when the farewells are spoken, and one goes on before and the other
stays, bearing the unshared grief. Christ is the secret of happy home
life."


THE HOME-MAKER.

Just as a surly husband, a dissipated father, or a reckless son may blight
a home and destroy its happiness, so may a thoughtful, virtuous, and
kind man in the home change its very atmosphere and help to make it
a heaven. As a home-maker man has the ruggeder part. It is his to
provide. The man who falls short of this in the home does not do his
part. No woman can respect a man much less love him, who places
her, her work, her life, her home, her world under constant embarrassment
by a scant and niggardly provision. She loses her ambition, ceases to
make her self and her home attractive; disorder, filth, unwholesome
food, lack of spirit on her part is the result. She can not be to him, most
of all, what he expects her to be, a companion, a counselor, a comfort--a
home-maker. Also, it is the part of the man in the home to shield the
woman from the heavier burdens and responsibilities. Let him count the
cost of his enterprises, secure himself against hazardous speculations,
and give his wife and children to realize that his shoulders, and not theirs,
are to bear the load of financial obligation and material support. This
leaves the woman with her finer instincts and sensibilities to make the
home the dearest spot on earth to husband, children, and to all who cross
her threshold. The house is her dominion. There she is queen. What a
tender and beautiful one she may become!


SOME PRACTICAL HINTS.