The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-07-13
Beautiful Homes.

"Seek to make your home most lovely,
Let ii be smiling spot,
Where in sweet contentment resting,
Care and sorrow are forgot.
Where the flowers and trees are waving,
Birds will sing their sweetest song,
Where the purest thought will linger,
Confidence aud love belong.
"See that home is made attractive,
By surroundings pure and bright,
Trees arranged with taste and order,
Flowers with all their sweet delight.
Such homo makes man tho better;
Sweet and lasting its control
Home with pure and bright surroundings,
Leaves its impress on the SOUL"
How few people there are, comparative.
ly, who make any exertion 10 beautiiy their
homes, aud adorn them both indoors aud
out, when it is SO easy to make home
pleasant and attractive. A large sum Of
money is not required, but simply a little
tasie in arranging things so as to make them
look pleasing and inviting to the eye, and
just work enough to keep everything CONNIE
IL fdm. None are so poor but that they
ean make their home little Eden, if they
only have the will 10 do so. Tho world is
well supplied with trees, and they can be
transplanted or grown from the seed for
almost nothing Take survey Of your
premises, aud then reflect how much you
could improve the appearance aud value of
your homestead by planting AN assortment
of trees and shrubbery. Pat out evergreens
and other ornamental shrubbery in the
door yard, and, in order to blend the use
tul with the ornamental, plant cherry, pear,
peach and other fruit trees, also. There
are enough fruit trees that are ornamental
without planting many Of such as bear no
fruit, though it is best, perhaps, to plant
forest trees around n farm or suburban
home, aud along public roads. If any one
thinks he cannot afford to have an assort-
ment Of fruit trees, let him plant such as he
can get for the digging, rather than be
without them. 1t is pitiful sight to see
homestead without trees of any kind near
it; such a home must indeed be dull and
monotonous one, and the inmates Of that
home are surely dull and miserable beings
also. Children reared and brought up in
home with beautiful surroundings. are bet.
ter and more refined for having been
bibbEhb up IVA ohNh ~ AbbJo
girls, both, should be encouraged TO assist
in planting flowers, making summer houses,
vine trelises, rustic seats, etc. 1t will be
pleasant employment for each one to en-.
gage in US often as they desire. Every
month in the year some improvement can
be made in the adjoining OF ones home
Throughout the summer season the trees
must be carefully watched to protect them
from the rayages of insects, and thereby an
opportunity is given to study entomology,
which, by the way, is beautiful and inter.
esting study To the lover Of nature.
l hope the time is not far distant when
every homo in both town and country, that
can be, will be surrounded with trees and
flowers
Reader, just imagine how beautiful the
whole country would appear irall the farms
and homesteads were well supplied with
fruit aud ornamental trees aud beautiful
flowers, and then make up your mind 10 do
all you can in this way, and persuade your
friends and neighbors TO follow your worthy
example.