Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-15
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] talk aboat home because AN rarely
thess-and men like to talk RIOS. OF
what they know least aoont There is
No place like home" Even those who
live In boardin. houses touchinely
warhle that song. Home is more 10 a
woman than to ii man. A man who has
no home Il a social tramp. With
woman II il different: she wants home
bat does not always have chance to
get 1t. Woman feeds upon affection.
She Is nefar happy until shs gets her
ideal man; and then she is Gas. down
TO find another wonaan's photograph
and love hitter Ill his overcoat pocket.
But man gets his home lot, hoase,
mortgage. mechanics lien and adj He
he's all bat tbs mortgage, and the mort
gage has him. All of a mans life, ex-
ceps what he spends at the store, club,
caucus. lodge or prayer meeting, is
spent In his home. Man Is great in his
Own house; il he is not Il king. he ia at
least a prince consort. Many are like
the man who, on being nominated for
lieutenant governor, said: "YoI have
norain ted the right man for the right
place. | ilaye been a lieutenant-goyar-
nor ever since | married.
II Is said that every hume has skele-
ton, but doz't believe it. It is only a
thing of the Imagination. Some regard
a poor relation a skeleton; but that is
wrong. No man is poor for fun; be
can't help it, and is entitled to your
sympathy. Homes are brighter and
better than they used to be. Oar wives
make them SO. When wife buys her
husband diamond pin for Christmas,
1t brightens home; and the husband is
made happy by receiving the bill ten
days before Christmas. Husbands, take
your wives into your confidence; it will
help you to success.
What is home without dog! 1t il al |
together too quiet. took one from Phil |
adelphia To Burlington once, and rather |
than try it again | would take pa;r |
of twin babies to San Francisco. That |
dog wound a six-foot chain around my
legs and around the legs of other men, |
ia ways that were unaccouutable. Some
men are fond of dogs. They will pay
$500 for Gordon setter, and never
shoot anything but the setter.
Lodges ara useful: but too many of |
them do not make a home happy. A |
man in Iowa joined so many it took him |
and his wife all night to coun. them. |
lie slept in rogalia, called his wife Wor- |
shipful Master, and his sou Junior War. |
den. He spent a great deal of his time |
marching in PROFESSIONS and in visiting |
the sick-especiaily ladies' of sixteen and |
upward. He was taken sick himself, |
aud he was visited by SO many commit |
tees that his wife was glad to get him |
we'll.
Fill your home with beauty. People |
ought 10 live in every room in the |
house. l have bailt great many
houses--on paper. and am at it yet. / |
would avoid the spare room. 1t is cold
and damp. There IS nothing in a spare
room that will burn. / have often tried |
10 warm bed in spare room, but al |
ways failed. II you have any doubt |
about the spare room ask your parson;
he knows about it.
We live in brighter homes now, and |
live in better houses than kings former |
IL lived in. l can Bay with Taimage, |
that was glad to be on hand when this |
planet came along. Our fathers were
n lot Of scaiawags. Clothed in tin and |
castle aud rob and destroy. But now /
things are better. Ii q man sees anoth- |
or with anything he wants, he makes a |
deal with him in stocks, in oil, or cot |
ton. or wheat, and be gets the property |
but be don't disfgure the corpse. |
Only lG0 years ago the last witch was |
burned in Scotland for getting mp a |
thunder storm By pulling off her stock |
ings; now mau won't get shot II he |
pulls off his boots iii a parior car.
What man is there who would like to |
have lived in l71ss6? Eighteen suits me
better than seventy-six. The world Is
better than il used 20 he--and il Is going
10 be still better when You get out of it. |
Every man should have den-a
room or cioset-in his house, sacred |
to his own use, in which no wife his a
right to go tearing round--a den full Of
precious letters. photographs, duns and
unpaid bills. In yonr homes yoo must
expec. troubles: u is troubles that make
home happy. Troubles make better
men and women. Enjoy your troubles
as they come along. Fill your home
With nsusic. Buy your boy fiddle,
even ii Won have TO stop your ears. Bay
q piano for your girls. even il you have
a dozen Of them, and you have oae, two,
three--one. two. three-al the day long