The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-05-01
HOUSE OR HOME

do the outside activities of the
modern home compel her to neglect
her home so that it suffers?" This
question was put squarely to the
Chief of the greatest home research
bureau in the world.
Quick and assured she gave her
answer, as one who knows whereof
she speaks and can prove it with
long columns of stastics, ooh, not
at all! Quite the contrary, women
are too good housekeepers- better
housekeepers than homekeepers. AS
a rule, the women active outside the
home are the most intellectual wom-
en- who know how to manage well
and have a margin of time. They
estimate values wisely and eliminate
lot of things"
So there is a difference between
housekeeping and housekeeping. The
house is the shell; the home Is the
vial thing. The house is the body;
the home the soul. The house is the
setting; the home the priceless jewel.
The housekeeper type of woman
thinks more about the foot tracks
across her clean floors than the
path the little feet shall tread. When
the house is in order she sends John
ME to a neighbours to play. She
calls his toys and trinkets clutter"
Look at your coat she cries re-
proachfully when he comes running
to her with the first pussy willows
of the season. l doubt if she ever
has long, confidential talks with her
daughter, and she never lets 1.-The
bunch pop corn or mess around"
in her kitchen. And she will wash
supper dishes whether or no.
With the housekeeper, the house
is the ultimate goal and the family
life must adjust itself to it's welfare.
With the homekeeper, housekeeping
must be adapted to the best interests
of the family.
The tendancy of housekeeping is
to drive the family out for they dis
turb the spotlessness of the house.
The homekeeper draws the family in
for she makes home the most at
tractive place to be found. 1t isl
agony to live with the meticulous
1t is sweetness beyond
to come beneath the spell |
Of the homekeeper.
The homekeeper's chairs are COM
ty and placed just right. There is
cool shade, If you pre-
fer-and the evening lamp is near
he pile of magazines and the latest |
books. The photograph is for use,
Is is everything else. The home Is
lot an art exhibit, though it has
beauty and charm. 1t is not a mu-
scum, but a place where live chill
lren frolic and love and develop
II, oofn Thnrn fc thU fhaTa
or each member of the family, and
1t is a place to fee
o as a haven from out the world,
o find loyalty, appreciation, repose,
'elaxation and recreation. 1t is q
llling station for creature comforts
md for spiritual strength. 1t is a
lace to practice, to try out before
small and sympathetic audience
he activities one shall need to per-
orm in the world 1t is a place for
eproof loving guidance and correc-
ion, and all the long train of soul
hings which polish off the corners
nd fill one big with high motive. ,
t is a place for the establishing of
deals. The atmosphere of the home !
etermines largely what it's members
hall be.
The house is a dear place, set
ing for the home. To keep 1t sweet c
nd clean and comfortable is task =
or loving hands. But housekeeping
lit is the most delictable job on :
arth-
A house is built of brick and stone, :
OF stills and posts and piers,
tut home is built of loving deeds
That stand a thousand years.
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Within it's walls may hold,
home of priceless beauty,
Rich in loves eternal gold"