San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-19
Burdette on Home,

of what they know least ahoUs'
"There is no place like home" Evas
those who live in boarding bousaua
touchingly MARBLE that song. Homss
is more to woman than man a
man who has no home is a soc;a,
tramp. With womanit is different.
she wants home, but does not al
ways have a chance to get it. Woman
feeds upon affection. She. is neva,
happy until she gets her ideal man.
and than 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 lean and ali
He has all but the mortgage, and the
mortgage has him. All of mans life
except what he spends at the store
club, caucus, lodgeor prayer meeting
is spent in his house. Man is great
in his own house; if he is not a king
he is at least a prince consort. Many
are like the man who, on being nom.
mated for lieutenant governor, said:
"You have nominated the right man
for the right place. I have been a
lieutenant governor ever since was
married"
It is said that every home has a
skeleton; but 1 don't believe it. tits
only thing of the imaginations.
Some regard poor relation as ske-
Teton; 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 so.
When wife buys her husband dia.
mond pin for Christmas, it brightens
homes; and the husband is made
happy by receiving the bill ten days
before Christmas. Husbands, take
your wives in to your confidence; it
will help you to success.
What is home without dog9 It
is altogether too quiet. took dog
from Philadelphia to Burlington once,
and rather than try it again would
take a pair of twin babies to San
Francisco. The dog wound six feet
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 $500 for
Gordon setter, and never shoot any
thing but the setter.
Lodges are useful, but too many Of
them do not make a home happy. A
man in Iowa joined so many
that it took him and his wife all night
to count them. He slept in regalla,
called his wife, Worshipful Master,
and his son, Junior Warden. lie
spent a great deal of his time march
ing in professions and in visiting the
sick-especially ladies of sixteen years
and upward. He was taken sick him.
self, and he was visited by so many
committees that his wife was glad to
get him well.
Fill your home with beauty. REQ
pie ought to live in every room IN the
house. have built great many
houses, on paper, and l am at 1t yet,
[ would avoid the spare room. 1t is
cold and damp. There is nothing IN
a SPARE room that will burn. l have
often tried to warm bed in spare
room, but always failed. If you have
any doubt about the spare room' ask
your pastor, he knows allaboutlt'
We live in brighter homes now' anu
live in better houses than kings foTm-
erly lived in. I can say, with Iai,
mage, that 1 was glad to be on manu- anu
when this planet came along. ouf
fathers we're a lot of scalawagS'
Clothed in tin and steel they would 60
into a neighbors castle, and ROD anu
destroy. But now things are better.
If a man sees another with anything
he wants he makes a deal with MN
in stocks, in oil, OF cotton, OF wnea !.
and he gets the propertyoobqI , eo
don't disfgure the corpse. Only LOU ~
years ago the last witch was Dulaeu
in Scotland for getting up a thunaei
storm by pulling off her stGrklng sTI,
now a man would get shot II he Pqn3
off his boots in parlor car. Wnas
man is there who would like to nave
lived in 1776? Eighteen suits Inc ;s
better than it used to be-and IL 70
going to be still better when you S''
out of it. =,
Every man should have a denm en-
room or closet-in his house. saGis. .
to his own use, in which no wile i IoD
a right to go tearing round Isn
full of precious letters, photGgrA pm,