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Show IDEAL HOMES ' I BY LUCILLE DAUDET. fH HEN you built TOUr ncw houao BjLjB wItn all the up-to-dato lm- 4 Ffi( provernents and fitted it with IH fine furniture and costly rugn IH and such, you fancied you had built a homo but you hadn't When as a bride you fussed over your trousseau IH and sat up late embroidering dollies. towels and napkins, when you picked out your dishes and received your wedding present silver, you thought jH thesp things mado home. They didn't, IH they never do. If they d!d. then what . it tho fine house burned down and the lovely bride things were stolen? Whcro jH would bo tho homo? IH Even In a mansion amid splendid IH fittings that make hor the envy of oth- IH ers, with a husband to be proud of, a i woman will never find home unless I she has first the sense of home In her jf own sowl. And if she has any vision ' jf she will sec that homo never consists jH alone of things. H On the other hand, a woman's abode IH may be one bare room with only a ta- H blc and chairs, yet with these few H poor things sho may really make 'H home. And even if theso fade from lf her she may still havo home, because ' she has realized the true meaning of home and established hers according- ly, and best of all because she and an- . Il othor have found homo In each other. 1 II 1 No matter how earthly thlng3 fall I away from these two, no matter if they II are left penniless, if tho home each I I H has built within himself and has found I (H in the other Is still unvlolated, he and I I she together, without a singlirpna- J j torlal possession, will still havo a II home. It Is in this better sense, not I I Ijl merely in the usual meaning, that the I I 1 Nl world looks to woman as home maker I I IIH and homn keeper. IH So when a woman creates ?. homo IH for the man sho loves she must first H have established the meaning of tho H word in her own mind, her own soul. jH In the invisible structure sho thus . H builds the woman welcomes her mate.. IH she gives him kindly judgment and H knows his faults are not himself. With her the man Is at ease and can bo his H best self. In her presence and In all his thoughts of her, he is "at home." Around this higher Idea of home. H which is the spiritual idea, is sure to grow tho material manifestation of H house and human comfort. But alas I j IH for her and for him who look to the Hj external alone. They never look above ! , ;thlngs which fade, die and burn up. IH which make unhappiness. quarrels and jH bitterness. Material things are not the reality. Material things alone do not mako home. jH |