Home Scenes, and Home Influence
Timothy Shay Arthur, 1854

This is another fiction work by Arthur.




CONTENTS
1. I Will!
2. Taking Comfort
3. The Power of Patience
4. A Mother’s Influence
5. The Christmas Party
6. An Old Man’s Recollections
7. If That Were My Child!
8. Losing One’s Temper
9. Children–a Family Scene
10. Haven’t the Change
11. Old Maids’ Children
12. The Mother and Boy
13. Going into Mourning
14. Is She a Lady?
15. Trouble with Servants

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 domestic life. Home is the center 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!