Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-18

the home, the reputation is colored by
it, and the affections are greatly in
huenced by it. The men and women
who never had q home have suffered
the loss of very many things that life
should contain. In early life home is
the teacher, in middle life it is a
stimulant, and IN age it is the asylum.
Mans rest is at his home, his refresh
ment is there, and his social centre is
there. His wages are Toured cut to
sustain it, his thoughts fly to it, his
hearts affections are in it, and his
steps are turned towards it. 1t takes
his name, it contains his wife and
children, it comprises his property,
and it determines his relation to the
community.
Every man should have q home. 1t
will cost, it will consume wages to
maintain it, it will demand time, and
it will exhaust strength to keep it in
order. Without it one is O tramp, a
vagrant, ledger. conner and goer,
or u boarder. One eau live from a
trunk, from restaurant, OF from a
boarding house, but all these are pri-
vations, and only to be endured, if at
oil, temporarily. while the true idea
of living is in the home. Bachelors
and spinsters, apprentices, and such
classes, may not have the facilities
that can procure q home, even ever so
humble home, but their very unsocial
Loneliness and incomplete realization
OF life show them the necessity of the
home.
For the first time, when one is
covered by q roof that lie owns, and
shielded by walls and supported by a
floor that is his oo0n property, does the
complete home feeling take possession
of his heart. Then let it storm, he is
safe, Let rents 60 up or down, lie
pays no rent and is free. Let times
become hard, still his family cannot
be turned out into the street. The
door yard is his, the trees, the garden,
the grass, and the gate that swings to
let him in from tbs dusty street, they
are all his own. If anything is in
Ijured it is his loss, and if anything is
improved it is his gain. He is not
>, careless anymore but grows careful.
He becomes interested in everything.
The bird that comes in spring and
builds its nest in his tree becomes
both an honor and pleasure to him.
By owning the property instead OF
renting it, he has laid the foundation
of a fortune. Year by year it seems
as if his lines should grow wider apart
and longer, and his house must grow
larger and prettier and costlier to
keep pace with his expanding notions
as to what his home should finally be-
come, SO he adds to his premises
until they become ample.
The home should not be temporary.
The home needs the moss that the
rolling stone is said never to gather.
A newly sodded plat Of ground does
not have the home-like look about it
) as does the daep soil made up Of the
mould of decayed roses. The paths
that are deep worn by many feet
through many years, the old trees on
whose shaded benches we sat score
of years ago, where we dreamed and
built castles when our years were
brighter than now, the storm stained
: roof that has gained all its age in pro.
tecting us, these signs of age that
have come on the home while other
signs of age come on Us, increasing It's
homelikeness. Many a family in
going out Of the old house into the
new, have found that the home was in
: the old house, and many years mus
pass before the new house is wrought
over from mere house into home.
7 The perfect home must have the
$ ample surroundings that only farm
can furnish. The house must not be
cottage, but a mansion. Tit
D grounds must not be contracted par
: terre, but an ample and diversified
i lawn. The table should be supplied
4 largely by home products and no
e from the market. Such home will
h finally gather around it and in it very
| much that will be of interest to TIN
0 family. Old family pictures will hans
n upon its walls. Old family silver vii
e be IN its closets. Old family linen will
II fill its bureaus. Books that have fur
S nished thought for the family will b
IS on its shelves. A family history ira
e cling the blood through many honor
G able names will lie beside the oil
: family record. Keepsakcs that wer
t, old when we were young, momentoes
t, heirlooms, relics, and all that wild
1t range of articles that only time, care
y honorable service, and ancestral inhu
is ence can secure, will make the home
n museum of family curiosities. Th
in old musket of the long gone India
e. wars, the old spinning wheel of til
Il. long ago days of family homespun
al the old chair that "came over" wit
le the forefathars, the old clock tina
Id licked time for the great-grandmothel
or and other articles too numerous {
o. mention will all find a place in til
to family home,
lg 1t should be in the plan that sue
OF home should be kept in the famil
ry name. In order to have this so, or
ed OF The boys must stay from the cit
IN and from the inviting West. He mrl
nd stick to the old place and maintai
with a family pride the old home, al
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