Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-10

atoceZCF at our last circle meeting.
Now take this, for instance. from Il re
cent issue of the Ladies' Fireside Attend
ant she continued as she fisbed n clip-
ping from the cspacious depths of her
work bag, and read the following: Life
itself for married people should continue
10 be one long courtship. The tender
and thoughtful courtesies that contri-
buted so much of mutual happiness to the
earlier days of that mysterious sympathy
ana fellowship that BINDS heart 20 heart.
and that gave lover and sweetheart "a
greater pleasure in enc another society
than she world had eyer held for them
before, should never hc relaxed. Man
ana wife should continue TO be lovers
through iit7. 1t should be the constant
effort Of the wife To make her home SO
cheerful and pleasant FIR her husband.
that he VIII ever turn to il, from the cares
ANA anXjeties of life, As q haven of peace
and rest. The husband. on the other
hand, scoud never forget that the lite of
he wife as mistress of thc home, keeps
her out OF the touch with active affairs
that he enjoys, and he shOnld treasure up
for her and discuss With her anything of
Interest that BIZ may hear of in this way
ho can break up tao mouotoEy cf her
household tasks, aud add genuine pleasure
TO her LIE. Husband and wife should
never permit themselves 10 huromo un-
S5ciabiC. Il is in Ghe manual exchange ct
contdeuces. aud The mutual discussion ii
common interests that the lose ot carly
days will he uouriahotj. ANA grow With
the passing gears. f'hr husimnd who
comes home Of an evening Ia bury him
Golf Sr,
MUNICIPALITIES the WIFE WAC has bcen
eagerly looking forward to An evening
chat with him. rohs his nome of one ut
the greatest pleasures It can have for her
The wifi who cinnot ulau her work so A
to spend her evenings in the compauion
ship of her husband cannon complain if hr
seeks elsewhere, the social fellowship, he
cauaot find at home. These points may
.ccm commonplace; hut upon Tho obscry-
anca Of lhs5a rest, in large measure,
tho sunshine, aud Tho happiness Of every
home.
"Now What do yo1 think nt that" de
nanaed Mis- Peppersqueczcr. as SITE
dcslated from her reading, and Peercd q,
us over her srcctac'cs-
II thtnk its real SWEET said Della
7;impsily.
Really MIS-. peppersqusczcr, said
Mrs. Cartrrn, II can : see Dytding to
ertcisc in that 1t IS certainly 5Fuc, ard
it strike, ne as a forcih!c presentation OF
points tina, s1ouil never be LOST siRb5 oi
by married people, though l an frank
TO confess that we are prone to forget
them at ti,ues. Now really what can
YOU find to object TO in that articlr:'
"l may he 2 hardehel said Mrs.. Pep
nersgneczer grizzly: but it strikes me us
a fair sample Of n silly + ind OF twaddle that
has become "A very common produce oil
writer's who devote themselves to telling
other people h0W to live. Life is never
the grand sweet dream that some Senli-
mcn5al's SITS drlight to paint it. AS our
own Longfsilow tells us, Life Is ra,i, ana
life is earnest NoH it has always
seemed to me that it was the para OF com
mon sense to recognize the fact that the
exuberant gush of cOnrting days won
last very long in the married state. IRIS
doesn't necessarily involve any diminu-
ton of love. bat rather strengthening
of il in those practical every day INES
that insure its perInapcncy. There is Il
wide distinction between sentlmentaiIsih
and love, and when married people out