OVERDOING IT
The truest homes are often in houses not especially well kept, where the comfort axid 1 happiness of the inmates, rather than the preservation of the furniture, are first consulted. The object of home is to be the centre, the point of tenderest interest, the" pivot on which the family life turns. . The first requisite is to make it attractive, that none of its inmates - will care to linger long outside of its limits. All legitimate means should be employed to this end, and no effort spared that can contribute to the . purpose. Many houses, called' homes, kept with waxy neatness by pains- . taking, anxious women, are so oppressive in their nicety as to exclude all home feeling from their spotless .precincts. The very name of home is synonymous with . personal freedom and relaxation from care ; but neither of these can be felt where such a mania for external cleanliness pervades the household that everything - else 4s subservient thereto. • '" c . •." ..
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 14 November 1907, Page 38
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162OVERDOING IT New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 14 November 1907, Page 38
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