Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
HON e, Sweet Home.
r. ]. BURDETTE.

/ talk about home because l am
rarely there and men like to talk most
ofwhat they know least about. There
is no place like home" Even those
who live in boarding houses touchingly
warble that song. Home is more to
woman than to a man. A man who
has no home is social tramp. With
woman it is different; she wants
home, but does not always have q
chance to get it. Woman feeds upon
affection. She is never happy until
she gets her ideal man and then she
is cast down to find another woman's
photograph and love-letter in his over
coat pocket. But man gets his home
lot, house, mortgage, mechanics lien
and all. He has all, but the mortgage
has him. All of mans life, except
what he spends at the store, club, eau
Gus, lodge or prayer meeting, is spent
in his home. Man is great in his own
house; if he is not king he is at least
a prince consort. Many are like the
man who, on being nominated for lieu
tenant governor, said: "You have |
nominated the right man for the right |
place. l have been a lieutenant gov !
ernor ever since l was married"
1t is said that every home has a Skel |
eton, but l don't believe it. 1t is only |
a thing of imagination. Some regard
a poor relation as a skeleton but |
this is wrong. No man is poor for fun ;
he can't help it; and is entitled to
your sympathy. Homes are brighter
and better than they used to be. Our
wives make them so. When a wife |
bnys her husband diamond pin for
Christmas it brightens home; and the
husband is made happy by receiving
the bill ten days before Christmas.
Husbands, take your wife into your
confidence it will help you to success.
What is home without dog? 1t is al
together too quiet. took dog from
Philadelphia to Burlington once, and
rather than try it again would take a
pair of twin babies to San Francisco.
That dog wound six-foot chain around
my legs and around the legs of other
men in ways that are unaccountable.
Some men are fond of dogs. They
will pay $400 for a Gordon setter and
never shoot anything but the setter.
Lodges are useful, but too many of
them do not make home happy. A
man i'll Iowa joined so many that it
took him and his wife all night to
count them. He slept in regalia,
called his wife Worshipful Master and
and his son Junior Warden. He spent
a great deal of his time marching in
professions and in visiting the sick, es-
pecially ladies of 16 years and upwards.
He was taken sick himself, and he was
visited by SO many committees that his
wife was glad to get him well. Fill
your home with beauty. People ought
to live in every room in the house.
have built great many houses-on
paper--and l am at it yet. l would
avoid the spare room. 1t is cold and
damp. There is nothing in the spare
room that will burn. l have often
tried to warm a bed in a spare room
but always failed. If you have any
doubt about the spare room, ask your
pastor.
We live in brighter homes now, anC
live in better houses than kings for
merly lived in. l can say, with Tai
mage, that I was glad to be ON hanC
when this planet came along. Oul
fathers were a lot of scalawags
Clothed in tin and steel they would g
into neighbours castle and rob anC
destroy. But now things are better
If a man sees another with anything h,
wants he makes deal with him il
stocks, in oil or cotton, or what not, ant
hegets the property; but he don't disfg
ure the corpse. Only 160 years ag
the last witch was burned in Scotlan,
for getting up thunderstorm by pull
ing off her stockings; now man won
get shot if he pulls off his boots in
parlor car. What man is there VIII
would have lived in 1776? Fighter
suits me better than seventy-six. Th
world is better than it used to bean
it is going to be still better when yo
get out Of it. Every man should hav
den-a room or closet in his house
sacred to his own use, in which n
wife has right to go tearing around
den full of precious letters, photo
graphs, duns, and unpaid bills l
your homes you must expect trouble
it is troubles that make home happ,
Troubles make better men and womel
Enjoy your troubles as they com
along. Fill your home with musi
Buy your boy fiddle even if you HAY
adozen ofthem, and you have one, tw
three, one, two, three-all the ds
long.