The Arizona sentinel., 1874-09-05
SATURDAY. SEPT. 5. 1874
MAKE HOME ATTRACTIVE.

better interest than that given to render attractive the place we call home. If we look at it mere ly from 8 business point, there is !, nothing that enhances the valie of property so fast as the li.ttle embellishments, sc easily and cheaply made that any nian not sn invalid or & droue can have around him. But the moral and social influence of attractive homes is priceless. It goes with us through life wherever we may wander. The boy or the girl reared in a home where in addi- tion to the cultivation of the moral aud social virtues, that hone was surrounded by the beautiful productions of nature, can never forget it. The wander ing foot-sore traveller, on the rug ged mountains or in the burning desert, thinks of the home of his childhood.
 In every cline the magnet of his soul.
 Touched hy remembrance trembles to that
 pole"
 And he remembers everything, just as he last saw it. And if that was happy home, wh ere indus try and taste had seconded nature in surrounding it with the beau tiful, how his heart longs to look upon it again. In memory he sees the trees that his father planted, under whose grateful shade he used to play in !"child- hoods sunny bours." He sees inc rOse-bushes, the lilacs and the morning glOries and the countless other flowers that his mother and sister trained, he almost seems to breathe once more their grateful perfume as he gazes upon their transcendent beauty.
 Oh, there is nothing that adds to the beauty and value of a. homestead so much as planting trees, shrubbery and flowers, and nothing that yields so large an interest on the amount invested. It requires but little time or la bor to plant tree or rose-bush, yet how it adds to the beauty of a door yard. Persons of cultivation and refinement, when travelling through a strange country, can judge ofthe character of the ,peo- pie inhabiting a house they are passing by the condition of their door yard. If they see trees, shrubbery and flowers in profu- sion and nicely tended, it is safe to conclude that peace reigns there. It is safe to conclude that culture, refinement and gentle sensibility and taste have home there. This rule may be said to be jnfaliible in old settled countries. But ifs not fair to apply the rule ta its opposite bearing, to the in- habitants of homes in newly. settled country, before they have had time to make the embellish- ments of which we have been speaking.
 But we must say that the set tiers in new countries are too slow about making such improvements. We know many families, even here in Arizona, who have occu- pied the same house for from five to ten years, who have never planted tree, shrub or flower, and whose door yards and sur roundings are as barren and un- inviting as the desert. But there are notable exceptions. The,e are those who do all in their pow CT to make their homes beautiful and attractive. Even in very small door yards in town, we sometimes pass houses where the lady is cultivating flowers and training vines, etc, etc., and doing all she can to make her home beautiful. But the ladies are not properly seconded by the men in this matter, ana never have been. n sH evidence