Ellsworth American., 1883-11-01
Burdette on Home,

| talk about home because | am rarely
there-and men like TO talk most of what
they know least about. There is no place
like home Even those who live in a board
ing house softly warble that song Home
is more to woman than a man. a man
who has no home is a social tramp. With
a woman it is quite different; she wants a
home but does not always have the 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 a man gets his home-lot, house,
mortgage, mechanics lien and all. He has
all but the mortgage, and tie 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
a king, he is at least prince consort.
Many are like the man who, on being nom
mated for lieutenant governor, said: "Iou
have nominated the right man for the right
place. | have been lieutenant governor
ever since married."
1t is said that every home has a skeletons
but don't believe it. 1t is only thing of
the Imagination. Some regard a poor rea-
ton as a skeleton but that is wrong No
man i 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 a wife
buys her husband diamond pin for Christ
mas. il hrightens home; and the husband is
made happy By receiving the bill ten days
before Christmas. Husbands, take your
.yill hal,,
10 success.
What is home without a dog? 1t is alto
gether too quiet. | took dog from Phia-
delphia to Burlington once, ana rather than
to try il again | would take 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 were
unaccountable. Some men are fond Of dogs.
They will pay 800 for Gordon setter, and
never shoot anything but the setter.
Lodges are useful but too many Of them
do not make home happy. \ man in Iowa
joined 50 many that it took him and his wife
NIL night 70 count them. lie slept in regal
ia, calling his wife Worshipful Master, and
son Junior Warden. He spent great deal
Of his time marching in professions and in
visiting especially ladies Of sixteen years
and upward. IL was taken sick himself,
and he was visited By SO many committees
that his wife was glad to get him we'll
Fill Your home with beauty. People
ought to live in every room in the house.
| have built a great many houses-on paper,
aud am at il vet. | would avoid the spare
room. II is cold ant damp. There is moth
ing in q spare room that will burn. | have
often tried TO warm bed in spare room,
but always failed. II you have any doubt
about the spare room, ask your pastor; he
knows all about ii.
We live in brighter homes now, and live
i'll better houses than kings formerly lived
in. can say, with Talmage. 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 in
to a neIghbor's castle, and rob and destroy.
But now things are better. If man sees
another with anything he wants, he makes
4 deal with him in stocks in oil, or cotton,
or what, and he gets the property-but he
don't distigure the corpse. Only 100 years
ago the last witch was burned in Scotland
for getting up a thunderstorm by pulling
off her stockings; now man won't get
shot if he pulls off his boots in a parlor car.
" hat man is there who would have liked to
have lived in l116? Eighteen suits me bet
ter than seventeen. The world Is better
than it used to be and it is going to be still
better when YOU get out Of it.
Every man should have den-a room
or closct-in his house. sacred to his own
use, in which no wife has a right to go tear
ing around-a den full Of precious letters,
photographs, duns and unpaid bills. In
your homes you must expect troubles-it is
troubles that make home happy. Troubles
make better men and women. Enjoy your
troubles as they come along. Fill your
home with music. Buy your boy fiddle
even if you have dozen Of them, and you
have one, two, three,-one, two. three-all
the day long.