Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-04-19
JUST AMONG OURSELVES
The Effect q Happy Home and q
Few Hours Of Church Has on
the Business Man after Work.
in& Hours.

AAS AAVukSs
1t is safe to assume that every bust
ness and professional man in Grand
Rapids has some annoying perpIexiDe
things to meet and contend with
nearly every day of his life. But how
many Of these men have the happy
faculty of, when they turn the key OF
the Office or store door at night
leaving it all behind, 1t is the place
for it. 1t will be there when you get
back. 1t is not commodity of the
home. 1t is not good for family ccn-
sumption.
There are people who dissipate more
energy between the time when they
leave their work at night and when
they return TO it in the morning than
they expend all in their vocationS,
though they would be shocked and
offended if any one were to tell them
SO. But men and women of exemplary
moral habits in this city dissipate
their vitalitieS in hundred ways.
They indulge in wrong thinking, they
worry, they fret, they fear this, that
and the other imaginery thing and
they carry their business home with
them and work as hard mentally after
business hours as during them.
The home is the heaven Of rest.
You must bring sunshine with you
from the store and Office IL you expect
it to be reflected back to you. You
cannot expect to get sunshine in
return for gloom. The rate Of exchange
is not that way. Your home is an
investment and you will get back in
kind just what you put into it with
plenty Of interest. II your investment
is close, narrow and penurious, you
cannot expect to draw large dividends
OF sweetness, serenity, repose and
happiness. A home is bank of hap
piness. II you deposit counterfeit
money you cannot expect TO draw out
the genuine coin of social exchange
Home is like whispering gallery and
the echo must follow the initial i'm
pulse Of voice. 1t is like a mirror
which reflects whatever face you make
into 1t. II you scowl it will scowl
back; II you laugh, it will laugh in
response. There is no way for you to
get happiness out of a home unless
you put happiness material into it,
II you will make practice in your
leisure hours of giving yourself up
completely to recreation, to having a
grand good romp with the children or
social game with the whole family,
make up your mind that you will haye
good time during the evening no
matter what may happen on the NOR
row. You will find yourself in much
better condition the next day to enter
the business or professional arena.
You will he much fresher and stronger,
will have much more elasticity and
will do your work much easier and
with much less friction than if you
think, think, think of business Ill the
time you are home.
Mr.. Wood with his many and exact
ing transactions in the bank states
that by attending church Sunday
morning. he is in better condition
Monday for the new week before him
1t is the change Of thought and sur
roundings that bring rest.
1t is doubtful II Mr.. Mead could
have stood the mental strain of super
intending the construction of a plant
where nearly million dollars was
invested and a year Of time consumed
without receiving the rest and relaxa-
tion which comes largely from a
pleasant happy home
1t is a sorry day when child gets
the impression that his father is not
his playmate, or when he does not
long for him to come home so that he
can have q good time. The home
should be regarded as the most sacred
spot ON earth. The husband should
look upon it as the one spot in all the
world where be can get away from
business troubles, and the exactions,
grinding and crowding of life's
struggles place to which he can
Ice from all soilarl..Say and discord,
and lind peace and rest, content and
satisfaction. 1t should be place
where he always longs to go and from
which he is loaJhe to part.
JD or ;,<arv;o.y ~,;%h n w