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Title: Home Scenes, and Home Influence
A Series of Tales and Sketches

Author: T. S. Arthur

Posting Date: August 18, 2009 [EBook #4629]
Release Date: November, 2003
First Posted: February 20, 2002

Language: English

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HOME SCENES, AND HOME INFLUENCE.

A Series of Tales and Sketches.

T. S. ARTHUR.

PHILADELPHIA:

1854.

PREFACE.

MANY of the scenes presented in this volume are such as show the
mother's influence with her children; a few include the marriage
relation; and a few give other domestic pictures. In all will be
found, we trust, motives for self-denial and right action in the
various conditions of social life. Home is the centre of good as
well as of bad influence. How much, then, depends on those to whom
have been committed the sacred trust of giving to the home-circle
its true power over the heart!

This volume makes the fifth in "ARTHUR'S LIBRARY FOR THE HOUSEHOLD."

CONTENTS.

TAKING COMFORT.
CHILDREN--A FAMILY SCENE.
LOSING ONE'S TEMPER.
TROUBLE WITH SERVANTS.
HAVEN'T THE CHANGE.
OLD MAIDS' CHILDREN.
THE MOTHER AND BOY.
THE CHRISTMAS PARTY.
IS SHE A LADY?
GOING INTO MOURNING.
IF THAT WERE MY CHILD.
I WILL!
A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
THE POWER OF PATIENCE.
AN OLD MAN'S RECOLLECTIONS.

HOME SCENES.

TAKING COMFORT.

"REALLY, this is comfortable!" said I, glancing around the
handsomely furnished parlour of my young friend Brainard, who had, a
few weeks before, ventured upon matrimony, and was now making his
first experiments in housekeeping.

"Yes, it is comfortable," replied my friend. "The fact is, I go in
for comforts."

"I'm afraid George is a little extravagant," said the smiling bride,
as she leaned towards her husband and looked tenderly into his face.

"No, not extravagant, Anna," he returned; "all I want is to have
things comfortable. Comfort I look upon as one of the necessaries of