Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1902-07-26
JUST AT HOME.


I way 10 the CYNICAL Optimiet temper ant
left its muggy imprint on his face The
overworked pores Of his epidermis were cry
ing for cy, and his garments hung limI
and stickdy 70 him.
+ Moreover, the Cynical Optimist bad q
grievance. II was gfievous ievante. II
hlIed MS heart with ire aud his breast held
wealth Of injured feelings He chanped j
over all the way nome on tle elevated, irown
lug hercely tuouga absentiy, at tie little
4 working girl who nung - be strap next to
+ his.
Aud 30 he turned into Vie rome street
4 weary aud warm and angry and with the
/ grievance eloking in his l.Toat, for all the
I world like the little fellow fastening home
4 from school to hide his face ia ais mothers
4 lap and cry out his disappointment, his yex-
4 ations and his heartbreaks there. The Gym
I zeal Optmist was only big boy after all.
/ Tie Little Woman was watching for him.
4 He saw her in the window, ard waved a lag
gard band at her The Little Woman is al
ways good to look at.
you poor old blistered dear" she
/ soothed, as he stumped through the open
1 door You go riga. up stairs and get some
OF that borrd city dirt off you, and when
/ you're ready supper's ready
! Il tell YOU, quoth the Cynical Optimjst,
as. washed, cooled and Transmitted, he sat
himself down at very waite table which
/ displayed a very inviting array Of edibles,
'lueres no place like nome
Home. my dear, Is where you c,n pun off
your coat aud throw business to tAe dogs.
Home is where man can be himself, and
tome is where man may falkland say
Home uas sympathetic ear and sooth-
ing hand
Home has a voice of eomfortand never
mind to help over the hard places.
Home isrest, and nome is different from
everything else in the world
Home is where a man can be silent, and
home is where man may taak-and say
what he peases.
Home is shady agd cool and sweet, and
home has the soul ora gentle woman within
it.
Home is bright and happy ard sunny, for
it mas the woman's smiles there too.
"Home has contented eat purring and
rubbing against ones legs.
Home mas joyful dog, somewhat anxious
at the present moment as he waits without
the kitchen door for his supper portion.
Home has a back yard aud garden OF
spindly but ambitious plants giving forth
great promise for the summer time.
Home has back step on which we can
sit and confabulate with our neighbor.
Home has plenty to eat and plenty OF
time to eat it.
Home has easy chairs and books, and
c3ld lemonade whenever you want it.
Home is where man can brag to his
hearts content.
Home is waere he can hide himself when
he feels the miserable smallness OF MIN.
Home has a laugh Tor the cheerful and
tear for the disconsolate.
Home Is where a man can cut up occa-
sional m5nkey-sbIaas without being dubbed
good-natured fool.
Home breeds mans liberty, bis indie
pendence, his seli-respect.
Home makes men loyal, and it is home
that makes patriots
Home means duty and the love of it.
CLONE is religion and love and all that Is
holy
Home has no boss, no salary, no hours,
no haunting fear OF cheaper man taking
your place.
Home is not ashamed of Humbeness, of
Honor and of Sentiment.
Home is the oasis to which each man
turns at the end OF a long dusty day on the
binding, choking. soul-buryng sands OF
business, where he may rest his weary body
and moisten his thirsty throat, and leave his
thoughts free to dream OF better things.
God pity the man who mas no homel"
But" interposed the Little Woman, as
he paused to help himself to a mouthful OF
salad, you are talking Of an ideal home"
Not an ideal home by any means, said
the Cynical Optimist. Its the sort Of
home that any man can have if he wants
and if he marries the right kind OF woman.
Is the kind Of home | have, isn'tit? Good
Lord! If | didn't have something OF this
sort to look forward to every evening be-
leve Id jump into the lake,
1T takes patience to make a good home,
seltsacriice, thoughtfuness, common
sense and much forgiving But one might
8, well get iato the habit of those things as
anything else, A fellow can he good natured
by habit Al, well as bad-tempered.
Also it takes practicability to make
good nome \ woman VINO reads poetry all
DAY and can't cook a decent meal isn't GO
ing TO make good meal for any man. I'd
take the good cook in preference to the po-
etry readers any day-thougn l think ju-
ditious amount of sentiment never does any
harm, provided is healthy sentiment and
not tue sloppy kind.
Another thing. A wife should reIaem.
her that when man comes nome his bust
ness day is over, and she should provide
accordingly. Her business day should be
ended too Let her arrange that tne even
ing be given over to their better selves, and
le. it be as different from the day as pos
,.ble 1t is the dinner, the pleasant face of
Li. wife. the orderly household. the absence
Of worries; it is the evening talks, or silence,
or reereatious, that make man nome
coming worth while. tell you, my dear,
every man can have home if he wills it.
and he hnds the proper wife
There are lots of women who would make
just Suca homes Tor men that Trey loved"
said the Little Woman but most men don't
ask that kind They like the butterflies bet
ter Besides, men nowadays don't care to
marry"
Don't you forget it," snorted the Cynical
0DtImist '"The average man wants to get