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Show Make Home Life Attractive. One 01 the dangers that threaten home life is monotony. We are an I active people, but our activities have a 1 tendency to divert us from our home ! life. Too many homes have no common com-mon center of interest. The several members of the family have as many outside interests as there are persons in it; and all too frequently the work, or play .of the one member is not treated by the other members of the family with the courtesy that should be extended, if only because such an attitude atti-tude would be polite. We know that outside intimacies develop, not because the members of the family prefer to form outside intimacies, but because the human heart craves sympathy, and must have it, and it is not always to be found within the shelter that we call home. The effort to make the family life interesting in-teresting is a common duty imposed on each member of the family. The pleasures, pleas-ures, the friends, the interests of one should receive the polite attention of all. To treat the subject that interests another member of the family as if it were not worthy the intelligent consideration consid-eration of intelligent people is, to say the least, not polite; to show a patronizing patron-izing or a tolerant interest is even less polite. A stranger would receive more courteous treatment. And yet what is love worth if it is never to express itself? it-self? We should make a positive effort to know Intelligently the subject that interests one to whom we are bound by ties of love and blood. It is this social apathy and indifference indiffer-ence that makes the family life monotonous monot-onous .We are surprised at ourselves when we stop to measure the difference in our manner at home and in society, yet where is our love? We know it is in the home circle, and we know that if we contribute a fraction of the mental activity, gave out a ray of the brilliancy bril-liancy at home that please the i whom we meet in society, we should give a charm to the home life that ft cannot possess without our conrtibu-tion. conrtibu-tion. We should not "love Caesar less, but Rome more." The plaudits of the crowd are louder than the silent homage hom-age of love. This silence is a mistake and a little clapping of hands at home might kindle that which moves the outside out-side world. Is there a sadder thing in life than a family driftirfg apart? The same roof shelters them at night; they gather about the same table; family occasions may find each member present, somewhat some-what bored, somewhat anxious to hasten away to other interests, still ail with love enough to develop an anxious feeling in case of sickness, and tears at death; but oceans could not separate families as completely as the lack of interest, the lack of loving study so necessary to helpful, intelligent, loving, inspiring family life. |