The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-23
Friends.

You are. my friend, for you have smiled
My help and hope III fair ana stormy
weather. 1850. ....-. "a
like you for the joys you've whiled with
I love you for the griefs we've wept to-
I've held Your hand when life was gold to
And shared with you its very gracious
You've brought good cheer when earth was
And made me feel your warm heart fendly
F.. :, heating.
Though all the wcrld were deaf and dark
And long the night and bleak the winds
know full we'll that you would bark to me
And set my paths with lamps Of Loves
glad lighting.
You are, my friend. for you have smiled
with me-,
My help and hope In fair and stormy
weather.
I like You for the joys you've whiled with
love YOU for the grisefs We've wept to-
3, gether. Nixon Waterman.
Home, Sweet Home.
To have a home in every sense of the
word homelike demands certain knack
and also keen and poignant determina-
ton not to become the absolute slave of
either time or tidiness. OF course just
here some housekeeper who would regard
it as positively criminal to let breakfast
stand five minutes after it was on the ia
bic, or who wouldn't break pair of
blankets to save Il baby from freezing,
shrugs her shoulders and gives vent to
some uncompllmentary remarks about
the sort of home such place would be,
says the Philadelphia Times.
but let as assure Mrs. Pussy that it
would be in very truth ''home. sweet
nome to Il tar more certain degree than
where the harassed head feels that he
IS not privileged to sit on certain COM
fortable-looking, but too-good- to- be-used
bits of furniture, and who feels that he
must retire to the back yard if he cares
to indulge i'll an afterdinner smoke.
No, we do not advocate slovenliness by
any means. That is as certain discom-
fort as snnerlative tidiness. Create I,
mean-a pleasing. comforting sort of
mean-that resolves itself into cleanli-
ness that is not so glarinol " obtrusive
that it is painful-a mean that resolves
itself into, also. comforting disorder
that is soul-satisfying without being alb
solutely shiftless. You know the sort Of
a house we advocate-such Il one as
where you always have a good time, yet
where there is never il certain Gay when
all the furniture is set out in the hail
and the mistress, in most unbecOming
headgear, makes Il weekly onslaught on
dirt. that only her eagle eye can detect,
the while every other inmate rushes
forth to seek refuge even on the stormy
streets, or if. perchance, remaining in
doors. sits in draughts and wonders
gloomily why cleanliness and discomfort
should of necessity be allied.
\ day for this. an hour for that a
minute for the other, the shades never
permitted mp or down beyond Il certain
ton to the pattern on the carpet from one
Years end t" the other, never a variation
in mealtime or menu, eNactness to the
last degree. but comfort never.
And the house can be kept clean, the do
nestle machinery oiled and in perfect run
ming order without any of these harrow
ing, visible evidences of thrift and order.
Suppose, instead of weekly uphea val,
there is Il daily dusting and tidying, in
stead of satin embroidered cushions tho
fine for tired head to rest upon are
substituted real coy affairs that ME III
just what they look. and which can be
quickly patel into the necessary precision
to satisfy the housewife if visitors sh )nl
we need not so on surprising. Every
woman knows just the sort of Il house we
mean, and sine can have it if she will DC
less Il slave 20 the l.inate feminine len
dency to worry herself ald Others 20 death
over little lns: ana! disorder and give.
herself up more to the task of making
her abode home in ,sly truth.