The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-05-12

nome HtyHt ana not TO De WfeSU-
ed from you.
Andsave from your earnings
a little to beautify your home.
Save much or little as fortune
win allow. Do not waste the
labor of days or hours in pois-
on, or wear yourself out in dis
sipation. Be a man. Beautify
your home, gladden. those you
love, and make your life a sue
cess instead of a failure.
Not long since we were the
guest of a frank, open-faced,
generous man. The white
hairs had found a home with
him. Once he was poor, a la
boring man as are you and us.
He toiled manfully and lived
within his means. He saved
his earnings, not as a miser
saves, but to beautify and make
pleasant the home where he
alone looked for happiness.--
Little by little as the Saturday
nights went by, falling like rose
leaves into the lap of God, he
took home with him articles to
beautify his home. Little by
little! "How did you get all
OF these things7n Little by
little!" How it accumulates,
whether Of wealth, wisdom or
Wickednessl Not all of a sud-
den. Here a table; there a
sofa; there a piano; there a
painting; there a book case !;
there a window curtain /; there
an ottoman; there am hour
glass; there a book; there a
painting-here a little and there
a little-all beautiful, and help
ing to make the home happy.
Week laid itself down by the
side of week in the grave of
time. Still he toiled, saved,
was happy and made others
happy around him. Books,
paintings, music, luxury, and
happiness are. the fruit which
the tree Of soberness and econ
omy bears.
And there were others who
began life with him of whom
we write. Chances were the
same, but others spent their
nights and their earnings in
useless dissipation while he
saved. Their homes are still
interpreted and pictureless.
Their faces are old and wrink-
led, and their step lettering.
The home ones have no happi-
ness, home has few comforts
and fewer pleasures-life is
winding itself upon the inyisi-
BILE reel and their ticket in the
lottery Of life is a failure. God
pity those who have no man
hood, for they need pity.
Be advised by us, working
man, wherever or whoever YOU
are, to habits of economy, and
a desire to make home pleas
ant. Home is next to Heaven
in its wonderful meaning. No
money brings so large an inter- |
est. Speak kindly to those dn- |
der your roof. Care for them |
as they will care for YOU
Leave your business behind /
you-hang up your hat-draw
a chair close beside her you
loYe-place one hand in hers, /
take a book and read the hours |!
away, or talk over the incidents |.
OF the great voyage as becomes
those who are dear to each
other and whose interests are
The same. There arenot many +
more Saturday nights for either
Of us, but there is a Home In
the land of the leal where there
are no weeks, and from whence
we can look back to the time or
chances we neglect or improve
here in the dressing room for
eternity. Heaven is near or
tar, the ladder is short or long,
and each Saturday night is a
FOUND in the mystic ladder for
is who are toiling upwards to
'est upon. Let us sit and rest
make new resolves for good
speak kind words and plant
lets of kindness which will
bloom over our grave and bless
he lives of those we love after
We have gone were there is no
saturday night.-[LG Crosse
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