Show V SHOULD BEGIN AT HOME i tin rills s is is pleasant exclaimed the young hus 41 t and nd taking his seat cosily in the rocking chair J ks s tile the things were removed the fire glowing bingin in ia he grate revealed a pretty neatly furnished siti jr ling ing room with all the appliances of comfort y 11 the fhe fatiguing business of the day was over and il t me bia sat enjoying what lie he had all day been antici I 1 6 j 1 abing the delights of his own fireside his pret I 1 6 f ly wife ae esther took her work and sat down by I 1 i 1 1 the table L it is pleasant to have a home of ones own f 1 ho again said taking a satisfactory survey of his I 1 i J attle qu quarters artem the cold rain beat against the I 1 vin windows dows and he thought he felt really grateful i i for or all his present comforts now if we only had bad a piano exclaimed the wife I 1 1 give me the music of your own sweet voice F before all the pianos in creation he declared V complimentary besides a certain secret disappointment a i that his hi cifes thankfulness did not happily chime with his hie owa I 1 well ell but bat we want one for our friends said besther kEs 4 esther ther t let our friends come to see us and not to hear I 1 I 1 a plano piano exclaimed the husband but george every body has a piano nowa now a J days we dont go anywhere without seeing a 7 V piano pres isted the wife and yet I 1 dont know what we want one for I 1 you will have no time to play on one and I 1 dont want to hear it I 1 I 1 why they are so fashionable I 1 think our room I 1 looks nearly naked without one 11 1 I think it looks just rights right 1 I think it looks very naked we want a piano shockingly persisted esther emphatically I 1 the husband rocked violently I 1 your lamp smokes my m y dear said he after a loay lany pause when are you going to got get an astral lamp I 1 have told you a dozen times how much we needed I 1 one said esther pettishly i those are very pretty lamps I 1 never can see by an astral lamps lamp said her husband those lamps are the prettiest of the kind I 1 lever ever saw they were bought in boston I 1 but george I 1 do not think our room is complete without an astral lam lamp a said d esther sharply they are so BO fashionable I 1 why the morgans and tho the millers and many I 1 might mention all have them im sure we ought to we ought to if we take pattern by other peoples expenses and I 1 dont we see any reason in that we want to live as well sa as others said esther we want to live within our means esther exclaimed george 1 I am sure we can afford it as well as the morgans and millers and thorns we do not wish to appear mean georges cheek crimsoned crim mesa mean I 1 am not mean he cried angrily i then we do not wish to appear sop so said the i wife to complete this room and make it look like other peoples we want a piano and an astral lamp i we want we want muttered the husband I 1 ft theres heres no satisfying a womans comans wants do what I 1 you may and he be abruptly left the room how many husbands are in a similar dilema how many houses and husbands are rendered dered uncomfortable by the constant dissatisfaction of a wife with th tha 3 present comforts and present provisions how many bright prospects for busi non BOM have ended in bankruptcy and ruin in order to satisfy this thia secret hankering after fashionable necessaries could the real cause of many failures be known it would be found to result from useless expenditure at home expenses to answer the demand of fashion and what will people think my wife has haa made my fortune said a gentleman of great possessions by her thrift prudence and when I 1 was just beginning and mine has lost my fortune said his companion n by useless extravagance and repining when I 1 was doing well what a world does this open to the influence I 1 which a wife possesses over the future prosperity of her family let the wife know her influence and try to use it wisely and well I 1 be satisfied to commence on a small scale it is too common for young housekeepers to begin where their mothers ended bu buy all that is feces oar ary t to 0 w work 0 rai skillfully aut with th z adorn orn your house wil with all that will render it comfortable do not look at richer homes and covet their costly furniture if secret dissatisfaction is ready to spring up op go a stop step further and visit the homes of the suffering poor behold dark cheerless apartments insufficient clothing and absence of all the corn com forts and refinements of social life and then return to your own with a joyful spirit you will then be prepared to meet your husband with a grateful heart and be ready to appreciate appreciate the toil and self denial which he has en endured lured in the business world to surround you with the delights of borne bome and you will be ready to cooperate co operate cheerfully with him in so arranging your expenses that his mind will not be constantly harrasser harr assed with fehm fear lest his family expenditures may encroach upon bublic public payments be independent a young house housekeeper er never needed greater moral courage than deloes she does now to resist the ar arrogance ir 0 ce of fashion do not let the As and Bs MEU decide what you roust must have neither let them hold the strings of your purse you know best what you can and ought to afford then decide with a strict integrity according to your means let not the is ensure or the approval of the world ever tempt you to buy bay what you hardly think you can afford it matters but little what people thinks think provided you or are true to yourself and family |