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HOME IE BY ELLA ELL WHEELER LER WILCOX Hundreds of or poor restless women who ho are wa wasting their lIv lives s In striving after some Imagined Inell pleasure beyond their thelt reach might be making themselves es and others happy would the they turn their attention to the creating of ot a home It may map be said salt In reply that an attractive home homo In these days ays necessitates an outlay of ot monc money and ln that only those who havo have large incomes can enjoy such mch a c. spot But Dut this is not the tho fact tact A real desire for tor such guch a u. home a willingness to work wont for it It a n. posS ha ss if-a if n a l very eo small sinai outlay of ot mone money will create creato the tho home of ot beauty Ten cents will purchase an any ono one of ot a half dozen magazines containing practical hints to women women wo- wo wo 0 men possessed possesse o of any taste regarding the furnish furnishing lag ing of simple rooms I How Hoti much better spent are the ten cents and the hour devoted de' t to reading and studying up on the subject of or homo home 9 decorations than the hour passed ln In n r restless s' s ss' ss discontent iti or l iIi the tho peru perusal l of or exciting fiction or vicious tales of or scandal in tho the dally daIly news One of the time first Indications of refinement and culture Is the appreciation of an attractive e home It Is a Do noticeable tact fact that savages and ana all primitive e tribes of or people neglect an and Ignore the home borne while decorating tho the body American an Indians lived 11 in filth filthy hovels els while painting their faces and apparelling their bodies with gaudy decorations decoration I The v. v wage earning and prosperous pros African all too often orten delights In expensive e clothes but Is content content con con- I tent to live In a dingy hut hutIn In America and Jamaica naica this indifference of or tho the colored people to a well-kept well an and attractive home is onie of or tho the most discouraging features s of or the therace therace therace race problem Not until the c emancipated colored colore woman develops a c. taste for tor good housekeeping neat rooms an and wholesome cool cooking can the time race be said to progress toward real tree freedom om Hundreds of or white women however are aro to be found who have havo hind had all tho time advantages all in race and e education yet ct who refer prefer to decorate their backs rather than to tUt furnish their homes 8 Yet ld always it indicates n l tes an undeveloped d nature a relic of or the savage age vage There is 13 no slavery more terrible than thap slavery cr to dirt nn and disorder The influence of or a clean or orderly erly an and attractive o home homo on men and children ren is incalculable A pretty and orderly home Is 15 a step toward morality and religion One often otten hears women In miserable disorderly an and kept Ill homes talking of or Heaven But nut what are arc this tho characteristics of or Heaven t to to be Can one Imagine a topsy Heaven en Would not tho thio A very cry first first firt rule of Heaven be or order er And beauty and amid cleanliness would woul be indispensable If It we we did dId dIdn n not t fin find these things s In Heaven I 1 Iam Iam am sure we would complain that we ve ha had been led lell 1 there thero b by false promises E cf Every home should be a small Heaven It should be Le made a spot toward to which the time tired and hungry toiler turns lurns with sweet anticipations of ot rest comfort and and satisfied longings It should ghoul appeal to th the e eye e an Sand and to the heart henrt an rind and soul Does your YOUl home lionie so appeal dear la lady Are rc your our windows s softly draped clean curtaIns curtains curtale cur cur- tale cn even If It the they are are only of or the tho most Inep inexpensive t stuffs Is your OUt table neat neal an and your our couch comfortable au and clean a alid i is is there a rug rug- or 01 two on the well- well kept floor ant and amid a soft sort paper sha shade e over oyer time the glare of ot the lamp amp And Is your be bed neat and is there a clean towel by the the wash bowl Does the home invite or repel the weary wean traveler traveler trav tray eler Whatever els else In life lIfo you ou cannot do o. o you CAN CA m. m nike mako lo such a hon home e if Jf you ou will Perhaps you will t say aj that you ou are so unhappy because of the indifferent husband who Is never at home that you ou have no heart to keep things timings up But that Is no excuse It Is much more romantic romantic roman roman- tic to be miserable in attractive c surroundings than thanIn In hi squalor and amid dirt Make rake yourself a charming hIttle bower au and then sit down own and be ue miserable It If you OU like P Perhaps you ou vill m be so entertained by your jour work worl In beautifying your house that you OU will forget forget forget for for- get about being miserable And nl perhaps your husband husban will 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