The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-08

l4sJns, remember that. In a most deep
....Se, you must weave men fortunes
81 embroider them, or feed upon anu
sI1Ig them 10 decay. Wherever true
,.Ite comes. nome is always aIoul"A
y,r The stars may be the canopy over
L.. head. the glow-worm in the nlSht 5 |
al grass the ire at her feet but home |
IS where she IL, ana for noble Woinal
=, stretches Iar around ner-ret'e-
NAN houses ceued with cedar, or paint
"a with Nermiiion, SneddinS It's qu'et
l!sut Tor those VINO else We're nome
IS" Every true wife makes ner nus
Lands interests her own. Wnlle ne lives
ilr her, carrying her image III MS heart
and toiling for ner all his days, 81 ( az
80 lives only for him, and THINKS oilly
o. what is tor his good. w men outuehs
press upon him she tries to tighten chem
Dy her sympathy and cheer, anu ny
az. inspiration OF her love. She enters
win zest and enthusiasm into all his
pans She is never a weight 10 dfiS
MIN down Woman is compared some
times to the vine, and man 10 TIE
strung tree to which the vine ';hnSs.
out there are different KINDS OF vines.
some wreathe a robe OF beauty dHd d
crown of glory for the tree, covering Ut
with green leaves; others Irvine their
tendriis about the tree only to sap It's
very life and destroy its Vlgor uhtli IL
stands at last stripped OF all It's spien-
dor a dead and unSightly thlnS Wihle
the true wife clings To the husband IN
loving dependence, she yet strives W
bring out in him whatever is noble IN
ms nature She inspires MIN WIKI
courage She beauties his life. she
Softens whatever is rude and han Sh IN
him. She clothes him with the %entief
Il aces of a refined and cultured man
hood While she yields to him, SHE Is
really his queen, ruling his whole lie
a raer hi i'm Nar
ward Washington Irving has beauti-
fully said: Nothing can be more
touching than to behold woman, VINO
has been all weakness and dependence,
and alive to every trivial rouShnesS,
while treading the prosperous paths OF
life. suddenly rising in power TO be the
comforter and supporter of her hus-
band under misfortune, and enduring
with unshrinking firmness the bitter
est blasts of adversely
But there are also wives like the vines
that cling only to blight and TO sap the
life. They put forth no hand 10 heip.
They Toll on sofas; they dream over
sentimental novels: they gossip in
drawing rooms; they burden even the
manifest and most tender love. Instead
OF making mans life stronger, hap
pier, richer, they absorb his strength.
impair his usefulness, hinder his sue
cess. Dependence is beautiful when II
The true wife cling and leans, but she
also helps and inspires. Her husband
feels the mighty inspiration of her
love all the days of his life. Toll be-
comes easier, burdens lighter, because
of the face that waits for him in the
quiet of the home, because of the heart
that beats in loving sympathy with
his. because of the voice that speaks
its words of cheer and encouragement
when the days work is done.
You are prepared, therefore, to hear
me say that the home is the true wife
kingdom. There, first of all places, she
is to be strong and beautiful. She may
touch life outside of its walls in many
ways, if she can do 1t without sighting
the duties that are within her own
doors. But If any calls for her service
must be declined, they should not be
the duties of her home. 1t may be put
down as a positive rule, whether among
the rich or the poor, whether in a man
SION or in cottage, whether in the
temperate zone or in the tropics, that
the wife who would be happy, and
make her home happy, must be good
hOuSekeeper. When young people mar
ry they are rarely troubled with much
thought about such prosaic subject
The mere mention of such commonplace
things as cooking. baking, sweeping
busting, darning, jars upon the poetry
brains of the happy lovers that it car
make any difference in their home-life
whether the bread is sweet or sour, the
porridge well cooked or burned, the
meals punctual or tardy. But once in
/ their own home they begin to realize
that something more than the ambro-
sd Of sentiment is needed to make the
home-life success. They soon discov-
cr the intimate relation that exists be-
tween the kitchen and welded happi-
ness. Love may build it's palace of ten
der sentiment, rising into the very
clouds; but this palace, after all. rests
on a very unromantic foundation-the
foundation of good housekeeping. In
ether words. upon good breakfasts and
dinners and suppers, upon "A well-kept
house, upon order. system. promptness
good cheer, far more than the young
lovers are apt to dream, does happiness
in married life depend. | know that
the wise man has said: Better is din
ner of herbs where love is, than a stall
ed OK q. e., good roast beef dinner)
with hatred therewith;" but herbs as a
constant diet will pail upon the taste
of any man, especially if poorly served
even if love is ever present to season
them. In this day of advanced civil
cation. and even with Oriental ser
wants, ii ought to be possible to have
both the stalled OK and love. | think
you wives viii agree with me that hus-
bands are not angels as yet by any
means and that the way to the mans
heart is still through his stomach. We
near IT often said that in these days the
skilled housewife is no longer appre.
GATED; that men prefer a pretty fac,
to noble heart; a girl who can play
on the piano or discuss Browning I,
one who can get up a good dinner
'Ihere was never a greater miStak,
than this. America is the land o.
homes, and the good housewife is alb
sOiutely essential to their existence
When that eminent Frenchman, D.
Joinville, returned to France after al
extended visit to America, he said tina
if he were asked to give the reason 70
, America pre-eminence among the ma
tons of the earth, he should ascribe i
to the pre-eminence of her homes w
: near great deal in these days abou
, the higher education of women: and
5 believe in il. | believe in an educated
cultured Womanhood. During the las
5 twenty-five years through the increas
ed opportunities opened for the educa
D ton of woman, the women of tn
r country are coming to be better educat
g ed than the majority of the men; an
II they continue to advance at the pres
e ent ratio, before long the majority {
= men Will have difficulty in finding.
s the opposite sex, enough ignorance [
make aDnrOnTiata