The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
COMFORT AND DISPLAY.
House Attire Too Often Neglected for Out.
door Elegance.

door Elegance.
Volumes have been written on the
necessity of neat home attire, yet there
are still hundreds of families where
anything is good enough for the
house, if n snowy outfit can be Sc
cured for display outdoors.
This state of things will probably
exist until people have learned to live
above sham and falsehood. There are
thousands of families who appear in
silken attire to the outward world,
while they wear the most slovenly
dresses in their own houses when
nobody is around. Such condition
as this means a disordcred house,
house where comfort is invariably sac
rifced to show. 1t consequently
means an unhappy home. where the
petty vexations of life bring about
continual chickering's. Nothing SO
wears upon the temper and SO tries
the disposition as disorder. A house
where everything is out of place is in
varia ably most uncomfortable resi-
dence. The few 1lours of pleasure in a
gorgeous street appearance can not IN
any way compensate for the many
hours of discomfort in an improperly
furnished home, or for the positive
bodily distress that results from wear
ing insufficient or unsuitable clothes
within doors.
The first essential must be comfort
warm underclothing and warm whole
stockings for winter, and neat house
dresses and aprons tfor the house
kcePer), and the essentials for the
kitchen and dining room-before more
ella borate display clothing and parlor
outfits ara secured. How few young
people go to housekeeping in this
spirit: How many begin by furnish
ing their parlor, and expect to secure
the furnishing of their kitchen with
the money that is left. One method
means a comfortable home, with little
show, the other improperly served
meals, badly cooked for want of insult
ficient materials and all the train of
evils that come in the wake of
much to say that hundreds of homes
are swallowed up in Charybdis of
domestic Encouragement. There ia
very little human affection that will
survive greasy beefstcalks and UNDER
done potatoes Dyspepsia is a foe that
destroys the temper.
Undoubtedly one of the strongest
movements toward temperance among
the poor of the tenement-housesh has
been the coolzing-school. If the wives
of poor men in this country could learn
to market wisely and cook intelligent
1y, as the French peasant women do,
there would be some chance of coping
with the great evil of strong drink. It
is 4 noteworthy fact that in America
and in England the amount of drink
ing among the poor Classes Is greatly
in excess of that in France, where
though light wines are con-
sumed, strong sti1nulants are
almost unknown to the peas
antry, which is never IN
derfcd, and seems to feel no
such appetite for strong alcoholic
stinulants the American and Eng
glish wor<men- Just in proportion as
the living space of the family is limited
to the poor, lone tencment-house dis
tricts of the great cities. does this APP
petite increase. The American work
man in the country is sober man.
The American workman in the city is
too frequently incorporate. These
matters show conclusive1y the effe cts
of home discomfort. The countryman
has sufficient space to live in and pure
air to breathe. His wife has fewer
temptations to buy SNOWY clothing and
is more inclined to spend her income
in substantial food and 10 take pride
in preparing it well.-N. Y. Tribune