The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-06-29

A nagging wife ruins many homes
and drives husbands to the clubs.
Few women try to look as neat and
tidy in the home as when the husband
was counting them.
The woman who enters into matri-
mony with the intention of avoiding
the responsibility of motherhood is un-
true to herself.
These are some of the salient points
which Rev. w. o. Stovall made in his
sermon on the Wife" at the First
Baptist church last night. This was
the third of series of four sermons
on marriage and the home.
Rev. Mr.. Stovalls sermon follows
In early description of the relation
of the husband and the wife we find
them equally dependent the one upon
the other. Each one is the compile
ment of the other. There is no place
in creation for the man without the
woman and no place for the woman
without the man.
The Lord Jesus claimed not to add
anything new to the teachings con-
corning the relation of husband and
wife. The scripture that the Lord re-
ferred to was this second chapter of
Genesis. 1t may appear remarkable to
some who think Genesis behind the
times and out of date on modern ques-
tions, but this chapter gives to the
wife all that the most advanced civil
cation ever has given her. Here are
the three outstanding things of wife
hood, which is really the first thing in
wOmanhood. She is the home maker
the helpmeet: mans companion
that man may not be alone: the
mother-''they shall be one flesh.
Here we have the position of the wife
domestically socially and physically
As the Homemaker.
The woman will fail as a helpmeet
if she fails in the home. This is her
province. She has a place in other
departments of life, and circumstances
may sometimes force her into other
things, but this comes first and here
she is supreme, and here also are OBJ
legations. 1t is not fair that man
should use up the resources of his
mind and body providing for the sup.
port of a home and then find nothing
honey about it because his wife neg.
lects her part to play the lady or to
indulge in those things more agree,
able to her disposition.
If | were a woman | think | would
try to take an interest in my home
as home-not as a place to exercise
my vanity or display my pride, but as
a place where it is good to be.
would give more attention to making
it's atmosphere homelike than to make
it's appearance artistic.
There are two extremes to be avoid
ed in the care of the home that is to
be a real home The one is that neg
lect that leaves it so unattractive that
it has no charms about it. The abomi
nation of the home is the lazy wife
The mother who allows her daughter
to read and visit utterly oblivious OF
any household demands is doing the
girl her future husband and family
and society, an irreparable injury.
Pictures Untidy Home.
Imagine a man coming home from
his days labor to provide for the
house. and finding it untidy. dinner
dishes still waiting to be washed, sup
per grudgingly scraped together
mother sitting by reading a novel and
weeping over the tragedies of ficti
tiOuS love affairs, and daughter bang
ing out on the piano. Here is a real
tragedy, Here is something worse
than fictitious love-it is love sand
bagged.
The other extreme is an over-nice
ness that makes it seem that the home
exists for the sake of the furniture