The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-29


CHEEKY calls? In the first place, some
one, OF someone's. must mend their
ways. Ny dear Sir, did you ever think
of the possible results Of kissing your
wife when you returned from your
days labor, instead of abusing her
with orders and threats? And you,
Lady of the house, did it ever occur to
you that strong CHEEKY word of God
speed to your husband of morning
when he started to work, might insure
the evening kiss you long for? Chill
dren, what DO you imagine would hap
pen if you were to help mother with
the dishes, or with the coal, or on an
errand? Would you not care for the
sweet caress, the loving smile, and the
comfort Of having helped mother?
Indeed, now, wouldn't very few such
small undertakings make lot of diff
ference in your home? Why, then,
don't you try it? But you say, the
crops are poor, or the business IS dull,
and there is not money enough to make
the home comfortable. All the more
reason, good father mother, aud chill
dren, for taking the cheeriest possible
view of matters. 1t is curious fact
that when a man will not be dis
couraged by fate, he will eventually
win out; that when family bravely
determine not to be miserable and to
make things go, they will invariably
find something better turn up. The
family across the way, who are 50
cheerful and happy have set Trouble
on a back shetland they have never
since taken it down. 1t has probably
evaporated by now
Every home is narbor for some souls.
The tired father after his days work,
the sweet mother, weary with her
labors, the bright children eager to con
tinue their games, gather evenings in
the sitting room at home. There is
reading and talking: games continue,
and the family while away the short
evening in the happiest of companion
ship. 1t is good to have the father
with us these evenings: mother smiles
so often when he is near: and he tells
such good stories about bears and
things. OF course we couldn't get
along without mother at all, for what
would father do with ut her? And sure
" the children do make the home
bright and gay: we certainly could
not let them go under any circumstan-
ces. This is what the father has
worked for these long years, and what
mother has always set her heart on.
And these children, who can only enjoy
the home, will some day be planning
and working for just such another one.
Things have gone wrong with someone
during the day, but in the evening,
when there is 80 much of cheer about,
do you think it will be hard to forget
the troubles, and remember only the
real pleasure of being again with the
ones whom we love 80 muchf And
when we go out again tomorrow, to un.
dertake what we failed to do today, it
will be with the slate washed clean, and
with reinforcement of energy and of
determination that will simply make us
succeed 1t was the nice evening at
home that helped us so to win our
battles.
There are country homes and there
are city homes, and each has its special
variety of happiness. Every man is in
clned to be dissatisfied with his particu-
lar kind of q home and thinks that some
other kind would suit him letter.
Perhaps it would; but the chances are
that it would not And this is es-
pecially true with those who live In the
country. There is wide space about
the country home; there is plenty OF
good wholesome air to breathe; there
is lots of fine out door work to be done.
There is a purity about home in the
woodland, or in the meadow, or by the
county pike, which one misses sadly in
the city There is a sweet, quiet peace
in the very air itself. The city home
has its air of richness and luxury; its
heavy carpets, its lace curtains, its
chandeliers, it's mirrors, its array OF
servants 1t is, perpaps, on nice park,
where the lawn is we'll kept, and the
trees nicely pruned. But there is
difference we'll worth noting in these
two varieties of homes. The inhabi-
tants of the country homes are lusty,
hearty, healthy set of men and women:
they know how to enjoy life to the
last breath, and they have many long
breath after the city man has taken his
last For the city man must breathe
the communicating odors and air OF the
city. He must keep within the narrow
streets. and the close Office greater
part of his time His health must OF
necessity deteriorate, and he must die