The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-22
ABOUT THE FIREPLACE.
The symbol of Hospitality and Its
Various Expressions.


From the Ladies' Home journal.
The motto, whose revival is noted, is the
expression in architecture of some senti-
ment suitable to the place TO which 1t is
applied and eternal in its significance. 1t
is more frequently and more noticeably in
domestic architecture than elsewhere that
the motto is found. Scarcely country
house of sufficient size to boast hall and
fireplace but announces in script or text
a welcome to all guests or some apprecia-
ton of the comforts of its four walls. The
favorite place for this motto is over the
fireplace, either above or below the mantei
shelf, and OF all the old ones, East or
west home Is BEST" with its variety OF
expressions, is the favorite. "A mans
house is his CASTLE"
Home is the resort
OF love, of joy, of peace;"
"a mans best things are nearest him.;
Our house is ever at your service You
gods provide thee" Any. one of these will
as appropriately welcome the stranger as
the friend.
%Be thou familiar" is a striking welcome,
and the first phrase of Capt. Cuttle's ia
NOUS toast MAY We never want a
friend" is also inspiring.
1t is said that in the hall of Mark
Twains home at Hartford Conn, the fol-
lowing is craven over the fireplace: The
ornament of a house is the guests who
and heat bless We the Lord, has been used
also over a fireplace With appropriate eff
feet.
Latin phrases are frequently used. A
great favorite is. "Omne meum est au-
tenn tuum, which is easily translated as
IAN mine is thine
Deus nobis haec otia fecit'' is also ap-
propriate-"God has given US this ease.
"Nullus est locus domestica sede Jucun-
dior''-"No place is more delightful than
ones own fireside"-iS equally effective.
The SDaco over library doors and win
dows as well as over the fireplace is also
used for the inscribing of suitable senti-
ments Some few that are appropriate for
this purpose are: There is an art of read
ing" '"The monuments of vanished
minds" Infinite riches in little room, -
Some books are to be tasted, others to
be swallowed and some few to be chewed
and digested.
The Inscription, Medicine for the soul. .
brary at Thebes. should be used over the
place might be placed with effect:
"Old wood to burn,
Old friends to trust,
Old authors to read.
Another fsvorite place for such inscrip-
tons is. the nursery fireplace. Mother
purpose. Popes familiar couplet,
'Behold the child, by Natures kindly law,
Pleased with rattle. tickled with a
is also successfully used.
"God rest We, little children" and "A
child in a house is a well spring OF pleas
ure" are also favorites.
over a dining room buffet there has
been engraved, Now good digestion wait
on appetite" In music. room the walls
bear, Music is said to be the speech of
angels" 1.-The hidden soul of harmony"
and countless other suitable devices.
And SO it goes-scarcely room in. any
house but might properly bear some senti-
rent Of welcome or advice.
-Maarten Martens, the author Of 1.-THE
Sin of Joost Avelingh" and Gods Fool, -
was educated to be a barrister, with the
intention that he would go into politics,
but like his hero in The Greater Glory.
he preferred the life of letters He writes
in English, instead of his native tongue for
artistic reasons, as well as for the sake
of the larger public to be reached. He
thinks that Dutch is very fine for higher
prose or poetry, but that for lighter litera-
ture English is superior. 1t is more f1ex-
ible and nimbler.
in private life Mr.. Asquith Is said to
be impartially disagreeable to every one
he meets while Mr.. Chamberlains man
ners are charming and he is the most
pleasant of hosts.
John f. Hudson, president OF the Bell
Telephone Company, is one of the best
Greek scholars in America.