The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08

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
OF others, your love for your husband.
Where no one enters but at your bid
ding, and then comes to be made hap
by by your society or refreshed by your
hospitality. Where, when the day Is
done, you realize that from the flavor
OF the breakfast cup of coffee and the
lightness of the rolls to the restful
chair in which he smoked his last CT
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 1t 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 aHord TO 1--we
as l have described can be too restrict
ed in their means to find 1t 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 a home? That Vi.al
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 al
her completed work with the eXhii-
arating belief that few could excel IL,
here has full play.
The birds find sources OF exultatlon
in the building of their nests, and you
can discover that they are house-fur-
nishing by the joy of their songs. IT
is the natural instinct of love and lie
to make place to dwell in. TO the
woman who can devise fastidlously
beautiful gown l would comment the
arrangement and decoration OF room
as the expansion and tenfold higher
use Of her art To the woman VINO
would endear herself to her husband l
would offer to guarantee that if she can
keep within the limit Of his means ana
yet make for him a lovely, comfort
able, appropriate abiding place. III
which he has room for the development
of his own tastes and opportunity 10
bring about him his friends in hospit-
able fashion, she will have endeared
herself inexpIessibly to him and in
creased his sride in her tenfold. Let
TIE good order and beauty and Goa
trivances for his individual comfort be
sufficient to make his friends envious,
and ready to say that his home tempts
them to marry, and the wife becomes
lovely in his eyes, in far more hat
tering way than because she is pretty
and we'll dressed. To become the
source of a husbands comfort and rest
is to have placed yourself beyond the
fear of losing your complexion or ceas-
ing to be his ideal of pretty girl. 1t
is also to rise from the position OF
dear pet to a useful, important part
ner. without whose clever brains and
wise direction his life would cease to
be a success.
do not claim that home-making Is
easy work. nor for a moment attempt
W Sdy lHdl TIC hlc AT VI 6OSN AONSS
keeping is easily attained, but l do say,
with all the strength l 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.
The place a man lives in should
surely be the place wherein sorrow and
| illness AID 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 a man and his wife to
abide in together, with the children
God has given them to sweeten and
hallow their inseparable lives.