HAVING TOO MUCH HOME.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 115, 7 February 1908, Page 3

HAVING TOO MUCH HOME.

■ . The; .day off for wives <is no startlingly new .idea,-■ for that there .is'.-' such .a; thing as: too inuch' -homo vr.e ali ;kn6w; .homo is a .blessed place, but to tho woman, ; who niust.pass every day a,rfd ; every- minute, of tlie day, in: it it becomes after a .while'.a Sort'of.'ii millstone round-her neck. : - - • ;. The keeper 'of the home" spends all of her time-making it pretty arid. comfortablo'arid keoping it so • that-tho..re^t,>of'vtliev family can, enjoy it ;■ hers is; a task .than which . there .'is >not one -more; worthy; '.'but it- must not be forgotten,. that \ she ; ; is only- humiin after all, aiid as the husband likes to como ■ honVe fts a rest; frbm office, tsb does'-ev'ety' iiiprmal wopian .liko -to.'get. away from horiie as.a rest froniiher duties.. . •' '" • : The kpeping of- liomo by/ mahy ik held to be .woman's.; task;' yet .in too-many, cases-is that same' hbmo 'her prison ; sho : cin hardly get away from the -thought of; Rafter slip ' has been hard •it it. s'overal, years; :it fbccomes a sort, of obsession; - sho is ,;. afraid when she'is away that tho shades are ,nbt ; idown on tho sunny side, of'tho perhapsthosp left in ohargo ,are-not-airing \i; as it should; bp; she lies awake /at; night wondering, if the : cellar, steps .have had -thejif,; regular scrubbing; tho; 'thought .of v bfbken. china makes her ; break j but in . a perspiratioiii_'and to'imagine that tho -best. iiapei-y is l'ri evcryday .use almost 'causes''-:hei-'liair;''to'-.'stfirid'.'up-even'.as tne«fretful;porcupine's./ • i a . r<) tlie. results oi' a t-oo close; application,;to homo j, and ';to.. •'prevent;' tliisi'.tfip weekly day ofTis a good! suggestion. - • 7: prevent; subh' arii obsossibrii lju't • to koep hcalth. and. good spiritS,lit behoves every housekeeper;to get' away'ffoin'hor 'job at .stated'"intervals;" to; eat' a ( .riieal ; which sho ha3.'not, planne<l—here'.-isy.a 'Hle'ssM i Surev'bry;hpvi'; >; and-ithbriV .bed;, trio 'making,'of which ; ( 6ho-has': no't' •su^er : . intended; 'to look arouiid. at othnr-'pictures' than th'oso •' sho has' dusted . so many" times !■ and ;to' \ iiispectfurnisliings' : ;arid;/' bric-a4'ric over tho . welfare of- which' she' 'dbes;'ript have to worry—herb-' are .'/things' which "will 'send her back "tocher ."work healthief^'a/happier and a better ,'wife, 'mothpr'. aiid 'horisekoepeA 'By.all;means take a day;; , off,''.'l^eSj';'6VeiT : week., You desorvo it. '-h'ave 4 should have it;— Chicago "Diily'Npws;'' -) 1 '

DARK COLOURS BAD. -' Because a woman has age is, no reason for- adopting black and'.wearing jt oil all occasions,, as if sho mourn--sng; . '"j :v"l I'-V.V . ' 'iho dark, shade brin^:'6tttin.'!-aVmost)pro-nounced .way-iher lack of; freshness.'ahdifaded colour,.,all . the; crow's 1 foot ami linos- .in !her faco, and .oftek throws shadows tliat'.'givo * 4. r i| v 'j l ' ".''d. (laggard appearance, t&xnb . skin. -. jUnless: stoiit/. a woma,h; past 'SO .bail. .wear, dull: -roso,; pastel, shades' of . green and :blue, soft -grey, n gobelin, . blue, !'... heliotrope „• and reseda green;.dark blue; i; i?■ i .If inclined to einbohpoiritj-i-hlack-'in ?,tho ; dull,. with whit-e ; .aiul crcani.'about; tho-neck,' is more;-, becoming and makesher' look younger than:when the dark Colours iare."put. directly, againstfher:-face.I'.1'. ■•'n-;-;.'n.? v : '■ v. A-dark , hat;, worn by. an elderly. woman should always havo a touch of white about the;front next to.tho, I hair.-., !:.i;.s'''' :

Optimism .is not always, instinctive-to: t-lib average i woman;.; Though.sho,.may %t' bfei ;'a' bmck pessimist- pxact-ly she stands-liko an engineer with. her band on. the-voryvintiniato throttle .-'of- mental. tforry, _ anguish,.arid anxiety. , Sho.will have sorrows,• p/obleinV. to faco; : arid sho will face them; sho -,will go. through;, everything ; .grandlyi.- yet hopelessly. . Silo : will jive from; hour to hoiirintensely, ■ and agonisingly , meet' < hcr.., grief. I|ut .thpro is rio' optimism,' Mparating. herself from tho throbbing moment, ho loqlcjiig .over tho world's round. Hni.. Not that, <± optimism is; a'V masculino ■ ftuiifity : onlyi' ; t a man', usually is ablo to, gcrt from tip p'ressirig', ;-prodding' agon® of i.lifo" . Woman's '"liiitur'a] dptimiSm; Tuns \ gorierally - not; so '.mucli' id-' w-arrls proiililtirig 'peaco. in; little' 'tliirigi 'or'fo ends; - sho; 'applied ! ;it.-.Tather;to' scraps 6E muslin and lacoj.-- out 'of which'ah'o is quite she' mirbe abie'to-mako o nice blouse;' ' v ' i''. 'v'