The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-25
As0N COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY, MAROH 25 1908
Home Happy.
Copyright, tOos. by American Home Journal
Nv Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Copyright, 1908. by American Home Journal
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Hundreds of poor, restless women
who are wasting their lives in striv-
ing after some imagined pleasure
beyond their reaoh, might be max.
ing themselves and others happy
would they turn their attention to
the creating of pleasing home.
1t may be said in reply that an
attractive home in these days me-
oessitates an outlay of money, and
that only those who have large in
comes oan enjoy suoh spot,
But this is not the faot
A real desire for suoh a home, a
Willingness to work for it. deter.
mination to possess 1t and very
email outlay of money will create
the home of beauty.
Ten oents will purchase any one
of half dozen magazines contain.
ing practical hints to women pos.
sessed of any taste regarding the
furnishing of simple rooms.
How much better spent are the
10 cents and the hour devoted to
reading and studying up on the.
subjeot of home decorations than
the hour passed in restless disoon-
tent, or the perusal of exciting fic-
ton or vicious tales of scandal in
the daily news.
One of the fret Indications of
refinement and culture is the ap.
probation of an attractive home.
1t is noticeable faot that sav-
ages and all primitive tribes of
people neglect and ignore the
home. while decorating the body.
American Indians lived In filthy
hovels, while painting their faces
and apparelling their bodies with
gaudy decorations.
The wage.eerning and prosper.
oue African all too often delights
in expensive clothes, but is content
10 live in dingy hut.
In America and Jamaica this
Indifference of the oolored people
to a well.kept and attractive home
is one OF the most disoouraging
features of the race problem. Not
until the emanoipated oolored wo-
man develops taste for good
housekeeping, neat rooms and
wholesome cooking oan the race
be said to progress toward real
freedom.
Hundreds of white women, how
ever are to be found who have had
all the advantages in race and edu.
cation. yet who prefer to decorate
their backs rather than to furnish
their homes.
Yet always it indicates an unde.
veloped nature; relic of the saw
age There is no siavery more ter.
rible than slavery to dirt and dis
order
The influence of clean, orderly
and attractive home on men and
children is inoaloulable.
A pretty and orderly home iS a
step toward morality and religion.
One often hears women in mie.
erable, disorderly and ill.kept
homes talking of heaven.
But what ere the characteristics
of heaven supposed to be2
Can one imagine topsy.turvy
heavenP Would not the very fret
rule of heaven be orderP Aud
beauty and cleanliness would be
indispensable.
If we did not find these things
in heaven / am sure we would oom-
plain that we had been led there
by false promises
Every home should be a email
heaven. It should be made spot
toward which the tired and hungry
toiler turns with sweet antioipa
tions of rest, comfort and Satisfied
Iongings.
1t should appeal to the eye, and.
to the heart and soul.
Does your home SO appeal, dear
lady2
Are your windows softly draped
with olean curtains, even if they
are only of the most inexpensive
stuffsP
Is your table neat and couch
comfortable and cleau. and is there
rug or two on the we'll. kept floor.
and soft paper shade over the
glare of the lampP And is your
bed neat. and is there clean towel