Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-22

: ron. the Cincinnati enquirer
The study ota people Is best TO I've made in
a study of their homes When you know
how and where aud amid what surroundings
man lives you have fair index to his char
acter. In a great city like this there are
homes, and again there are homes. Some
are of prinCely elegance, with everything at
hand for the qualification Of the most capri.
Cious taste, where reason may hold Its feast
and the soul may have its flow. Here are
the rich made so by circumstances Of birth
or 10y mental and physical energies exercised
in the right sometimes in the wrong direC
ton. They merit what they have or they do
not merit 1t; YOU cannot tell which as YOU
stand outside and look with admiration upon
the house and It's possibilities of comfort
But depend upon II that ume Will hnd out
the unworthy and will eject them To make
room for others who are worthy. We say
time Is doing and will continue to do this,
but, OF course, changes in fortune are largely
Of ones own making There may be acCl-
dents, good ana bad, over which one has no
control, but as a rule one ge-s lust about
what he deserves. Certain II l. that no man
holds long more than he deserves. 1t -
always fastest travelling down grade, and,
as the rich and uudeserNIuE come down, the
poor and worthy 40 up II Is one OF the
good features OF our present society that this
is so. An uEdeServlnE man in high posi-
tiOn ought to tumble last, and a difficult Is
cent is discipline. It makes a man worthier
OF his attainments and more capable of en-
| joying them.
Then there are other Lumes-the Aomes OF
| the great middle class, comfortable in their
| appointments, and giving % the inmates that
| privacy which, while consistent with sOCia
| bllity, is vet sufficiently great To preserve
| the saCredneSs Of the family and to permit
| the growth OF individuality They are not
| luxurious, but they are charay .eri1sd mostly
| by those features OF adOTument which
| are the product OF the labor OF loving
| hands These manifestations OF affection
| money never can buy, and, when properly
| appreciated, they are known 10 be the real
| foundation Of happiness. la these homes
| where there are to be found mental and
| manual tOi!ers, intelligent and vIrtuous, /.
| the hope OF the nation. These homes neip &c
| swell the class above and, with sorrow be il
| said, sometimes the class below and they are
| recruited from both always 10 the advantage
| OF the recruits.
\ third class of homes, or raLner pretenses
| OF such, remains to Oe spoken Of They are
| the novels where DIRT and squaloT aud pow
| erty reign, and human beings made in Gods
| image are grOyelIug subjects They are
| simply stopping places, whence privacy auC
| decency have fled together and lett the bLeaT
| eyed shoppers TO their drinking, their CuTsinL
| and their vice. There may Oe a sort of con
| tentment here, but Il Is the CUnteutmeut o
| iorgetulness Of the past and careIessness O
| the iuture-the contentment Of stUpor of mine
| and moral sense, the COuteDtmeut that come,
| from companiOnshiP in wretchedness. In
| fortunately, in this class there are many
| Would that there were none
| These are the pictures. There are many
| shadlngs in each that are not here shown
| but We leave them to be drawn by the reader
| A good home is a treasure without price, anC
| the pity Is tuat u IS not always priced At IL
| true value.