The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-21
Around the Home Circle

This could be a compsratiyely
happy world it we did rot suffer SO
much from things that never happen.
How our shoulders ache under the
weight OF burdens we are never called
upon to bear How our hearts are
wrung by griefs that never take
shape. If no more serious charges
could be brought against it, worrying
would head the list of 'follies. It
costs us an untold amount of unneces-
sary misery. It takes away the
strength wo need for work. In all
It's record Of accomplishments, it IS
impossible to point to single good
result 1t has brought about.
x**
The carpenter is abroad in the land
and many new homes are going up.
Not few OF them are to be occupied
by young people, who have lately
gone through the ordeal of wedding
march and marriage ceremony. AS a
matter OF course there has been a
great deal of talking ''under the
roses about the location, the style of
architecture, the quality and quantity
of furniture to be purchased, and how
they intend to live when they take
possession of this modernized Eden.
All, we wish we could impress it on
their minds that it doesn't matter so
much whether the house be built after
Gothic or pioneer style of architecture
whether the furniture is Of fashion.
able make or home manufacture
whether the walls are hung with cost
ly tapestry or with family wardrobes
if love and virtue cement the family
circle, it will be home in the truest
sense of the word. The body is but
the dwelling place of the soul, so,
likewise the house is but the tene-
ment of the home. We cannot all
have perfect forms, and classic fea-
lures, but we can have pure, beautiful
spirits; we cannot all have elegant
richly furnished houses, but we can,
have sunny, pleasant homes.
/ xxx
/ Trouble comes to all of us. The
past is strewn with broken expectations
and inconsolabe griefs. Death has
left it's shadows across almost eyery
hearthstone and it's constant ravages
ever approaching near to us fill the
bravest spirits with terror. But to
us the rainbow of hope has been ever
present. We have never believed that
existence was purposeless. The same
all-prevailing Power. whose handi-
work jeweled the heavens with stars.
who leveled the plains, who lifted rp
the mountains and taught the river
to run down to the sea, deslnged our
being and contemplated our destiny.
What it shall be we do not know.
How it shall come we cannot tell.
Whether it shall come as the old
prophet thought, amid the clash of
worlds or wreck of matter" or as the
gentle beauty of May morning we
cannot see. But it will come. It
will be just as easy for this world to
end as it was for it to begin; and
there is much greater reason for the
ending than there is for the beginning.
The inequality of this world must be
somewhere adjusted. Here wrong is
sometimes triumphant, insolent power
occasionally victorious and unblemisn-
ed tue misjudged and misunder-
stood.
AS surely as the sun shines. the
time will come when the one will be
punished, AMI the other rewarded,
and when equal and exact justice, the
most glorious phrase known to anv
language shall be meted out to all.
Home is, or should be, the nucleus
around which all the beautiful and
precious elements of happiness love to
cluster-the shrines where the sacred
things of heart and soul are treasured
as gifts precious and inestimable. No
man or woman can know perfect hap
piness in an earthly sense, who has
not known the charm of sweet and
peaceful home. True thero are in
stances when in the midst of home
unhappiness ano misery the soul looks
up to the home eternal in the heavens
and is comforted and strengthened,
but even in this they have never re-
allied the bsautifulness of this earth
ly life.
To every temple there is an ar.
chitect-a builder whose taste and
skill like the lamp of Aladdin, shall
create all it's beauty and harmony.
In che temple of home there is one
master sspirit, not the robed priest
who offers gifts to the Gods, but the
true and noble woman who gives hand
and heart and life to the exercise Of
virtues which make home happy and