The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05

Home Companion, that adds more 10 tHe
happiness of a home than the habit oil
cheerfulness. It is a potent factor IN the
secret of housekeeping, and the housewife
who has always a pleasant smile ana a
soothing word has already acquired one oil
the most valuable accomplishments. AS
Lesg ago as the days of the wise man
merry countenance had its recognized
value II is a duty 70 be pleasant Yet
how many neglect this important require
:nent Some women are consutuuonally
cross ana morOse: others are weak ana
nervous. and are made fretful by the eN-
crtions of their household caresA But there
is no excuse for much of the friction that
exists in many households. ! have been IN
some where the atmosphere seemed ACT
uallv to bristle with hostilities. Everybody
was in a fret. and frowns and cross words
were the rule and not the exception. How
uncomfortable life in such a home must
be to the inmates. as well as TO the passing
guests. one learns 10 shun such homes as
one would pest house.
All women cannot be beautiful, but it is
the duty of every woman to look as well
as she can, and nothing adds more to
woman's good looks than a cheerful coun
tenance Il have always" said the good
Vicar of Wakefield been an admirer of
happy human faces" The sentiment is
universal. The pleasure thus derived COM
pensates for the absence of beauty, and
supplies the deficiency of symmetry and
grace.
Cheerfulness can be cultivated and ac-
mos
work is exacting and tiresome it makes it
no easier by being fretful. Form the habit
of being cheerful under adverse circum-
stances. "Our happiness" observes
standard writer, lis a sacred deposit for
which we must give account" A serene
and amiable temper is among its most eff
cient preseratives. IL is a virtue not to
be gainsaid Admiral Collingwood, one of
England's great naval heroes in his let
ters to his daughters, says: Il never knew
your mother TO utter harsh or hasty
thing to any person in my life What
lofter eulogy could a woman have than
that?
1t should be numbered among woman's
household duties that she make others
happy. To do this successfully she must
in some degree be happy herself. If one
is happy she will be cheerful. II is not
the happy and contented who fret because
their fires do not burn, CT because the
steak is overdone, and who hush bois-
ferrous child with a frown
Some women are naturally cheerful, but
allow themselves to be put out by little
things. Suppose the servant has broken
dish or the butter doesn't come, or your
husband comes home to dinner late, does
it mend matters by any impatient com
plant? Preserve your equanmity. The
IL 10 lnNr Vrs1gz
made all flowers and ripping sunshine.
Your work will go along much smoother
YOU will accomplish more, and you will
make others happier by being cheerful.
Cheerfulness is the best lubricant in the
world, and in the machinery of household
tolls and cares it often happens that a
little is needed Where there is cheerful
ness there are always order and thrift and
comfort. 1t is better than high descent
or gold. 1t is a jewel more precious than
any ever dug from the mines of Golconda,
and, like the sunshine, cannot be dis
pensed with. Very fervently and very
piously we say, God bless the cheerful
woman"
E. R. Horton sends some beautiful Sc
lections to the New York Tribune, one of
which is published below:
Let nothing make thee sad or fretful,
Or too regretful;
What God hath ordered must be right;
Then find in it thine own delight
My will.
Why shouldst thou fill to-day with sorrow
About tomorrow,
MY heart?
One watches all with care most true:
Doubt not that He will give thee, too,
Thy part.
Only be steadfast never waver,
Nor seek earths favor,
But rest;
Thou knowest what God wills must be
For all His creatures, so for thee,
The best.
Paul Fleming.
1t was something of an innovation, at a
wedding lately, to have the bridesmaids
enter four by the right and four by the
left door of the church. 1t was such a sur
prise that the wedding party should thus
separate that the audience did not at first
notice that two professions were simulta-
neously making their way to the altar.
The bride on her fathers arm, entered
by the middle-aisle, when her attendants
had accomplished about half the distance
up the right and left aisles. She was pre-
coded by two ushers and her maid of hon
or walking alone, another pair of ushers
closing the procession. AS the brides
ludluS reached the Cnancol tney formed a
lane through which the bride slowly pass
ed. to be met at the altar steps by the
groom.
Just at present the arrangement of the
hair is making the lives of many worthy
women extremely difficult. The pompadour
has assumed such proportions as to make
1t exceedingly unbecoming to most faces,
and yet all the bonnets and hats have been
designed especially for that style of Golf
fure. The roll must extend quite around
the head, the hair must be brushed up
above the top of the hair and arranged
in as compact q knot as possible In the
evening ring Of diamonds put around The
knot of hair with some high ornament in
front is very effective.
Either some patent invention to wave
the hair must be used, or hot irons. to give
the desired ondule appearance and while
hair dye IS considered bad form, il is SUP
prising how many, many women there are
with directly diverse coloring of skin and
eyes who have reddish-brown hair.
There is more talk of chignons and wa
ter-falls again coming into fashion, but
vet he