The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-03-17


been. but 1 have had men and women
visiting at my house who left a benedic-
ton 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
drank from it. And that cup which We
offer to others in Christian hospitality,
though it be Of the plainest earthenware,
is royal cup, and God tan read on all It's
sides the names of those Tho have taken
from it refreshment.
But all this is impossible unless you have
home Of your own.
1t is the delusion as to what is necessary
for a home that binders so MANY from es-
tablishing one. Thirty rooms are not nee.
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten,
nor five, nor three.
Al VIC ilkhs "oV PAoho - sesDNSs e'AAS
| couch. and knife, and fork, and cup,
and chair. and you can raise 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
| vsn1 coticfuntinno hovo
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
tenement-house system, in which hun
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 VAIN uOuc oil ONCt Uhts luhu "hou
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 yet 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
gets TO his destination in the eventide, he
will find something worthy OF being called
by that glorious, and impassioned, and
Heaven descended word, "home."
Young married man, as soon as you can
buy place, even il you have to put on II
mortgage reaching from base to cap.
stone. The much ABUSED mortgage, which
| 10 rum w q EcChlobS udI, W Ouc
and provident is the beginning of com.
potency and fortune, for the reason HI
will not be satisfied until he has paid it of
and all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny your
selves all superauities and all luxure
until you can say, Everything in THU
house is mine, thank God! every tim
Der, every brick, every foot of plumbing
every dool SILL" Do not have your chill
dren born in boarding house, and do no
yourself be buried from one. Have I
place where your children can shout ant
sing, and romp, without being overhaulet
for the racket. Have a kitchen where 70,
can do something toward the reformation
of evil cookery and the lessening of thi
! nation Of dyspeptics. As Napoleon los
, one of his great battles by an attack of in
, digestion, so many men have such daily
/ wrestle with the food swallowed that the,
have no strength left for the battle of life
and though your wife may know how t
play on all musical Instrument and riva
prima donna, she is not well educated
, unless she can boil an Irish potato an
broil mutton chop, since the diet some
{ times decides the fate of families and ma
tions.
, Have sitting-room with at least on
easy chair, even though you have to tax
the turns at sitting in IL, and books on
. of the public library of your ow
: purchase for the making
. your family intelligent, and checker
, boards and guessing matches with an oe
, casional blind mans buff, which is, of a
games, my favorite. Rouse up your hon
/, with all styles of innocent mirth, and gath
er up to your children's nature reserve
:. of exuberance that will pour down r,
q freshing streams when life gets parchet
and the dark days come, and the lights 9
out, and the laughter is smothering into
q sob.
= First, last and all the time, have Chri
q in your home. julius Cesar Gained Il
!, fears Of an affrighted boatman who W,
rowing him in stream, by stating: IS
. long as Cesar is with you in the sam
$ boat, no harm can happen" And wha
;. ever storm of adversely or bereavement
y. poverty may strike your home, all is we
as long as you have Christ the King {
board. Make your home so far-reachir
in its influence that down to the last m,
ment of your children's life you may no
" them with heavenly charm.
/" At seventy-si years of age, the Demo
themes of the American Senate lay dyir
= at Washington-I mean Henry Clay,
- Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedsid
and ''the old man eloquent" after a lor
- and exciting public life, translantic al
y cisatlantic, was back again in the seen
~ of his boyhood, and he kept saying in b
10 dream over and over again.