The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-08
Sims of the Times

n there Is one thing more para
mount in the budget of good inten-
lions for the new year, than another,
4 surely must be to make the home
and freside better and more !nvit-
ink place. We of optimistic mind
uN not allow ourselves to think,
much less say that the world Is not
better than 1t used to ne. Science
and modern invention have placed
us ftr beyond the ken OF our fore
fathers or even people of twenty or
thirty years ago, but there are some
things we must not lose sight of, and
that is TO cling close TO the old
fashioned home. Let the architec-
ture be modern, let the furnishings,
II YOU will, be just the very newest,
but let there be honey feeling
about the living room. the den. the
Railways, the bedrooms. This Is the
thing we must do in order to save
the coming generation. There must
be a home atmosphere.
People live in apartment houses
where the four and five-room
emergency arrangement allows short
order living. You get up in the
morning~in your parlor-livlng room
bedroom---all in one and needs must
change every stick of furiture >be-
fire you can get started to arrange
hkeakfast on a small gas range In a
Kitchen not much larger than the
range and later eat N. a room not
much larger. Such abiding places
for people are not much to offer In
the way OF home. Simply a place
in which to sleep and prepare a
short meal. IL you want anything
on n larger scope, you go to the
restaurants, for instance. one cannot
cook large sized turkey in the
oven of the usual apartment house
range. other living conditions are
much the same. You find yourself
Just naturally looking elsewhere for
pleasures than In the home, for en-
tertalnment of your friends else
where than In the home and for that
expansion OF oneself in all other
ways than in the home.
This cannot be 1. you choose to
live 10 enjoy the delights of life as
did our forefathers. Most everyone
remembers the cosy fireside with
mother and father. The picture
needs no embellishment, for all will
remember. Let the weather be what
Il might be outside, the familiar
habllments Of the home and fire
side with the faces of the beloved
parents nearby, were all In all suf-
ficient to pacify the mind and heart
and there alone, was found true
happiness. The younger folk grew
10 love this family fireside circle
where they could bring their prob
lens and discount them with the
discussion here. one with the other
drawing from maternal and paternal
heart interest," the decisions in these
problems which IL accepted, meant
much towards moulding the upper
trend OF life's journey for the chill
dren. All roads turned towards
home, and when home was reached
the acme OF all things desired, was
found therein. That seems to be
the sum and substance of 1t all and
this Is the thing we should hold to
now in this age when there is SO
much TO draw our interests from
the place we call home. Let 1t be
three by four apartment with
emergency features. let US GROVE
into this small space all the love VIZ
can. Let us make 1t such haver
of llveliness for ourselves and the
younger folk there that what care
we for the outside world.
Mrs. Harding has set the prece'
Aoent In renewing ancient history b!
~'having open portals at the Whit,
House on New Years day, and goe
to show that from the seats OF th'
mighty we hear the call of hom'
sweet home. The wife OF the presi
dent calls your attention TO tn,
home there which is your home too
II We are interested In that hom,
and in the home places OF those with
whom we associate, how mucl
greater should be our interest in tn
place we live in, no matter hov
r humble 1t may be.
Telling about Mrs. Harding
cordiality a versatile writer solilo
quizes.
Il want you ladies' to wande
about freely and enjoy this beauti
ful White House as much as I do.