The Holbrook news., 1912-01-26
ROMANCE IN THE HOME
INABILITY TO DETECT TT CAUSE
 OF MANY MISERIEs.
Domestic Duties Never Appear to Be Nero Drudgery When the House wife Goes About Them in the
 Proper Spirit.

The dullness of domestic life is one of the commonest complaints uttered by a certain type of the modern wo- man. She chafes at the daily task, the common round. To her it seems that the four walls of her home par take of the character of prison house and that all the romance, the pleasure, and the interest of life lie outside
 Within she finds only drudgery and sordid conditions. She awakes in the morning with a sigh, contemplating the dreary duties. She seeks her rest at night, bored and weary with the tedium of days domestic toll.
 She envies the woman who works in the wider world, who mixes with men in the mart, who carves for her self a career, and who is free from the endless irritations and annoyances that beset and vex the woman in the home.
 Such thoughts as these increase her discontent. The monotony against which she murmurs grows more griev- ous. She acquires chronic querul- ousness that communicates itself to all WAO SOAAC 0A0CA ACA AAAuSACC. AO husband feels it and flies for comfort to his club. The children are con- scious of 1t and seek solace in other scenes. And the plight of the woman becomes more pitiful. She begins to brood She feels that she lives a wasted life.
 She may become sour, narrow, pes simistic, morbid, and nervous; all and each of which will be quickly reflect ed in her health and appearance, till she becomes the most melancholy in- fluence in an erstwhile happy home.
 Inability to detect the romance of domesticity is more often than not the reasons why the miseries depicted en- ter presently into many married lives that had opened under the most prom ising auspices.
 But what is the romance of domestic life? Wherein does 1t lie? Only those who are unconscious of it will ask the question.
 Is there not, in the first place, TO- nance in the very name of ''family?" Is it not one of the most profoundly interesting culminations of ages of so- cial evolution? A microcosm of the state, it should possess, in little, all the interest of a state. Whether 1t be an autocracy, limited monarchy, or a republic of two, it has foreign relations which require the exercise of the utmost tact. It has or should have an annual budget, which may cause much constefnation in certain quarters of the domestic menage. It is concerned with commerce. The quality and quantity of it's imports, although figuring under the mundane names of bread and meat and grocer les and such like, are of as great i'm portance to 1t as it's foreign trade to the most populace state.
 It has traffic-indirect, it Is true with foreign lands. Even the humble currant that adorns Wednesdays roly poly pudding grew on the sunny slopes of Greece and each lump of sugar dropped into the cup brings with it measure of tropic heat of the south ern sun.
 The increase in the population of the home is, in proportion, as far reaching in it's effects as in the growth or dwindling of it's people to the greatest nation. It sends forth emis- saries to form fresh colonies, and, more often than not, it maintains a defensive force in the shape of a dog to guard it from the invasion of hostile intruders.
 It may seem trivial, absurd, to draw such parallels between the home and the nation. But deep truth under lies such fancies. And were the la bors of housekeeping and the respon- abilities of family life looked at in the light of their true importance, the monotony and tedium with which. to some minds, they are invested would fall from them as the chrysalis husk falls from the gorgeous wings of the butterfly, permitting it to soar into the higher, brighter element for which 1t is fitted.
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