Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-02-25
PURCHASE A HOME.
Ahe Personal Independence That Is In
ouloated by Housekeeping.


fes, replied the elderly man, cit will
De wise for you, because, il YOU trv. you
Will persevere.n
agree, adds a writer in the New Yorl,
weekly. And working-men, clerks and
others OF moderate incomes, let me tell YOU
why, prefacing it with the remark that
nave consulted with some of the best advis-
ers that could find, during several weeks
past.
A home for which you agree to pay
moderate price to-day, IL wisely located
near large or small city, is sure to in
crease in value on your hands. Suburban
lands have not yet begun to show Ameri-
cans the figures they will show. When one
hundred and seventy-fve millions of people
fill America, as they will during a life
time from this, land is to be the most valu-
able thing here. You will be more likely
to save money to pay the full debt, pro-
Vlded you have not purchased by too small
payment down to have reasonable
glimpse Of daylight ahead If your home is
pleasant to your family, the argument for
economy is pleasing and popular with all the
household. Remember the MORTGAGE.
Let us get the house clear" will seem a
less irksome caution than "Let's put by
something for a rainy day" Your sense
OF unity in the struggle will be constant.
All at ut, and always at it, will be not only a
thrifty domestic motto but will be q band of
love; mutual burdens and sacrifices make
affections, unless they become exasper.
ating by severity.
There is certain personal independence
that is inculcated by householding that can
be grown from no other soil At least it
runs in the Anglo-Saxon blood to love an
acre all ones own. am not now to be un-
derstood as raising any mooted question as
to the private ownership of land. am only
saying that mechanic or operative who
lives under his own roof feels more indie
pendent, he has more of the self-conse-
quence of citizenship, than the dweller Gin
his own hired house." There Is a firmness
in the tread of ones own doorstep, there
is welcome in the snap of ones own front
door-catch, a security in turning ones own
key when he lies down to sleep, that no
rented room can give. If one pays his tax,
he is little monarch on his own floor. If
his children smash glass or scratch the
wall, whose business is it? If the baby
cries loudly, well, the good neighbors are to
be commiserated perhaps, but there is no
one to pound on the floor above or growl at
you through the janitor. You are the LORD
of all you survey, and your noble Spouse
broken in her sleep in vain attempts to hush
the child and spare the breadwinner, is the
only one you care to pity.
Owning your own house, you become an
internal part of the school district, the vot
ing precinct, the vicinage. There is nothing
that concerns the neighborhood that is not
your concern. The highway, the gutter
the sanitation, the abatement of q nuisance,
the building of new library, the payment
of the church debt, the character of the
xxyhn fn wit hOy- al
girls that your boys may fall in love with
You are a fixture; you are of the soil You
are an essential part of the town,
and always a counsellor for good and
wholesome things. Beng permanent, you
brook no abiding evil; let the evils
get out, for You and yours are not to be
driven out by them. You change places
with life's annoyances. Heretofore the an
noyances have SAID to you: "If you do not
like us, why move" Now you reverse the
order. "No, move you'll" The effect on q
mans mlnd IS wonderful The evils OF life
have driven us with whip, from boarding
house to fat, from village to city, up and
down. Evil has seemed a tyrant. We
were the transient and fitting. Now, own
ing home, you stiffen with the authority
of a master. You drive away evil-you
seek to, at any rate; you plot not to dodge
an evil, but to annihilate it. You,confront
miserable things, and command: "Turn
Retreat am anchored. I'll think Of you
as transient"
The mental effect is seen all through a
man S life habit. This bad practice of pull
ing up and flying from things we do not
like-a practice that makes short tenures of
clerkships and hlre-ls changed. He who
owns home does not take offense at trifies
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that he can not now afford to 6 t mad and
flounce out of good position on every slight
provocation of an employers unreasonable
demand or temper. He must exercise self
control. He goes home to sleep over his
anger, and as his pleasant door-yard smiles
on him it seems to chide him. The very
front gate begs him: "Be patient. Am ]
not worth many insultsm The bed, in his
own familiar rom, the room where his chill
dren were born, and perhaps where the
baby boy breathed his last, speaks all so
eloauently of patience, of forbearance, and
charity. How many rowing nature has
been changed to settled habitude and per-
severing purpose by the matchless persua-
sion of ones own home. "My own Home,
bless God and please God, / will suffer long
before will lightly leave thee"
In time the house owner becomes lot
owner IN the cemetery on Jne village NIL
There, with the wall of marble head-stones
smiling to the church spires, there he and
his children often stroll on Sunday even
ings, when the lengthening shadows creep
across the glebe. There, on the well-kep;
mounds, repose the flowers that loving
hands keep fresh, flowers that grow from
the soil of your own home lot, flowers whose
roots the living children plant in May,
whose stocks they cut for the dead children
In July. Near by the church you love, the
familiar place in the old sanctuary, where
your boy first slept through services,
whittier the same whiskered boy returns in
after years to sit beside your gray hairs.
Owning your own house your neighbors
have learned TO love you by the memory OF
scenes of cheer at your table, year after
year. You have watched with their sick, as
they have with yours, you have been TO
their weddings, as they TO yours. The house
is you; it grows TO look like you; it is your
monument of years of tastes peculiarly
your own.
wish you well Of your struggle, reader.
God help you to pay of the last cent of the