The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-02

whelming things that person .ver unaertake es
Is to dress for dinner S"srniug but very strong
one to board. There is not more than one out
of ten 81 the bosrding-houses worthy of being
called by that endearing name of home.
Have house we must and build one to our
liking we some day ought. Therefore 1t is that
We spend this hour IN making a draught of what
win be the outward and inward architecture of
Our New House.
Now, you need not wonder whether / choose
IoniaD, CorinthlaD, Dorc, or Byzantine style of
architecture, or expect scientific discussion
OF arch hadee, capitals, and transerier windows.
All these things are well enough If you come 10
consider a cathedral, palace, or basiIlca; put
when we build our new house our chiel anxiety
will be to make it look like home. Every pTlck
or stone in the front must have a way OF looking
out, as much as 10 say, 1--WE are al aC nome;
come in and enjoy yourself" our ooor-knobs
shall not be ustrously burnisned; anu our aoor
your wrist OF getting red IN tne 1ace you can set
Il agong with clear loud ring. The roof shall
project lust far enough out TO hang good row
Having the plan of the house, now for the
LAYING OF the cornerstone. Let not the occa-
sion pass thoughtlessly, for this house shall be
sacred place. Oh, yes q house is sacred
place, and we must have ali our family friends
at the laying of the cornerstone Place within
il a box containing the family record, telling
the story OF births and deaths. AS the work
men lift the sacred stone TO its place, Join hands
about it, young and old, and say
"'BIid pleasures and palaces, though we may roam,
BE 1t ever SO humble, there is no p ace like home,
sweet home"
Our new house shall have good wide hall
and bave 1t well lighted, Sc that when people
como and go they may do so without difficulty.
If there were full gush of light IN the entry,
could we rush out and take some disagreeable
person by both hands, and say, 81 am so clad to
see you." 81 am really delighted" why didn't
you come beforeY "Bless me why really this
is unexpected pleasure" When the fact is, we
are half sick because they have come, and we
go out into the kitchen, Bridget, put
on more potatoes another raft of company.
Dear me! they nave brought their trunks"
(Laughter.)
The parlor in our house shall have hung on
the walls some pictures. We will gather up the
wedding fees which ministers generally give to
their wives; but generally borrow it the next
day and purchase one well-eXecuted painting.
In our house We will have pictures, such as you
can cut out of the weekly journal or the penny
newspaper home scenes, with streak of
nature. Pictures are chiefly to be admired for
what they can make you feel and think Of |
have no pleasure in looking at farm scene,
unless can look right through the canvass and
hear the stalk rustic, the calf bleat, the
horse neigh, and the hen cluck. We will also have
music in our new parlOr. If we cannot afford
Chickering grand perhaps we can guitar; if
not guitar, an accordion. We cannot always be
listening to music or gazing at pictures, and
there Is a class OF parlor games that we mean
to have in our new house, and can see no harm
III d SOOu IOnps l. Will uOJ dItSIupI III ~ HIOTaEy
lecture 10 discuss how many may join each
other on the floor nor how much gracetulness
may be in the step. THERE'S something beautiful
~ H. me @ scene % OF dozen young people SO full of
shpcable around the anckles and an anchor in
each pocket, could keep them still. We hail to
and aas G 81 sny Which shake the
and teach our young people that they need not
go to houses OF dissipation for enjoyment We
shall be particular about our parlor door, to
no IL ornn aoev We want DpOnIp t0 find M
barrier TO getting IN.
My friends, you Will step right out from the
parlor ino the dinine-room. am sorry that |
have kept you SO long from the refreshments,
things little late. The dning-room shall be
pleasant place. That is about the only place
where the family all meet. However plain our
fare may be, we will try to keep alum out OF the
out OF the pickles, ii it does make them a lovely
green. (Laughter) God has made a world
full of healthful food, so then away with the
polson In our dinlng-room we will three
times day cultivate the domestic virtues. To
make the room attractive, perhaps picture or
two, representing basket of fruit or string OF
fresh game. Let the picture of the game be
ing as If they had been dead six months, but
as if the feathers had only that moment
ceased to futter. Old game excites in me
who, either from some peculiar religious
custom, as ] supposed, or a popularity
OF taste, used in winter to hang out OF his window
for a month at a time-right opposite to my
study-a dead goose. Uaughter.) Now have
no objections to this bird alive, because like
anything classic, its cackling once having saved
Rome; but, mark you well, this was dead goose.
l could not look out of the window without see
ing it. There it hung, day in and day out,
night in and night out. If happened to look
out to catch the inspiration of a brilliant night
scene saw nothing but that dead goose. There
came times of great uplifting of spirits. walked
the floor in eXultation; and wished | could
look upon some great natural object, witness
thunder storm, or hear the ocean psalming
with innumerable voices It's magnificent ''Old
Hundred" looked out of the window, and
my spirits fell from the tlp-top of my eXhilara-
ton flop down on the back of that dead goose.
Time will roll on, and shall pass great viciss-
tudes and look upon many scenes, grand,
glorious, touching, and terrific, the Mexican
Empire overthroWn, Napoleon abdicated, the
Atlantic cable snap till the continents swing off
again, and all the earth be uptorn by reVolu-
ton; but none of these can ever erase from my
mind the memory of that dead goose.
The tea hour has come. You have washed off
the cares of the days work. There is something
soothing in the song of 4he tea-kettle The ap-
morning. lou do not look quite so fresh, and
there is slight shade under the eye, as though
the lcad-pencil with which you marked the
goods had slipped and drawn two hall-circles
below the lower lid. The children too are
which they started the day! They have
been up to their elbows in the dirt making
mud pes. (Laughter.) The wife, opposite
you little more subdued than in
the morning, but her hair more care
fully arranged. You say nothing, but think
how well she looks, as we'll as twenty years ago,
when for the first time you sat together at the
tea-table in your new house, and cared not Whe-
ther the tea was strong or weak, for she poured