St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-08-12

| ana YET t0ey are the case IN WHICH IN
pearl of domestic happiness is set. Yo'
ca never become ~ attached to th
appointments of 4 boarding house o
family hotel az to those things that yo'
can call your own and are ASSOCIATED
with the different members of you
household or with scenes of thrilling
import in your domestic history
Blessed is that home in which for
whole lifetime they have been gather
ing until every figure in the carpet ant
every panel CT the door and every case
ment of the window has chirograph,
OF its own, speaking out something
about father or mother or SON or daugh
ter or friend that was with us awhile
What sacred place it becomes wheI
one can say: I'm that room such on,
was born; in that bed such q one died
in that chair / sat on thenight hear RI
such enc had received great publ,
honor; by that stool my child knelt TO,
her last evening prayer; here 1 sat t.
greet my son as he came back from ses
voyage; that was fathers cane; tina,
was mothers rocking chair" What :
joyful and pathetic congress of remi
niscences!
The public residence of hotel an6
boarding house abolishes the grace Of
hospitality. Your guest does not wan,
to come to such table. No one want.
to run such a gantlet of acute and mer.
CHESS hypercriticism. Unless you have
home of your own you will not be able
to exercise the best rewarded of all the
graces. For exercise of this grace what
blessing came to the Shunammite in the
restoration of her SON to life because
she entertained Elisha, and to the wild.
ow of Zarephath in the perpetual oil
well Of the miraculous cruise because
she fed hungry prophet, and to IA.
hab in the preservation of her life at the
demolition of Jericho because of his
entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in
his rescue from the destroyed city be-
cause of his entertainment of the an
gels, and to Mary and Martha and
Zaccheus in spiritual blessing because
they entertained Christ, and to Publius
in the island of Melita in the healing OF
his father because of the entertain.
| ment of Paul, drenched from the ship.
| wreck, and of innumerable houses
throughout Christendom upon which
have come blessings from generation
to generation because their doors
swung easily open in the charging, en-
nobling, irradiating and divine grace
of hospitality. I do not know what
your experience has been, but have
had men and women visiting at my
house who left benediction on every
roon-in the blessing they asked at the
table, in the prayer they offered at the
family altar, in the good advice they
gave the children, in the gospelization
that looked out from every lineament
of their countenances, and their depar-
ture was the sword of bereavement.
The queen of Norway, Sweden and Dem
mark had royal cup of ten curves, or
lips, each one having on it the name
Of the distinguished person who had
drunk from it. And that cup which we
offer to others in Christian hospitality,
though it be of the plainest earthen-
ware, is a royal cup, and God can read
on all sides the names Of those who
have taken from it refreshment, but
all this is impossible unless you have
home of your own.
sary for home that hinders SO many
from establishing one. Thirty rooms
are not necessary, nor 90, nor Is, nor
ten, nor five nor three. Ir the right
way plant a table, and couch, and knife.
and fork, and cup, and a chair, and
you can raise young paradise. just
start home on however small scale,
and it will grow. When King Cyrus
was invited to dine with a humble
friend, the king made the one condition
of his coming that the only dish be one
loaf of bread, and the most imperial
satisfactions have sometimes banqueted
on the plainest fare. Do not be caught
postponing a home until they can have
an expensive one. That idea is the dew
lis trap that catches men and women
innumerable who will never have any
home at all. Capitalists of America,
build plain homes for the people. Let
this tenement-house system, in 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 firesides and
their own affairs. In this great CONT
nent there isroom enough for every man
and woman to have home. Morals and
civilization and religion demand it. We
want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett-
Coutts did in England and some of the
large manufacturers have done for 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 not provided for.
The rich have their palaces, and the
poor have their poorhouses, and crimi-
nails have their jails, but what about the
honest middle classes, who are able and
willing to work and yet have small in
come? Let the capitalists, inspired OF
God and pure patriotism, rise and build
whole streets Of small residences. The
Iaborer may have at the close of the
day to walk or ride farther than is de-
sirablc 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 impassioned and
heaven-dcscended word-"home."
Young married man, as soon n you
can by such a place, even If you have
to put on it mortgage reaching from
base 10 capstone. The much-abused
which is ruin to reckless
man. to one prudent and rrovi.lcnt is
the beginning of competency and
fortune for the reason he will not be
satisfied until he has paid it OF, and all
the household ere put on stringent
until then. Deny yourself
all superfiuities 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 boarding house, and do
not yourself be buried from ono. Have
a place where your children can shout
and sing and romp without being over
hauled for the racket. Have 4 kitchen
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