The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-25

carvings, stained glass windows, fine
paintings and rare curios. Near him
live his sons and other relatives.
Josephine Robb, after giving quite
description of the home and its sur.
roundings, some family biography etc,
A happier family or more conpenial
colony could not be imagined than that
at Buzzard's Bay.
All are interested in every thing that
is artistic aud beautiful. MANY of them
paint, all are good readers, can talk we'll
and everyone loves in reverential way
the head of the household. This home
life is the ideal one of Joseph Jefferson,
II is full of wholesome happiness and it
keeps everyone in it growing Younger
instead Of older each year. Mr.. Jeffer.
son is first of all hospitable, and to have
his friends around him make part of his
household means happiness to him.
Can you paint the picture? Use the
brush of imagination on the canvass of
your thoughts, Then you can see 10.
seph Jefferson, the great artist, the
dignified man, the loving husband and
father, the good friend and pleasant
acquaintance seated on the veranda of
his home, surrounded by all those he
loves who bear or have borne his name,
the friends who are nearest his heart,
tOndllng the youngest member of the
Jefferson family, his one great grand.
child. Can you help adm,ring that
pct ure! Is 1t not good for such man
to have lived? All the world is better
Tor u and truly we can say for him, as
us. "May you live long and prosper.''
True love and human affection are the
words which bind together the family,
for true happiness may be found in the
humble home as we'll as in the palace of
the rich.
Homes not merely four square walls
- Though with pictures hung and gilded;
Home Is where affection calls,
fa,ied With shrines the heart hath bui,ded.
nome! You watch the faithful dove
sailing meath the heaven above us;
Home Is where there's one to love;
nome Is where there's one TO love us.
Homes not merely roof and room,
lone needs Something to endear it,:
nome Is where the heart can bloom
W. Where there's some kind lip to cheer it.
W1at 10 home with none to meet.
nome IS sweet, and only sweet,
Where there's one we love to meet us.
Where there is true affection in the
home and children are reared in an al.
mosphere OF love and kindness, we need
have no tears for the future men and
women who go forth from such homes
to take up the responsibilities and duties
OF life. Good homes, good surroundings,
with strong family ties have refining
and clviilzlng influence on people. 1t
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IN the words OF great orator, pres
perity and glory of our country depends
upon the number of our people who are
the owners of homes. Around the fire.
side cluster the private and the public
virtues of our race. Raise your sons to
be independent through labor-to pur.
sue some business for themselves, and
upon their own account-to act upon
their own responsibility, and to take
the consequences like men. Teach them
above all things to be good, true and
faithful Observation-Disclosures of love and
builders of homes, >, '---------~--~
1.-THE home where love and virtue
dwell Is Ikea lily with heart of fire,
Ihe lalSast flower in all the world.
~ MRS. j. w. LONG.