The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-07-14

iheht' but All tllS IS Impossible unless
you have home Hf Your own.
& Common HcIux.on.
1T is the delUsiOn rs 10 what is nccGs-
sary for Il home that hinIerS so many
from cstabUSh!n. one. Thirty rooms
are not necessary, nor 20. nor -, nor
10, .nor ., nor .. III the right way plant
table and couch and knife and fork.
and Il cup, and Il chair, and YOU can
raise younS paradise Just start
home on however small scale, and il
will grow. When King Cyrus was in
vitcd to dine with Il humble friend.
the King made tic one condition CT hi;
coming that the only dish Gc enc loaf
of bread, and the most imperial salts
factions have sometimes LanIuctcd cr
the plainCSt fare. DO not be caught in
the dcIusiOu Of many thousands III
poStpOning Il home until they can have
an expensive one. That idea is the
devils trap that catches incu anI wo-
men innUmcrahic who will never have
any home at all. Capitalists OF Amer
len, build plain homes for the people.
Let this tenement house syStcm in
which hundreds of thousands of the
people of our cities are wai!owng in
tie miro, hc broken uu by small homes.
where people can have their own fire
sides and thcir own altar. In this
great continent there is room enough
for every man and woman 10 have n
homo Morals anG civilization nnI re-
liGion demand il. We want done all
over this land what George Peabody
and Lady Bmdntt-Coutts did in Eng
land, and some of the large maruf:lc-
turcrS OF this country have douc for
the villages and cities in building
small houses at low rents so that the
middle classes can have separate
homes. They are tliC only class not
provided for. The rich have their pal
aces. and the poor lave their poor
houses. and criminals have their iailS.
but what about Tho honest middle
classes, who arc able anl willing to
work and vet hav" small income? Let
the capitalists, Inspired OF God and
pure patriotism, rise and build whole
streets of small residences. The Ia
borCr may have, at the close of the
day, TO walk OF ride farther than is de-
sirablc 10 reach it, hut when lie gets
TO his destination in the cvcntidc lie
will find something worthy of being
called by that glorious and impaS-
stoned and heaven descended word
home"
PIcc For Children.
Young married man, rs suon as YOU
can, buy such place even IL YOU have
to put OH it Il mortgage reaching from
base to capstonr. The much abused
.t,rD. I,.,t t,.l, il,
man, to one prudent and providcnt is
the beginning Of Il competency and Il
fortune for tie reason he will not be
satisfied until he has paid it off, and all
the household are put OH stringent
economies until then. Deny yourself
all superiluities and all luNurics until
YOU can say, "Eyerything in this house
is mine, thank God-cvery timber,
every brick. every foot of plumbing.
every doorsll." DO not have your chill
drcn born in boarding house, and do
not yourself be buried from one. Have
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
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 prima donna, she is not well
educated unless she can boil an Irish
potato and broil Il mutton chop, since
the diet sometimes decides the fate OF
families and nations.
Have q 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 chcckerboards,
and guessing matches, with an occa-
sionGl blind mans buff, which is of all
games NY favoritc. Rouse up your
home with all styles of innocent mirth
and gather up in your childrcn's nature
II reservoirof cXuberance that will pour
down refreshing streams when life gets
pnrched, ana the dark days come, and
the lights go out, and the laughter is
smothcred into sob
First, last and all the time have
Christ in your home. julius Caesar
calmcd the fears of an affrighted boat
man who was rowing in 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 rs long as you
have Christ the king on board. Make
your home so farrcaching in It's infu-
cncc that down to the last moment Of
your children's life you may hold them
with heavenly charm. At 7G years Of
HGe the Dcmosthenes of the Americon
Snnltn lay DIVING at WnSlinNtnn