The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-29
Purpose of the Home.

The Cooking School
The truest homes are often in houses not
especially well kept, where the comfort
and happiness of the inmates rather than
extreme tidness and he preservation of
the furniture, is first consulted. The object
, of the home is to be the center, the pivot
on which the family life turns. The first
requisite is to make 1t so attractive that
none OF its members shall care TO linger
long outside its limits. All legitimate means
should be employed to this end, and no ef-
fort spared that can contribute TO this pur-
pose. There are many houses called homes,
kept with much waxy neatness by pains
taking, anxious women, that are so oppres-
slve In their nicely as to exclude all home
feeling from their spotless precincts. The
very name OF home is synonymous with
personal freedom and relaxation from care;
solid comfort.
But neither of these can be felt where
such a mania for external cleanliness per-
vades the household as to render every
thing subservient thereto. Many house
wives, II they see speck on the floor or
wall, rush t,it as IL il were the seed of
pestilence, which must be removed on the
instant Their temper depends upon their
maintenance of perfect purity and order.
II there be any failure on their part of any
combination of circumstances against them
they fall into a pathetic despair and can
hardly be lifted out. They do not see that
a
all the spotlessness that ever shone Their
disposition to wage war upon immaculate
ness OF any sort increases until they become
slaves of the broom and dustpan. Neatness
is thing and state of perpetual house
cleaning quite another.
Out of this grows by degrees the feeling
that certain things and apartments are too
good for daily use. Hence chairs and sofas
are covered and rooms shut up. save for
special occasions, when they are permitted
to reveal their violated sacredness in
m ms n
tally. Nothing should be bought which
is considered too fine for the fullest domes-
tic appropriation: Far better is the plainest
furniture on which the children can climb.
than satin and damask, which must be
viewed with reverence. When anything is
reserved or secluded, to disguise the fact
it round, and the repulsion OF strangeness
is experienced by the most insensible.
rontsne Is It h is spirit presence prin
ciple. Material and method will not and
cannot make Ii. 1t must get its light and
sweetness from those who inhabit it, from
natures which, in the exercise of sylnpa-
thy, can lay aside the tyranny of the broom
and the awful duty Of endless scrubbing.
Women as Seen by Marion Crawford.
From 1.-THE Heart of Rome
Women are, In a sense, the embodiment
of practice, while men are the representa-
tives of theory. In practice, in race for
life, the runner who jumps everything in
his way is always right, unless he breaks
his neck. In theory he is as likely to break
his neck at the first jump as at the second,
and the chances of his coming to grief in
crease quickly, always in theory, as he
grows tired. So theory says that IT Is safer
never to jump at all, but TO go round
through the gates, or wade ANONYMOUSLY
through the water. Women jump; men go
round. The difference is everything. Wom-
en- believe In what often succeeds In prac-
tiee and they take all risks and sometimes
come down with a crash. Men theorize
about danger, make elaborate calculations
to avoid il, and occasionally stick in the
mud. When women are at a stone wall they
scream. Wien men are stuck in a bog
they swear. The difference is fundamental.
In nine cases out of ten it is the woman
who enjoys the ecstatic delight of saying,
II told you So" and there are plenty Of
women who would ask no greater JOY in
paradise than to say SO to their husbands
and punishment could thus be at once COM
bined and distributed in simple manner.
Editor Buckley Advises Women.
New York Christian Advocate.
With good judgment and suit case of
moderate size man may go contentedly
wherever he pleases. Not with woman!
She may, indeed, travel around the world
with no heavier impedimenta than hand
luggage and yet be suitably arrayed; but
the necessities Of home life and ordinary
visiting are not met by a wardrobe which
can be folded into a suit case, and man
would not have 1t otherwise.
1t has been said that mo good woman
can look ugly to those who know her." but
there may be sons who would have prouder
pleasure If their dear mother would take
woman commenting upon her mother-in-
law. She said: IF she would only take