Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Home. Sweet Home"

/ persons IN moderate circumstances new
er have home or enjoy the calm but
| inexpressible delight of sitting under
their own vine and fig tree. In the
large cities, particularly, it is rare that
those who belong to the middle class
feel able to purchase a home OF their
own. Some are too proud to live IN
such house as could be purchased
with the means at their disposal, and
prefer, rather than sacrifice their pride,
to rent the property of another, or live
in the perennial discomfort OF boarding
house life In neither case can one feel
bound by any ties, other than those OF
necessity, to the hearth-stone around
which he gathers his family for the brief
interval during which he is likely to
agree with his landlord. He owns no
share in the roof that covers him or in
the walls within which his goods are
temporarily enshrined. The ravages of
time upon the structure cause no other
emotion than that of irritation. He has
never learned to love the bricks and
etary interest I'M crest in them. It is to him
and his family merely a temporary
abiding place, from which he may be
called upon to depart at any time. 1t
is manifest under such conditions as
these that no one can fully appreciate
the fact that "there's no place like
home" unless, indeed, they have had
the blessed opportunity of learning that
truth in early life. While it will be
generally agreed that the manner of
life, in this respect, of the masses in
every large city is to be deplored, it is
not so easy to suggest remedy. In
cases where false pride stands in the
way of acquiring pleasant, if not mag
nifcent, home, sympathy would be en-
tirely wasted. Those who prefer to
sustain appearances )" rather than
make a home for themselves which is
within their means, and can become a
very sanctuary of love and domestic
happiness as the years 60 by, are be-
yond the reach of any sentiment but
pity. They barter all the possibilities
of home life for the empty satisfaction
of seeming richer than they are, and
deserve the discomforts which they
bring upon themselves. Year after year
persons of this class expend in rents or
for board, sums which, if devoted to
monthly or quarterly payments, would
soon put them in possession OF pleas
ant home. Not palatial residence
upon the avenue, perhaps, but a neat
house upon some quiet street or in a
desirable suburb, where they could erect
family shrine that would not be de-
spoiled by brutal expressmen on the
first day Of May each year. The horri-
BILE nightmare of May moving would be
dispel1ed at once and forever by such
course, and as the children of the fam
lily grow up, and, one after the other,
leave the family hearth, fond memory
will always turn with pleasure to that
one quiet spot, glorified by so many as
sociations of the past Such associa-
tons do not cluster around temporary
abiding places. The family that within
score Of years has occupied a dozen
or more habitations has no mecca" to
which its scattered members can jour-
ney as opportunity serves, and towards
which their thoughts may turn ut all
times. If the practice of living in rent
ed houses continues, the coming gen.
Grafton will not have the faintest con-
cepton of what home is.
Maggie Mitchell.
The Newark AdUertiser writer re-
garding this old favorite and popular
actress: Maggie Mitchell having COM
menced her professional career in this
city, her course has been matter of
more than ordinary interests here. She
has been on the stage for thirty years.
She acknowledges to 43, and as she has
made a great deal of money, people
wonder why she does not retire. The
truth is, that she is not as rich as she
was, and her work now is for her child
rem. Some years ago her husband,
Paddock, bought the Forest place at
Long Branch, paying $75, 900 therefore,
$4,000 of which was cash down. Time
ran on and interests and taxes with it,
but the little commedienne is in no
sense business woman, and so she
left everything to her husband. One
day the remaining $35, 900 fell due and
could not be met The place was sold
on mortgage and brought less then the
first payment, and she awOke to a re-
alization of the fact that she had hard
time before her, and the little woman
is still on the stage.
Maggie Mitchell, since her first great
success in New York nineteen years
ago, has been carryal for her entire
family. She feeds them, lodges them,
and clothes them. She has an old faith
er between 70 and 80, who is verit-
able. "Old Eccles.' In spite of the
familiarity with her plays and acting,
Maggie Mitchell is still one of the great
playing stars of the stage. She makes
money constantly and everywhere, and
she deserves to. She has created a
school in acting, and her school is be-
yond imitation. Few women have given
as grert pleasure to the pubic..
Origin Of the Horseshoe Superstition.
In the very early times, says writer
in Baldwin's Monthly, among the Gel