White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-29
INFLUENCE Of
THE HOME LIFE
HOW SOME MEN ARE HANDICAP
PED N THE STRUGGLE FOR
EXISTENCE BY DOMESTIC DIS
CORD,

A western railroad has decided to
dispense with the services of all of its
employees who have not happy
homes. Says Dorothy Dix in the New
York American:
This is a drastic exempliication of
the truth of the Bible axiom, that to
him who hath shall be given, and
from him who hath not shall be tax
en- away even that which he hath.
Certainly it is tough luck on the
man who has a shrewish and nag
ging wife and a sloyenly home to
have his job taken away from him
on account of his misfortunes. and
to be deprived of whatever peace
and comfort he can get out of a long
run that takes him away from the
scene of his misery. Perhaps the
reason that trains are so often late
is because so many conductors and
engineers are not in any hurry to get
back home.
Aside, however, from the surface
cruelty of such an order there can
be no question of the wisdom of the
railroad in making it, for happiness
in his home life is an actual tangible
asset that adds apparently to a mans
efficiency.
And this applies not only to rail-
road men, but to men in every walk
and calling of life. Between the
nan who goes forth to his labor
from a peaceful, cheerful, w%ell-or-
ordered home, and the who goes
forth from a home that is a well of
bitterness and unrest, and strife,
there is not only the difference be-
tween happiness and misery, but be-
tween success and failure.
Nor is the reason for this hard to
find. We all have Just a certain
amount of strength and vitality and
nervous force, and if We consume
this in fighting home conditions We
have not got it to give TO our work,
and the work suffers in consequence.
At its best modern life is heart
breakingly strenuous. Competition
in every line is as fierce as a fight
among ravening wolves. Every man
is forced to work at high pressure,
with every nerve and sinew and
brain cell speeded up to the limit.
The inevitable result is that the end
of the day finds him exhausted in
mind and body. and whether he goes
back to his labor the next day with
fresh energy and hope and courage,
or exhausted and discouraged and
dispairing, depends upon the kind of
a home that he has.
If he goes at night to a home that
is literally a haven of rest; If he is
set down to a good dinner of whole
some and well-prepared food; if he
is petted and coddled. and made
much of until the very memory of
the rebuffs he has received during
the day are wiped out of his memory;
if he IA spend a quiet, restful even
ing over book and pipe. or with the
friends he enjoys; if the face of his
wife across the hearthstone from him
is turned always TO him with a look
of love and understanding and APP
probation; if there are little child
rem who Chamber on his neck; if in a
word, the whole atmosphere of his
home is one of sunshine, and tender
ness and sweetness, it works a daily
miracle for him and renew his
strength and ability every time he
touches it.
Such a man goes back to his work
with a rested body and a clear head,
His mind is not distracted from his
business by domestic worries and
~anxieties. He can give the best that
is in him to his labor without having
to force back into a corner of his
mind the recollection of the last scene
at home. More than that, in his love
for his wife and children, and his de
sire to make his home even more
beautiful. he has the strongest posi-
BILE incentive to work harder, and dc
better work all the time.
Far otherwise is it with the MAJ
who after his hard days labor re-
turns reluctantly home to a place
that is a perpetual battle ground. He
has to summon up his courage to put
his key in the lock, for well he