item: #1 of 9 id: 10393 author: Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) title: Making the House a Home date: None words: 6642 flesch: 88 summary: It was from there I began to progress; it was there my publishers found me; and it was there little Bud was born to us. I owed little bills amounting to about twenty-one dollars. keywords: baby; beauty; bills; boy; bud; building; child; day; days; doctor; dollars; door; dream; evening; flat; furniture; girl; good; happiness; happy; heap; home; hope; hours; house; joy; left; life; little; lives; living; man; marjorie; married; money; month; morning; mother; new; night; place; real; room; sum; things; thought; time; walls; way; week; world; ye've; years; yer cache: 10393.txt plain text: 10393.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 10516 author: Jackson, Helen Hunt title: Bits about Home Matters date: None words: 54829 flesch: 77 summary: Yet it does not seem to occur to mothers that little children must feel this, in proportion to the length of time and violence of their crying, far more than grown people. Chief among them were the shrieks and cries of little children, and blows and angry words from tired, overworked mothers. keywords: action; adult; affection; afraid; ages; air; american; anton; anxious; atmosphere; authority; average; awkward; baby; bad; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; behavior; beings; best; better; big; bills; blessed; blows; blue; body; book; boy; boys; brain; breakfast; broad; broken; business; cases; certain; chair; change; cheeks; children; city; class; clay; clear; close; clothes; cold; color; comfortable; common; community; comparison; condition; constant; conversation; country; course; crowd; crying; daily; dark; day; days; dead; dear; death; delight; development; different; dinner; disease; divine; door; doubt; dreary; earth; easy; effect; english; evil; exact; expression; eyes; face; fact; fall; families; family; fancy; fare; father; fault; fear; feet; fellow; fine; fire; flesh; floor; flowers; food; force; freedom; friends; future; gain; genius; gentle; girl; glad; god; good; great; greater; ground; grown; growth; grumbling; habit; half; hands; hard; head; health; heart; heaven; help; highest; home; honest; hope; hot; hour; house; human; inhumanities; instance; instant; kind; kingdom; lack; land; large; late; law; learning; left; lessons; letters; life; like; little; little boy; little children; lives; living; lodging; long; longer; look; looking; loss; love; making; mamma; man; manner; margin; matter; meaning; means; memory; men; mental; mention; methods; mind; minutes; misery; moment; month; moral; morning; mother; names; nature; near; necessary; need; needless; nervous; new; newspapers; nova; number; o'clock; old; ones; open; orange; pain; papa; parents; parties; past; people; perfect; person; physical; place; play; pleasure; point; poor; possible; power; presence; pretty; price; principle; prison; prisoners; private; public; punishment; purpose; question; quiet; railway; rainy; rare; ready; real; reason; record; red; relations; rest; result; rich; right; room; rudeness; rule; sacred; sad; safe; saying; school; scotia; seat; second; secret; self; selfish; sense; sensitive; set; shape; sign; silver; simple; single; sleep; slow; small; smile; sorry; sort; soul; sound; space; spiritual; spite; stand; standing; station; stay; stop; story; strength; strong; stronger; study; stupid; subject; sudden; summer; sun; sunlight; supper; sure; sweet; system; table; talk; tea; tender; terrible; thank; thing; thought; time; tired; tone; touch; trouble; true; truth; turn; tyranny; tyrants; unconscious; unhappy; voice; waiting; walk; want; water; way; ways; weary; week; wet; whipping; white; wife; willy; window; wise; wish; women; wonder; wonderful; wood; words; work; working; world; worst; worth; wrong; years; yesterday; york; young cache: 10516.txt plain text: 10516.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 14237 author: Philips, Samuel title: The Christian Home As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc. date: None words: 89835 flesch: 73 summary: It is often said that the children of ministers and pious parents are usually more wicked than other children. Many children fight against these, prevent parents from performing their duties, and repel all the overtures of the Christian home, all the offers of the Spirit's baptism, abandoning the means of grace, refusing to assume the baptismal engagement taken for them by their parents; and thus, so far as they are concerned, undo and neutralize what their parents did for them. keywords: abraham; absolute; abuse; action; adaptation; affection; alliance; altar; angel; anguish; answer; arms; associations; assurance; attention; authority; babe; bad; baptism; bearing; beautiful; beauty; behold; beneath; bereaved; bereavement; best; better home; bible; bitter; blessed; blessing; blood; body; book; bosom; break; broken; brother; brow; bud; burning; business; calling; capacity; care; cast; cause; chapter; character; childhood; children; choice; christian church; christian family; christian home; christian life; christian mother; christian parents; christianity; christians; church; churchly; circumstances; close; cold; comfort; command; committed; communion; companion; complete; confidence; conscience; conscious; consequence; constitution; correction; covenant; cradle; crime; cruel; cry; culture; cup; curse; darkness; daughter; david; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; delight; demands; destiny; development; devotion; different; direct; discipline; divine; domestic; duties; duty; dwell; dying; early; earth; earthly; education; elements; enjoyment; essential; eternal; eternal home; eternity; evil; example; exercise; existence; extent; extreme; eye; face; fact; fair; faith; faithful; fall; false; families; family; fashionable; father; fear; feeling; feet; fidelity; filial; fit; flesh; flowers; following; folly; fond; force; form; formation; fortune; foundation; friends; fruits; fulfillment; future; gain; general; gentle; gift; glory; god; gold; good; gospel; government; grave; great; greatest; green; grief; guardian; guilt; habits; hand; happiness; happy; happy home; harmony; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavenly home; high; highest; history; holy; home education; home training; homes; hope; hour; household; human; husband; idea; ignorance; importance; impressions; individual; indulgence; infancy; infant; infidel; influence; inheritance; instructions; intellectual; interests; isaac; jesus; john; joy; joys; judgment; kind; kindness; kindred; kingdom; labor; land; language; law; laws; lay; lead; life; like; link; lips; little; little children; living; long; look; lord; lost; love; lovely; making; man; manner; marriage; master; match; maternal; meaning; means; mechanical; meet; members; memories; memory; mental; mercy; mere; mind; minister; ministry; misery; mission; money; moral; morning; moses; mother; motives; mutual; names; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; new; nursery; nurture; o'er; obedience; object; obligations; occupation; offering; offspring; ones; opposite; order; outward; painful; parental; parental home; parents; parlor; passion; past; patrimony; paul; peculiar; people; personal; physical; piety; pilgrim; pious; pious parents; place; plants; pleasing; pleasure; poor; position; power; praise; prayer; precious; preparation; present; pride; principle; privilege; promises; prompt; proper; property; punishment; pure; purpose; pursuit; question; read; reason; recollection; reference; rejoice; relation; religion; religious; responsibility; responsible; reunion; reward; right; rise; rod; rose; round; ruin; rule; sacrament; sacred; sad; sainted; salvation; samuel; saving; scenes; school; scripture; section; secure; seed; self; sense; servant; service; set; shall; sick; silent; sin; sister; smile; social; society; solemn; son; song; sons; sorrow; soul; sow; sphere; spirit; spiritual; stand; state; stewardship; storm; stream; subject; sweet; sympathies; sympathy; system; table; talents; taste; teaching; tears; temporal; temptation; tender; tenderness; tent; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; training; tree; true; true christian; trust; truth; turn; unfaithfulness; unfit; union; useful; utterance; vain; view; virtue; vital; viz; voice; vows; walk; wants; way; ways; wealth; weary; weep; welfare; wickedness; wife; wisdom; wise; woe; woman; words; work; world; yea; young cache: 14237.txt plain text: 14237.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 16800 author: Harland, Marion title: The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) date: None words: 70633 flesch: 72 summary: Said one youthful matron to me--My own mother has been an invalid for so many years that I have not felt that I could go to her with all my worries and perplexities, for my annoyances only added to her troubles. There are many women who, to their shame be it said, openly sneer at their mothers-in-law, and ridicule their manners, habits, etc. keywords: account; acquaintance; action; actual; advice; affairs; affection; age; altar; american; answer; anxious; appetite; article; attempt; attention; average; babies; baby; bad; bear; beautiful; bed; beginning; behavior; belief; best; better; bible; big; blessed; blood; board; body; books; boy; boys; bread; breath; broken; brother; burden; business; calls; capable; care; case; causes; century; certain; chair; chamber; chances; change; chapter; character; cheerfulness; childhood; children; china; christian; church; circumstances; city; clean; clothes; coat; cold; color; comfort; common; companion; company; conceit; conscience; consideration; control; conversation; cook; corner; country; course; credit; criticism; cross; crowded; cruel; custom; cut; daily; dainty; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; dearest; death; deep; delicate; desire; difference; difficult; dinner; disagreeable; dishes; domestic; door; dozen; drawing; dress; drink; dust; duties; duty; early; easy; education; effect; effort; entire; evening; everyday; evil; example; excellent; excuse; experience; eyes; face; fact; false; familiar; family; far; farmer; fashion; father; fault; favorite; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; feminine; fine; fingers; finished; fire; floor; folly; fond; food; fool; form; forward; french; fresh; friend; furniture; general; generation; genius; gentleman; genuine; girl; glass; gloves; god; good; gown; grave; great; guard; guest; habit; half; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; hat; having; head; health; hearing; heart; heaven; help; high; home; homely; honest; honor; hope; hostess; hot; hour; house; household; housekeeper; housewife; human; husband; idea; ignorance; illness; imagination; important; impression; influence; interest; invalid; john; judgment; katy; keeping; kind; kindness; kitchen; knowledge; known; labor; lack; lady; large; late; law; leave; left; lesson; let; liberty; lie; life; like; likely; line; listener; little; living; long; longer; look; looking; lord; lost; love; maid; making; mamma; management; manner; marriage; married; mary; masculine; matter; mean; medicine; meet; member; memory; men; mental; mention; mere; middle; mind; minutes; miss; mistake; mistress; moment; money; months; moral; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; music; natural; nature; neat; necessary; necessity; need; neighbor; nerves; nervous; new; note; number; nurse; object; office; old; open; opinion; order; owner; pain; paper; parents; parlor; parsnips; party; pass; past; patience; patient; pay; peculiar; people; perfect; person; personal; physical; physician; piece; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; pocket; point; poor; position; possible; power; practical; practice; prejudice; presence; present; pretty; pride; principle; proper; pure; purpose; question; quick; readers; ready; real; reason; regard; relations; reply; reputation; respect; responsibility; rest; rich; right; room; rough; rule; safe; sake; salt; satisfaction; saying; school; second; secret; self; sense; sensible; sensitive; sentence; servants; service; set; sex; share; shoulders; sick; sides; single; sister; sleep; slight; small; smile; social; society; song; sons; sort; soul; speech; spirit; stand; state; stay; step; stomach; stone; story; street; strength; strong; study; subject; suffering; summer; sunday; sure; sweet; sympathy; system; table; talk; task; taste; tea; telling; temper; tender; term; thank; things; thinking; thought; time; tiny; tired; tongue; touch; town; training; trouble; true; truth; turn; uncomfortable; unfortunate; valuable; vanity; vast; visit; voice; want; washing; water; way; ways; weakness; weary; week; white; wide; wife; wild; willing; wine; wise; wish; wives; woman; wonder; wood; words; work; world; worth; writing; wrong; years; york; young; youth cache: 16800.txt plain text: 16800.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 22916 author: Code, Mary L. title: Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place date: None words: 35758 flesch: 88 summary: Poor little Arthur! And I wish I had said to him, 'If the Lord Jesus were to come walking towards us now, and sit down here, would you be afraid to see Him?' And would not you, dear Arthur? asked his aunt. keywords: able; afraid; arms; arthur; arthur vivyan; ashton; aunt; away; bed; boy; boys; breakfast; bright; care; chapter; child; children; coming; country; course; cry; daisy; dark; darling; day; deal; dear; dear arthur; deep; different; door; edgar; estcourt; evening; eyes; face; father; feeling; fire; friend; garden; glad; god; good; grange; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; help; hill; home; house; ill; india; jesus; kind; know; large; left; letter; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; love; low; mamma; maude; mildred; mind; minnie; morning; mother; mrs; myrtle; near; new; nice; night; north; old; papa; people; place; pleasant; quiet; rest; room; round; sad; school; sigh; sister; soft; sorry; stairs; strange; sure; sweet; talk; tears; things; thinking; thought; time; trees; vivyan; voice; walk; white; window; wish; wonder cache: 22916.txt plain text: 22916.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 39554 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: The House That Grew date: None words: 45355 flesch: 90 summary: He was so thoroughly a boy, though the very nicest kind of boy--not ashamed of being a 'gentleman,' too, in lots of little ways, which many boys either despise, or are too awkward and shy to attend to. Looking back, I can see what a _very_ good thing it was for us all that she came, even for mamma. keywords: afraid; afternoon; anxious; aunt; auntie; bad; bathing; begin; beginning; best; better; big; bit; boy; boys; care; case; chair; chapter; children; church; close; cold; comfortable; coming; course; day; days; deal; dear; denzil; dods; dog; door; drawing; dry; early; eastercove; emmeline; end; esmé; eyes; face; fancy; feeling; fire; frightened; geordie; george; girl; glad; going; good; great; grown; gypsy; half; hand; happy; head; heart; help; home; hope; hoskins; house; hurry; hut; ida; idea; interesting; iron; kind; kirke; kitchen; lady; laughing; leave; left; lessons; life; like; likely; little; lloyd; long; looking; lovely; mamma; man; margery; matter; merry; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; near; need; new; nice; old; ones; outside; papa; past; people; place; plan; pleased; poor; porch; possible; pretty; ready; real; right; rolf; room; rough; roughie; round; run; sad; school; sea; set; small; sorry; sort; spirits; story; strange; strong; sure; taisy; talk; talking; tea; things; think; thinking; thought; time; tiny; tired; trevor; usual; voice; waggon; want; water; way; ways; weather; white; winter; wish; woman; wonderful; woods; word; work; year; young cache: 39554.txt plain text: 39554.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 43936 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz date: None words: 40421 flesch: 90 summary: Then the Stork with her great claws grabbed the Scarecrow by the arm and carried him up into the air and back to the bank, where Dorothy and the Lion and the Tin Woodman and Toto were sitting. CHAPTER XXIII.--The Good Witch grants Dorothy's Wish. CHAPTER XXIV.--Home Again. keywords: afraid; air; arms; asleep; aunt; axe; balloon; basket; beast; beautiful; bed; big; blue; body; brains; branches; brick; bye; cap; castle; chapter; child; china; city; country; courage; course; cowardly; cyclone; dark; day; dog; door; dorothy; emerald; eyes; face; far; farmer; fast; feet; flowers; forest; friends; gate; girl; glad; glinda; golden; good; grass; great; green; hard; head; heart; help; home; house; illustration; journey; kansas; kind; king; land; left; legs; life; lion; little; long; look; lovely; mice; mind; monkeys; morning; munchkins; neck; new; night; oil; old; people; place; pole; pretty; queen; river; road; room; scarecrow; shoes; short; silver; small; soldier; south; strange; straw; stuffed; sun; sure; terrible; thing; thought; throne; time; tin; tin woodman; toto; travellers; trees; voice; walking; wall; water; way; west; white; wicked; winged; winkies; wish; witch; wizard; woman; wonderful; woodman; work; world; yellow cache: 43936.txt plain text: 43936.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 44481 author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins title: The home: its work and influence date: None words: 78827 flesch: 68 summary: The smallness of the home-bound woman is not so injurious as the still smaller nature of the harem-bound, by as much as the home is larger and freer than the harem; but just as harem women limit man's growth, so do home women in slighter degree. Criticism there is, deep and thorough; but not with the intention of robbing us of one essential element of home life--rather of saving us from conditions not only unessential, but gravely detrimental to home life. keywords: ability; able; absolute; account; action; activities; activity; advance; advantage; affairs; affection; ages; american; ancient; animal; area; art; association; attitude; average; average home; babies; baby; bad; basis; bear; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beings; best; better; birth; blood; body; book; boy; brain; broad; building; business; capable; capacity; care; cases; cause; ceaseless; centuries; century; certain; change; chapter; character; charlton; check; child; childhood; children; church; civilisation; civilised; claim; class; classes; cleaning; clear; close; clothes; clothing; college; combination; come; comfort; comfortable; common; companionship; company; complex; concept; conditions; consciousness; constant; contact; content; continuous; control; cooked; cooking; cooks; cost; country; courage; course; cradle; creature; crude; culture; current; custom; cut; daily; danger; daughter; day; dear; death; decoration; deep; degree; demands; developed; development; devotion; different; difficulty; dining; dinner; diseases; distinction; domestic; dress; duties; duty; earliest; early; earth; easy; eating; economic; education; effect; effort; elaborate; element; endless; energy; enormous; entertainment; environment; equal; essential; ethics; evil; evolution; exercise; expense; experience; expression; extreme; eyes; face; fact; familiar; families; family; family life; fashion; father; feed; feeling; female; feminine; field; fighting; fire; food; force; form; free; freedom; friends; friendship; functions; furniture; gain; general; generation; gilman; girl; good; good home; grade; great; greater; ground; group; grown; growth; habits; half; hands; happiness; happy; hard; health; heart; heavy; help; high; higher; highest; history; home; home atmosphere; home conditions; home ideals; home industry; home influence; home life; honour; hospitality; hours; house; household; housemaid; housewife; human; human life; human work; humanity; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; ill; immediate; important; improved; improvement; incessant; increase; individual; industries; influence; instance; instinct; institution; intelligent; interests; joy; justice; keeping; kind; kitchen; knowledge; known; labour; lack; lady; large; later; law; laws; left; legitimate; level; like; limitations; limited; limits; line; list; little; live; living; long; longer; love; low; lowest; machinery; main; maintenance; majority; making; male; man; mankind; manner; market; marriage; masculine; maternal; maternity; matter; means; men; mental; mere; methods; milk; millions; mind; modern; modern home; money; mother; motherhood; mrs; nations; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; needs; neglected; new; noble; normal; number; nurse; occupation; offer; old; ones; open; order; organised; outside; parents; parlour; past; pay; people; period; permanent; permanent home; personal; physical; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; poor; population; position; possible; power; practical; preparation; prepared; present; present home; pressure; pride; primal; primitive; primitive home; privacy; private; private home; processes; productive; progress; progressive; proof; proper; proportion; provision; public; purpose; qualities; question; quiet; race; range; reach; real; real home; reason; relation; religion; remains; remote; removed; reproduction; requires; respect; rest; results; reverence; rich; right; room; sacred; safety; sanctity; satisfied; savage; school; science; scientific; self; selfishness; sense; separate; servant; service; set; sex; share; shelter; similar; simple; skill; slave; slow; small; social; social life; social progress; society; soft; sort; soul; special; specialisation; specialised; spread; standard; state; status; step; stimulus; stone; strength; strong; study; sufficient; supplies; supply; support; sweet; system; talk; tastes; tendency; tender; things; thought; thousands; time; training; trouble; true; true home; truth; type; universal; valuable; value; varied; vast; view; virtues; vital; voice; wants; waste; way; ways; weak; weight; wide; wife; wisdom; wise; wish; woman; work; worker; working; world; worship; wrong; years; york; young; youth cache: 44481.txt plain text: 44481.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 49479 author: Warner, Henry Edward title: That House I Bought: A little leaf from life date: None words: 16570 flesch: 84 summary: Poor little thing! First thing I knew baby was on this porch and that porch, and on the way home in the evening I whistled for her and nodded to the grownups who were entertaining her. keywords: adventure; alto; ashes; baby; bath; bells; big; birds; bless; box; bucket; button; campbell; chair; chest; children; citizen; city; closet; coal; cold; company; couple; course; cow; day; days; dear; deep; dining; door; downstairs; duke; earth; easy; end; fact; family; fat; feet; fellow; floor; foot; friends; furnace; garden; gas; girl; good; grass; half; hands; hard; head; heaven; henry; hoe; home; hot; house; idea; job; joy; kitchen; large; lawn; life; lights; line; little; long; lot; love; making; man; men; mind; minute; mont; moonlight; morning; mother; mower; mrs; murphy; nest; new; night; open; parlor; people; period; piano; pick; picture; place; plant; plumbing; porch; push; real; red; room; second; seeds; shower; silhouette; soil; sort; spade; sprouts; start; street; sun; telephone; things; thought; time; train; trouble; turn; wagon; wall; want; water; way; week; wife; william; window; woman; wonderful; work; world; worth; yard; years; young cache: 49479.txt plain text: 49479.txt