The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-15
RANDOM THOUGHTS
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WILL n. MAYKs

WILL II. NArKs


l believe that it is possible for every
healthy man in this country to se-
cure q home and pay for 1t. The
trouble with most people is that
they want to begin life where their
parents stopped. They want as
fine a home at the beginning as
others have worked years to ac-
quire. In the towns in Texas good
building lots can be bought on in
stallments at about the same price
as for cash. When the lot is paid for
a house can be built the same way
1t Is small salary indeed from
which a man cannot save enough to
pay some kind of an installment on
a home and it is a mighty poor ex-
cuse of a wife that is not willing to
economic until the home Is paid
for, il she knows her husband is
doing the same thing. A two room
house that can be called "home" is
better in my opinion than rented
palace. 1t is cheaper to pay on a
home in installments than to always
rent and at last have nothing.
~
These truths apply just as well to
The farmer as to the town man. In
this day of cheap farm lands there
is no reason why young farmer
who is able to work should not buy
a home and pay for it too. You
may not be able to buy as fine a
farm as some Of your neighbors,
nor to erect so costly building, but
If you are reasonably blessed in
your labors you can get farm.
Lands are cheap IN Texas yet, but
they are going to advance right
along and the sooner you get into
your head to own a farm the better
off you will be. You may not be
able to pay much on i. now, but lit
tie by little you can pay for it and
all the time you will have the in
centive to work and to save which
can come alone from the ownership
OF home of your own. A stout,
healthy American, man, not tied
down by unusual membranes can
ACCOMPLISH anything reasonable to
which he sets his head and his
hands. The man who never sets
about to secure a home roof for his
wife and children shows evidence
of an objectionable weakness or
lack of interest In his family.
Did you ever notice the difference
with which people enter upon q
work on their own home and on
rented place? 1t 10 but natural that
this should be. The drudgery of
every day household work becomes
q genuine pleasure to the wife when
she can see something permanent
come az the result of her labors,
when she thinks that when this is
done that she may call home her
own. The children, whom it Is hard
to interest in a rented place, become
enthused as much as their parents
in the work about the family home.
| do not believe that ii is possible TO
raise up children as they should be
without the permanent influence OF
home life. The family that has an
interest only for year or two in
ol ace can not feel that it is home.
Even the law recognizes the SUI
)eriority OF man who owns his
nome. A man cannot serve on a
ury until he 10 land owner and
here are other things for which the
aw regards him as unfit When the
tate regards n as necessity for
.enuiue citizenship, personal pride .
hould inspire "a man To do his best I
o come up to the foil measure fixed (
" the law | believe that children
whose parents habitgally rent are .
ampered in their development by
his very fact. They feel more
eenly a sense OF caste than their
arents. They know that there is
lacking ia their lives. IL
hard under such circumstances TO
re them with that ambition which
hould be part ~ the life ~ every
hid
N YOU 30 not own a home, wheth-
r yuu lave la town cor country, be-
ia now 10 plan for one. II you
ave a little money ahead lt Will be
,mparitivsly easy. 1t may take
pa several years % pay It out, or
improve 1t as you would wish,
ld you may never own an IDEAL