Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-15

rurers or this country have done for
the villages and cities In building
small houses ut low rents so that the
middle classes can have separate
homes. They are the only class not
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 Ia
borer may have. at the close of the
day, to walk or ride farther than is de-
slrable 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 lmpas-
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 q mortgage reaching from
basc to capstone. The much abused
mortgage, which IS ruin to q reckless
man, to one prudent and provldent Is
the beginning Of competency and O
fortune for the reason he will not be
satisfied until lie has paid 1t off, and all
the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny yourself
all superhuities and all luXurles until
you can say, Everything In this house
Is mine, thank God-evcry timber,
every brick, every foot Of plumbing,
every doorsill." Do not have your chill
dren born in a boarding house, and do
not yourself be buried from one. Have
a 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
lessenlng OF this nation Of dyspeptics.
AS Napoleon lost one Of his great bat
ties by an attack of Indigestion, so
many men have such a 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 q prima donna, she Is notwell
educated unless she can boil an Irish
potato and broil q mutton chop, since
the diet sometimes decides the fate OF
families and nations.
Have sitting room with ut least one
easy chair, even though you have to
take turns at sitting in 1t, 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-
slonal blind mans buff. which Is Of all
games my fayorite Rouse up your
home with all styles Of innocent mirth
and gather up In your children's nature
a reservolrof exuberance thatwill pour
down refreshing streams when life gets
parched, and the dark days come, and
the lights 60 out, and the laughter is
smothered Into a 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 @ stream by
saying. $50 long rs Caesar Is with you
In the same boat. no harm can hap
pen." And whatever storm of adversely
or bereavement y, poverty may strike
your home. all Is well as long as you
have Christ the king on board. Make
your home % farreaching in its infu-
ence that down to the last moment OF
your chlldren's life you may hold them
with heavenly charm. At 10 years OF
age the Demosthenes Of the American
senate lay dying at Washington =
mean Henry Clay Of Kentucky. His
pastor sat n, his bedside, and 1.-THE old
man eloquent" after long and excit-
ing public life. transatlantic and els
atlantic. was back again In the scenes
of his boyhood. and he kept saying In
his dream over and over again, MY
mother, mother, mother" May the
parental influence we exert be not only
potential, but holy, and so the home on
earth be the yestlbule Of our home in
heaven. in which place may we all
meet-father. mother. son, daughter,
brother. sister. grandfather, grand
mother and grandchild. and the entire
group of precious ones, Of whom we
must say In the words of transporting
Charles Wesley:
One family we dwell In him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream
The narrow stream OF death;
One army Of the living God,
To his command we bow
Part OF the host have crossed the food
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