The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-06-21
From the Nations Era.
The Two Homes.

Meh buy lands and houses they buy fur
nl,ure and occupy rooms, but no, all the
men in the world could make home
Why IS not every woman educated and
fitted for her office7 Wtie all are as.
plrlng to the honor, how few have any
idea Of the real elements which form a
pleasant and happy heme--of the quail
hcations which are necessary in order to
preside over one2 -...
All expect TO get married, and 10 have
a house; to place in it sofas, chars md tn.
bles; to prepare breakfast, dinner, and
supper; to hive fires and lights: to enter
tain company, and train children; and
many do this without imagining that they
have failed in one thing have yet
never made home.
l sometimes think il is my special
province to inspect them, 50 many pass
In review before me.
"A wise son maketh glad father, but
foolish son is the heaviness OF his moth.
en- Who is RESPONSE le for this house
hold wreckl We cannot tell, as we did
no, LOOK in upon IL Ill the ruin was CON-
nleta. bni II is nna Of til. raadoat faa,l,
pictures we were ever called to paint.
The poor, shiverIng. crouching, wall
ing creature. that we see in this decaying
poverty stricken dueiling, was once the
mistress of an establishment the wife
OF man Of wealth, and the leader of
fashion. Her youth was one Of prosper
i,y. as the world defines prosperity. She
was endowed with beauty, with refined
and cultivated taste and possessed many
accomplishments. He who sought her
hand in marriage d sired one VINO could
adorn his elegan, dwelling, who would
preside with grace at his entertainments.
who would be content with jewels and
fine dresses should supply the place Of
love and personal attention.
When he asked her to be his wife she
refused with naughty disdain -.she had
no idea of marrying one old enough to
be her grandfather
But kind friends answered, He is r.c1,
Ellen. He will give you an establish.
men,; you will have carriage, and eve-
ry luxury heart can desire. How fool
ish you would te to reject such All oppor.
tunity'
An opportunity for display, for graft
flying every selfish desire, for exciting
the envy If the world'--if these things
were necessary for her happiness, j, was
a fine opportunity, indeed. So she nc
cep,ed II; and little time saw her the
envied OF a giddy ,hrong. the courted
and admired by all who wished to appear
at her entertainments. aud be numbered
among her satellites. How brilliant we're
her parties, how recherche her dinners,
how elegant her saloons! AMI yet wha,
a vacuity in every department what an
absence Of all that constitutes an Eng
Ilsh or American idea Of HOME.
For twenty years her house was gay
and bright and beautiful. children were
reared in luxury, without thought that
adversely would ever cast i,s blight upon
their fortunes or their hearts, and like
the house in the parable when the winds
blew, and the floods came the whole was
swept away, and most fearful was the
fall.
First came the failure in business,
which the nan who had all his life rev.
eled in riches could not survive, and a
son, who should have thought, how can
| retrieve the losses, and sustain wild
owed mother and orphan sisters! plung-
ed into dissipation, wasted his substance
in riotous living, and came to an igno-
minious death.
There was no foundation for moral or
physica! health. They could only Aoa,
on the uncertain breeze Of prosperity and
one after another was cut off, till eigh,
had paid the penalty Of the false princi-
pies and education Of their parents, and
gone down to an unsimely grave.
Two are lett. a son and daughter; and
hew are they to be. supported-.hey who
have never thought Of labor but to sCorn
il, and never learned enough of any art
to make it the means Of gaining bread!
Oh, desolate and poverty stricken wo.
man! that she were taught 10 look for-
ward 10 day when riches may have
ded, and husbands and fathers failed in
providing her protection and support-to
the day when, ignorant, trail and help
less, she must come forth into the world
nd shicld hev~sN from insult. and ruard