Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-11-07
MAKE HOME HAPPY,

10 his lecture to farmers Col Ingersoll says
Make your homes pleasant. Have your houses
warm and comfortable for the winter. Do not
build story and half house. The half story is
an oven, in which during the summer you will
bake every night, and feel in the morning as
though only the rind of yourself left. Dec
crate your rooms, even II you do SO with cheap
engravings; they are better than none. Have
books have papers read them. You have more
leisure than the dwellers in cities. Beautify your
grounds with plants, with flowers Have good
gardens; and recollect that everything of beauty
tends to your elevation. Every little morning
glory whose purple heart is thrilled with the light
of the morning sun tends to put blossom in your
heart
can imagine no condition that carries with it
such "A promise OF joy the farmer in the autumn,
with his cellar full, with every preparation made
for the winter, with he prospect OF three months
OF comfort and rest, three months of fireside and
content, three months of home and family, three
months of pure solid comfort. Make your houses
comfortable. DO not huddle together in little
room around a red hot stove with every window
fastened down do not live in this poisoned air,
aud then when one of your children dies put q
piece in the paper commencing with "Whereas
1t has pleased Prov idence to remove from our
midst" Have plenty OF air and plenty of warmth
Let your children sleep. Do not drag them
from their beos in the darkness Of night. Treat
them with infinite kindness. There is
happiness in house not filled with love-where
the man hates the wife or the wife hates the hus-
band-where the children fear their parents;
where parents dislike their children. Every such
home is simply hell upon earth. There is moth
ing in the cultivation of the soil to make men
cross, grabbed and unjust. In conclusion-let ne
say to farmers. do all you can to make your busi-
ness attractive. Do not 90 in debt for land that
you cannot cultivate. Cultivate well and without
waste. See that your houses are warm in winter
and cool in summer. Plant trees and vines and
flowers; beautiiy your homes. Occupy your leis-
ure IN reading, in thinking, in improving your
minds, in devsing ways and means TO make your
business profitable. Have bath roous, ice-houses,
good gardens. Treat your families with infinite
kindness. Without love there is no happiness IN
this world; and il you not happy, you had far
better be dead. Be friends with your neighbors;
build your houses near together; cultivate soca-
bty come often together; maintain the best
cisl Citations possible. Make your lives attractive,
and your children will grow up in love with the
old fields and the old home. Remember that you
IN partnership with all other labor, and be
ready at all times to join hands with all other
laboIers Tor the protection of honest industry.
As for myself, envy the man who has. lived
upon the same broad acres from his boyhood, who
has been familiar with the same scenes year alter
year, who now lives upon the same farm on which
he was born and occupies the home OF his fathers.
can imagine no happier way to end ones life than
IN the quiet of the country, lar from the demands
of business, out of the mad race tor place and
money and power. d. l.r.