The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-08-19

ing VI haPpy noine. Wnen yOi
come to sift the whole chaff of exist
ence, everything goes to the wind but
the happiness we have had at home.
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Scolding is mostly a habit. 1t is
often the result of nervousness and an
irritable condition of the mind and
body. A person is tired or annoyed
at some trivial cause and forthwith
commences finding fault with every
thing and everybody within reach.
Scolding is a habit very easily form
ed. 1t is astonishing how soon one
becomes addicted to it and confirmed
in it. 1t is an unreasoning and un-
reasonable habit. Persons who once
get in the way Of scoIding always find
something to scold about. If there is
nothing else, they begin scoldlng at
the mere absence of anything to scold
at. 1t is an extremely disagreeable
habit. 1t is contagious. Once intro
duced into family, it is pretty GER
tain in short time to affect all the
members.
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The home in some phase or attri-
butte has been fruitful theme for lit
erature through many centuries of
civilized life. The most voluminous
as we'll as the most varied treatment
Of the home and it's finer issues has
been at the hand of the poet. This is
due to the fact that domesticity is
closely bound up with our afectional
natures and touches themes of utility,
fancy, attachment or association that
have become part and parcel of our
lives and cannot be detached from
them, even through a long stretch of
years. Few writers could find a top
ic were it not for the innocence of
childhood, the joys of youth, the
blush and bloom of maidenhood, the
wisdom and beauty of old age, or the
myriad other inspirations ofthe home.
Home is not place simply to hang
your hat in. Neither is it true that
home must be stately mansion, fur
nished with luxurious hangings, where
the inmates are waited upon by ret
inue of servants in gorgeous livery.
Home can be a mansion or hall
bedroom, but the real home is where
love is, and love may be family
father, mother, children-never SIM
ply bare or richly furnished walls.
Home is where peace is, where you
are contented and at rest with the
world.
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Those who appreciate home the
most are those who have to struggle ,
% possess it. Where do our patriots
pring from? Those who love homes
ire those who love country and will :
light, and die if necessary, to main
ain such havens of rest. The boy or
,irl who has wandered from the farm
o the city will find no home like the :
ude farm house, with weather-beate
but with cosy, free and quiet .
Interiors. The walls may be bare of
masterpieces" from the brushes of
lasters, but the portraits of the fam
y, the framed and unframed works
f art of those of Lesser note, have a
reater value in their minds eyes
lap would the most pretentious pic 8
Ire of modern times. The carpet
lay be little shabby, but softer, =
Fighter than the brightest Wilton or
russels which decorates the rooms of .
flat or mansion.
The home they dream of shows "
other busy at her work; father, coat L
s. and hatless, reading or resting in -
q old-fashioned chair in the corner . :
Ter hard days work in the fields; 2
d the children (themselves) busy :. =
th their lessons or with their even +"
2 chores. All NAV be tired. but ~