The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-03
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Make Home Beautiful.

IF anybody does not have pleasant
home in summer he must be to blame
for it himself At other seasons, his
house may be ragged and bare, and his
lands rough and rocky; in the buildings
and its surroundings all may be insight
ly and uninviting, and be without the
means of improvement; but it is not so
in summer. The ugly wall and the I'M
seemly rocks will be beautiful, if the
wild shrubbery may grow around and
over them; the walk to the door of the
poorest cottage, if neat, bordered by the
fresh plants and shade by the thrifty
trees, may be as the curved tracks,
where roll the carriage wheels through
nobleman's estate; and the rudest board
ing, where the ivy and the myrtle cling,
and the grape vine ripens its fruit, may
be more lovely than walls of brick or
marble IN the rich mans mansion.
We repeat, there is no excuse but in
our own slothfulness and negligence, if
we do not give neatness and beauty to
our homes in the summer season. The
rich may have their villas, landscape
gardens, lawns and ponds; and in richness
and extent the poor cannot equal them;
but poor, as well as rich, are the chill
dren of God, and the great Father will
send his rain and sunshine as much on
one as on the other The grass, the
flower, the shrub, the tree, (and they can
all be had without money and without
price will grow as thrifty and as beau
tifully for the poor as for the rich their
shade will be as cooling, their colors as
bright, their odors as grateful, and their
fruit as sweet and as nourishing.
The man who sits down and mourns
that he cannot have, in natural surround
ings, all that his wealthy neighbors have,
with no more space to have it in-is
simple coward who does not dare to have
what nature is every day thrusting upon
his attention; and be who stops to look
obviously into his neighbours garden,
while his own is not improved, is a sim
ner. Every man should make his own
home pleasant and profitable; such as
will awaken love for it in his children,
and pride for it; such as-will keep them
at home from the mischiefs and evils of
the streets, and improve their tastes and
morals
The people are not so much pressed
with business this year-and, in fact, few
ever are, if they only thought so-that
they may not make material improve
ments in their gardens, and about their
houses, if they will, and at very little ex-
pense; and now is the time to commence.
How beautiful will the Baldwin, Green
ing orlRusset apples look in autumn; but
autumn is not the time to think of that;
we should have the idea in May; and
look around and see if there is not spot
where we can plant tree.
Let US not wait till June for the fra
GRANGE and beauty of the rose; till July
for the delicious flavor of the rtrawberry.
till September and October and Novem-
Der for the currants, the gooseberries,
the pears, the grapes, and all the luxu-
rles that nature will bestow Have them
IN mind now; and if you have but little
land, put the dwarf trees where Your
turnips, cabbages potatoes, and pump
klns grow place the berry bushes under
the fences; and spot as big as barrel
head will do for a grapevine that will
shortly give you Concords or Catawbas.
Dianas or Rebeccas, by the barrel, high
up on the house-top, or in the sunlight
1t is well that people should feed their
bodies with pork, beef, bread potatoes,
and fish, and there is no trouble but that
they will do that while they have the
chance; but beyond this, most families
may, if they will, have Injuries in arti-
Giles we have named, that will add essen
tally to the value of life, to the pleasures
OF taste, and to the refnements of a
higher civilization. Mere existence we
have in common with brutes; rude hu-
man life we have in common with barba-
rians; and beyond and above these, the
humble classes in this country should
have cultivation, and may have delights
Of body and mind, that in other lands
have been confined to the few of noble
birth and great wealth.
Here we are all noble; and where
there is no vice or unusual misfortunes,
we may be rich in the abundance of the
good things which kind Providence is
more anxious to bestow than we are to
receive and improve. - Newburyport