HAPPY HOMES by The Southland

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 38.

HAPPY HOMES.

By The Southland

HOME life ought to be the happiest part of living, and yet it seems to me with many people it is the most miserable.

Many men who are pleasant and affable at their places of business, grow cross and irritable as soon as they cross the threshold of their homes and shut the world outside.

Many women who are gay and good humored to all the world beside, are peevish and disagreeable to everybody at home.

Many boys and girls who play merrily and happily with other children and at other places, have never a pleasant word for brother or sister or parents at home. This is exactly the reverse of what it should be.

If you must be cross and peevish and irritable and unpleasant, let it be with the world at large. There, if people find you disagreeable, they can get away from you. If you can be pleasant only a part of the time, let it be

that part which you spend at home, for the members of your family must endure your presence; there is no escape.

Husband, if business is bad and things at the store do not go to please you, shake off the bad humor at the gate and enter your home with a smile.

Wife, if the cook is stupid and everything goes wrong in the kitchen, and you lose your temper and scold and cry, get over it, if possible, before your husband comes home, and meet him with unwrinkled brow and eyes not red with weeping.

Children, make it a rule, as soon as you are old enough to make a rule, never to go home angry or ill tempered, and you will find it easy to keep home happy and beautiful, and to dwell there in content.—The Southland.