The Van Buren press., 1895-04-13
COMFORT AND DISPLAY.
House Attire Too Often Neglected fer Oat
door Elegance.


door Elegsncs.
Volumes have been written on the
necessity of neat home attire. yet thero
are still hundreds Of families where
anything is good enough for the
house, II a snowy outfit can be &C.
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 10 around. Such condition
as this means q disordered house, .
house where comfort is invariably sac
rificed to show. 1t consequently
means an unhappy home, where the
petty vexations of life, bring about
continual chickering's Nothing, 30
wears upon the temper and SO tries
the disposition as disorder. A house
where everything is ont OF place is in.
variably a most uncomfortable resi-
dence. The few hours of pleasure in ,
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 (for the house.
keeper, and the essentials for tho
kitchen and dining room-before more
elaborate display clothing and parlor
outfits are 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 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
such management. 1t is not too
much to say that hundreds Of homes
are swallowed up in Charybdis Of
domestic mismanagement. There Is
very little human affection that will
survive greasy beefsteaks and under
done potatoes Dyspepsis is foe that
destroys the temper. f ~ s5.#.=
Undoubtedly one of the strongest
! movements toward temperance among
the poor of the tenement-houses has
been the cooking-school II the wives
of poor men in this country could learn
TO market wisely and cook intelligent
ly, as the French peasant women do,
there would be some chance of coping
with the great evil Of strong drink. It
is q noteworthy fact that In America
and in England the amount Of drink
ing among the poor CLASSES II greatly
in excess of that in France, where
though light wines are con-
sumed, strong stimulsnts ars
almost unknown 70 the peas-
antry, which IL never nm
derfed,A and seems TO feel no
such appetite for strong alcoholic
stimulants as the American and Eng
glish workmen. Just in proportion "a
the living space Of the family il limited
| to the poor lone tenement house dis
tricts Of the great cities, does this ap-
petite increase. The American work
man in the country is sober man.
The American workman In the city u
too frequently intemperate These
matters show conclusively the eff1cta
of home discomfort. The copntryWan
has sufficient space to live'ih and llfe
air to breathe. His wife has FEVER
temptations to buy snowy c1othiNg md
is more inclined to spend her ipcows
in substantial food and to take : prids
in preparing it we'll Y. Tribune