Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — Make Hone Cheerful. [ARTICLE]

Make Hone Cheerful.

fault. When you can make home the happiest spot on earth for husband and children, we will.have little cause for heartWtieu I hear qwife ab<mt tasfeteii upon it, I always desire to te see her at supper-time. I have aa idea that she site a* the evening meal in a dirty calico, with slippers down at the bed, clothes-pin pinning her drees at the collar, no signs of ribbon or bow, and her hair as tzsmngon tire tout tmsemUt of a political primary. I fancy that her fern wears an mr so icy that her husband catches cold every time be looks at her. A sloneby, untidy, frowning wife cannot compote with a dub or a billiard room to save her life. If she wants her better-half (in this instance) to stay at homo, lot her wear the old smile, neat dresses and testy coiffure she wore when be was courting her. Let the room be dean and the fire brightly training. Let her commence an honest endeavor to make home a brighter, sunnier spot than the club tad the saloon, and she’ll soon get over her heartaches. If a boy is wanted to grow up a lover yf home, home must be made worth the oving. Don’t crowd him down; don't keep telling him that be seen, not heard; don’t make him sit on a certain place until he is on the verge of paralysis, and don’t make him rend “Baxter’s Saints’ Rest,” when Jules Verne’s and J. 8. C. Abbott’s books are what he wants. Don’t refuse him a cookie or aa apple, either, just before bed-time, telling him it» unhealthy. If the stomach does not want fruit it will not ask for it, and the physician who says otherwise should not doctor a sick pump or a deceased ironing-board for me. And further, don’t send your boy to bed at halfpast seven o’clock. I’ve known boys raised as above, and nine out of ten grew up rascals, and the tenth was an idiot Such boys run off the first chance they get and try to becoine circus clowns and Indian fighters. Ido not blame them, either.