. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXr. SUNSHINE. Love is sunshine -Lon^fellozu, God wishes us to have sunlight in our homes. He would have in-them a tender play of laughter and humour, a pleasant interchange of lightand colour and warmth, in word and mirth, which makes the brightnessperfect, and is as much the work of the sunlight in the house, as thedelightful gaiety of nature is the doing of the i\xn—SioJ>ford T is a comparatively easy thing to preserve appearance when away from home, oreven to present a brave front to meet the g
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXr. SUNSHINE. Love is sunshine -Lon^fellozu, God wishes us to have sunlight in our homes. He would have in-them a tender play of laughter and humour, a pleasant interchange of lightand colour and warmth, in word and mirth, which makes the brightnessperfect, and is as much the work of the sunlight in the house, as thedelightful gaiety of nature is the doing of the i\xn—SioJ>ford T is a comparatively easy thing to preserve appearance when away from home, oreven to present a brave front to meet the greatemergencies of life. And yet the most genial-hearted of diners-out may be a domestic bullyin the privacy of his own household; and the hero who hasfaced a battery without shrinking may be unable to take a cup-of lukewarm coffee from his wifes hands without a real happiness of a home depends upon a determination tolay no undue stress upon little matters, and a resolve to bold SUNSHINE. 193 ones own irritability in constant check. For it is the sum oftrivial affairs that make up the days account, and it is the— Cares that fcily shadaTcs cast,By which our lives are chiefly proved. True home sunshine, if it consistently brighten the featuresof one member in a family, is pretty sure to be reflected fromthe faces of the rest. I thought, said a father, the other day, as I sat in therailway carriage on my way home, of my impatience with thememb
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