Cultivating Happiness at Home
SOME homes are full of love and sunshine for strangers, and all ugliness and gloom for the ones for whom they exist. To constitute a truly happy home there should be pretty little personal adornments on the part of the wife, who thereby shows a desire to please her husband and to add to the general attractions of her home. A pleasant word on her part, when the overworked man comes home, often eats away the raw edge of some trouble on his mind, and draws out a corresponding desire to be both agreeable and respectful, which characteristics are always accompanied by affection. If cheerfulness and amiability are not cultivated, rudeness, roughness, and impatience will soon be followed by insolence; and when sweet temper gives way to anger and discord, the home circle is no longer attractive, and is almost certain to be shunned.—Sel.