Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-23
HOMES SEGMY SloE.
Small Miseries Which No Art Can Prevent
or Snhhue,


or Snhaue.
y great deal is said and written now
adays about the art OF homemaking,
While very little thought is expended
upan the fact that in teS hone certain
small misSrieS arise and flourish which
Ito art can better or subdue.
In most homes there are great eapn-
bilJties for happiness, and SO in direct
proportion CT unharpiness. Not every
man or woman. however well-inten-
toned, true, and conscientious, can
maze The home what it ought to be.
And one of the NEST fruitful causes of
unhapPiness, next to bad temper. is to
be found in poor housekeeping.
Many a woman. in every respect ad.
mirable and intelligent beyond the av
eragc, cannot entirely grasp the mys-
teries OF housekeeping. And that it
is not matter of intelligence is shown
by the fact that some OF the best and
most sfiiltul housewives have been
those who turned their attention TO
little else than the ordering Of their
dinners and the scrupulous neatness
OF their homes. And who shall say that
these did lot make n success of house
keeping? So many, many taipgs enter
into the housekeeping for the good or
i'll of the household. The WIZ or house
keeping s.stfr may be orderly, the hus-
band or brothers the reverse; or the
wife totally regardless of system. while
the husband counts a misplaced article
or a late lre@kfast IN uapa 1ocahle sin
for which no future punetuality or neat
ness ray condone; and these things
occurring day after day, year in and
year cut, II consequent struggle en-
sues which renders life q nartyrdom.
The more trivial the occasion, the moro
bitter the sense of defeat.
"Ch," said woman, whose house
keeping was to her as the grinding
of the pilgrims pebbles il, his shoes,
Il know ! am miserable failurc an
u houselcepcr! can do half dozen
things well. but cannot keep house"
Now there is no more reason IN the
world why that woman should wear
herself into nervous prostration trying
TO do thing that in all her life she
will never compass than there is that
any man should become a lawyer when
his tastes ard aptitude are for medi-
cine or mechanism.
my wife and are much fonder OF
each other stree We sit down every day
with dozen people than when we dined
alone said a jolly husband, who went
through life very respectfully and hap
PLY, though he never had hcre. 1t
is sad. hut nevertheless true, TINT the
dispositions Of some couples change en-
tirely for the better rs coon as they
are freed from the shac,les of house
keeping. Faultfnding ceases, ANXIOUS
lines smooth away, and both husband
and wife draw long breath of relief.
l have known most devoted hug
band ard wife who, after the various
domestic complications caused ey the
civil war, looked the matter Of house,
keeping squarely in the face. The Nife,
no longer young, felt that she could NOT.
without great personal exertion ard un-
told worry, take up housekeeping on
totally different basis from that VITA
which she had been familiar ard her
husband was wise and consldslntc
enough to accept her view Of The STU
alton. And to the end of their lives
they boarded. So it goes. Noik that
10 one woman is pleasant, TO another
one is irlxsome; but there is no use in
fretting over circunstances-it Is faf
better to accept the inevitable with gooo
grace.-IIarper Bazaar.