Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-03
The ENDURING HOME:


According to '.0ath,~ Personality IL Nss
TO BE Found In tho city.
1t Is city property which Il perish
able thing, and not property in the
country. Hardly house. which Is
preserved, which has historical or
pious "reminiscences remains in any Of
our cities. The John Hancock house
OF Boston had 10 60 at last; the old
South Church might as we'll be torn
down as to be what It Is, kind OF ped
ding bazaar. The Hamilton House in
New York barely escaped sacrifice by
being turned over to q church. But
country houses are generally found
where they stood when the man Of his
tory put them up
You never could find Shakespeare's
house in London if he ever had owned
one there. The bard of nature returned
to his cattle market town and there ac-
CURED and altered one OF the best resi-
dences, and to this day 1t stands evil
dence which, ike the old mans tomb,
pulverizes the small beings who would
get days fame by explaining Shakes
peare away. have always noticed
that when ! went 10 hunt up the evil
dences of men OF celebrity found them
| nearly perfect in the country and hard
ly ever recoverable in the city. II you
want to see where John Jay lived 50
| much longer than his contemporaries,
go to his farm at Bedford. forty miles
above New York City.
II you seek for Dewitt Clinton's roof
tree, do not ask where it is in New
York. but go out to Maspeth, in Long
Island, and there, close to the big GEM
eteries and oil refneries, stands exactly
as it was the statesman's home, where
no doubt he had more self-respect than
In all his political victories. He died
very young for such man, occupying
the Office OF Governor, which is seat
OF nettles- You will find Oliver Perry's
birthplace still standing among the
rocks and sand-hills in Rhode Island
Men who only lived in towns left no
more footprints than are to be found
upon the brick pavementa Hence tho
ever recurring desire not merely to Duy
a place in the country, but to build one
and see it nodded to ones own images.
Garfield had house at Mentor. which
will probably stand for two hundred
years, in some Of its parts, even though
fire should consume most Of it He
said that in order to work of the men
tai fatigue of Congress he had to go
back and pitch hay upon the wagon as
he did when boy. You can locate
Garfield for the next several centuries
by his country home, but where can
you locate Chester A. arthur. who al
ways lived in town. and whose house
merits glance on Lexington avenue
New York, being indistinguishable from
thousands OF others, having not one
feature that is distinctive or ornamental
about it.
But Mt Vernon remains all that We
can put our hands on of Wa shington,
except his old buc2skin brooches.
Posterity he had not; the painters like
Stuart sublimAted the man to their
conception of what tho public expected;
but when you go to Mt. Vernon you
|
man somewhat WORKOUT in the gener a
service, you can smell him, handle
him and criticize him. You can no
say, 'In this closet he kept his whisky
. here he turned and expressed a suspi
cion to the servant that somebody hat
been tampering with the whisky. Thi
fire place he poked up with that OLD
shovel Here on the porch he sat o
evenings and heard the chatter o
some French or German traveller. wht
! expected before he went to bed. at tn,
risk of his eye-sight, to put dow
I every thing that Washington gruuto
. and assented to, or if he tilted back hi
, chair and crossed his egs." C ath il
Cincinnati Enquirer.