A Man’s Palace

If a man’s home is right, it becomes his palace. He is king there! During the day his thoughts wander back to his dear family, and it is for them that he works so hard, so it is more than worth the while. Thyra F. Bjorn

The Charms of Home

The family in that plain stately house, the cheery Haines household, was full of a common spirit of delight in small things. The big house on the beautiful old farm of Wyck was a peaceful place. The farm with its ducks and pigs and heavy, gentle-eyed cows was a joy to Louisa. The garden in……

Evenings Spent Together

Everyone was anxious to have all his homework done before supper, because then came the most beautiful time of the day, the evenings spent together. A fire was lit in the fireplace. The older girls brought their knitting, the younger ones, their dolls or dwarfies; the boys and their father usually worked on wood, carving……

Home, Sweet Home

BY JOHN HOWARD PAYNE Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home; A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere. Home, home, sweet, sweet home! There’s no place like home, oh, there’s no……

Our Homestead

BY PHOEBE CARY Our old brown homestead reared its walls From the wayside dust aloof, Where the apple-boughs could almost cast Their fruitage on its roof. And the cherry-tree so near it grew, That when awake I’ve lain, In the lonesome nights, I’ve heard the limbs As they creaked against the pane: O those orchard……

Favorite Time of the Day

Every day in the late afternoon the three youngest children would congregate with their mother in the kitchen. It was their favorite time of the day; the father and older children were still in the fields and they had their mother, with the day’s duties finished, to themselves. The kitchen was a large, cheerful room,……