Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1913 — Ideal Home Life. [ARTICLE]

Ideal Home Life.

There are two of life’s best sen vants that are much unused In our modern life. The first is the kindly simplicities of frequent familiar social intercourse, and the other, the confident trust that embraces everyone concerned in our home Tife; but until we improve in both t£ese things the Christmas spirit will mourn over its imperfect work. We think we cannot ask our friends to call and see us unless we tire ourselves to death preparing a dinner or a tea for them, and our act and thought is an unintended reflection upon the quality of the friendship we profess. The personal attraction ought to outweigh the pleasures of the table, but the fashion makes the visits both infrequent hnd formal. The children need more than anything else a home atmosphere where love shall so dominate that reserves shall be impossible, for when love shares its posses' sions it takes wise care that there shall be no evil to alloy its priceless worth. —Mother’s Magazine.