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Show ESSENTIAL TO MAKE CHOICE Excellent Advice Which Young Mother Will Do Well to Give Deep Consideration. Take the case of any young mother who has two or more children, no nurse and no maid. Life feels like a fight. There are certain things in that mother's life that have to be slighted. It mustn't be her children. It mustn't be her husband. And it mustn't be her charm. What then? Her house; her social duties. Put away all the knickknacks. You can have more elaborate beauty when your children chil-dren are older. Have simplicity now. Have your house bare as possible and get your beauty in harmonious colors. Have one room where the children's toys can be dumped, and then have enough control not to think about the disorder of that room. Back of all the clutteredness in this world there is a law of order. Back of the messiness of that room Is a bigger law of order than the mere orderliness of a room It is the orderliness of a mind that has decided to keep its charm, its beauty, Its strength, so that there will be a personality as the mother of that family Instead of just a driven, patient, pa-tient, sweet woman. Take the dining room, if you have to, and have a jolly kitchen and eat there or in the living room. If you've got a spare bedroom, take that. Don't be an Immaculate housekeeper be an irresistible human. From the Delineator. |