Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1913 — HOME NEEDS SUNLIGHT [ARTICLE]

HOME NEEDS SUNLIGHT

DETAIL TOO OFTEN NEGLECTED* BY THE MEN OF THE HOUSE- ■ Living Rooms In Which the Women Spend Almost the Whole of Thslr Time Should Be Made as Pretty as Possible. ■ ■ ■ ■■ The wife is the mainstay of. the; entire family, but too often she is painfully neglected,and her natural* yearning for comfort and beauty in, her home life is never satisfied. All our troubles are unloaded upon mother and her hands are always strong* enough to sustain us and her heart big enough to takejn all our sorrows. The very least we can do is to let the sunlight of the sky Into her home, and the light of our love into her* heart. Too many of our homes In the country lack the sunlight—not the sunlight from the sky, perhaps, but' the sunlight of comfort and beauty. We put too much money into the barns, live stock and shiny red ma-> chinery and not enough in the home,, where mother and the girls must live, and provide for the wants of the entire family. The men and boys are out-of-doors all the time in the summer, except when eating and sleeping, and during, the evenings in winter, and may not! feet the absence of pictures and carpets and hangings and the little decorations that go to make a home restful and satisfying as much as do the. women-folks. Appreciation of these things is almost certainly a matter of education even in men and boys. If they are brought up in a home whole walls are bare of pictures, whose floors are uncovered and where* books and magazines and newspapers are unknown, they may in time become resigned in a way to its discomforts, knowing no better. But the lack of comfort and beauty in a home* is a distinct loss in the softening and purifying influence upon character.— Laura J. Van Benthuysen.