Intermountain Catholic | 1900-01-27 | Page 7 | The Home Life

I THE: HOME LIFE. The truth is that every' adult human being needs space and privacy, two requirements almost invariably ignored ig-nored in the family. By space is meant not material dimensions, such as room space, but the more subtle space of atmosphere at-mosphere for individual development. Family jarrings result, largely, from, too persistent propinquity and from differences dif-ferences in temperament. The large majority of people have little or no imagination and they are incapable of making allowance for the idiosyncrasies idiosyncra-sies of others, the result being that they allow themselves to be irritated by the little faults, and great ones as well, which are exhibited in daily intercourse. inter-course. Men usually escaoe this irritation, irri-tation, as their interests and activities he for so much of the time outside of the home; and those women, also, who are engaged in professional, industrial commercial or philanthropic work are little affected by those inevitable minor discords that result from the communication communi-cation of family life. It is a fairly safe average rule that the larger the outlook, the more diversified di-versified the interests apart from home life, the happier and more wholesome will the life be.