The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-27

evils of this fast age in which we live.
Dress yourself and family as we'll as
your means will allow. "Clothes don't
make the man" or woman but they inn
prove the appearance of the individual
very much after he is made.
When you go TO town don't stint your
wife or child in the price of a decent hat
that you may have the other so cents with
which to lay in stock of tobies sufli-
cient to last you till your next visit to
town and then wonder why she, whom
you have chosen from the whole world as
your help-meet doesn't look as trig as
some other women you have seen. Just
think of the fact that you are sending up
in smoke that which would have added
materially to her appearance and that
you are also polluting the air which she
of necessity must inhale as she sits or
walks by your side.
And now word to the feminine por-
tion of the household
When you select hat or dress or what
ever the article may be, don't choose the
cheap, gaudy, high colored articles which
you will find displayed conspicuously,
but take a little time and select a quieter
color and better quality and have it
neatly made and when you come to wear
the article you will have more respect for
yourself and other people will respect
ySu accordingly. Few persons care 70
associate with woman dressed so she
resembles walking circus billboard.
Interest yourself in what is going on
around you. Pay little attention to the
birds and bees and smaller insects you
will be surprised how much you can
learn from their habits and the time will
be well spent. Find out the names of
the numerous plants and flowers which
abound on every farm, and which are
noxious and which useful, their impor-
tance TO the medical world and various
things of interest about them.
But what has this to do with "Sociabil-
ity in Country Life2" just this We are
each one created for some mission in life
and are only able to occupy our place in
society when we have improved the tai
ents God has given us. Our moral, ply
steal and intellectual lives must be culti-
waited and developed before we can ex-
pect to become important factors in So
ciety.
A deeper feeling of individual respon-
sibility is necessary to bring about bet
ter state of society, and better condition
for the individual members of it.
How may cordiality in the country be
promoted
1st. Be sensible. Make your home at
tractive. When say attractive 1 do not
m can extensively built or furnished ;
but make the best of the Meaus Provi-
dence has given you, and thus you will
be silently but powerfully influencing
the lives of all who come in contact with
| it.
Don't be afraid to entertain. Invite
your ME eghbors in to spend a part of a
day and take dinner with you. You
have an abundance of everything that is
good and in its best condition with which
to supply your table, and to take of
ones wraps and visit a few heurs seems
so much more satisfactory than are the
short formal calls which fashion has de-
creed are the proper thing in town.
to twenty calls in single afternoon and
then termiug it soc.ability.
And the men-well what man would
care TO accompany his wife on a round of
this kind.
End. Be sociable. If you have friends
or acquaintaAces in the city or large town
don't fail to hvite them to spend a few
days at your country home in the course
of the year. 1t will not add materially
to your labors and expenses and will be
so much appreciated by those whose lives
are so crowded and crashed in the hustle
and whirl of the city, and who perhaps
never had ride except on the street
cars.
recall party of girls from the city
who spent few weeks at our farm home
one summer when was girl who said
they had never enjoyed anything 50
much as horseback riding along the quiet
country roads and in the fields and
woods and in exploring coal mine near
by all such simple ways all of which
were new and instructive to them and
meanwhile they were Frightening our
quiet home by their presence.
Then there are city people who would
enjoy visit to the country in winter, for
sleighriding in the city is a luxury and
one has to possess a well-flled purse tc
be able to patronize a city livery stable
The city friends won't forget youi
kindness but will be only too happy tc
invite you to visit their homes and thus
afford you an opportunity to see some o.
the sights with which you are not famil
lar. Thus, in bringing happiness tC
them you bring happiness to yourself
Srd. Be sociable. Let the young folks
have lots of picnics and boating partie.
if near stream and sleighing parties il
the winter.
The ladies might meet with their worR
such as sewing, knitting and crochetins
and fancy work, yes, aud mending anC
talk while they work and thus break M
the monotony of quiet country life.
! 4th. Be sociable. In one farming com
, munity with which am familiar the diff
, fferent families took turns at entertainin.
, all the other families of the neighbor
> hood, one eve each week They haC
: music, games and interesting selection
read each eve, plain supper or luncl
, was always served and the whole winte
filled with sociability, for each eve wa
a pleasanter than the preceding one.
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