The National tribune., 1879-02-01
Our Homes.


Houses and FARMS bank stocks and bonds are all good
things to have, and especially when the dividends fiji the
capacious pocxetbook and promise comfort ease and lux
ur But it has been observed by thoughtful peone that
wealth is not unalng source of happiness nav has
often proved an annoyance and burden to life
There something that often with wealth that mars
the Joys that should accompany it, and before the owner
is aware it has sapped his humanity, and he stands out
soured van and selfish being to make angels weep and
When the Savior of upon earth He.gave am inn
ressive lesson to one who came and inquired what he
should do to have eternal life He said he had kept all the
commandments from his youth up and asked .What lack
yety lie answer was, Go and sell that thou hast
and give to the poor The advice, assured made
the young man sorrow But the further impressive
words uttered: " say you. that rich man
shall hardly enter the kingdom of heaven Under such
teachings, and with the experience that wealth brings
many evils in its train it strange that the human
family should jeopardize every hope and tire the limbs
and worry the brain and strain the hands in tbe eager
chase for riches The question should come to-day to
these merchants on Change the business man his count
ing room, the professional in his wearsome study
what am striving for al this opening of the year 1872?
Aside from morals and religion which leave to the pu-
pits, what ideas have formed for years happiness
We take it for granted that readers agree with us that
the world was made Tor happy men and women It's beauty
and variety and bounul supplies of comforts and lux-
res teach US the fact more foTcby than words express
II appy men and women are not found outside OF happy
homes We pity the millionaire who smiles at the sim
ciy OF the proposition and equally the who boasts
In ms PRIDE that he can purchase with gold this precious
commodity 1t is something that gold viii not buy and
any amount of wealth will prevent bankruptcy and
its Punishment from the home
If single reader at the opening o this new wear feels
that his home is not the ideal place he the years
agone cherished and anticipated would be well to stop
and inquire the reason
Does the tired wife, shut up in the nursery with annov-
ing duties OF domestic e for days and weeks and months
ght up with smile at your coming? Do little
stand at the window and peer into the gathering gloom to
note your earliest approach and make the house
with JOY when the door swings 10 admit You? No? Well
there is something wrong. Husband and wife might well
STOP and ask III all sincerity how shall make home
happy the coming year? Wealth alone will do it
the honors OF the wordand the rounds of fashionable life
soon grow inspid, and ever turn to the home
whether palatal or humble find this object of life If
there were patent method for obtanin it. or if it
could be purchased what demand there would be; and
yet when lies at DOORS is placed in our hands, we
hesitate to pick it up and fail to grasp it.
The tact is too many looking for great things and
great events when the of human happiness is almost
wholly made up of the little and apparently insignificant
things about
1t has been said that Familiarity breeds conenpt
This can only become between husband and wife and
parents and children when the nobility Of manhood and
womanhood has been forgotten and laid aside and selfish
and vugarity have taken honored place re the
occupants OF some of the homes who seen happiness
departing during the past year would turning the new
Leaf remember of the lessons they once well under
STOOD the change would be magical Let the husband try
Tor three months to enter his house and as he did
In the days OF his woong Let the wife practice tile easy
charms that won the lover Neither has forgotten and
experiment. and ii the trial of year does not make every
room OF your home humble thuogh may be- ring with
happiness then you may set down that the devil has
mortgage and will likely oreclose and the the bet
ter But do not give too easily for of all desirable and
beautiful things OF this fe happy home stands first 1t
kind OF oreaste of the home beyond whose spates
are never Shut and whose glory can estimate
AS and daughters grow up and 90 ont from ther
homes although they may scatter to remote regions Of
the EARTH yet forever arises before their the loved
spot that sheltered them and the influences of the
home OF childhood will protect them from many an evil
and draw them with the sweet voices of the past to noble
and heroic achievements.