The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-28
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BURDETTE ON HOME.
The Philosopher of the Hawkeye
Drops Into the Sentimental.

BURDETTE ON HOME.
The Philosopher of the Hawkeye
Drops Into the Sentimental.
Robert J. Burdette.
I talk about home because I am
rarely there-and men like to talk
most of what they know least about.
There is no place like home" Even
these who 1--WE in boarding houses
touchingly warble that song. Home
is more to woman than to a man.
A man who has no home is a social
tramp. With woman it is different;
she wants a home but does not always
have a 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 an
other woman's photograph and love
letter in his overcoat pocket.
But man gets his home-lot, house,
mortgage, mechanics lien and all.
He has ali but the mortgage, ana the
mortgage has him. All of a mans
life, except what he sperds at the
store, club, caucus, lodge or prayer
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 lieutenant governor,
said: You have nominated the
right man for the right place. Ihave
been a lieutenant governor ever since
married."
1t is said that every home has a
skeleton but I don't believe it. It
is only thing of the Imagination.
Some regard a poor relation a skele-
ton but that 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 50.
When wife buys her husband a dia-
mond pin for Christmas. it brightens
home and the husband is made hap
py by receiving the bill ten DAYS be-
fore Christmas. Husbands, take your
wives into your confidence; it will
heIp you to success.
What is home without a dog: 1t
is altogether too quiet | took a dog
from Philadelphia to Burlington once
and rather than to try it again would
take pair of twin babies to San
Francisco. That dog wound Il six
foot chain around my legs and around
the legs of other men, in ways that
were unaccountable. Some men are
fond of dogs. They will pay $4OO for
Gordon setter, and never shoot any,
thing but the setter.
Lodges are useful; but too many of
them Go not make home happy. A
man in Iowa Joined so many it took
him and his wife all night to count
them. He slept in regalia, called his
wife Worshipful Master, and his SON,
Junior Warden. He spent a great
deal OF his time marching in process
sions and in visiting the sick-espe-
claliy ladies of sixteen years and up
ward. He Was taken sick himself.
and be was visited by SD many com.
mittees that his wife was glad to get
him well.
Fill yourhome with beauty. People
ought to live in every room in the
house. [ have built great many
houses-on paper, and I 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 to warm bed in a spare
room, but always failed. If you have
any doubt about the spare room, ask
your pastor; he knows all about it.
We live in brighter homes now,
and live in better houses than kings
formerly lived in. l can say with
lalmage, that was glad to be on
hand when this planet came along.
our fathers were lot of scalawags.
Clothed in tin and steel they would
90 into a neighbours castle, and rob
and destroy. But now things are
better. If Il man sees another with
anything he wants, he makes deal
with him in stocks, in oil, or cotton,
'r wheat, and he gets the property
Dut he don't disfigure the CORPSE.
Only 160 years ago the last witch was
burned in Scotland for getting ups
thunderstorm byl pulling Off her
tockings; now a man won't get shot
f he pulls off his boots in a parlor
ar. What man Is there who would
ike to have lived in 1852. Eighteen
uits me better than seventy-six. The
world is better than it used to be
nd it is going to be still better when
'ou get out of it.
Every man should have il dem
oom or closet-in his house, sacred
his own use, in which no wife has
right to go tearing round-a den full
f precious letters, photographs, duns
nd unpaid bills. In your homes
on must expect troubles it is troub-
IS that make home happy. Troubles
make better men and women. Enjoy
our troubles as they come along
Ill your home with music. Buy
our boy a fiddle, even it you have
stop your ears. Buy piano for
&c girls, even if you have Il dozen
them, and you have one, two, three
one, two, three all the day long.