Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-08
HOME vs..

pany, q never or q "BOarulng
House Insurance Company" AS
you walk along the street you will see
a sign in front of a restaurant, put
out to catch people. with the legend.
'sHome Made Pie" 1 never saw
one reading, Boarding House Pie"
The most glorious triumph in base
ball is a "home rum not a "board-
ing house rum" The victorious part
of a race course is called the .'home
stretch not the ''boarding house
stretch" When a man is lonesome
during a long period of absence from
his Preside he acknowledges himself
to be ''home SICK" not "b~oarding
house sick" When Paine wrote his
immortal song, "Home, Sweet
Home, he didn't call it Boarding
House, Sweet Boarding House." and
he didn't sing, "Be it ever so humble,
there's NJ place like boarding house.
You will also notice that our militia
is known as the "Home Guard" and
not the Boarding House Guard"
The "Home Sewing Machine" is
pretty well known; but how about
the Boarding House Sewing Ma.
ehine:' In 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner" we read of the Gland of the
free and the home (not of the board
ing house) of the brave When
Goldsmith wrote "The Traveller" it
never struck him that it would be a
noble sentiment to sing:
..sueh is the patriots boast where'er we roam.
Bis first best country ever is at boarding house. :.
He thought it would sound better
to make it s'home."
You never see the legend worked
in worsted of every delicate shade:
"God Bless Our Boarding House."
Because that would sound like
irony, although it would do the board
ing house no harm.
How would it sound to read from
EcclessIastes: 1.-The grasshopper
shall be a burden. and desire shall
fail because man goeth to his long
long boarding house," etc? And
then suppose you should tell a home
ly girl that she was ''boarding house
ly?"
You newer know the pleasure of a
home until you have boarded awhile.
When you are at home you don't
have to sit down to your dinner be-
tween a eornet player and champion
of spiritualism and be obliged to take
part in arguments on subjects which
thank Heaven-you don't under
stand. In your own home you do
not have to sit at the table and pre-
varicate and say the steak is tender
when you couldn't cut it with a razor.
At home lou can say the steak would
make good gate hinges if you could
only drive nails through it. And you
can say whatever you please of
the cook and have the pleasure OF
saying it over again to the butcher in
the morning if you please. In your
own home you may lie abed as late in
che morning as you like, and your
breakfast will be ready for you when
you arise.
If you live in a boarding house
you are a slave to the bed; you have
to hurry from any place you happen
to be to connect with that meal. II
you don't get there in time you can
60 and purchase a meal elsewhere.
At home 5oa can rummage through
the closet and refrigerator and make
your wife wild with excitement, lest
~peradventure you disarrauge some-
thing CT break some of the cut glass.
Or, still better, when you come home
late you lind your dinner in the oven.
1t has been in the oven for several
hours, and the meat and vegetables
and gravy have become one crisp
mass, and you can take up the whole
business in your hand and eat it like
a cracker.
Go away back to the old Biblical
days OF Adam and Eve and see how
our original parents lived. They
didn't board. They kept house and
were in Paradise. They didn't have
q grand marble mansion four stories
high either. They kept house on the
ground floor. Adam vas happy be-
cause he had no mother-in-law to tell
Eve how to manage HIM, and give
other advice ahhorrent to husbands.
Noah kept house in the ark, and he
bad the first happy family on record.
and Isaac never boarded.
They always kept house. It seems
that Jacob was the first man who
He warkod for Iahap