The Meeker herald., 1897-01-09
HOMES seaMx hE.
Small Miserics Which No Art16n Prevent
or Suldne.

! Small Alserics Which No Art1on Frcrent
| or suhduc.
A great deal is said and Ntlktcn now
adays about the art OF hnScnialirg,
while very little thought Responded
upon the fact that in the hsree certain
| small miserics arise and doU5sh which
no art can better or subdue.
In most homes there arc e5eat capa-
bilitics for happiness. and SIR direct
proportion of unhappiness. lot every
man or woman, however vll-inten-
toned, true, and conscientious. can
make the home what it out&, TO be.
And one Of the most fruitful 1auses of
unhappineas, next to bad tenter, is to
be found in poor housekeepil&
MANY q woman, in every pect ad.
mirable and intelligent beyo,d the av-
erage, cannot entirely grasp eie mys-
teries of housekeeping. And that it
is not a matter of intelligenceA shown
by the fact that some Of the i. and
most slillful housewives h,A been
those who turned their attelticn TO
little else than the ordering " their
dinners and the scrnpulous latness
of their homes. And who shailA Aay that
these cid not make success d house
keeping? So many, many thines entcr
into the housekeeping for the qod or,
| ill OF the household. The wIfe c}asuse-
keeping sister may be orderly, Ia ius-
band or brothers the reverse; er the
wife totally regardless OF system while
the husband counts misplaced article
or late breakfast an unpardoDaie sin
for which no future punctuality peat-
ness niay conGone; and these fnss
occurring day after day, year in and
year out, n consequent struggle en-
sues which renders life lnArtyHom.
The more trivial the occasion, the lore
| bitter the eense of defeat.
"Oh," said a woman, whose hose
| keeping was to her as the. grinding
Of the pilgrims pebbles ill his shfs,
II know l am q miserable failure fs
housekceper! can do half dom
things well, but 1 cannot keep u housS"
Now there is no more reason in ue
| world why that woman should we+
herself into nervous prostraticn trying
| to do thing that in all her lie sht
will never compass than there Is thai
any man should become q lawyer whe'
his tastes and aptitude are for medi
cine or mechanism.
my wife and / are much fonder o
each other since we sit down every ia,
with a dozen people than when we dine
alone" said jolly husband, who Yent
| through life very respectfully und Jap
pily, though he never had home II
is sad, but nevertheless true, thai the
dispositions of some couples changten'
tirely for the better as soon as tey
are freed from the shackles of hofse-
keeping. Faultfinding ceases. anxp pus
lines smooth away, and both husHlEd
and wife draw long breath OF rclif
| ] have known n most devoted bus
band ard wife who, after the va4oua
domestic complications caused b1 the
civil war, looked the matter Of hfise-
keeping sauarcly in the face. Thetifc,
no longer young, felt that che couittlot,
without Grca. personal exestion t;d un-
told worry. take up houSeloeegfg on
| a totally different basis from thl With
which she had been familiar, atd her
husband was wise and corstoiAte
enough to accept her view Of til sitl-
alton. And to the end Of tbei, lives
they boarded. SO it goes. Wost that
to one woman is pleasant, to atotheT
ono is irksome; but there is norse IN
fretting over circumstances-ftis Is fal
better to accept the inevitable witt gooN
grace.-Harper's Bazar.