Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19
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USo ASu IN WOMEN
V"lt'ns at my house who left a benedic-
t'on on every room-in the blessing they
asked at the table, in the prayer they Of
Tered 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 cou%ntenances; and their de.
parture was the sword of bereavement.
The Queen of Norway, Sweden and Den.
mark had a 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 p~lainest earthenware
IL a 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
q home of your own.
1t is the delusion as to what is necessary
for a home hat binders so MANY from es.
tablishing one. Thirty rooms are not nee.
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten,
nor five, nor three.
In the right way plant a table, and
couch, n knife, and fork, and q cup,
and a chair. and you can raise a young
paradise. Just start a home, on however
small a 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 p%ostponing a home until they
can lave 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 w firesides and their own altar.
In this great continent there is room
enough for every nan and woman to have
a home. Morals and civilization and re-
ligion demand it.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett-C outts
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 tails: but
what about the honest middle classes who
are able and willing to work and yet have
small incomes: Let the capitalists, in
splred 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 imprisoned, and
Heaven-descended word, ''home."
Young married man., as soon as you can,
buy a place, even if you lave to put on it
a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much abused mortgage, which
is ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent
and provident is the beginning of a COM
potency and a 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 super1uities and all luxuries
until you can say, Everything in this
house is mine, thank God! every tim
Der, every brick, every foot Of plumbing,
every door SILL" Do not have your chill
dren born in a clearinghouse, and do not
yourself be buried from one. Have a
place where your children can shout and
sing, and romp, without being overhauled
for the racket. Have a kitchen where YOU
ran do cnr,pthinp tpy-o,6 tho rofo,,,,4io~
of evil cookery and the lessening of this
nation of dyspeptics. AS Napoleon lost
one of his great battles by an attack of in
digestion. so many men have such a daily
wrestle with the food swallowed that they
have no strength left for the battle of life;
and though your wife may know how to
play on all musical Instruments and rival
a prima donna, she is not well educated
unless she can boil an Irish potato and
broll IA mutton chop, since the diet some-
times decides the fate of families and ma
tions.
Have a sitting-room with at least one
easy chair, even though you have to take
the turns at sitting in it, and books out
of the public library of your own
purchase for the making of
your family intelligent, and checker
boards and guessing matches with an &C.
c%asional blind mans buff, which is, of all
games, my favorite. Rouse up your home
with all styles of innocent mirth, and gath
er up to your children's nature a reservoir
of exuberance that will pour down re-
freshing streams when life gets parched,
and the dark days come, and the lights so
out, and the laughter is smothering into a
sob.
First, last and all the time, have Christ
in your home. Julius Caesar Gained the
fears of an a%ffrighted boatnan who was
rowing him in a stream, by stating: $50
long as Caesar is with you in the same
boat, no harm can happen" And what
ever storm of adversely or bereavement or
poverty may strike your home, all is well
us long as you have Christ the King on
board. Make your home so far-reaching
in its influence that down to the last mo-
ment of your children's life you may hold
them with a heavenly charm.
At seventy-six years of age, the Demos
themes of the American Senate lay diving
at W%ashington-I mean Henry Clay, Of
Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside,
and "the old nan eloquent" after a long
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