The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-05-24
Home.
"There is music all around,
When there is love at home


To cultivate love at home requires
more skill, patience and perseverance
than many of us really possess. by
skill, / mean to be able at all times and
under all circumstances to make home
cheerful and happy. Often we meet
with trials and vexations in our daily
walk through life, and on our return
home, after having endured the fatigue
and disappointments of our vocations,
it requires all the ingenuity that we are
capable of exercising to enable us to
appear in a contented frame of mind.
so that those about MS will not feel
that in place of bringing pleasure we
cast Il shadow over the household. Pa
never to indulge in unpleasant feelings
even if ever! thing does not move along
as smoothly as we would desire. How
many homes are rendered unhappy
when a little patience would work
wonders, if may SO speak. Perse-
we're in all things; surmount every
difficulty that appears to to impede
our progress, and when those obstacles
are passed we can look backward to
them as so many stepping stones which
lead us onward in our path of social
duty. Parents should endeavor 10 in
still useful knowledge into the minds
of children not to he select and unso-
cial at their own firesides, and the life
OF every company they enter. If they
have not mental stores sufficient for
both, let them provide first for their
own household. 1t is a poor maxim
for parents or children to reserve their
social charms for companions abroad,
and retain their dullness for home. 1t
it better that all should be made happy
at home than for them to seek enjoy
ment among strangers. How many
men utter careless words to their wives
and sisters which seem trifing at first
Such things cast their shadows over
the hitherto happy throng. Mothers
speak harsh or impatiently to their
child prefers the freedom of the street
to its home? Friends speak unkindly
to each other, and, when it is too late
mourn over those hasty words which
have caused an impossible barrier to
spring up between them. Men, in
stead of letting so many unkind words
pass their lips, should remember thai
it is not only at home nor in theil
places of business that kind words
should be spoken; it should be every
, where. How much good kind wore
has done! Many poor outcast ha
been reclaimed by kindness.
1t should teach ns-tO be kind an,
courteous to all. Let us be actuate'
by genuine love in all our undertake
ings toward our fellow beings. An
where, let me ask, can we find the Low
of home more beautifully delineate
than in the touching ballad of j. How
ard Payne, an Outcast aud wandere
upon the earth? Even in his ow
> loved America, oftentimes he has lis
e tened to the delightful strains of musi
9 of which he himself was the author
{ scarcely able to tell from whence h
: should obtain his next supply of foot
n while his song was translated and ha
+ become the favorite household them
: of almost every nation and tongue III
}: der the canopy of heaven. One by OF
the words we utter fall upon the al
making waves that strike our ears, an
y then are gone. There are some whit
e swell on and on, but are never lost.
n it is with kind words; they are like Il
e -drop-small they appear, but tt
e gOod-whO can tellP
q Let the mandate given by the Prin
], of Peace be needed. Even as the F
II ther loveth us, so should we love OF
a another; and when our pilgrimage
1t over we will be permitted to sit at Il
1t right hand of the Father, and have Il
l. glorious privilege of enjoying tt
n peace, happiness and love of our hea
l. emily home Exchange.