Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-05-03
Burdette ON Home.

rarely tnefe-anu men ike 10 talk
most of what 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 a woman than to a
man. A man who has no home is
social tramp. With a woman it is
different; she wants a home, but
does not always have 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 osercoat pocket.
But a man gets his home-lot,
house, mortgage, mechanics lien and
all. He has all but the mortgage,
and the mortgage has him. All of
mans life, except what he spends at
the store, club, caucus, lodge or
prayer meeting, is spent in his home.
Man is great in his own house; if he
is not king, then he is at least a
prince consort. Many are like the
man who, on being nominated for
Acknowledgements, said:
"You have nominated the right
man for the right place. have been
lieutenant-governor ever since 1 was
married."
1t is said that every home has a
skeleton; but 1 don't believe it. 1t
is only thing of imagination. Some
regard poor relation as skeleton ;
but that is wrong. No man, is for
poor 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 wife buys her husband
a diamond PIN for Christmas, il
brightens home; and the husband is
made happy by receiving the bill ter
days before Christmas. Husbands,
take your wives into your confidence
it will help you to success.
What is home without dog? 1t is
altogether too quiet. took q dog
from Philadelphia to Burlington once
and rather than try it again I would
take a pair of twin babies to Sar
Francisco. The dog wound si1
foot chain around my legs and around
the legs of other men, in ways thai
are unaccountable. Some men arr
fond of dogs. They will pay $4O(
for Gordon setter. ..-
Lodges are useful; but too many
of them do not make home happy
A man in Iowa Joined so many that i
took him and his wife all night II
count them. He slept in regalia
called his wife Worshipful Master
and his son, Junior Warden. H
spent good deal of his time march
ing in professions and visiting tn
sick-especially ladies Of sixteeI
4 years and upward. He was takel
sick himself, and he was visited b.
90 many committees that his wife wa
4 glad to get him well.
! 3 Fill your home with beauty. Peopl
ought to live in every room in tn
house. I have built great man,
houses-on paper, and am at 1t yet
I would avoid the spare room. 1t i
cold and damp. There is nothing il
1 a spare room that will burn. hav
often tried to warm a bed in spar
room, but always failed. II yo1
doubt about the spare room, ask you
pastor, he knows all about it.
) We live in brighter homes now, an
live in better houses than kings fol-
merry lived in. 1 can say, wit
Talmage, that 1 was glad to be O
hand when this planet came along
Our fathers were a lot Of scalawags
Clothed in tin and steel they woul
60 into neighbor's castle, and 70
and destroy. But now things ar
better. II man sees another wit
anything he wants, he makes a de.
with him in stocks, in oil, or cotton
or what, and he gets the property
/ but he don't disfigure the CORPSE
Only 160 years ago the last witch wa
burned in Scotland, for getting up
thunderstorm by pulling off he
4 stockings now man won't get she
, if be pulls off his boots in . parlol
/ car. What man is there who woul
. like to have lived in 1906? Eightee
suits me better than seventy-si,
The world is better than it used
} be-and it is going to be stlll bett'
when you get out Of it.