The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-19

home this feeling of superiority and kindly
patronage Their hearts DO not turn with
warmth to the old firesde
one young man said his mother wrote
! privately that his father would miss him
'dreadfuly' and his father wrote pr-
vately thar ''Dother would he SO dsap-
| pointed that he felt he ought to go but
II he mad his own way he would rather
stay in New York. In this case we hap
pen to know that both father and mother
VINO had longed and waited for "a sight
of their boy would have urged him not TO
come II they had dreamed that he would
Ike II better TO stay away Let us hope
ne had the grace to keep his liking to
| MINIS II and to realize that the home spot,
where love awaited him and the home
ways that meant love and care for him.
we're after all. better than anything the
outside world could give
Young people are apt TO forget that the
heartlife of those who stay at home be-
comes like many little streams all flowing
together into one big pool. That deep
water represents the love of the house
hoid for the absent boy, and there is con-
st1ntlT flowing into it the tenderness of
me Old grandmother, the pride of the
ia'her the anxiety of the mother. the af-
lection OF the maiden aunts and the elder
Invalid sister, who will never make a home
90 atr own, and the admiration ~ tho
niue boys and girls TO whom the bip
pre'hsr Is uhe model OF all that is manly
anu me All this feeling moves toward
NV .ui..II'oh center The boys heart, on
~ contrary, is like fountain from which
lioWs out his love, sympathy. interest ad-
m'rauoh and energy in a multitude of die
.sieut directions. The home hearts nnur
,nehSeNes unon him. He pours his owu
ne upon everything else, retaining a III,
''e uhuercurrent of affection for the hon,r
49,, ioVa nome as he may he comes 10
,'i,t hf~-4etardlng house in a big citv
WIN lis pretense of social life and tic Mi,
tune Of many kinds Of more mr. loss a III
n, people. He likes the table Win it,
SS,a'lng lights and guyly dressed women
~ enJoSs lts second-class cooking and its
prelehsion Of hrst-clas service sc a,;,hos
ied IN butler who opens the door and
~ :. nus me furnace and washes the windows
'ne intervals when he is not servirr
cIoso |oi9 IN crumbled jacket buttoned
N'ose 10 nlde many a greasy stain
Nhny q fellow in this kind If ho
not having kp2.&San anything dfFe rem, ran-
e , ne Is seeing social life and likes his
on''ly NAH BEDROOM. where he can hr,u,
,"e o'hFr fellows IN to have a smoke far
o''''r than the sweet and sunny rom, a.
nome made dainty by his mothers loyinn
care ioNihs
ihdeed' II his maiden aunt mr. ;r,,ud
e'' CT the blessed mother herself. took
hcst Hn.y Tor visit to the city. he wonld
into No ~ ing them just as they are /
honse 49, sphere OF this city boarding |
ln, ike his mother to be palrouized ~
~ uoWn upon, and he knows hv a snr.
ns'lnst ,fat fcr SunGay shs wi ar5 ~.
-, siik would seem on of da,a a, -
,'.s OF IN the parlor whore tho oIcHr, W.
,,h me mouse como together TO lor,S oanb
''utI over and to talk. WA e''"
'oEss MS maiden aunt. who since y,
.e,,er vaoy ooy' has had nothing she liked !
70 10 than Il coddIe ana no, 80
'poii MN. but he could moi bav.. ~ anu
W q VISIT with that little wish ~ batr
,s .oN up like door knab on ~ -.
Vac "eaa, and even the invalid sistar
%, ~, stoop in her shoulder ,ba, y,
!, LILY lily prevents her taking on .an,' IT,,
,sho,I ne isn't conscious % beins
II a,,,i, OF any one OF them, really wo-tby
hat il nn,',i ana love. He only thinks
elbow I, ,haw De more Comfortable for 7
"'u'u quietly stay at home.
iiDw all this changes when s,.,.,,
e'1ss the city young man in his ho,r,,aa
-, ihen he forgets the old fashioned
" me gown. Then he doesn't min,
INC sirrag. tendo- face that hera,
80 nim has only plain bands AZ hin
." twisted into knob. He is r,,a
asusn 10 hsve somebody who loves h,n,