The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1877-10-23
The Homeless Rich.

Many ofour wealthy people are aping
English manners and customs, but we
think few Of them have thought OF taking
pattern alter that habit in English life
which Is ito most characteristic M we'll ~
its sweetest and wholesomcst trait We
mean the tendency to have 4 family
home, to make il beautiful with the care
Of generations, to enrich II with associa-
lions and to hold fast TO il. Wethef II
is we'll to have such tendency bee ONE
part Of the character or the fashion Of
the republican people We do not say !;
but certainly 1t Is = thing better worth
copying than much forign nonsense that
we initiate. How few family mAnslons
there are even in our oldest cities! PEG.
pie who have been wealthy for three gen.
erations have moved from one dwelling.
place to another as the growth OF the
town changed, making some sort Of
claim to emenence Of birth and social
position, yet giving way to the influence
ofthe new life around them, presenting
the curious spectacle OF . would be arts
tocracy without . home twenty years old
The forms and materials Of their houses,
too have changed with the vhims Of she
day. The cynical democrat watcAiax
their career has smiled 10 see mes prstsn-
III a.. ,.u :, .ss.A S>s4Io-soa -.n.l ashamah NJ
ure on the part Of the wealthy 70 take
root in home in city is more rcmarka-
BILE from the fact that their dwellings IN
town are all they have in the way Of
houses. In England the home OF the
r,oh ;u oovpn ola Cnuptrv aonr. hNuaa
and estate. There are lawns with a
sward like velvet, the result of years Of
trimming, venerable beech woods, parks
and gardens. family pictures, family
books, family friends and dependents.
And in the neighborhood the family
traits are understood and appreciated
for good or ill. With all these inauen-
ences about them children are broughtup
London aud the town house form win
ter resort, place Of business or pleasure,
where for season the world is'to be
encountered; but in the country lies
home, the true harbor of rest and refuge,
sacred to tho companionship of friends
and family. 1t is curious that rich New
Workers striving after English models
have reversed all this Whatever they
have in material shape the name OF .
home is in the city, and they naturally
desert it in the heat Of summer. Some
Of them 60 to wstering-places and hire
rooms in hotel some sfthem rent cot.
tages for three months, and the most
ambitious build fantastic dwellings a.
fashionable resort where society 10 the
good confessedly sought With the re.
turn of winter all 90 back to the CITY with
no more feeling that they are desertinga
permanent home than the birds that fly
south ward and leave the nests Of the
season behind them. II. as some hold,
great men are never born in cities, and
the race confined to cities deterior ates
the wisdom no less than the beauty Of
that instinct which has made the country
the abiding place af the English arts
tocracy and the town its place of recres-
ton and business, may be ackno wledged,
and il we are to have here families which
from generation to generationcshall pos
sess the means to hold land and beeves
and manor house, it would be well
for then to set about creating genui inc
homes. People aiming only at getting
the best for themselves and theirs out of
life, can choose no wiser cours Other
people may keep on in Hawthorne's path
and content themselves with "tents Of
brick and mortar. > World.