The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-25
son COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH o. 1908
Making Home Happy.

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 reach, might be max.
ing themselves and others happy
would they turn their attention to
the creating of pleading home,
1t may be said in reply that an
attractive home in these days ne.
oessitates an outlay of money, and
that only those who have large in
comes oan enjoy suoh spot,
But this is not the fact.
A real desire for suoh home, q
Willingness to work for 1t. deter.
mination to possess it and very
small 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.
snbieot 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 APP.
probation of an attractive home.
1t is noticeable fact that cav
ages and all primitive tribes of
people neglect and ignore the
home, while decorating the body.
American Indians lived In filthy
novels, while painting their faces
aud apparelling their bodies with
gaudy decorations.
The wage.earning and prosper.
ous 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
10 a well. kept and attractive home
ia 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 undo.
veloped nature; relic of the saw
age There is no slavery 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 10 a
step toward morality and religion.
One often hears women in mis-.
cradle, disorderly and ill-kept
homes talking of heaven.
But what ere the characteristics
of heaven supposed to be?
| Can one Imagine a topsy.turvy
heaven2 Would not the very first
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 COM
plain that we had been led there
by false promiees
Every home should be email
heaven. 1t should be made spot
toward which the tired and hungry
toiler turns with sweet antioipa
lions of rest, comfort and satisfied
longings.
1t should appeal to the eye, and
to the heart and soul.
Does your home SO appeal, dear
ladyP
! Are your windows softly draped
with clean curtains, even if they
are only of the most inexpensive
stuffsH
Is your table neat and oouoh
comfortable and clean, and is there
u rug or two on the well. kept floor.
and a soft paper shade over the
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