Newark post., 1920-02-04
SUGGESTS DEFINITE
PLANS FOR EVEN
INGS AT HOME
Recent Writer Gives Timely
Advice To Parents On
This Matter


gives the following advice concern
ing evenings spent at home:
&" / IN Home's s Heart!
Warmth | give and light,
IF you but feed me.
| blossom in the Winter night
When most you need me.
This inscription for a fireplace
appears in a volume of poems by
T. A. DAILY, the genial poet and
humorist, whose appreciation of
home marks almost every line he
writes. He delights in glowing
fires, easy chairs, the presence Of
his loved ones-the joys of home.
And surely there are few greater
joys than he depicts!
We are now in the midst of the
season when home pleasures and
joys abound. The long Winter
evenings find the family gathered
in the cosy living-room. The days
tasks are done and parents and
children join in few hours Of
recreation and relaxation. AT no
other time of the year do we appre-
ciate the pleasures of home life to
such a marked extent. In winter
we realize more than ever the
charm of family life.
Long" winter evenings, we say.
But are they really long, too long,
perhaps? They seem long only to
those who do not know how to
spend them. If we make the most
Of them they will pass all too quick
ly.
| There is such an endless variety
Of home entertainment, that there
never need be dull evening for
you and your children. Every
evening can be spent usefully and
proftably. Alter the home work
Of the children is finished, the par
entS should arrange for an hour of
play, in which parents as well as
children should join. If you do
not play with your children you
are missing some Of the happiest
moments that life has to give you.
Play time is the training time Of
the young, so the hours that you
spend with them over the library
table in the evening, or before the
fire engrossed in some indoor game
these are not wasted hours, but
perhaps the most valuable that
4 your children may ever know. ~
Besides the value of your chill
dren you will find that the hours
spent with them are broadening to
yourself in many ways. Grown
, persons as well as children need
their play time, when the cares of
the day are put aside and the mind
is allowed to relax, or else concen-
trates itself in some entirely new
: and interesting problem.
At first you may find that you
: do not like the games your boys
and girls like, but as you throw
yourself into their interests you
! will find that your own interest will
! deyelop.
: But every evening should not be
! spent in play. At least once Oh
: twice a week, when the little tots
, are safely tucked in their beds, the
father should gather the Older
, children around him, and reaC
q from some good book.
: There are many useful things
that mother and the girls can dc
4 in the evening-and what these are
S every mother knows best herself.
t If there is a musical instrument
: in the home it is not difficult tt
spend the evening pleasantly
q Whenever possible, the children
! should be taught to play some in
E strument.. Do not follow the mod
e ern tendency Of playing nothing
but the photograph.
e There are many other ways o.
o spending the evening agreeably
which will deepen the love Of home
as the years go on, and which viii
= also bring cherished recollection
, to the children when once the.
y have gone out into the world, o,
I have established a home of thei,
: own.
y Father and mother both should
: strive to make the home life happy
}. The mother, of course, must con
tribute the great part toward it
e and blessed indeed is the mothe
IS who makes the home the most at
!. tractive place on earth for her hus