Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-05-01
HOME JOYS.
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Chicago Tribune

He shall be free at home.--Deut. xiv Is.
10 Adam, the first man with a
soul, Paradise was home. To
every true son Of Adam, home is
a paradise. Home joys are the
most delightful earth affords.
Anything that will make man
find any spot on earth dearer than
his home is bad thing. There is
magic in that little word "Home." F."
God help the man who has never
| had a home. It is the sweetest
type of heaven. "Six things are
necessary to create it, SO says
Hamilton: Integrity is the arch
itect, tidiness the upholsterer. 1t
is warmed by affection, it is light
ed with cheerfulness. Industry
is the ventilaror, renewing the
atmosphere day by day, while all
over, as protecting cenopy, moth
ing will suffice except the blessing
of Cod
The home is the eternal protest
against individualism-i. e., vs..
selfshness. The first lessons Of
unselfishness are learned at home,
in the family. In the "politics
of Aristotle we see how the old
Greek who taught the world the
best it knows of many things re-
| garded the relations Of man to the
body polite. "The city comes
first" Aristotle says, ''the indi-
vidual second" Since the city is
but an aggregate of families, we
may say, in idea, i'll Importance
'shome comes first, indlvid
ual second" This is true to
fact as it is in theory. Another
interesting thing we learn from
that early Greek and rarely cul-
tured civilization. They call
ed man in Athens, who
would not fulfil his duty to the
city. would not enjoy the priv
leges and franchises of the collect
i've life, a man who lived by him
self, for himself, in himself, had,
that is, no home life; lived, that
is, not for others they called him
idiotes-w which your Greek schol-
ars know is almost letter for let
ter our word idiot. That was the
name they gave him who either
had no home or made for himself
none. 1t literally means selfish
/ man, who shrinks from his duty
in living with and for others.
/ 1t is in the family life at home
that we begin our lessons in use
| fulness. From early childhood
| this truth is hammered into us by
| the sweet, if sometimes sad, ex-
perience of ''bearing on another's
burdens" while we ''rejoice with
them that do rejoice and weep
| with them that weep Amidst
the endearments Of ones home,
and the interlacings of varied in
terests, and the fine tracery of
divers types of character man
learns the reality OF the truth that
"none of us liveth unto himself,
and no man dieth unto himself"
These general considerations will
make clear our duty. 1t is not
necessary here to refer to to home
duties on the part of any but young
men. That small children owe
obedience to parents, and that
parents owe infin itely more to
home than to provide for its main
tenance or superintend its internal
management, goes without saying.
The man who loves his club
more than his household is un-
worthy a home or the name OF
father. He must not wonder il
; he has not the love, even if hap
PLY he can retain the respect OF
his own children. The senseless,
giddy thing that does nothing but
bear children, aud reluctantly does
that, and finds more pleasure in
society than in her own home has
no standing in the community and
no real affection for anybody.
What can please a mother more,
what can do better to repay her
love and tender offices through SO
many years, that to let her feel
that nothing gives you greater
nlassnre than 70 be with her. con