Show make your home comfortable devote yourself to it as a hobby by ARNOLD BENNETT in womans comans nome home companion and now lastly some will say cay to nie me why all this preoccupation with material things if the making of a perfect home homa is to bo be our hobby must we not soar above tho the material plane piano are not behavior tact mutual comprehension loving kindness I 1 the proper utilization of leisure hours are not these things necessary to tho ilia perfecting of the home ought we not as aa truo true lobbyists hobbyists interest in in the sentimental e ide eide x tho the answer is in the affirmative every time but it if you go further and say what is an easy chair chair compared with a kind word then I 1 affirm that the easy chair counts it is easier to say a kind word from an ca easy sy chair than f from rom an uneuy chair it IS ia moro more difficult to quarrel in a warm room than in a cold in a ventilated room than in an unventilated in a beautiful room than in an ugly at a good meal than at a bad A homo home like a human being has bas a body as well as a soul and tho the soul that despises the body is silly who can be virtuous with a boilon his hia neck who can bo be happy with chilblains on hi hia s toes make your home beautiful and comfortable devote yourself to it as a hobby and giva it a fair chance to express yourself and your belief in the tha irtira of tact understanding and kindness tho the moral js JB I 1 clear |