The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-03-15

Rome soon all er and bought 1t, and
While she was out visiting slipped
ii IN the dlnlng-roOm and we man.
aged 10 keep her out until the sup
per bell rang, and nobody said any
thing us she walked through the
portlere, but all Of us were watch
ing and listening Mrs. Arp oan see
more with her too eyes and see it
quicker than anybody, and she
paused upon the threshold aud ex-
claimed 'sWeH, did | ever; isn't
il beautiful: just what | wanted -
and she approached her lord with
a maiden's grace and paIted him on
one cheek and kissed him upon the
other aul then perused The refrig-
orator to her hearts content. 1t
was all right and peace and tram
guilty abounded for right smart
while. Next morning the ice husi-
ness was duly iuaugurated, and just
to show what a fool | am about
some things, | viii. confess that |
thought refrigerator was a contrl-
vance to keep things cool without
ice. | never dreamed that [ was
enlailing upon my LOOr pocket
| just thirty cents day for three or
four months in the year But when
money brings smiles and sweet
milk and sohd butter all mixed up
together, it pays, and | am going
t1Iun on that line as long as | can.
Home lle is the brightest part of
life and the best. A mans home is
his castle, his church, his flower
garden, his music hall, his contiu-
ual delight and comfort, or it is his
curse. 1t is just what the husband
and wife choose to make il-a hell
or heaven. But | have always
thought that home was more 'sa-
cred to the vile than the husband
more feminine than masculine, for
she has 10 dwell there and ABIDE
continually, and ii ought 10 be
made as attractive as possible. and
as woman loves ornament more
Than man and has all eye and a
heart for the beautiful both in ma.
lure and art, ii becomes every good,
thoughtful, considerate husband, TO
indulge his wife in everything he
can afford. Suppose he doesn't care
snap Tor lace curtains OF carpets,
or papered walls, or china dishes,
or pretty pictures, or beautiful flow
ers, he has tied unto him being
who does and she cant get away
from The place that Is TO be her pris-
on or her pleasure until she dies.
Sometimes | get worried because
there is so rtuch cooking, and so
much cleaning Hp, and securing,
and washing. and SO many things
that have TO be mended and re-
placed, and.my memory goes back
TO the primitive days of my youth,
when we lived in II little humble
house Of three rooms, with little
square porch in front. TheIeWere
but two rooms in front, and a slI I'd
room attachad-a shed room that
was moi ceiled, and my brother and
slept there, and | have never
heard any music half so sweet as
the sound Of the rain rs 1t patter
ed on thai roof on a long winter
night. 1t seemed to me the sweet
lullaby OF the angels, and ii almost /
brings the tears from my fearless
eyes now as | recall the tenderness !
with which our good mother can e |
every night aud tucked the cover
around us, and SAID "gOod night. |
INV darlings.n There was no glass |
in the window-nolhing but a
battered shuttcr-no ceiling or
plastered wall, no fire place, and +
yet We We're happy and contenled,
aud slept in comfort and had pleas
ant dreams and were up with The /
morning sun
"That never rose wink too soon,
Nor brought too long Il day"
Those old times were mighty
good times for we did aot know
that better times would ever come,
and imagine that half a century
from now, when my wife and /
have been long under the sod. and
children will be looking back to
these very days as days of pumi-
tive simplicity, aud yet more full
of happiness and sweet content /
than any they ever enjoyed. And
all tins comes from the bOuyancy |
aud brightness that belongs To
ynuth-to chilhhood. What a beau
Iilul halo Sun rounds verylhing I
then. What a luxury OF delight TO 4
fish. OF to hunt. or to top chestnut /
Trees, or 10 pick chInkapins, or 10 4
gather walnuts and blackhaws and
maVpops or TO wade in the branch .
and hunt birds neSts, or tn catch .
young rabbits or 10 set traps for
birds. The world is very lovely TO
a child, aud kwould keep il so ii /,
could. would rather be a child
of nature than a child of art |
have no greater horror than to see
young girls shut up in converts
amid mnnastics. ascelics, miSan-
thropic teachers-cranks who have
soured on the word and are doing
uenance with solemn faces and con- 4
nnual prayers. We are what the /
Creator made uS-sOcial, cheerful /
and glad by nature just as the I
lambs. | see that some poor mis- /.
cradle fools are trying to write 4
down marriage as mistake and .
fraud, and they are cranks TOO.
The marriage relation Is The aain-
raj relation, and when Dame Ma