Excerpt from The Family Economist, 1851, Vol. 4: A Penny Monthly Magazine, for the Industrious ClassesOn the other hand, it is delightful to contemplate the gentle and softening and enriching influence of Domestic Happiness in some families where there is little, apart from it, to attract. Poverty is a weary thing but poverty itself may be divested'of half its wretchedness when it presses upon a peaceful home. 'better is a dinner of herbs,' says the wise man, 'where love is, than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith and very plain, home spun happiness is vastly preferable to splendid misery. It will be, then, an interesting and useful inquiry What constitutes Domestic Happiness? How is it to be secured, retained, and enjoyed?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.