Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-12-14
Home, Sweet Home.

am anxious to say few words about Home The
song tells us there is no place like it." And the
song is right. But how few homes there are in the
world Or how many homes which are no homes"
1t is enough to make person sick to think Of it Not
one home in ten is deserving of the name. And what
wonder Look at it.
A man meets pretty face in the ball room, falls
in love with it, courts it. "marriest" goes to keeping
house with it, and boasts Of having home to 60 to-
and wife. The chances are nine to ten he has ne5-
ther Her pretty face gets to be an old storyor be-
comes faded or frecked or fretted-and as that face
was all he wanted all he ''paid attention to-" all he
sat up with, all he bargained for all he swore to
Glove honor and protect"-he gets sick of his trade
knows dozen faces which he likes better gives up
staying at home evenings; consoles himself with cl
gars oysters, whiskey punch, and politics, and looks
upon home' as a very Indifferent boarding house.
family Of children grow up about'him; but neither
he his face" knows anything about the training
of them; so they come up elter-skelter-made toys
of when babies, dolls when boys and girls drudges
when young men and women and so passes year af-
ter year, and not one quiet happy, hearty homey hour
is known throughout the whole household,
Another yonng man becomes enamored of for
tune" He waits upon it to parties dances the polka
whit, exchanges billet doux with it, pops the ques-
ton it gets Eyes" from it, is published to it, takes
it to the parsons, weds it, calls it "wife" carries it
home sets up an establishment with it, Introduces 1t
to his friends and says, poor fellow, that he too, is
married, and has got home. It's lie. He is not
married, he has no home. And he soon finds it out.
IL k,t; -, late e. ,4of
if. He might as well hope to escape from coffin
Friends congratulate him, and he has to grin and bear
it. They praise the house, the furniture, the cradle,
the new Bible the baby, and then bid the fortune
and him who husbands it, good morning Good NOR
ming As if he had known good morning since he
and that glded fortune" were falsely declared to be
one.
Take another case A young woman is smitten
with large pair of whiskers. Curled hair never be-
fore had such charms. She sets her cap for Them
They take. The delighted whiskers make an offer,
first one, then the other proerng themselves both in
exchange for her one heart. The dear miss is over
come with magnanmity closes the bargain, carries
home her prize, shows pa and ma, calls herself
engaged to it, thinks there such pair (of
whiskers) before, and in few weeks they married
Married Yes, the world calls it so, and we will
What is the result? A short honeymoon, and then
comes the unlucky discovery that they as unlike
chalk and cheese and not to be made one, though
all the priests in Christendom pronounced them so.
There are many other kinds of i'll assorted mar
rages" and they all result in unhappy homes. What
else could be expected? Young folks get their ideas
Of the hottest relation in life from the novel; Or when
this is not the case they in most instances, have no
idea at all Of IT. but governed in their choice and
conduct by their feelings, their passions or their i'm
agined interests Thus the marriage union is prosti
tuted throughout the civilized world and the terrible
retribution is seen in the myriads of dscordan ant
disordered household. Home which should be the
most beautiful place, is stunned by thousands as
pest house. Children, finding no enjoyment beneath
the paternal roo seek for it in places of public resort
become corrupted in their manners and morals, ant
are ruined To this cause, more than to almost an,
other, can be traced the immortality of our YOUTH
Look Of villages See the hundreds of dirty face
brats which swarm Streets and insult every passe
by with IMMUNITY Have they homes which are homes
No! They have places where they stay o'nights ca
get scolded and whipped; but for the purifying in
fuence of home, they strangers to it. Their fa
theirs and mothers are no more one, than light an
darkness fire and powder. 1t is so in all our town
1t is so every where.
o, what delight it is-if it were only for the thin
TO enter house, where husband and wife are on
and the whole family united together in the bono
of love! There always peace, there always is hea,
en- ITSELF Sorrow there will be- of course, for shat
is every where as inevitable as sunshine but alike
sorrow and in joy-possibly more in sorrow than
joy-the true home, the home which is home, is
scene of the utmost beauty. 1t is the pure domest
influence which the world mainly needs for its puri
cation. These noisy sects, these swelling partie
these conceited orators, may all do required work
but the one thing needful is the calm, SERENE yet r