Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-10
earthenware. is a ROYAL cup. and God

can read on all it's sides the names OF
those who have taken from it refresh
ment. But all this is impossible unless
you have home of your own.
A Common DeIustOn.
1t is the delusion as to what is neces
sary for home that hinders so many
from establishing one. Thirty rooms
are not necessary, nor 20, nor 15, mol
10, nor 5, nor 3. In the right way plant
a table and couch and knife and fork
and a cup, and a chair, and you car
raise a young paradise. Just start 6
home on however small a scale, and il
will grow. When King Cyrus was in
vited to dine with a humble friend
the king made the one condition of his
coming that the only dish be enc LOAF
of bread, and the most imperial salts
factions have sometimes banqueted or
the plaineSt fare. Do not be caught in
the delusion of many thousands in
postponing home until they can have
an expensive one. That idea is the
devils trap that catches men and wo
men innumerable who will never have
any home at all. Capitalists Of Amer
lea, build plain homes for the people
Let this tenement house system, III
which hundreds of thousands Of the
people of our cities are wallowing in
the mire, be broken up by small homes
where people can have their own fire
sides and their own altar. In this
great continent there is room enough
for every man and woman to have g
home. Morals and civilization and re
ligion demand it. We want done al
over this land what George Peabody
and Lady Burdett-C outts did in Eng
land, and some of the large manufac
turers of this country have done fol
the villages and cities in building
small houses at low rents so that the
middle classes can have separate
homes. They are the only class moi
provided for. The rich have their pal
aces, and the poor have their poor
houses, and criminals have their jails
but what about the honest middle
classes, who are able and willing to
work and yet have small income? Let
the capitalists inspired Of God and
pure patriotism, rise and build whole
streets of small residences. The la
borer may have, at the close Of the
day, to walk or ride farther than is de.
sirable to reach it, but when he gets
to his destination in the eventide he
will find something worthy of being
called by that glorious and impas-
stoned and heaven descended word
"home."
Plea For Children.
Young married man, as soon as you
can, buy such place even if you have
to put on it a mortgage reaching from
base to capstone. The much abused
mortgage, which is ruin to a reckless
man, to one prudent and provident is
the beginning Of a competency and q
fortune for the reason he will not be
satisfied until he has paid it off, and al
the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny yourself
all super1uities and all luXuries until
you can say, Everything in this house
is mine, thank God-every timber
every brick, every foot of plumbing
every doorsill." Do not have your chill
dren born in a boarding house, and dc
not yourself be buried from one. Have
q place where your children can shout
and sing and romp without being over
hauled for the racket. Have kitchen
where you can do something toward
the reformation of evil cookery and the
lessening of this nation of dySpepticS
AS Napoleon lost one of his great bat
ties by an attack Of Indigestion, SO
many men have such daily wrestle
with the food swallowed that they
have no strength left for the battle of
life, and, though your wife may know
how to play on all musical instruments
and rival 4 prima donna, she is nOtwell
educated unless she can boil an Irish
potato and broil a mutton chop, since
the diet sometimes decides the fate of
families and nations.
Have a sitting room with at least one
easy chair, even though you have to
take turns at sitting in it, and books
out of the public library or of your
own purchase for the making of your
family intelligent, and checkerbOards,
and guessing matches, with an occa-
sional blind mans buff, which is of all
games my favOrite. Rouse up your
home with all styles of innocent mirth
and gather up in your children's nature
a reservoir Of exuberance thatwill pour
down refreshing streams when life gets
parched, and the dark days come, and
the lights go out, and the laughter is
smothered into q sob.
First, last and all the time have
Christ in your home. julius Caesar
Gained the fears of an affrighted boat
man who was rowing in a stream by
saying, $50 long as Caesar is with you
in the same boat, no harm can hap
pen." And whatever storm of adversely
or bereavement or poverty may strike
your home, all is well as long as you
have Christ the king on board. Make
your home so farreaching in it's infiu-