The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-28
Home, swses 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 ore no homes 1t is
enough to make person sick to think OF
il. Not one home in ten is deserving Of
the name. And what wonder! Look at
| il.
A young man meets pretty face in the
ball room, falls in love with il, courts it,
'mafries it, goes to housekeeping with il,
and boasts Of having home to go to and
a wife. The chances are nine to ten he
has neither. Her pretty face gets to be an
old story-or becomes faded or freckled, or
fretted-and as that face was all he wanted,
all he paid attention TO-, all he sa. up
with, all he bsrgained for, all he swore to
love, honor and protect-he gets sick Of
his trade; knows dozen faces which he
likes better gives up singing at home eve
nings; consoles himself with cigars. oys-
ters, whiskey punch and politics, and looks
upon his home as a very Indifferent board
ling A family Of children grow up
about him; but neither he nor his face
knows anything about training them; so
they come up helter-skelter-made toys Of
when babies, dolls when boys and girls,
ldrudges when young men and women; and
so passes year after year, and not one quiet,
HAPPY, hearty, homely hour is known
Throughout the whole household.
Another young man becomes enamored
Of fortune He waits upon it to parties,
dances the polka with il, exchanges billet
dotaI with it, pbPs the question TO it, gets
yes from it, is published to it, takes il to
the parsons, weds it, calls it wife, carries
it home, sets up an establishment with it,
introduces it to his friends, and says, (poor
deyil,) that he too is married, and has gol a
home. It's q lie. He is not married, he
has no home. And he soon finds it out
He is in the wrong box, but il is too late 10
get out Of it. He might as we'll hope to es
cape from his coffin. Friends congratulate
him, and he has TO grin and bear il. They
praise the house, the furniture, the cradle
the cupboard, the new Bible, the newer
baby, and then bid the fortune and hin
who husbands it, good morning. Coco
morning! AS il be had known good morn
; ing since he and that gilded fortune were
falsely declared 10 be one.
Take another case. young woman i,
5 smitten with pair Of whiskeIs. Curlec
hair never before had such charms. She
sets heI cap for them. They take. Tht
delighted whiskers make an offer, first one
then the other, profering themselves both
E in exchange foG her one heart. The deal
/ miss is overcome with such magnanimity
closes the bargain, carries home her prize
! shows il 10 her pa and ma, calls herself en-
gagged to il, thinks there was never such
pair (of whiskers) before. and in few weeks
they are married. Married. Yes, the worlc
calls il 81, aud We viii. what Is the re
sultl A short honeymoon, and then tht
unlucky discovery that they are as unlike
as chalk and cheese, and not to be made
! one, though oil the priests in Christendom
pronounced them so.
There are many other kinds of ill-assort
ed marriages, end they all result in un
happy homes What else could be e1
pected! Young folks get their ideas OF the
hottest relation in life from the novel; d
when this is not the case, they, in most in
, stances, have no idea at all Of it, but are
: governed in their choice and conduct by
their feelings, their passions. or their imag
inei interests. Thus the marriage union i,
prostituied throughout the civilized world
and the terrible retribution is seen in my
RAIDS of discordant and disordered house
holds. Hence. that which should be the mos
beautiful Of places, is Stunned by thous
snds as pest-house. Children, finding nc
enjoyment beneath the parental roof, seek
for it in places of public resort, become
corrupted in their manners and morals, and
are ruined. To this cause more than to al
most any other, can be traced the immoral
ty ofour youth. Look at this town. See
the hundreds OF dirty-faced brats which
swarm our streets, and insult every passer
by with impunityl Have they homes which
are homes? No They have places wher,
they stay o nights, eat, get scolded and
whipped; but as for the purifying influence
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