The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-27
AT HOME AND ABROAD.

The wise ana loving motnef uses Il Ill
vine sort of policy when she sends the
little ones out to a party. She will not
let them go hungry. but gives them a
tolerably full stomach of the wholesome
good things of home. Then thereH be
hardly room for the enticing cheats of
the confccti1ner; they will hardly be able
to take much more on board, unless, like
little johnnie" they stand up" The
Son Of Sirach says Eating IS best at
home"
The Devil operates his vilCst meanness
when he posons the springs of home or
makes its dear comforts and delights dis
tasteful. And the boy or girl takes
long step towards misery and. vice when
he or she begins TO undervalue its royal
privileges.
The tastes and manners OF the genteel
anu pious home, well developed, well set
and thoroughly exercised make a positive
and uncompromising AVERSION to the vul-
gar. the ostentatious, the vile, no matter
what may be the glare of their pretension
or the glamour OF the social rabble In
their worship. a home education is the
requisite OF the true man and the gentle
man. Early instincts, early affections,
the whole flavor and character of life
are born and cherished under the intiu-
ences and in the light and air OF home.
And all the colleges and all the learning
and all the later social advantages in
the world can never supply the DEFICIENCIES
of d bad start. The full-grown tree Will
show the scratches and distortions and
cramps that befell the germ and the
twig. Penuriousness, niggardliness, lit
tleness, on the one hand. and vanity,
greed and extravaganza on the other
learned, impressed and taken on in child
hood, effectually dwarf, hamper or dis
sipate the soul for hfe's journey. and
familiarze the possibilities of eternal pun
ishment. And a mean, low, common
place and narrow range of ideas at home
will make the material worked there
quite incapable of the texture and bearing
Of the lady and gentleman.
The world is all full of costumers and
teachers for its great masquerade, and
can furnish you everything as good as the
real, from a wig TO a false toe. SO
man may wear himself clean out, heart,
soul, body and spirit. and be reduced to
a very anatomy. or ghost OF man, in
making "a fortune; then. with French ar
lists and masters, he may have himself
pieced and plastered and stuffed and sup
ported, until he looks for all the world
like a man, and he passes for one, and yet
be only rag baby or a walking apothe-
cary shop.
The soul satisfied with the marrow and
fairness of home. and warmed in its in
most being with the warmth and common
affection of a piou household, however
lowly. is fortified against the malaria, the
pestilence, the bleakness OF the world.
1t is satisfied from itself. furnished from
its own resources, lit with its own light
and grows and expands like a tree plant
ed by the waterside appropriating. after
divine style. all elements that make for
beauty and strength. all its avenues
barred against the poison and filth of
tainted atmosphere abroad.
The poorest home where virtue is honor
ed piety enlightens, and mutual affec-
ton warns, is more to be desired than
the most splendid palaces that wealth
rears and adorns. where they are all dis
credited, and manhood willis and withers.
twas "a good old teaching:
sir stay at home, and take an old mans
counsel:
Seek not TO bask thee by a strangers
freside.
our own blue smoke is warmer than their
fires,
And our poor fare is wholesome, though
It's homely.
But foreign dainties are poisonous though
tasty