The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

New York Post.
Why choose these ways of living Che
hotel and the boarding house, when open
to every woman, according to her means
lies the door of home? A place which is
for the time al least your very own, TO be
a source of comfort and peace to your nus
band and of JOY to yourself just in pro
portion to your endeavors? place where
color arrangement, every adornment
evcry detail from the delicate draperes al
the windows to the well-chosen implements
IN the kitchen, expresses your tastes, your
thought of others, your love for your nus
band. Where no one enters but at your
bidding and then comes to be made happy
by your society or refreshed by your hos
pitality. Where, when the day is done you
realize that, from the flavor of the break
fast cup of coffee and the lightness of the
rolls to the reStful chair in which he
smoked his last cigar at night, the man you
love best of all human beings owes every
enjoyment to your oversight and plans.
No matter how small 1t may be, no mat
ter how many difficulties of arrangement
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
housekeepers no one who can afford to live
as / have described can be too restricted in
their means to find 1t hard to Select from
che of these classes of domiciles 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 vital
spark of vanity and Self-SatiSfaction with
out which no woman's life is really delight
full that undefinable unclasSihed quality
which makes her look at her completed
work with the exhilarat1ng belief that few
could excel 1t, here has full play. Here she
can be original, ingenious, surprising, and
all this to the fufllment of the chief end
of her hopes and the expression OF her
highest desire.
Inc birds find sources Of exultation in the
building of their nests, and you can dis
cover that they are house-furnishing by the
JOY, of their songs 1t is the natural instinct
OF love and life TO make place to dwell in
To the woman who can devise fastldious-
ly beautiful gown l would commend the ar
rangement and decoration of room as the
expansion and tenfold higher use of her
art. To the woman who would endear her
self to her husband | would offer to guaran-
tee that if she can keep within the limit OF
his means and yeC make for him lovely,
comfortable, appropriate abiding place, IN
which he has room for the development OF
his own tastes and opportunity to bring
about him his friends in hospltable FASHION
she viii have endeared herself ineXpresSibly
to him and increased his pride in her ten
fold Let the good order and beauty be
sufficient to make his friends enVtous, and
ready to say that his home tempts them to
marry, and the wife becomes lovely in his
eyes, in far more f1atterlng way imam be
cause she is pretty ana well dressed. 10
become the source of a husband 5 comfort
and rest is to have placed yourself beyond
the fear of losing your complexion or ceas-
also to rise from the position of a dear pet
to a useful. important partner. WITHOUT
whose clever brains ana wise ulfection ms
life would cease TO be a success.
| do not claim that home making is easy
work, nor for a mo ment attempt to say that
the fine art of good housekeeping is easily
attained, but l do say with all the strength
l can put into the assertion that the mar
ried woman who sets aside her kingdom foI
lack of courage and energy to rule it is but
a disinherited princess who has lost the
greatest joy of life when she abdlcated hei
throne.
The place a man lives in should surely be
the place wherein sorrow and illness and
death can best be borne and suffered. TIC
the very Young these three pregnant words
mean little. but when they make themselves
heard may they find the sacredness and pri-
Yacy of home about you and the tender sur
roundings of your own family life soothing
your pain. To be happy in or grieve il
there can be no place like the shelter which
love and care have made for a man and his
wife TO a hide in together with the children
God has given them to sweeten and halloW
their inseparable lives.