The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-29

worse, by the tender recollections of home,
fond mothers prayers, an indulgent
fathers counsels, OR a sisters or brothers
tenderness.
Yes, whoever helps to make true home
confers benefit on mankind that no man
can fully estimate. Indeed, the influence
of the true home for good is absolutely in
calculable, and reaches many even that
never enter its inner circle. Simply to get a
glimpse of it is to receive an impulse toward
better things, to obtain more exalted view
of life, and to feel an access of faith in God
and the immortality of the human soul.
1t is like a vision of the gIories of the New
Jerusalem aud the everlasting habitations,
and no one can be wholly bad who has
seen such things.
In most cases a man or woman is what
his or her home influences have made him
or her, and the homeless child is always at a
disadvantage as compared with one who
has good home. We too often are blind to
this fact in our lives. The homeless child is
indeed to be pitied, being deprived of so
much of life's sweetness and brightness, and
knowing nothing by actual experience of
mothers gentle sympathy and fathers
loving care, OF OF the innocent pleasures
which kind parents know how to provide
in the home circle and which, far beyond
anything else, make childhood the happiest
period of life The individual who starts
out in life from weIl.ort!ered home is quite
sure to prove q useful member Of society,
for pleasant home associations inspire that
confidence in a person which insures him
success in any honorable undertaking.
There are many things to be considered
in genuine home-making, but the great
essential, that without which everything
else amounts to nothing, is unselfish affec-
ton in the home makers. Selfishness and
unkindness are the chief home-destroyers
and must be sleeplessly guarded against by
those who wish to make and keep happy
homes; for where either holds sway, true
home life is an impossibility. Love and
kindness constitute the tie that joins the
members Of the home circle in joyous and
harmonious union of souls, and these all
true home makers will diligently cultivate.
It is warm-heartedness, first, last and all the
time, that the successful home-maker needs.
Among the material requisites to home.
making are an attractive abiding place and
proper environment, which latter must
include good air and light. OF course, there
are many minor points of difference between
q city home and country home, while in
all the more important particulars all true
homes are alike. City homes, as rule, do
not offer as good opportunities as those in
the country for exterior Or lawn decoration.
That however, IS OF no consequence, as the
rule applies to all homes, regardless of loca-
ton, that they should be made as beautiful
as circumstances will permit, after all reas.
enable considerations of light and air have
been met. A beautiful home is a never
failing source of satisfaction both to the
indweller and the wayfarer that may pass
by.
People of means and good taste may
make their homes perfect dreams of beauty,
but they cannot we'll make them too beauti-
full, as long as the comfort and happiness of
the inmates are sought and promoted.
Surely money cannot be expended to better
purpose than in making and adjoining
home fer ones self and loved ones and fur
nishing it with all that is best calculated to
foster in the inhabitants thereof d love of
home, as we'll as a love of the true, the
beautiful and the good; and even poor
people will best secure their own happiness
by toIling and saving to scquire and embel-
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