The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-14

cases, for If you would keep your
husband sweet tempered don't feed him
on sour bread and soggy potatoes, dish
water coffee, &c. It's an old adage that
a mans heart is reached by way of his
stomach, but he also gets dyspepsia by
the same route, so be careful and not
overdo the matter.
1t takes more engineering and skill
to manage man and house than the
building of the Panama Canal. II you
don't believe it, try it If you do, don't
try it. The husband is supposed to be
the home maker and the bread winner,
but to the good wife falls the RESPONSE
bility of the home keeping and the
bread making. Fortunes are not often
made in the kitchen, but many a one
has been lost there on account OF poor
management and disregard OF econ
omies. Don't look at 1t as drudgery, as
too many do, but as an art, science by
which you may keep yourself and family
in perfect health and happiness, which
is more to your credit, and will go farther
toward making paradise of your home,
than to be able to quote Shakespeare or
converse in the dead languages. l
wouldn't have you infer that | don't
believe in education for women, far
from it. l believe they should have, and
are capable of the higher education, as
they have demonstrated it in many
instances. An educated man usually
has profession, but properly educat-
ed woman has many. Therefore, the
making of a model home falls heavily
on the mistress. So when the master
comes home tired, after day of hard
labor or vexing business and finds his
dinner ready, his smoking jacket and
slippers waiting for him, and while he
devours his favorite dishes prepared by
loving hands and recounts what he has
done, where he has been, and all the
annoying things that have happened,
keep patient, for when he gets through
be will feel rested. Then while he takes
his after-dinner smoke, wash your
dishes and by the time you are through
he will have finished smoking. Then
both are ready to enjoy the evening
together-at home-if you are home
people, but if, as is so often the case
these days, he belongs to club for
every night in the week and two times
for Sunday, you can sit out the evening
alone, or follow his example, go to
womens club or theatre, or anywhere
to get even. Let the family lookout
for themselves, run the streets, they
belong as much to him as you, If he
don't care you need not. Such express
sions and examples are frequent. Don't
try to keep even in that way keep the
balance on your side, for trials and
heartaches will come to the best
regulated homes. Men are not angels,
neither have women wings the tongue
also is an unruly member. Let us then
try to remember Will Carleton's advice:
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged
birds,
But you can do that when flying words
Careful with fire Is good advice we know,
Careful with words Is ten times doubly So"
1t is a truthful saying "that it takes
two to quarrel, but only one to stop it,"
We would add that it also takes two to
make home perfect. There is little use
in woman trying to make sunshine by
being all smiles at all times, when the
man is chronic growler, who airs his
business troubles three times day in
exaggerated form to the already over
burdened partner of his life. Men are
apt to think they own their wives and
everything else about the place. but a
woman likes to feel that she is part of
the concern and not a servant, likes to
be treated as though you needed her
not only to mend your socks, but your
heart as we'll ; to help drive away the
shadows. Love should be the domi-
nant chord in every home, to which the
heart strings should be attuned. No
place is perfect without it. How we
love to visit where it is the ruling
passion where each member seems
bubbling over with good will toward
each other. It's like an oasis in life's
desert to tired and wornout nerves. Let
us try to meet each other half way in
smoothing out the rough places, setting
an example to our children and others
that may prove a blessing to genera
tions to follow.
MRS. MINERVA STRAUSS.