St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-30

dwell with those that constitute the
whole family? Just think of the sub
ject and see what depths are in this
one question-what is home any way?
Some may say home is what you
make it, and some people seem to think,
it consists in having a house very finely
furnished. and nothing else required
beyond the eatables that must be fur
niShed daily: then there must be just so
many friends to be entertained, and
everything that is required to make the
friends feel at home while they
remain in the house, whether
the stay be long or short.
There must be help in the kitchen and
perhaps one or two others. to take care
of my lady as we'll as the rooms outside
of the kitchen. ALI this and much more
is the requirement of my lady that goes
to make up her home as she dominates
her place of residence. Is it home?
To her it may be just all she wants. but
where is the depth of her intellectual
ability to discover that house finely
furnished may be no home e. all, only a
place of refuge when there was no other
place to go, and she may really feel that
it is home, and require nothing more
q
She may ably discuss the latest novel of
the "blOod and thunder" type, talk of
the latest new opera, criticise those en-
gagged ''in the play" and talk gushingly
of some new or noted artist or singer,
and be au fait on all that applies to con-
cert or theater, or dinners and dress.
But these things never yet constituted
home and never will. unless the husband
that furnished that house is heart and
soul made out of the same material, and
agrees with her. Even then it is not the
home that signifies home. 1t is no
home in the real sense of the word, but
is merely place of resort when other
places are not open for their amuSe-
ment or entertainment, and they must
return to their own domicile for the
time being and pass the time away until
some other amusement is presented to
their view.
Some one has written, 1.-THE home is
where the heart is" and that many ac-
count for the manner in which some
people exist, for their hearts seem to be
filled with just about nothing at all but
the places of amuSements-Often of a
very low order of amusement at that,
and they 60 because it is so dull at
home." They do not want to stay at
home, and they have no conception OF
what home should be beyond its fur
nishing and the care the servants take
of this so-called home of theirs.
And yet there are homes of wealth
wherein there may be much money eX-
pended in its adornment, and such do
exist where the whole family never
feel it dull or at all weary at any time
Of the year, and they know very little
of the theater or concert hall, and sell
dom look for happiness abroad, for with
them home is where tho loved ones are.
Into the homes of such people, be
they rich or poor, the man that has pro-
vided it goes with feeling of restful-
ness born of the consciousness that rest
from toll is there as well as those that
give him welcome home, for love for
himself alone is there, and he knows it.
All that money can purchase to embel-
fish that home is nothing to him then,
for he has left that part of his life down
town and come home to rest and have
frolic with the children and forget that
his head ached with the weight OF
downtown working hours. There ism
superstitious pride in that house, for
there of a surety you will find educated
heads and hearts that know and feel
that to some are given ten talents of
gold and to others only one or none at
all.
Have you not known such homes and
such people that sometimes will lift the
burden from your own life and give you
a glimpse of a heaven beyond? You
will ind such a home within the four
walls of one room, that serves for par
lor and kitchen, bedroom and all, be-
cause 1t is the home where love rules,
and God is recognized and his rules
obeyed. If you have never known such
homes, then you've missed one of the
great pleasures of life in it's best sense
Of-what is a home? And yet who can
tell the requ irements that constitute
that home?
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.