Cheerful Homes

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 10, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 44.

A CHEERFUL, happy home is the greatest safeguard against temptations for the young. Parents should spare no pains to make home a cheerful spot. There should be pictures to adorn the walls, flowers to cultivate the finer susceptibilities, the choicest and most entertaining of books, and instructive newspapers and periodicals. These things, no doubt, cost money, but not a tithe the amount that one of the lesser vices even will cost —vices which are to be acquired away from home, but so seldom there. Then there should be social pleasures—a gathering of young and old around the hearthstone, a warm welcome of the neighbor who drops in to pass a pleasant hour. There should be music and reading. The tastes of all should be consulted, until each member of the family looks forward to the hour of reunion around that hearth as the brightest one in twenty-four. Wherever there is found a pleasant, cheerful, neat, attractive, inexpensive home, there you may be sure to find the abode of the domestic virtues; there will be no dissipated husbands, no discontented or discouraged wives, no “fast” sons or frivolous daughters.—The Southern Cross.