Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-05-23
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HOME, SWEET HOMIE.

am anxious to say few words about Home
The song tells us '',Lere is place like'' it, And
the song is right. But how few homes there are
IN the world! Or how mary homes which are no
homes 1t is enough To make person sick 10
think oft. Not one home in ten is deserving Of
the name. And what wonder! Look al il.
young man meets pretty face in the ball
room, tails In love with it, courts it, "marres il -
goes To keeping with it, and boasts of having
home To go to and a wife The chances ar. nina
to ten he has neither His reiy face soon gets To
be an old story-of becomes faded OF fIeckIed. or
fretted-and as that face all he wanted. all he
paid attention to-" and all he sat up with all he
bargained for, all he swOre to Glove honor and nro
lect'-he gets sick of his trade; knows dozen IA
yes "h'ch ne likes better gives up staying home
III The evenings; consoles himself with cigars, oys-
tiers, whiskey punch and politics and looks uDon
his ''home" as very Indifferent boarding house.
family OF children grow up about him but nei-
ther he nor his face" knows anything about train
ing lheln; SO they come up heller -skiter-made
toys OF when babies, dolls when boys and girls.
drudSes when young men and women; and so pass
ing year alter year. and not one quiet happy hear
W, hoiney hour is known throughout the whole
household.
Another young man becomes enamored of .sfor-
tune" lie waits upon it to parties. dances the
polka with IT, exchanges billet do,tc with it, mons
the question to it, gets .'yes'' from il. is published
To II. takes 1t 10 the parsons weds it, calls it wife
carries II home, sets up establishment with il.
introduces it to his friends and saws Door devil.
that he too is married, and has got a home. It's a
lie He is not married, he has no home And he
soon finds 1t out lie is in TIE wrong box but il is
too late To get out of it. lie might as well hone 10
escape from his coffin. Friends congratulate HIM.
and he has TO grin and bear it. They praise the
house The furniture. the cradle, The cupboard the
| new bible, the newer baby. and then bid the sfor-
tune" ana him who "husbands" it, good morninp.
Ac no h,J
lag since ne and that gided fortune" were falsely
declared TO be Some"
lake another case. a young woman is srnitfen
with pair Of whiskers. Cured hair never before
had such charms She sets her cap for them They
take. The delighted whjskers make an offer. first
one, then the other, proferng themselves both in
exchange for her one heart. The dear miss is o.
vercome with such magnanmiy, closes the bar
gam, carries home her prize, shows it To her pa and
ma. calls herself engaged To il. thinks there was
never such pair of whiskers before and in few
weeks they are married. Married! Yes, the world
calls II 81, and we will. What is the result A
snort honeymoon, and then the unlucky discovery
that they are as unlike as chalk and cheese. and
mol To DE- made one, though all the priests in Chris
tendon pronounced them so.
There are many other kinds Of iii assorted Omar
rIaGes," and they all result in unhappy shomes -
What else could be expected Young folks Oct
their ideas of the hottest relation in life from the no.
vel VI When thlS IS not The case, they, in most
instances, have no idea at all Of it, bnt are cavern
ed IN their choice and conduct by their FEELINGS.
their passions, or their imagined interests. Thus
the marriage nnioh is prosiituteJ throughout the
civilized world, and the terrible rerlbution is seen
in myTads Of discordant and disordcred households
Home, which should he the beautiful of places
10 Stunned by thousands pest house Children
finding no enjoyment beneath the parental roof seek
Tor IT in places Of public resort become corrupted in
their manners and morals and are ruined To this
cause more Than 10 almost any other, can be traced
the immortality Of our youth. Look at this town.
See the hundreds Of dirty faced brats which swarm
our streets. and insult every passer by with impn
MY! Have they homes which are homes No
lhey have places where they stay u nights. eat
get scoded, and whipped bnt as for the purifying
Influence Of home, they are strangers to it. Their
fathers and mothers are no more one than light and
darkness, OF fire and powder. 1t is " in all ou-
towns. II 10 90 eyeTywhers