Pulling Together

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster ~ 1897
Submitted by: Mrs. Deborah Phelps

No disquiet ever really invades the household where husband and wife having no separate interests and no opposite and competitive ambitions, invariably pull together.

Let sympathy and frankness characterize your winsome life at home, and there will be few clouds seen to pass.

There is somethng very lovely in seeing a woman overcome those little domestic disquiets which every mistress of a family has to contend with, sitting down to her breakfast-table in the morning with a cheerful countenance, and endeavoring to promote innocent and pleasant conversation among her little circle. But vain will be her amiable efforts at pleasure, unless she is assisted by her husband and other members around; and truly it is an unpleasant sight to see a family, when collected together, instead of enlivening the quiet scene with a little goodhumored chat, sitting like statues, as if each is unworthy the attention of the other. And then, when a stranger comes in. It is as if a new influence had entered, a new leaven had permeated the loaf; one is smiling and chatty, the other gracious and benignant. No beautiful home life here, but deceit and an evil example, bad for children and young people, and immensely deteriorating for the persons most concerned. Particularly in the discipline of children there should be perfect accord between parents, and in all questions involving the common interests of the home there must be pulling together, pulling in absolute union and unbroken harmony of desire, purpose and behavior.

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