New-York tribune., 1870-11-14
HOUSES AND HOMES.
A LECTURE BY MRS. CELIA BURLEIGH.

A LECTURE BY MRS. CELIA BURLEIGH.
SOrOsis, in her literary, benevolent, and pro-
gres,ye character took her chair Of reception on satW-
day evening. TO her thus amiably disposed, entered
various journalists, magazniss, and reorners under
their ordinary guse OF sprighty women and mildly
hammered men, There was Nj. Oliver johnson with tho
quizzca mouth OF him running tilt with the merry
wrinkles round his eyes, there the gentle editor Of
The Home Journal with his handsome little arst-wifc;
there wcrc-ah Bayards and Mneryas. s.nuumorable, Of
courso The "super dainty cate" OF the evening was
the recital by Mrs Celia Bureigh Of her lecture,
Houses and Homes.
She described very plcturesGuely the rough house
building Of the race, the crude ideas OF architectural re-
fnement held up tho time when brilliant Ramboul
let first got the horses out of and the beau monde into
the palaces" Taking of the social domination Of the
"long drawingToom," Mrs. Bureigh asked what demand
the social nature Is met by spending the evening in
making an elaborate toilet, and being procipated at
bedtime into hot and crowded rooms, where comfort
and conversation are alike unattainable; where
gasps for moutlful OF fresh air, talks pattudes is
introduced 10 people whom he has desire TO know,
and, telling them he is happy to make their
acquaintance, forget3 all about them before he has
dresser distorted by the mantuaInaker, and tortured
by the bOOtmaker, have the her0lsm 10 wreath their
faces in smiles and look swoety unconscious OF the fate
OF their back hair where gayate into groups for
little sureptituus talk about stocks and politics, but
ar ruhcssy scattered by the hostess and rcmandcd to
enoii.toik aud uadyertert wandering mn the hack
brcadths depending nom apparently distant danes;where
assuming the host and hostess that he'd had delightful
evening, the guest departs thanking Heaven that Its
and goes home TO nightmare, the result of salad
aud houedrkey and wakes I'm the course Of the next
forenoon with headache ana general impression or the
total deprayity of human nature Houses whose chief
interest cCnteTS in the drawngrOOm IN no rue sense
homes. They indicate civilization Of which money IA
God and Fashion the High Priest, which Ignorant OF
real values and devoted to shams which makes more
account OF pICtincss than or telig igence; OF social
position than of character and true worth.
The lecturer amented that the demoraking influence
of tho draw nSrOom Ism confined u ITS starting point
pitlossly nyades the spiritual and material rights
and privileges of all CLASSES She advocated tue use OF
every part of house and it, evolution from the moral
consciousness OF the pei who 10 occupy H. 1T
should be growth every beam ana raltrr the eN-
preston Of thought, every room adapted 90 an m
diyidual need" Every house is haunted" sait Mrs.
Burleigh; in every house which You nave lhhhpltcd
stl fingers that previous lUu You have only 10 return
find The old drama still being enacted, the dIdWduS
persoH0 sti in their places. Words thoughts mace
We never forget; that however mpressiOn ms may pe o..
laid hidden or time they are never lost hat evey
thought, word and deed Is written IN the booh ol Ou lo
mCmbfdncc, built into the STRUCTURE or our INts ~. "
ma ns with to oil eternity. Out OF human cNltllvucS
viii be builded c city not made Win hans ea'h In IN
hautant VIII have his own houH' ana ai 'no'ON' WA
he haunted by the deeds done Ia life. ,-,
~ house may he only four walls aud roOI. Beehhlng
at the circumference It develops inward gioNlnS noe
complete more responsive To the WihIs =, , n, a
more expressive OF his many sided Development HmS
attain proportions of palace, Dc llNIou III az us
appointments, exquisite In every uetll ud h,dii 10
merely house, and not home. ie ol', gu tip con M
trary, must begin the center ana uoNclop oVWui its
dations m.t be laid In truth and love- II must exist
fur universal ends, for growth culture anu truly
human development "hatesot mAos ms h .o , a' 1a =, ~
uobler audLc hctter worth NNng Is Oi the hoho; IL s
the place wleo day by day the lower nature ~ put or
ana the higher aud more truly human assumed,
Tho lecturer deprecated the false staulitlS To which
aust every household "a pdidste-standartis OF econ
ouy. tor iustauco Of fashion, or phS sSat comioit
"Tlorc are hou o. she all. (which are dominated By