. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XII. FURNISHING. By wisdom is a house built; by understanding it is esalhishcd ; andby knowledge the chambers arc filled with all pleasant and precioustreasures.—Solomon^s Practical Wisdovi, We cannot arrest sunsets nor carve mountains, but we may turn evenEnglish home, if we choose, into a picture which shall be no counterfeit,but the true and perfect image of life indeed.—Riiskin. CONDITION of pleasantness in a house has areal power in refining and raising the charactersof its inmates; so home should not only be ahaven
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XII. FURNISHING. By wisdom is a house built; by understanding it is esalhishcd ; andby knowledge the chambers arc filled with all pleasant and precioustreasures.—Solomon^s Practical Wisdovi, We cannot arrest sunsets nor carve mountains, but we may turn evenEnglish home, if we choose, into a picture which shall be no counterfeit,but the true and perfect image of life indeed.—Riiskin. CONDITION of pleasantness in a house has areal power in refining and raising the charactersof its inmates; so home should not only be ahaven of rest, peace, and sympathy, but shouldhave an element of beauty in all its and discomfort blunt the sensibilities and lower thespirits. Disraeli said, Happiness is atmosphere, and fromthis point of view a icw words about furnishing may notbe out of place in our inquiry as to how to be happy thoughmarried. Certainly the fitting up and arranging of a home 9. 114 HOIV TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. will not appear unimportant to those who think with that it is by studying little things that we attain thegreat art of having as little misery and as much happiness aspossible. Pound St. Pauls church into atoms and considerany single atom ; it is, to be sure, good for nothing ; but putthese atoms together, and you have St. Pauls church. So itis with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients,each of which may be shown to be very insignificant. The expense of furnishing is often a source of considerableanxiety to young people about to marry. We think, however,that this matrimonial care is, or should be, niuch more lightlyfelt than in past years. Competition has made furniturecheaper, and it is now considered bad form to crowd roomsor to have in them the large heavy things that were so expen-sive. Elegance displayed in little things is the order of theday. A few light chairs of different sizes and shapes, a smalllounge, one or t
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