Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-10-31
Home and TidyneSs.

Home! There is no name under
heaven, except that of mother, sounds
so sweet to the human ear. We never
appreciate home until we leave it and
wander far away to some distant land.
Then will be realized there is no place
like home, be it ever so humble
am fearful some of our dear girls
do not place proper estimate on
home. l fear too many are being
caught in the fashionable fads, and
love to stay away from home too much.
/ prefer home to any other place. l
am better satisfied with home society
and home ways than 1 am anything
else. True, invitation after invitation
is extended to me to make long visits
to my friends and acquaintances, with
the promise of having good time, but
somehow, one day visiting satisfies me
and then l want to go home, and if l
don't get to go am not contented. l
love home. A happy home is the best
of all earthly things to my notion, tor
it implys mother, father, brother and
sister How many boys and girls, who
have left their homes, thinking they
would better their condition, have fail
ed
How many tears have been shed over
this one thing, home. / dare say
oceans. How many aged persons fond
ly remember the home of their youth.
| dare say all do, and yet how little
many of our young people appreciate
home, and l am sorry to say some girls
are as Indifferent as the most reckless
prodigal boy. Girls, if you have a
home, love it and try to beautify it
and make it attractive. 1t embarras-
ses me to enter home where dirt and
filth predominate, most especially if a
young lady dwells therein. Dirty
houses are not good recommended
tion to a young lady and no nice gen
tleman would care to take wife from
such home, and good cooking and
nice housekeeping is the best read to a
gentleman heart, and is the winning
card that Cupid holds. Neatness is
what men admire in girls more than
anything else.
All well raised young men have an
eye to cleanliness, While they admire
beauty and elegant manners, yet
know slovenly home is a deterant
they won't try to overcome.
They expect the young ladies to keep
the home in order and will not accept
any excuse for them not doing it. Did
you ever hear young men talk. If you
never did let me tell you what they
sometimes say. ''Well, she is pretty
but, (ah here it isl the floor and
chairs are awful dirty Looks like a
; pig pen, and that girls cake il
dough so far as marrying a nice young
man is concerned. He admits she is
pretty, but, ah me he saw too much
! dirt, and blames the girl and thinks
; she has not been raised right, and
, you can't convince him that it is not
her fault. Poor girl, beautiful ant
pretty, but, alas her chance of marry
ing we'll is out of the question.
= Now, girls, sisters, do you see thu
a point? Your personal beauty is not al
: that is required and the father an(
mother who neglects their beautiful
daughters welfare are making SAT
mistake. Help the girl to tidy up the
+ home even though log cabin.
: Cleanliness is godliness. Yes, hell
her, encourage and, if necessary, com
t pei her. I've never seen home to-
neat and I've seen many that though
a great deal of improvement could b.
made on. just do the best possibl
- and keep it up, is what l really mean
. Home is worth all the effort we Ca
r give it, and is one thing too mucl
n neglected by many.
Q "Your Friend L. "