The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22
"No Place Like Home 2"

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There are q great many houses and
more families yet, hut very few
"homes.H At least such homes as peo-
pie like to stay in.
The poet remarks: "Be it ever so
humble. there's no place like home"
But the truth is, there are many places
iiked better than home. Poets are apt
TO sing about what they think should be
and ought to be, but not so much about
what really is.
Home" is about the last place somo
husbands and fathers care to STAY i'm.
because the chimney smokes, the chill
drcn cry, the wife is out OF temper, tho
mother in law is more SO, the house is
dull the old grudge keeps coming to
the surface, he can't smoke, and there
are too many "chOrcS" to do.
"Eomo" is the place whore in the
morning Just ofOro he goes down town,
She asks him for some money, and he is
delighted TO hear her and says: "Why,
my dear, why don't you do so oltcner?
do declare you wrong me thus. You
do. indccd"
"lIomc' is the place to which at early
| eve she brings all the gimcracks and
| things sho has bought on Fourteenth
street, which she hardly knows where to
put now she mas tDGm
''Homc' is the very place where he
can swear as much us he rlcnses when
| things go wrong, in business outside,
with men whom It doesn't pay to swear
| before. The place where he can Get
mad and Jump right up and down if ho
| plcascS. Or sit in the corner by tro
"sacrcd hearth" and grumblc and
growl and snll and snuff and snccr Mt
all she says or does from tea time till
bed time.
"llOmc" Is the sweet retreat to which
he comes at two O clock in tho morning
on lodge and other nights, with one stale
ana eNtinguishcd cigar stump in his
mouth, two in his pockets and interiorly
full of vinous IIuidS.
"llome" is the place where she saws
TO the caller she hates: "IIow glad
am to see YOU" and the caller returns
the compliment with lie Of equal force
and weight.
"lIomc' is the place wherein I,urg-
lars break in and teal, and robbers ROB,
and sneak thicNcS steal ovcrcoatS from
the hall rack--whcrc the 'hclp' Gets
drunk or mail and leaves suddenly.
EoyS like home to eat in, to SlCCn IN,
to shelter themselves from the rain in,
and to 90 to when nobody else will Lave
them aroEnd. Save on such occasions,
and when impcilcd by such wants, the
common boy had rather be anywhere
else han home; hanging around cor
nerS, loatIng at the grocery, robbng
orchards, sailing, skating, riding crawl
ing Under circus tents, Icing sick with
his iIrSt cigar. s Oning cats, and going
home from church with the girls
Girls Go not Ike TO stay at home any
more than boys do, AMI get away from
it ut every possible opportunity and
make all sorts Of excuses 10 do so.
Of course Il mans family is q GREAT
comfort to him Every one SAYS it
ought to nc, and the man hm self thinks
it OUGHT to be
And so does she think it ought to be
now that half Il dozen sons and laurh-
terS, big and little, are hers TO take care
of.
Only the thought will pop into his
head ut times, how FREQ from care and
llght-heartcd, and what Il good time
generally he had ere he was q mar
rlcd man And she was quite Gown
hearted yc tcrdav when q Young lady
TREND cal'ei. and in Il momcntary out
| DurSt remarked TO her: II ont YOU
ever get lnarIicd'' And the young lady,
who IS secretly engaged, went ponder
ing all the way home.
Cnc trouble about "homc' sthat the
butcher knows where it is when he
would collect his bill, and so does the
baker, the grocer, the N kman. lhc cas-
man, the coal man the tax galhcrcr and
the church bc@%ar
How the smali boy d"cs Ike to hear
one or the other OF his pa cntS say:
"Now You g" ri@hl straight home or
I'll lick YOU within an inch 0! You life. -
"Homc" is the p ace where the small
boy is spanked in his infancy end
"whalcH' in his Youth. often he
thinks also that there is mo place like
home to run away from - \. !.