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Show HOME IDEA A COMPLEX ONE Writer In Harper's Describes It as He Insists That a Feminist Sees It. , Tho home Idea Is complex; It cm- braces privacy, possession; It ImpllesI u place where one ciin retreat, be muster, be powerful in u small sphere, take oft one's boots, be sulky or pleas-nut, pleas-nut, us one likes, W. L. George writes, In Harper's Magazine. It Involves, above all, n place where one does not hear tho neighbor's piano, or the neighbor's baby, or, with luck, tho neighbor's cat; but where, on the other oth-er hand, one's own piano, one's own baby und one's own cat are raised to, a high and personal pitch of Importance. Import-ance. It Involves everything that Is Individual In-dividual one's own stationery block, one's monogram upon tho plate. IC tho S. I C. A. did not Intervene, I think one might often see In the front, garden a cat branded with a hot Iron : "Thomas Jones. His cat." It Is tho rnllylng point of domestic virtue, tho origin of domestic tyranny. It is the place where public opinion cannot see you and where, therefore, you may behave be-have bady. Most wife-beaters live In houses ; 'In flats they would be afraid of the opinion of the hull porter. The home spirit has hated theaters, concerts, dnnces, lectures, every form of amusement; and, ns It has to bear them, likes to refer to them archly as debauches, or going on the razzle-dazzle, razzle-dazzle, or tho ran-dan, according to period. It has powerfully allied Itself with the pulpit and, In Impious circles, with fancy work and crochet; It has enlisted a considerable portion of tho Iloyul academy to depict It in vnrl-ous vnrl-ous scenes for which the recipe Is: One tired mnn with a sunny smile returning re-turning to his home; one delighted wife; suitable number of ebullient children nnd, Inevltnbly, a dog. Tim dog varies. In England they generally general-ly put In n terrier, In war time a bulldog bull-dog f in Germnny It may be a dachshund, dachs-hund, and In other countries It is nn-other nn-other kind of dog, but it is nlwaya the same Idea. Keeping Baby Quiet. One mother used a clever device to keep her ever-restless youngster from crawling away all the time. She got a. large soft gray blanket and cut out gay designs from tlio nursery books, which she sewed on the blanket. Tho pictures were made of linen, from one of those linen children's hooks sold in nil the shops. The bright pictures attracted at-tracted the child's attention, and he would sit for hours looking nt them and picking at them. A baby fence around the rug completed the outfit. |