The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-07-27
The: Happy Home.

.r,r " hose home is. happy, Is IT who IS
the owner of hundreds OF. thousands of
doilars-whose walls are bright with. ex-
duisite pictures and whose parlers are fur
naisued like palace ]? d Perhaps so iii
maybe that his is p, very shappy homes
but the wealth, and the. pictures, and the
costly furniture DO not create! that happi-
ness They may, indeed, add very much
10 the enJoymenC of zriIes hearty whishanss
at.peace without them, % but, such things
are not Indispensable to, ashappY home
1T is his home who is elevated Above the
heads Of his fellow .1ner by extraordinary
tendowments of mind, or by great attain
ments in learning aetN is his who has so
fne and critical an ear. and eye, judg-
ment that lie. can find faults in everything,
whether earthly or heavenly? 1t is his
who is refined and sensitive beyond meas
gure aswho can hardly endure the gross
mess ofeating. OF the literalness, of in
the .body? who although not at all too
superfine. to perform acts whose conseI
feuence are anything but romantic and
delectable, is 'ihfnitelyn disSusted at the
Eresults1of his. own conduct q = iioi les
Not, by any. means. This mans home
is perpetual scene ! of trial. In this
world, and in domestic life,y there are
many most undignlfed and even absurd
lnecessitiesIlaid1upo persons, and ifszene
lin a family greedily apprePriatesi all that ll1
Eis. possible of the agreeable and L. refined lr.;
experience, throwing off all that he ,can
of his own Share Of the reverse, sonrebody J
tsufersas There is always martyr where
there is q selfish monster as such a. re
fined, r. super delicate person is Aftel
the best is done there is just SO much
Icommon placehess, in elegance, HON elincss
Land grossness to be endured in This flesh
aly life.aaa1- eHEbOioas zgn sfotagTiacs
! -zNet5en of us can quite. escape thes'
\ ridiculous and uncomfortable necessities
ard if we are determined that we will es
CAP e, then We only injure, burden ant
ttorment OF hers and do not escape then
tafter xalla We do5 however,, fende our
1 selves more absurd hani are the, thing hin
which we dispise. ,5....,- ,,,...,5t,szs 49,.
4 A refined I'll ed man, who does not Know hoY
q TO iheaI ri what Is not Lrefneda or aero
a mantle and sentimental, man, who doesn
know how, to- come pleasantly. idowniott
mere ,matter-of-faet and to bear with tina
which is void of sentiment, never make
home happy. DIG 5'-i' cl = '''a ..zsl,
: 81 But his is happy home, even fifth
butIn a singfesFhumhle room, who -ha
dear friends rat least, one friend riend await
ing him, and who loves him SO that eve
fry effort is made to render it comfortabl
; and pleasant who meets With glad face
and is true IN the very hearts, core e
d him. His is the happy home who carrie
to it an .unselfsh and ,afIecticnate disposi
Ftion, and temper sweetencd and mad
; gentle by the discipline of life. Tier
! may be no picture oa, the wall, no carpe
! on the floor, and the furniture may b
scanty, indeed7=it matters not-it, Low
: and peace are there, the home Of the ma
is happy .9a3' &aeila ..at A-9ii % O
\ Love issthe basis of all z1true. joy an
/. pleasure o7i Selfshnessi is the bane of lifi
t the darkener and destroyer, Of home
r Why will men not believe it? Why, ;
3 least, will not the poor believe it ?'i' Ho
= superlatiselyA foolisheis those who hay
: nothing else there, to cast 4onty love, ran
$ Loving Kindness from their homes. 18th
! rich man who has his portion in this worl
r can afford TO do this, the poor certainl
,j canrbtsa ba1 sG3G'51g %I5Gcd 9Bt al