South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-08
Home Life.

'1n a true home the whole house ought
to belong to the family, and be occupied
by them. There ought to be spare cham
bers for the guests, and room for hospi.
tality, but thofe should be no shut cham
bers or shHt parlors, sequestered from all
domestic use. There should be no mys.
teries In the home, no place of oracle
there. Every part of the house. from
cellar to garnet, should be Open and known
not only lighted and ventilated, INT visited
too, by every member of tha househoId
In. a real home the family slwavs use tbe
best part of their house. and live in tbe
whole of it. They GO in at the front door,
as well as at the b2.ck door; they 90 mn nv
the wide staIrcSSse, as well as BY the mar
row stalrc2se, and they use the soft cush.
ions TIE damask and the velvet, as well as
lne cane seat and the straw mating. In a
genuine house no part or appendage of
the house ought to be too good for those
who are members of the family. tits well
In the home that each member should
have his own retreat, his own chamber,
the daughters and the sons and the ser
wants, but not well that there should be no
feeling of common right in the house.
AND good home is not within the
walls of the house. The first home of the
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In a garden. To realize the home now
there ought to be a garden attached to il.
some space open to the sky in which green
things and bright things may grow, and
the family may enjoy Gods sunlight to-
gether. Some kind of a garden every
true home ought to have, a clear space in
front or in rear or around.
Every well ordered home will have a
library. Until this in some form comes
into the house it has not the right to be
called more than a lodging-house, or an
clearinghouse, however sumptuously II NAV
be furnished How many books are ne
cessary to make a library we shall not
venture to say, or whether the old Puritan
measure of the Bile, the dictionary and
spelhng-book is 20 be taken as the unit,
or rather Trinity in Unity. Books enough
to meet 10 ordinary need of intercourse
n Conversation and reference, "the stand
afd works" enough to give the impression
of culture and intelligence; home must
have these, even if it has to spare some
physical comforts to get them. Books in
the house are a binding influence between
members of the family, the means of dis
persing the clouds, making rainy days
useful, and enlivening hours of solitude.
And in a true home the library will not
be " slowed away" in a closet or dark
room, but will be in the centerof the house,
in the meeting place of the family, where
the young and old together catch inspira-
ton in its gathered hoard. In the true
home the library will be the favorite "sit
ting-room."
Music there ought to be in every home;
not only the music of a mother isinging
to her clean, fat rosy babe,"i which the
Radical Goblet so much glorifies, but the
music of consenting voices and consenting
Yarps. The head of the house may be a
good steward without any musical know
ledge, but the true father will know more
than the two tunes" between which he
al OF decide, when he hears his daughter
strike the keys. The best sentiment of
home connects itself from infancy to age
with the voice ofmusic.