The Placer herald., 1869-09-04
But it is not OF this, but our home.

Wnen ulGnt comes here we rest TO gather
strength aud live heart mellow in love-
Here we have castle king might euvv
all won by honest toll. The rooms are always
SO neat and in order. Tho bedcIothes clean
the sweeer to rest for ihe better health for
the morrow. We have not so much as one
cross word in all the year. We care not
what Others say Of us, for the sun OF happi-
ness draws its warmth, not from what others
say or do, but what we do or say ourselves
When our friends come they are very
welcome. Little or much that we have, they
are, indeed, welcome. We never fix up for
anybody, but keep fixed up as good wives
say, for ourselves. Then We are never sur
prlsed. II people come to see US they are
welcome. If they come to feast on fat things
they can have no better than we have, with
out going to hotel, and then they may not
1t we have crust, and that only. half is
theirs. We have no paror for them alone,
for it is all parlor in our home. all as nice as
we can have it; we keep no room locked,
daikened, musty and unopened only at stated
seasons, to show how foolish we are not to
enjoy the good and comfort of life while we
live, while waiting, as 1t were, for the hearse.
The best we have earned is none too good
for our love who is the best of all, aud for
her are all these purchased. We do net like
to see people sit IN the hct sun when a shade
is close by, nor live ip bar rooms in order to
show people they do not know how to enjoy
parlors. Empty parlors are but musty tor
lures. Vain displays of taste used in too
many instances only for weddings and funer'
ais. Rightly kept they are homes securely
locked up they are prisons or sepulchres of
Ignored joys, comforts and happiness.
Our home is our parlor. Our parlor is
our home. We labor day after day. And as
our will to dare, and power to accomplish,
like the darkness, fades out before the coming
of the great light, We strive for the goldening
of our love, for the beautfying of our home
for The great preparation. Those who care
not for their homes here, how can they care
for them in the hereafterG The presen; is but
tbe fitting for the future As we strive here
we are rewarded there. You need not tell
US that we enter our new homes as we came
here. empty handed or empty hearted
What did Christ say about the talent
which was hidden in napkin +! Pause and
look for the meaning of the SMILE
All we earn, save, or gather here Of the
good, The pure and the noble, is credited to
US over there! If we CAFE not for ourselves
in honor, for others in love, if we toll not
to-day for the rest Tomorrow" why should
He or others this side Of Him care for US?
We wish and pray that more of our work
ing men may have better homes, that they
may more earnestly care for their earnings,
their lives their manhood. Those who do
not are not the happy ones Nor are their
families. Not care to hoard, but to beautify,
TO adorp, to clolhe to educate. The noblest
men 10 the land are the sons Of working men,
mechanics, laborers farmers, who have oft
been sneered at on account of their poverty.
The bappest homes are those built on the
enduring foundation of honest toll. We
would see every home happy. Would throw
open tb 9 musty parors, swing the blinds,
clean out the dirt and cobwebs, fill closets
with clothes, libraries with books, cupboards
with food, the home with laughter and cheer
funess, and the heart with joy. We would
see the wife and the little ones happier, the
husband more contented and encouraged,
parents more proud of and kind to their
children, children set good examples and
lauguL SOOu mduuelS, VIII DtdtD6sS anu
genteness.
And we would see men of heart and desire
to do good, stand closer by each other and
by the unfortunate, to protect and love.
We would ignore and abolish the laws
which now rob the working man of hard
earned money for the beueit of those who
pay no taxes on ill-gotten incomes, would
wipe out as with red hot fire the prohibition
which comes 10 US through Purtanism and
lay the foundation for high deeds, noble
resolves, grea, undertakings, aud that success
which marks our progression to wortbiness
of future greatness by the fre-sides and in
the homes of the working men Of the land
who are our real and only princes for the
present and joint heirs for the future.
Who Of our friends, Of our readers of the
public we strive, but can do so little for, will
have the plsck to begin new life and devote
more time and more of his earnings to
making bis home more attractive than per-
chance it may be this Saturday Night.-
g. p,,,u Do,r,ov