Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
The Nome.

EDITORS COURIER 1T may not inn
mediately appear to every one, that
a house is not necessarily, in any true
sense of the term, "home." 1t is,
however, the shell, the hive in which
busy hands and anxious hearts COM
bine their toll aud hope, looking over
toward that impenetrable veil, be-
hind which is concealed the future
and true ideal of home. A house is
not the place which determines TO the
soul of the seeker whether it has
reached the goal. II is not the nature
or quality of what is possessed. But
home is that certain indefinable satis-
faction with all, that unspeaksble quiz
ct of repose which realize that what
those hands have wrought out was
the result of carefully expended re-
searchy toll and means.
The lots have been carefully select
ed, the house tastefully and econom-
ically built and all are surrounded by
an cnterprising, high-minded, sober,
industrious, refined, Christian peo-
pie, where health, education, culture,
and genuine reward for the expen-
diture Of talent, time and money are
assured. Where in all these things
the heart is satisfied, and the well
trained mind, taking q retrospect,
sees all is well, then home becomes a
reality, is endeared, 10 found; and
when found, 10 "a thing of beauty and
a joy forever"
When we reach q point In life
where we arc given to looking back
II 80 Alovn ID
ries are more sweet and tender than
those which cluster around the old
home of childhood and youth
Whether we see it through the mist
of tears that arc born Of baflied hope,
or from the sunny summit of honestly
earned wealth, it Is ever the same ide-
al picture, where the light falls broad
ly on the foreground and the back
ward sloping shadows are scarcely
visible.
The prominent questions that suggest
themselves to q man when about to
build . residence, with the intention
Of keeping and occupying it SO long
as he wants . place in which to live
and shelter himself and family, relate
to the selection Of place ON which
to erect building In the proper To-
cality, the expense that must be in
Cured in order to satisfy his needs,
and the conditions necessary to salts
~ his physical requirements and Ws-
thetic tastes. The man who has ever
tried to satisfy himself in regard to
these particulars, will have found
that any of the conditions required
are easily fulfilled, except those Of
convenience and elegance of design.
lOf course the cost is an important
question with every one; but there
are many ways OF Increasing or de-
creasing the cost, while elegance of
design and proportion and convenient
arrangement of the interior are main
tanned.
In planning the arrangement and
grouping of rooms in which human
beings are to spend their days, homes
to be established, children reared, la
bors Of love and toll constantly per-
formed, great care and thought should
be given to the probabilities Of future
needs and accOmm odations as well as
to the present ideas of necessity and
comfort. We have often been re.
quired to make plans which had
about as much adaptibility and con
Germ in their makeup, for little fee
which "patter In the halls as sub
cellar has for tho comfortable use o
a Sunday school.
There is a growing appreciation fol
improved styles Of building, which
is being recognized throughout al
the better settled portions of on
country. More favorable sites ar,
chosen, and more consideration Civ