The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-06
PASTOR GIVES TIPS
FOR A HAPPY HOME
n axe the Nest Comfortable,
But Not Too Artistic, He
Tells Indiana Women.

.ICHMOND, Ind, July 6.-Brides
o attended the First Baptist Church
, ard a fearless minister tell them in
C. sp sentences the reason for happy
q d unhappy homes. The Rev. w. o.
{ ovall was continuing his series of
r. mons on The Home" This or
az cit with THE Wife" Here are a
Few of his assertions, scriptural and
O. herwise:
1t is better to dwell in the wilder
mss than with a contentious and an
g.v woman"
The mother who allows her daughter
q read and visit. oblivious of house.
bold demands. is doing the girl. her
future husband. and society an ire
parable injury
Girls, the nest is the thing Misery
viii come IL you can't keep house"
How long have you worn that old
} mono? Your husband likes to see you
tidy about the house."
We denounce the man who betrays a
woman. but what shall We say of the
woman who betrays herself by refusing
Mr.. Stovall said that a wife should be
three things: The homemaker. the
Irmpanion, and the mother.
If were a woman / think would
ny to take an interest in my house as
8 home. not as a place to exercise my
vanity or display my pride, but as a
Place where It is good to. be, he sald.
r. would give more attention to making
H. atmosphere homelike than In max
Ing its appearance artistic.
Real Home Tragedy.
Imagine a man coming home from
/ MS DAVIS labor to provide for the house
and finding it untidy. dinner dishes still
waiting to be washed. supper grudg-
,9gIy scraped together. mother sitting
/. reading q novel and weeping over
the tragedies of fictitious love affairs
md daughter banging on the piano.
y yerybody Works But Father Here
8 "A real tragedy Here is sometnlns
y orse than fictitious love-it Is love
st1afi said the other extreme was
erniceness. when home exists foT
the furniture. ia ...bot
- have fitted up a corner OF tne
= oodshed. where they could be coInIoI - y
&c without fear of breaking RUE Oh
me sr ho factful housewife will give
,-oueh attention to the house 10 ha N
II attractive, but not stiff; coIhIo[ az
Igt not disorderly. The home is Inc
v7ife's opportunity. o. being
-the wife who. while she was IN,
oourted. used to look s. h en,y when She
Is expecting company, or the mon r.
~ NJ has the '.kimono habit arent the
Ind that make the best compahIpphits !,
] q said Slovenly and neglecSluL PC
crntribute to our domestic unnappineS0'
he said.
Man Graves sympathy.
ct, a woman is to be a real compan-
o., she will show a sympathetic inter
.z4 sn the affairs of her husband a
nan is tust a man. He often Graves
.vmpathy even II he is supposed to Dc
.lr and strong do not mean ina
--obing kind Of interest in MS aIIaLs
baf rs. always trying to uncover some
,hSrr ,bst can be used to show MIN
CIV big a fool he has been az soIne.
.na But that kind of interest tnaI
puroyes of his good intentions, INA
lares in his mistakes ana Ihal
Mr.. stovan paid his respects to paint.
A woman viii mourn the departurs
IF her youthful beauty" he SAID. ano
SsInly resort to many devices 10 re-
Ftore It or keep up an araIlcia h az
al beauty must fade, but that smile
"a that sweet cheerfulness tnat per
sps had most to do with maklhg Ihe
rver OF him. need not fail Nothins
re sweeter than to see the emerging
. those clever little tricks which re-
~ nd him Of his sweetheart
|, Mr.. StovaIl said the woman who en-
RS into wedlock with the dehoera ~,
,Ttention of declining the RESPONSE tl-
-tes 81 motherhood is untrue to her
elf. her husband. and humanity, and
ir sinner against the natural and
rftten laws Of Cod" And he contln-
ID, Il know that II br ings labor sac
d. care and heartache, but so does
svervthing that moves this old worio
onward. Mother. your life is complete.
and the world must bring to you It's
greatest honors and rs best gifts