A HOME SNUGGERY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 326, 19 December 1888, Page 8

A HOME SNUGGERY.

J Tberts should always be one spotMn the home kept sacred ~to the best interests of, the family— a room full of. comfort,; •whore the eofa is made to lounge on, 'and the^ chairs to tilt" back, wber.o bills and blckerings/are alike forbidden and the' straight-laced propriety of the. dining-! room and the parlour can be abandoned' for romps 'and story-telling, where the Kirelight.has a glow of old-fashioned com-1 .for.t, and the.vevy shadows. are.tame and} where' the 'dust doesn't] show and nothing is. too fine for use,, mid at whose door, of which all the •burdens drop off— a room whose speech) is silvei, and whose silence is golden,' when the tranquility of ■ a summer Sabbath is broken only by sweet murmurs oflov&and confidence, where a happy cat curls herself- to repose in blissful affinity with a peaceful house dog ; a place where the wicked cease from itroublin^ ,and the weary are at rest- 1 - a sort of moral lean-to which adjoins- the j „house. house beautiful. Every. liGiue "sliould l have this one place of retreat. It is no ampossibe place. Love is the architect ; ■ ■content is" its atmosphere. r ~We find it in our friends' homes, 6fterf where least expected, and, are surprised because it is aiever-a-show place. It is simply- •-'- a golden room" in a wooden house.