OCR Text |
Show dooryard and stops to the house are the criterion by which travelers judge the tidiness of his house. If not neat himself, ho should desire de-sire to have his wife esteemed so. In this age of improvments too many of us overlook the conveniences conven-iences in and around our dwelling. , Before the age of buggies, every door-yard w adorned with a spa-cious spa-cious horseblock, and the ieVing-house ieVing-house with throe ar four, and how much it adds to ine ease and comfort com-fort of the aged, the feeble and the ladies, to have a good platform to step over the wheels into the buggy, rather than go up the wheels. If we would be respected in the world we must respect ourselves, and if we would have our children respected we must see to their early training, see that they are trained to early habits of industry and sobriety. But says one, Mr. D. is so particular that you can never please him. Well if we had more of these orderly people we should not see so many yards and lanes strewed with wagons, buggies, horserakes, plows, harrows and all the' tools used on the farm, out under the summer sun and dews for months. Surely this man in making up his reckoning does not watch his compass very closely, or he would know to what port he was drifting. Another says that Mrs. W. is so particularly exact that it is hardly safe for one to step on her carpet. I'll warrant you she has a foot-scraper foot-scraper at the ptepstone of her house, and most likely a foot-mat inside, and means to have them I used by those who approach her dwelling. That is a good place to live; that woman has dry wood to cook her breakfast, and the meals come on to the table in good time and in good order. Study to make home pleasent and attractive to the children; give them useful reading; see that they are regulated at school and encourage them with studies at homo; and if I wanted to le poor, and to have children at ignorant as the heathen, I would not take more than one newspaper, and to make sure work I would not take any. Some of these particular housewives house-wives lived in the days of King Lemuel, as we find their record in the 31st chapter of Proverbs, for their children rose up and called them blessed. Here we have a specimen of a well-regulated, a well-disciplined household; we see how they secured a competency for this life, a quiet and peaceful home, and laid a sure foundation for the life to come. A. W. A Ji. TTaToll . Ordered. ZIomostoadL, Passig along . our thoroughfare sometime since I saw a very fine house, evidently built and occupied some years, and nothing convenient outside; no out buildings, no shade trees planted, no posts for a clothes line. The only visible convenience for drying clothes was a rail fence, and that was well strung with the wearing apparel of the family. What a place for grown up girls to dry their fine clothes! Surely that man does not realize that the A |