Bits About Home Matters

Description

This reference book is a selection of brief commentaries and remarks, mostly with the little children and parenting as the topic. Bits About Home Matters include: The Inhumanities of Parents–Corporal Punishment; The Inhumanities of Parents–Needless Denials; The Inhumanities of Parents—Rudeness; Breaking the Will; The Reign of Archelaus; The Awkward Age; A Day with a Courteous Mother; Children in Nova Scotia; The Republic of the Family; The Ready-to-Halts; The Descendants of Nabal; “Boys not allowed”; Half an Hour in a Railway Station; A Genius for Affection; Rainy Days; Friends of the Prisoners; A Companion for the Winter; Choice of Colors; The Apostle of Beauty; English Lodging-Houses; Wet the Clay; The King’s Friend; Learning to speak; Private Tyrants; Margin; The Fine Art of Smiling; Death-bed Repentance; The Correlation of Moral Forces; A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner; Children’s Parties; After-supper Talk; Hysteria in Literature; Jog Trot; The Joyless American; Spiritual Teething; Glass Houses; The Old-Clothes Monger in Journalism; The Country Landlord’s Side; The Good Staff of Pleasure; and Wanted–a Home. Helen Maria Hunt Jackson was born as Helen Fiske, a poet and novelist who was an activist on behalf of enhanced dealing of Native Americans by the government of the United States. She defined the unfavorable outcomes of government actions in her work A Century of Dishonor in 1881. Her book Ramona in 1884 overstated the federal government’s mishandling of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and influenced substantial attention to her grounds. Profitably known, it was approximated to have been republished with 300 copies and many readers loved its passionate and scenic traits other than its political inclusions. The book was so famous that it several tourists got interested to Southern California who needed to find sceneries from the writing.