Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-08-04

ornaments be faded and ruined. All (
,unthinkingly she preserves the rifles
which lnonsy can buy. while health
and happiness. blessings which wealth
can not pure chase, are allowed Sto per
ish in darkeaed rooms which should
he flooded with light, the crowning
glory Of home. She expels the great
germ destroye from her house and
makes it q place of gloom in the
vain hope that flies vii not enter In.
Flies are rlltny IN the extreme ana i
most undesirable inmates Of any I
dwelling, but there are other ways Of /
eSpelling and preventing the nuisanc.
2es than by making the home a place
as gloomy as a prison cell Where the
unfortunate insects that have been |
#enticed thither by the promise of
warmth and food, lead miserable
lives and the germs they carry from
the outer world, find fit breeding plac-
es far from the DESTROYING sunlight,
There are homes, fand may their
number increase where light Is one
of the first consideratio in the
homemaking, as it seems to. have
been the Makers in the creation of
the world.
Welt I know such a home, where
the sun glorifies the simple furniture
and ornaments whenever that orb
deigns to she'd its radiance there and
lend a wealth of beauty and comfort
which money can not buy, The par-
lor in this home is a CHEEKY place to
which the entire household has free
|taccess every hour of the day, and
rot darkened room where the choic.
est furniture and ornaments are
stored safely from the ravages of sun
light, flies and daily usefulness.
Sometimes the writer has been so
unfortunate as to be conducted into
gloomy parlor by a we'll mentioned
hostess, and left there to the dispirit-
ing contemplation of common OBJ,
jects, appearing weird and unfamil-
i lar in the twilight. Perhaps clock
| ticking solemnly on the mantle was
the only sound that broke the gloomy
silence of the room, unless a fly haN-8
/ ing found it's way behind the heavy
shade, buzzed joyously UP and down
the pane, reveling in the sunlight
that should be flooding the room with
radiance, vet beating vainly against
the restraining glass that held 1t i'm
prisoned from the outer world where
sunlight reigned supreme.
So did / in spirit, beat against the
! bonds Of conventionality and polite.
ness which held me a prisoner, even
for an hour, in that gloomy room
Is where by-gone ancestors in ponderous
: frames seemed to frown down upor
5 me through the darkness and things
! that might have been objects Of beau
ty or interest in the light, but addet
; to my depression and longing 70,
the freedom of the open air.
S Perhaps the CHEEKY clatter Of dish
& es could be heard in the distance ami
n deemed the privilege Of wipin'
A them, Of setting the table or being a!
/ lowed to preform any household tas
o il. a sunny room, a boon.
J. All this may seem childish to M
A. readers, but are we not all as chi
n dren in our pursuit of light and hal
Is piness? Does not the instructive al
probation of light which prompt
h the baby to chase the sunbeam an
ID vainly try to catch and hold thf
O. priceless treasure as his own, guild
m US all from the cradle to the grave?
N The invalid tossing on a fevere
st pillow, turns gratefully toward tt
ID first red CLEAN Of dawn that stea
II into the chamber of suffering. TT
te aged turn their wrinkled faces towai
r. the sunlight and find in its warmt
le a cheer which mere bodily comic
s- can not give them. The sorrowir
&c find in 1t a CLEAN Of hope, the hapI
p grow more joyous in its presence IL
they may not know the cause
n their exuberance of spirit.
1T About a third Of our lives are pa
r. sed in slumber, then should not OF
n bedrooms be as light and CHEEKY {
re any? Not alone while we are in the
I'd for we usually occupy our chamber
IN while the world is shrouded in dar
e ness; but while we are elsewhere, II
sunlight should be purifying OF
g rooms for the next nights occupanc
n A girl, whose room is; a light an
n CHEEKY corner Of the home, was ono
st reprimanded by an experienced hous
is wife for leaving the shades UP durir
as the day, being told that 1t was u,
Id necessary to thus expose the fadab
IN objects of her chamber. The girl al
lr swered lightly that she liked to thin