The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-01

because their doors swung essli open in
the enlarging, ennobling, irradiating and
divine grace of hospitality.
do not know what your experience has
been, but / have had men and women
visiting at my house who left benedic-
tion on every room-in the blessing they
asked at the table, in the prayer they Of
fered at the family altar, in the good ad-
vice they gave the children, in the gospel
ization that looked out from every Inca
ment of their countenances; and their de-
parture was the sword of bereavement.
The Queen of Norway, Sweden and Den
mark had royal cup of ten curves or
lips, each one having on it the name
of the distinguished person who had
offer to others in Christian hospitality,
though it be of the plainest earthenware,
is royal cup, and God can read on all its
sides the names of those who have taken
from it refreshment.
But all this is impossible unless you have
a home Of your own.
It is the delusion as to what is necessary
for home that binders so many from es-
tablishing one. Thirty rooms are not nec
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten
nor FIVE, nor three.
In the right way plant a table, and
couch, and knife, and fork, and cup
and a chair, and you can raise a young
paradise. just start home, on however
small scale, and it will grow.
When King Cyrus was invited to dine
with an humble friend, the King made
the one condition of his coming that the
only dish be one loaf of bread, and the
most imperial satisfactions have some
times banqueted on the plainest fare.
Do not be caught in the delusion Of many
thousands in postponing home until they
can have an expensive one. That idea is
the DEVILS trap that catches men and
women innumerable who will never have
any home at all. Capitalists of America,
build plain homes for the people. Let this
tenennent-house system, in which hum
dreds of thousands of the people of our
cities are wallowing in the mire, be broken
up by small homes, where people can have
their own firesides and their own altar.
In this great continent there is room
! enough for every man and woman to have
home. Morals and civilization and re-
ligion demand it.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett- Coutts
did in England, and some of the large
| manufacturers of this country have
done for the villages and cities, in build
| ing small houses at cheap rents, so that
the middle classes can have separate
| homes. They are the only class
| not provided for. The rich have their
palaces, and the poor have their poor
/ houses, and criminals have their jails: but
what about the honest middle classes who
are able and willing to work and vet have
| small incomes? Let the capitalists, in
| spired of God and pure patriotism, rise
| and build whole streets of small resi-.
dences. The laborer may have, at the
| close Of the day, to walk or ride further
| than is desirable to reach it, but when he
| gets to his destination in the eventide, he
will find something worthy of being called
] by that glorious. and impassioned, and
Heaven descended word, 'shome."
| Young married man, as soon as you can
buy place, even il you have to put on ii
| a mortgage reaching from base to cap
| stone. The much abused mortgage, which
| is ruin to reckless man, to one prudent
and provident is the beginning of a com.
| potency and fortune, for the reason he
will not be satisfied until he has paid it off
and all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. DENY your.
selves all superhuities and all luxurie.
until you can say, Everything in this
/ 10 s,ain II cy,Iy
Der, every brick, every foot of plumbing,
every door SILL" Do not have your chill.
dren born in boarding house, and do no
yourself be buried from one. Have {
| place where your children can shout anG
sing, and romp, without being overhaulet
for the racket. Have kitchen where yor
can do something toward the reformation
of evil cookery and the lessening of thi:
nation of dyspeptics. As Napoleon les
one of his great battles by an attack Of IN
digestion, SO many men have such daily
| wrestle with the food swallowed that they
| have no strength left for the battle of life
and though your wife may know how tt
/ play on all musical instrume nts and riva
| prima donna, she is not well educated
unless she can boil an Irish potato ant
broil a mutton chop, since the diet some.
times decides the fate of families and ma
tions.
Have sitting-rcom with at least ens
easy chair, even though you have to tax.
the turns at sitting in it, and books on
Of the public library of your owl
purchase for the making o
your family intelli gent, and checker.
boards and guessing matches with an DC
! casIonal blind mans buff, which is, of al
games, my favorite. Rouse up your hom
with all styles of innocent mirth, and gath
or up to your children's nature reservoi
of exuberance that will pour down re
freshing streams when life gets parched
and the dark days come, and the lights g,
out, and the laughter is smothering into