The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-05-08

The sweetest type of Heaven is
home.
Mid pleasures and palaces though we
may roam,
Be It ever so humble, there is no place
like home"
To make men out of boys and wO-
men out of girls there is no place like
home. Character is not formed in an
apartment house or in the fashionable
hotel-no two years in the same place.
Character is best formed in the home.
At the quiet evening hour, when the
cares that infest the day have depart
ed, and the family can gather together
to a social feast Of intelligence,
thought and pleasant conversation.
Six things are requisite to create a
happy home. Integrity must be the
architect and order the upholsterer
1t must ever be warmed by affection,
| lighted by Chez fulness, and industry
must be the venti1ator, renewing the
atmosphere and bringing in fresh
health and joy day by day, while over
/ all. as a protecting canopy and glory
nothing will suffice except the bless
/ ing of God, the great giyer of all har-
mOny and its source. How many
readers recognize the beauty of this
home feeling? 1t gives us the love Of
| the house, and the place where We
have long lived. Precious name, sa-
cred place. dear old home. More dear
to us than all the world beside When
/ storms assail, to it we flee for shell
! ter 1t is our refuge from distress,
/ our safe retreat, our protection from
/ the ugly blasts of censure, ridicule and
SANDER Life without a home is to be
( on the troubled sea, driven with the
winds and tossed about recklessly
and restlessly. There is no peace or
quietness to the one without a home.
/ No matter what else We may possess,
if we have no home we are without
/ the possession of the greatest boon
the earth affords Home signifies har-
mOny and unity. At home there is
happiness for the healthy and sympa
thy for the sick, balm for the wound
ed In painting a picture of home We
would decorate it with all that is love
/ ~, artistic and magnetic. to make it
attractive, because love and CONT
home is perfect without these adorn-
ments. There we are free without
| restraint, breathing as though We
owned the atmosphere, and were lord
| Of all we surveyed whose right none
! can dispute. Home is the center of
wOman's world. There she is queen
1 of her own domain. II is her palace,
where she sits enthrOned in the com
! Portable armchair in majesty AMI
! honor WOman's world is not con-
! fined to the four walls of the house in
which she lives Her Majesty Queen
Victoria made her home in England,
yet her domain extended to all parts
Of the world; SO woman, intelligent,
progressive woman, Families the whole
world with her influence, so she
reaches out into the school, the
church, into art and science, litera-
tUTe, all branches of society, along all
branches of improvement. even into
politics. Farmer friends. and you of
the town also, remember it is most as
suredly to our interests to vote for the
following candidates:
General Albert w. Gilchrist for
govern, of Florida.
Where the feathered tribe abound,
And swift the deer run DER the
ground:
Where the Everglades extend,
, Press'd by feet of Indian men
Who fear most white chieftain's ire;
There they burn the council fire.
b Once they held unbOunded sway
} Where the pale chief rules today"
Il Who of you men In Marion county
could fail in good manners TO age, Of
forget to cast your vote for the granC
2 Confederate soldier, Hon. H. w. Long
: for judge of Marion. He is a goo.
= friend of the people, and who caused
; to be celebrated our county of Ma
! riOn.
Where the golden orange tree
Bends with fruit for you and me;
Where the broad banana leaves
= Wave with every passing breeze;
e Where the flowers from every strant
1 Come to beautify the land;
: Where glossy magnolia waves
= Where Orange Lake; Lake Wei