Year: 1875

Few are strong in their own strength alone. We all need assistance and encourage ment to keep in the right path. And where, if not in our homes, must we look for this? There we expect sympathy in our sorrow, help in our time of need, kind, gentle words when we do wrong, and glad ones when our hearts are filed with joy. There the moral as we'll as the physical at mosphere must be pure and in vigorating-the influences so at tractive that all are contended and happy.

 If in our home less thought were given to plain display and more to making them truly beau tiful, many who are now plunged in the deepest depths of sin would be safe within ir circle. Our ears would not be so frequently shocked by tales of crime; for how often, on learning the histo- " of some guilty one have we found that their homes were un- happy. Thus from them they were easily tempted into scenes which, in comparison with those of home, seemed full of beauty, but which, alas. general ly end in ruin.

 Wealth is not essential in ma king our homes lovely. It is true riches can procure many things which are beyond the reach of the poor; their homes can be made stately and grand; but money can not purchase happy hearts and smiling faces, and those are nee essary elements in a pleasant home. If you have but one room mako that a bower of neatness and order. A few books on the table, a picture on the wall, a flower in the window. These, with a glimpse of sunshine, a bright face and cheerful smile, make a picture which cause the most discontented to exclaim: "There is no place like home"

 Wives and mothers, make your homes a place of beauty, haven of peace, and rest to the husband returning weary and perhaps dis heartened from his days labor. Let no complaint of your own cares greet his ears, offer him bright smiles, gentle words, and loving acts. Let him associate everything that is pure and good with your name; forge round him such a chain of love as will draw him from every other influence to home and you. And your children, give them all the inno- cent amusement you can. Let them think their happiest mo- ments are spent under the roof tree. Teach them to love and confide in you. Thus you will be able to guide them over the shoals of temptation, into the clear stream of an upright life, down which, after your care is withdrawn, they may glide safely to the Golden Gate

 Husbands and fathers, do not let your presence cast a gloom over the household; do not come with frowns or words of reproof; make your little ones love you, teach them to dread your absence and long for your return. When their glad voices ring out in tones of welcome do not hush them nor their joyous laughter, the over flowing of happy hearts, but give them also kind and merry greet ing. Enter their sports, live oyer your childhood's days with them. It is not beneath your dignity to give them happiness, and re membering how coldness chilled your own heart in youth, give them plenty of warm generous sympathy. And through all guard and keep them from evil, for it is young the seed is sown, which in time brings forth good or bad fruit.

 Let all members of the family do their part toward making their home happy. Then as the years roll by, out of the fullness of their hearts each may say, My home is to me the most beautiful on earth"

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