Household.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 62, 13 November 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

Household.

DON'T FAN FIEE.

If you should come upstairs some day and see a little smouldering [fire jnst starting in one of your floors, stealing-stealthily into the carpet, you would not be very likely to sit down beside it and fan. it, much less would you run over to a neighbour's and have her bring the bellows to help blow it up. Not if you were, a woman in her right senses. Yon know quite well what speedy measures you would take to smother or quenoh it out.

• Dear young housekeepers, there are worse fires whioh start up silently in homes tban were ever kindled by lnoifer matches. They begin small. .Gross words usually start them, but bow the fire spreads when onoe kindled, if only it gets a little fanning ! one sure way to fan the blaze is to run over to a neigh' boor's and talk your trouble over. Tell just how unreasonable John is, and how little he sympathises with your trials, and unless your friend is an uncommonly wise woman, you will go home more wretched than you came, and feeling harder than ever toward John. You have gained nothing, but you. hare famished' food for considerable scandal/ for nothing travels faster' than the ill news that "so and so don't get along well together." That whioh was only a transient flash of ill-temper has been blown into a conflagration that is likely to' burn op your domestic- happiness.

Someone says H there is ever anything for whioh we are thankful, ii is for angry words not 'spoken. I would add for domestic skeletons we did not exhibit before"* the world. Better keep them looked np in their closet. They will not snook or harrow your sensibilities half so mnoh there.

Only poßßeae your soul in quietness, and the fire will die out. If your inmoßt oon< oioneneßS tells yon that yon ,have the tine and devoted love oi your husband yon will notbemnoh moved by little things. Tears and life's mutual joys and lorrowfl will draw, all true hearts closer to one another, and the onoe -vexations things will/eeem like trifles, MB yon glance backward over them. I

s Remember that nothing helps along domes* tio troubles like talking ovex th. 6 m ; nothing j

smothers them like silence. A little patience and self-command and the flash dies down. And, ohl how glad you are that the fair fabric of your home happiness haß not been consumed. — Rural New Yorker.