The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-12-25
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every detail. from the delicate dra-
peries at the windows to the we'll
chosen implements in the kitchen, ex-
presses your tastes, your Judgment,
your judicious economies, your thought
d Of others, your love for your husband.
Where no one enters but at your bid
dina, and then comes to be made hap
py BY your society or refreshed by your
hospitality. Where, when the day is
done, you realize that from the favor
OF the breakfast cup Of coffee and the
lightness OF the rolls to the restful
chair in which he smoked his last ci-
gar at night, the man you love best
OF all human beings owes every enjoy
ment to your oversight and plans. .
No matter how small it may be, no
matter how many difficulties OF ar
rangement and adaptation present
themselves, these, like all obstacles,
only enhance success, and in these days
Of apartments and moderate houses
built especially to tempt young house
keepers no one who can afford to live
as | have described can be too restrict
ed in their means to find it hard to Sc
lect from one of these classes of domi-
Giles what is suitable and pleasant.
And, having chosen, can there be many
pleasures more sure and satisfying
than making of those vacant rooms
and bare walls home? That vital
spark Of vanity and self-satisfaction
without which no woman's life is real
ly delightful, that undefnable, unclass-
flied quality which makes her look at
her completed work with. the exhii-
arating belief that few could excel It,
here has full play.
The birds find sources of exultation
in the building Of their nests, and you
can discover that they are house-fur-
nishing by the joy of their songs. 1t
is the natural instinct of love and life
to make a place to dwell in. To the
woman who can devise fastidiously
beautiful gown I would comment the
arrangement and decoration Of room
as the expansion and tenfold higher
use of her art. To the woman who
would endear herself to her husband ]
would offer to guarantee that it she can
keep within the limit of his means and
yet make for him lovely, comfort
able, appropriate abiding place, in
which he has room for the development
of his own tastes and opportunity to
bring about him his friends in hospit-
able fashion, she will have endeared
herself inexpressibly to him and in
creased his pride in her tenfold. Let
the good order and beauty and con
trivances for his individual comfort be
sufficient to make his friends envious,
and ready to say that his home ten.pts
them to marry, and the wife becomes
lovely in his eyes, in far more fat
tering way than because she is pretty
and we'll dressed. To become the
source of husbands comfort and rest
is to have placed yourself beyond the
fear of losing your complexion or ceas
ing to be his ideal of a pretty girl. 1t
is also to rise from the position of a
dear pet to a useful, important part
ner, without whose clever brains and
wise direction his life would cease To
be success.
I do not claim that home-making is
easy work, nor for moment attempt
to say that the fine art of good house
keeping Is easily attained, but I do say,
with all the strength can put into the
assertion, that the married woman who
sets aside her kingdom for lack of cour-
age and energy to rule it is but disin-
herited princess who has lost the great
est JOY of life when she abdicated her
throne. e.. IT.
The place man lives in should
surely be the place wherein sorrow and
illness and death can best be borne and
suffered. To the very young these
three pregnant words mean little, but
when they make themselves heard,
may they find the sacredness and priv
acy Of home about you and the tender
surroundings Of your own family life
soothing your pain. To be happy in
or to grieve in, there can be no place
like the shelter which love and care
have made for man and his wife to
abide in together, with the children
God has given them to sweeten and
hallow their inseparable lives.