The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-10

brush can paint, no voice describe the
revolution that has passed over society /,
ii this respect. We are living in an age |;
that has capitalized the family. while the h
pubic building and the public life have L
been correspondingly subordinated. To- +
cay the home is the chief American insti-
tuition, and the family is the unit of our
.viiation. exceeding in power all other in
situations taken together.
Notice the influence which home has
al upon human commerce and industry.
The history of invention and tools is very /
largely the st-ry now when some new |
want or hunger has arisen in the home, +
rlan mas gone forth to invent the instru-
Tert for satisfying the desire Of his low
ed ores. He has searched the forests for /
foods and the fields for raiment; he uas |
devised conveniences for kitchen and par |
Ter, sought out remedies for wounds and |
hurts, increased the material comforts
| hat ocuble life's joys and halve its sor-
rows. When Hawthorne first visited the
british Museum and beheld the rude tools,
weapons, idols and images that illustrate
the upward progress of the race. he ex-
pfe Ssed the wish that every museum in
he world might be burned, so that men
Should spend less time in the graveyard
OF history and more time in the open sun
shine of the present civilization. But in
the last analysis thesS museums tell us
how the growth of the idea of home has
changed the hut into house, the rude
blanket into the modern dress, the coarse
print into the beautiful picture, the papy-
sus leaf into the modern book and maya
ere. To the primitive man burrowing in
his cave, eating roots and berries in sum-
r:ler, starving and shivering in winter,
Gcd sent new ideal, unwilling the home
as a possible paradise, and what do we
see? We see idl ,ness changing into in
dustry, lstlessness into energy, animal
contentnient into ambition and aspiration,
ard love Turing him upward For the
!, sake of his home, man will go into the
wilderness and make it bud and blossom
like the rose For the sake of his home
he will shiver in the Arctics searching for
geld and furs; for the sake of his home
he will burn in the tropics; for the sake
of his home he will penetrate all forests,
/ climb all mountains, brave all seas.
Because the intellect of man is nourish-
ed by the affections of the heart there
fore the influence which home has had
upon literature and art and music. In one
OF the noblest pleas that man has ever
made for his brother-man, Carlyle says
; that the best work of Robert Burns is
that which concerns his childhood home
, His early struggles, his hopes and ambi-
tons. In seeking out his most popular
! poems we pass by all those which expose
the hypocrisies of the "Unco Gud," all
these that teach jewellers the joys of the
wine cup. those that laugh at woman's
: frailty. ard we turn to those where he
SiHsS VI HCIle anu lONe auQ lTleHuSHlp.
Els highest fight of genius is reached
! when he goes home with the cotter on
Saturday night, and draws nigh to the
cottage nesting under the green leaves
the quiet valley, the bonnie brier
! 'rsh blooming boside the door, the wealth
4 OF ivy creeping DER the windows: sees the
; inner walls whitewashed to look like the
. driven snow the Bible lying open on the
tand, the mother singing by the hearth,
: and kneeis again with these humble folk
y commit the coming days and years to
: he mercy of the all-forgiving, all-guiding,
q all-loving God. And if love and home
: ent sweetness to the songs of Burns, it
s. has been much the same with other great
: authors and poets. Asked to name the
e greatest work of any writer it is always
o safe to name the one in which he has
e gone back to the scenes of his childhood
e Our favorite passages of Dickens, like
II the death of little Nell, and the impress
II i've scenes in David Copperfield, are bio.
q graphical. Also the great chapters il
e Victor Hugo, and those lines of Tenny-
e son and Lowell and Drowning that mer
'r count immortal are those that tell the
Y, story of the joys and sorrows the hopes
n and loves of childhood's home Indeed
lie there is no great poem, great drama
rs nc great novel, whose theme Is not home
ic and love and God. Take home out of mu
W sic and literature, and it would be like
re taking the warmth cut of the sunbeam
r the sweetness out of the rose the sou
1T from the body, God from the sky.
80 Notice the influence of home on morals
A To the millions Of young men and maid
5. ems comes the dream of home that shall
Il be glowing center of peace and happi
u ness, goodness and security That vision
p touches the soul of the youth as with an
u gels wings and pledges him to be al
VI brave and pure and worthy as his hom
y IS TO be bright and beautiful From tn
AZ standpoint of his vision, how ignobl
r seem all pleasures and companions tina
!. 90 not refine the taste. keep sensitive tn
7u c. nscience. and ennoble the life. 1t is tn
s. vision of home that redeems the toilin
ne multitudes of earth from obscurity tina
IN transhSures drudgery and poverty Aan
y later on when life's battle is fierce an
things go hard with men, it is the HON
* mat enables them to again bear u
"a against the troubles that sweep throug
Is life like sheeted storms. Men there ar
Us whom speak of as though they wer
'ie wolves consuming their fellows But un
VI oerneath the cold hard exterior there
ne an inner kingdom of beauty where Low
g and tenderness dwell. This stern mar
ho bent on success, recalls the poverty of hi
ne childhood, the disadvantages that hinder
an ed his youth, the obstacles against whic
NJ he struggled, and looking upon his ow
i,u children, he registers the vow to Civ
ny them opportunities that were denied thei
ay father Did he who criticises so harshl
lid but know it, the sweat Of his brow is n
en- for the lamp of love.
~ Yes, it is home that underlies morals
70 and is the spring of light and beauty fo
the soul.
as Home is also the foundation of powe
- When the philosophers affirm that ever
10 sage and seer and statesman has had
cd great father or mother they simply affirl
m that the home is the foundation of civi
-. power and wealth.
~ Home also sustains vital relations
81 mans thought of God. There is one tie.
~ OF the civilization of people that is II
"a falible--Its mental picture and conceptio
"a of the Infinite. And with the home an
~, - its ge1tleness has come the thought
~, God as Father.
Ills Two things are necessary for HON
ire .he first is privacy. I remember once
.re going into {, tenement house in a gre;
.re Eastern city, and in one room by r
by means large I saw four families, each
a little corner by itself. There could
led TO home under such circumstances Tt
ow walls that make privacy may be but I'll
lie wall of tent, but tn home must be sci
ars arate from every other home or it is n,
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