Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-11-24
Read before the Farmers Institute, Mullica
Hill. Nov. IS. 1898, by Miss Mabel Eachusl
Homie IS Where Inc heart Is,
In dwelling great or small;


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"Home is where the heart Is,
In dwelling great or small;
There is many stately mansion,
But never home at all
True indeed home must be the seat Of
happiness But there are many fine
mansions which some call home, that il
the truth be known come far from being
an ideal home. It is not always the
wealth that makes home, many an hum
bic abode where love reigns would be
more preferable
But how are we to obtain this ideal
home? First the true home of the farm
always impresses one more strongly than
city home. Why Because in the city
there are SO many places of attraction and
amusement, that one can always find some
place to go without looking or thinking to
entertain themselves or Others at home
Now on the farm it often becomes necessary
tc remain at home and spend the evenings
together. By so doing each member Of
the family ought to try and make the
home bright and cheerful, so that it will
he pleasure to enjoy the home comforts
Each one ought to try to cultivate con-
tentment for it is not at all likely that
one living on farm has every thing they
want, but if each is content with what
they have, it will tend to make the home
more ideal than as If some one was fretting
for greater things, because their neighbor
has this or that, but must remember that:
Home is not merely four square walls
fhough with pictures hung and guided,
Home is where affections calls.
Filled with shrines the heart has gilded.
We all know that the ideal home on the
farm must possess a good cook and neat
housekeepeT, both certainly tend to pro
mote Preside comfort and joy as well.
Flowers also tend to brighten and cheer
a home. How much more home-like an
old place looks, or even a new one, with
vines trained over it, and flowers blooming
here and there, or if it is winter time, to
have the plants in the house to cheer and
gladden. the heart One home may be like
calm summer evening because the mis-
tress is full of sympathy or takes an inter-
est 10 all things around her another
home can be like stormy morning because
the woman who helps to make such a
home is ill natured, and careless of the
comforts of those around her.
Now in the ideal home we want women,
that the men will not have to seek other
places which are more pleasant TO them
than home, on account of wife they have
tried to please and cannot.
Men are not all alike the great Horace
Greeley, who only return gentleness for
ere ssness as he did. The story goes that
once when a gentleman called to see him
on business, he laid his hat. gloves and
cane upon the parlor table for the little
while he had to remain. He had no more
than been seated, when Mrs. Greeley
sWepnad infn the ronm and xuifhout a wnrd
went to the table, swooped on the gentle
mans outfit and threw them out of the
window, then instantly retired with the
air of having taught lesson on the uses Of
halls and hat racks. The gentleman
| naturally felt a trifle hot at such treatment,
but Mr.. Greeley set him at ease by milding
saying Never mind her Asa, she thought
they were mine"
Ia our ideal home the brightest smile
and kindest words and actions will not be
saved for only the stranger, but each must
| try to cultivate cheerfulness we can
possess at all times and under all circum-
stances, for the heart must be right and
the home happy, ere we can enjoy the
pleasures Of life. Happiness springs from
within, and it is not always those who 90
a pleasuriDg most who have the meTriest
hearts, and the hest of times. The homes
of nation are the strongest forts.
| Better than gold is a peaceful home.
Where all the Preside charities come;
| The shrine of love and the Heaven of lfe
HalloWed by mother, sister or wife.
| However humble the home may be,
| Or tried by sorrow with Heavens decree,
| The blessings that never were bought or sold,
| And center there. are better than gold.
| Nov Is, 1898.