Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-05-12
HOMES SEAMY SIDE.
Small hiseries Which No Art Can Prevent
Schdue.


Schdue.
y great deal is said and Written now
adays about the art of honemaking.
while very little thought is expended
upon the fact that in the home certain
small miseries arise aud flourish which
no art can better or subdne.
In most homes there are great capa-
bilities for happiness, and SO in direct
proportion OF unharpiness. Not every
man or woman. however well-inten-
toned, true, and conscientious, can
make the home what it ought TO be.
And one of the most fruitful causes of
unhappiness, next to bad temper, is to
be found in poor housekeeping.
Many woman, in every respect adj
mirable and intelligent beyond the av-
erage, cannot entirely grasp the mys-
teries of housekeeping. And that II
is not matter of intelligence is shown
by the fact that some of the best and
most skilltul housewives have been
those who turned their attention to
little else than the ordering of their
dinners and the scrupulous neotness
of their homes. And who shall say that
these did not make n success of house
keeping? So many, many things enter
into the housekeeping for the good or
i'll of the household. The wife or house
keeping sister may be orderly, the hns-
band o. brothers the reverse; or the
wife totally regardless of system, while
the husband counts misl laced article
or late breakfast an unpas aonable sin
for which TO future punetuality or neat
ness may condone; and these things
occurring day after day, year in and
year out, n consequent struggle en-
sues which renders life martyrdom.
The more trivial the occasion, the more
bitter the sense of defeat
"Oh," said a woman. whose house
keeping was TO her as the grinding
of the pilgrims pebbles il, his shoes,
II know | am miserable failure as
housekeeper! l can do half dozen
things well, but cannot keep house"
Now there is no more reason in the
world why that woman should wear
herself into nervous prostration trying
to do thing that IN all her life she
will never compass than there is that
any man should become a lawyer when
his tastes and aptitude are for medi-
cine or mechanism.
MY wife and l are much fonder of
each other since we sit down every day
with a dozen people than when we dined
alone" said a jolly husband, who went
through life very respectfully and hap
pily, though he never had home. 1t
is sad, but nevertheless true, that the
DISPOSE tons of some couples change en-
tircly for the better as soon rs they
nre freed from the shacllles OF house
keeping. Faultfinding ceases, anxious
lines smooth away, and both husband
and wife draw a long breath of relief.
| have known most devoted hus-
band and wife who, after the various
domestic complications caused 10y the
civil war, looked the matter of honse-
keeping squarely in the face. The wife,
10 LONGER young, felt that she could not,
without great personal exertion and UNI
told worry, take up Housekeeping on
a totally different basis from that with
which she had been familiar, and her
husband was wise and considerate
enough to accept her view OF the STU
alton. And to the end of their lives
they boarded. So it goes. Work that
to one woman is pleasant, to another
one is irksome; but there Is no use in
fretting over circumstances-it is far
better to accept the inevitable with good
grace.-Harper's Bazaar,