are apart
The friends, the fads, the outside interests
Of the children become OF secondary i'm
portance. At the table in the family
room, wherever the family meet, this ever
present subject may be discussed yet no
subject taS greater need of q time ard
season, as well rs a place for discussion
Friction, annoyance impotence, are, the
attendant ills, and these all sap family
life. The effort to make the family life
interesting is a common duty imposed on
each member of the family. The pleasure
the friends, the intere Is, OF Que, should
receive the polite attention or all. To
treat the subject which interests another
member of the family as If 1t were not
worthy Of the consideration of Intelligent
people, l., to say the least, not polite; TO
show patronzlng or a tolerant interest,
is even less polite. A stranger would re :
ceive more courteous treatment, And yet
what is love worth ifi is never to xpress
Itself? We should make a positive effort
to know inteligently the subject which
interests one TO whom we are bound by
ties Of lCve and blood.
1t is the social apathy and Indifference
tl,,+ ,.,o boo g., Wv l,fa mountainous We
are surprised at ourselves when we stop TO
measure the difference in our manner at
home and society; yet where Is our love?
We know it is In the home circle, and we
know that if we contribute a fraction OF
the mental activity, gave out ray OF the
briliancy, at home which pleasas the
people whom we meet in society, we
would give a charm 10 the home lie 1t
can not possess without our contribution.
We should not love Gear less. bu Rome
more The plaudlts or the crowd are
louder than the silent homage ot love
This silence is q mi3take, and a little
clapuiug of hands at home might klndle
that which moves the outside world, Is
there a saddfr ming In life than a family
drifting apart2 The same root shelters
them ut night; they gather aboat W"
same table; FANNY occasions may ma tacl
member pres n somewhat loFed, som -
what anxious 10 hasten away 10 ether I'm.
forests, still all with love enough, added
10 a sense OF duty, to compel their pres
enc. There is love enough o. drSslop IN
anxious feeling IN case % sickness, ahO
tears at death; out oceans could not sep
arare families as completely as the lack o.
interest, the lack Of study, So reces>ar5 70