Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-02
DEFINITIONS OF HOME.

Some beautiful Sentiments About That
Place Which Is Loved by All.
The London Tit-Bits offered a prize for
the best definition of home. Here are some
of the best of 5000 answers sent in.
The golden setting III which the bright
est jewel is mother"
A world of strife shut out world OF
love shut in.
A ship upon the ocean Of life, where tho
captain is assisted by a first class mate.
An arbor which shades when the sun
shine of prosperity becomes too dazzling; a
harbor where the human bark finds shell
ter in the time of adversely.
Home is the blossom of which heaven IS
the fruit
Home is place that a married man
loves before his mother-in-law comes to
stay there.
Home is PERSONS estate obtained with
out injustice, kept without disQuietude; a
place where time is spent without repent
ance, and which is ruled by justice, mercy
and love.
A grand old mirror, through which both
sides of us are seen.
That source of comfort which youth does
not fully appreciate which the young men
and maidens lovingly desire, which the
middle aged generally possess, which the
old rightly value.
a hive in which, like the industrious bee,
youth gamers the sweets and memories of
life for age to mediate and feed upon.
The place where the cook spoils the din
ner, where the baby spoils the nights rest,
and where late breakfast for an early
train spells the digestion.
a place easily left but not so easily for
gotten.
The place where the great are some
times small and the small often great.
The divinely appointed school for man.
kind, where husband and wife, parents
and children mutually educate one an
other.
When good, a mans kingdom and ha-
ven of refuge; when Indifferent, parade
ground of duty; when bad, the torturers
cage in which Of old the victim could
i neither move nor rest nor stand nor lie.
The kingdom Of love whose queen Is
"mother"
The worlds workshop for the manufac-
ture of character.
A mint, in which our characters (the
coins of life are stamped and impressed.
A junction on loves railway.
The best place for married man after
business hours.
Home is the cosiest, kindlest, sweetest
place in all the world, the scene of our
purest earthly joys and deepest sorrows.
| A place the clubman retires to when
weary of his club.
The only spot ON earth where the faults
and failiLgs of fallen humanity are hidden
under the mantle Of charity.
w here mother lives.
The fathers kingdom, the children's
paradise, the mothers world.
The jewel casket containing the most
precious of all jewels-domestic happiness.
The place at which the bread winner
looks to obtain some little rest and quiet
ness after day OF toll, and the favorite
sojourning place Of ones offspring while
there is aught TO be got out of it, and the
place just as studiously avoided by them
when their pecuniary position would war
rant something being got out Of them.
Where you arc treated best and you
grumble most.
Home is central telegraph Office of hui
man love into which run inuumerable
wires of affection, many OF which, though
extending thousands Of miles, are never
disconnected from the one great terminus
The center Of our affections, around which
our hearts best wishes Irvine.
a little hollow scoOped out of the windy
hill of the world where we can be shielded
from its cares and annoyances.
a popular but pnradOXiCal institution
in which woman works in the absence of
man and man rests in the presence of wo-
man.
a working model of heaven with real
angels in the form Of mothers and wives
The place where all husbands should be
at night.
The place in which you live till you are
old enough to get away from it, and to
which you never fail TO return when there
is nowhere else to 20.
The antipodes Of bad lodgings
The place dearest to those who have
lost it,
An abode on which the inmate, the
superior being called man" can pay back
at night with 80 per cent. interest every
annoyance that has met him in business
during the day.
The only place on earth where a man is
seen as he truly is.
A place that is either made or married
by woman.
A place we are always unhappy away
from and never contented in.
An oasis in the desert Of life where one
can find shady retreat from the sun Of
toll and drink from the well OF happiness.
a seat of bliss where naught's amiss.
A universal lodestone.
a school wherein We are taught the most
important lessons of life, for they const-
tute the basis upon which we build the
whole superstructure of our characters.
Mrs. William IL. Vanderbilt sometimes
a. IL. l.,