The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-05-16
PURCHASE A HOME.

PURCHASE A HOME.
The Personal Independence That IL In
culcated by Housekeeping.
"Will it be visel"
eyes. }" replied the elderly man, sit will
be wise for you, because, II you try, you
will persevere."
Iagree, adds writer in the New York
Weekly. And working-men, clerks and
others OF moderate incomes, let mo tell you
why, prcfacing 1t with the remark that I
have consulted with some OF the best advis-
ers that I could find, during several weeks
past.
A home for which you agree to pay q
moderate price to-day, IL wisely located
crease in value on your hands. Suburban
lands have not yet begun to show Amcri-
cans tho figures they will show. When one
hundred and seventy-ive millions Of people
fill America, as they will during life
time from this, land is to be the most valu-
able thing hero. You will be more likely
10 save money to pay the full debt, pro-
tided you have not purchased by too small
o payment down to have q reasonable
glimpse of daylight ahead. fyour home is
pleasant to your family, the argument for
economy is pleasing and popular with ail the
household. "Remcmber the mortgage.
Let us get the house clear" will seem q
less irksome caution than "Lct's put by
something for rainy day." Your sense
of unity in the struggle will be constant.
All att, aud always at 1t, will be not only
thrifty domestic motto but will be a band of
love; mutual burdens and sacrifices make
affections, unless they become exasper.
ating by severity.
There is q certain personal independence
that is inculcatcd by householding that can
be grown from no other soil. At least it
runs in the Anglo-Saxon blood to love all
acre all ones own. / am not now to be un-
derstocd US raising any mOoted question as
to the private ownership of land / um only
saying that q mechanic or operative WHO
, lives under his own roof feels more inde-
pendent, he has more of the sclf-consc-
tucnce of citizenship, than the dwellcr s.in
his own hired house," There ls firmness
, In the tread of ones own doorstep, there
is q welcome in tho snap of onc's own front
door-catch, a security in turning one's own
key when he lies down to sleep, that no
! rented room can give. II one pays his tax,
, he is u little monarch on his own floor. II
his childrcn slnnsh a glass or scratch the
wall, whose business is III If tho baby
CRIES loudly, well, the good neighbors are to
be cominlserated 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 brcauwinncr, 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 vicinagc. There is nothing
that concerns the nciglborhood that is not
your concern. The highway, the gutter,
/ the sanitation, the abatement of IL nuisance,
tho building of now library, the payment
of the church debt, the character of the
boys who associate with your boys, and
| girls that your boys may fall in love with.
You are fixture; you are Of the soil. You
are an essential part of tho town,
and always O counsellor for good and
| wholesome things. Being 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 lifc's annoyanccs. Heretofore the am
noyanccs have SAID to you: ssIf you do not
! like us, why move" Now you reverse tho
order. mo, move you'll" The effect on Il
mans mind IS wonderful. The evils of life
nave driven us with wnip, from boarding
house to fiat, from village to city, up and
down. Evil has seemed q tyrant. We
We're the transient and fitting. Now, own
ing i. home. you stiffcn with tho authorit,
of q master. You drive away evil--yor
seek to, ut any rate; you plot not to dodSe
an evil, but to annihilate it. You confront
miserable things, and commands: ssTurn
Retreat! am anchored. I'LL think of VOL
as transient
Tho mental effect is seen all through
man life habit. This bad practice of pull
ing up and flying from things we do no
like-a practice that makes short tenures o
clerkships and hire-ls changed. He VIII,
owns homo does not take offcnse at triflc
and 1y off the handle. He knows full wei
that he cum not now afford to g 1t mad AM
founce outof a good position on every Sigh
provocation Of an employers unreasonable
demand or temper. He must exercise self
control. He goes home to sleep over hi
anger, and as his pleasant door-yard smile
on him it seems to chidc him. The YER
front gatc bcgs him: "Be patient. Am
not worth many insultss" Tho bed, in hi
own familiar rom, the room where his chi
dren were born. and perhaps where th
baby boy breathed his last, SPEAKS all S
eloquently Of patience, Of forbearance, an
charity How many rowing nature hu
been changed to settled habitude and per
scvering purpose by the matchless persus
sion of one's own home. sNly own Home
bless God and please God, I will suffer Ion
before will lightly leave thee"
In time the house owner becomes IL
owner in the cemetery on the village hill
: There, with the wall Of marble hcud-stonc
smiling to the church spires, there he an
Ills children often stroll OH Sunday evcl
ings, when the lcngthcning shadows cree
across the glebc. There, on the well-kcr
mounds, rcpose the flowers that lovin
! hands keep fresh, flowers that grow fro,
the soil of your own home lot, flowers who's
roots tho living children plant in Ma.
!, whose stocks they cut for the dead childrc
. in July. Near by the church you love, til
, familiar place in the old sanctuary, whcl
your boy first slept through service
whittier the same whiskered boy returns
!. after years to sit beside your gray hairs.
, Owning your own house your neighbol
+ have learned to love you by the memory
4 scenes OF cheer ut your table, year aft,
year. You have watched with their sick,
4 they have with yours, you have been
j. their weddings, as they to yours. Tho hou,
@ is you; it grows to look like you; it is 20,
!. monument Of years Of tastes peculiar