San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-15

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his home is in hell, and will always b
found seeking his heaven somewher
else. The man who thinks his HON
is heaven, who actually regards it a
the best place on earth, to that MAJ
it is heaven. 1t is the faculty o
thus thinking that is to be cultivated
There is more happiness, real pleas
ure, true peace, in half block 0
cOntentment than in a ten-acre trac
of discomfort and dissatisfaction
Home is only home to the man an,
woman and child and dog who flint
a home in it, Home is the place wher
we are safe, at peace, at rest, trul!
the place that is ours, this is home. Il
that home is not real home, then it i.
real purgatory. Home happiness IL
the only happiness, because it is the
only happiness that is our own.
Home made happiness is happiness
made at home. Made in the home by
the home folks. There is no under.
selling such happiness as this. 1t is
the home material in the raw, and il
is of home manufacture, and largely
of home consumption. 1t holds the
home market to the exclusion of
every thing else in the happiness line.
Not that it is exclusive or selfish,
for it is not. Knowing that it has a
good thing it is willing that others
should share in it. Knowing that it
has a good thing, it will not let others
destroy it. What better thing can be
found among men and women, boys
and ggirls, babies and puppies, horses
and domestic animals of all kinds,
servants and all the rest, than home
made felicity.
There has been a long discussion
over the tariff. Protection and non
protection have been the watch
words of the two great parties, but
the protective idea has won the day.
If it is worth while TO protect our
industries and build up home creations
in the way of manufactures of silk
and cotton, and wool and all other
stuffs, to protect the growth of our
Trans and our mill outputs, if it is
worth while to do this it is more worth
while to protect the happiness of our
homes and foster home felicity. That
statesman will go down to posterity
loaded with the blessings of a race,
who will devise some method of levy
ing a tariff on foreign happiness and
creating a demand for the home made
article.
This protective idea is called the
American idea in politics. This want
of home made happiness is called
abroad the American method of home
living. This is libel on our American
homes. This is true. There are no
homes that are so much homes as
ours. Homes for an, where every
member of that home group has his
and her rights recognized, as they are
recognized in no other homes. While
this is true, it is also true that home
made happiness is not priced as much
as it should be, and is often bartered
or set aside or moderated, being held
piness, outside pleasures, being held
of more worth. This is the great
mistake of American life, in too many
instances.
The raw material of happiness is
found in greater supply in American
homes than in any other. There is
less privation in these homes. There
Is less assumption of authority in
these homes. The wives and mothers
are Of more importance in these
homes. The children are of more con-
sequence and treated with greater
consideration in these homes. All
these are the raw material of hap
piness. All that is needed is for the
mothers and fathers and sons and
daughters to take up this raw mater,
ial and weave it into the fabric of all
the life of home. With all the home
group employed in making happiness
in the home, not to sell, but for home
consumption, there will be no scarcity
of the article.
How changed the aspect of some
as soon as a guest crosses the door.
stone. Every member of the family
turns in to aid in making the life OF
that guest pleasant, and the whole
pleasure of the family is increased
The usual chickering's and contentious
are not heard, and at least in the
presence and within the hearing OF
the guest, all is peace and harmony
Suppose that every member of tina
home group was considered welcome
guest by every other member, wha'
would probably be the result? II