The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-12
BUY A HOME-EvEN ON SUNDAY.

BUY HOMEEvEN ON SUNDAY
There is element of Sunday real estate selling to be
considered aside from and in extenuaon of its purely
commercial feature This is the fact that only people who
-ork hard and steadily buy homes People who work
lard and steadily have but day of leisure to look
and select prospective home sites and that day is Sunday
On this day alone the whole family along free of
charge usually and all join in the selection of the little
place that they plan to call home
There is time and inspiration then for all the pleasing
antcpations of propretorsp- highest qualification
for the kind of citizenship Spokane is sranng every
effort to attract
A city of homes owned by their occupants means city
of schools and churches; city permanently prosperous
The minister who procaims against this seeming desc
Grafton of the Sabbath overooks the fact that the respon
sby and pride of home ownership is the strongest anti
dOte for so and diss paon the very taproot Of the
worst evils that confront the pulpit He forgets that the
specuator who buys land merely to skim the profit has
the entire week to devote to this end while the who
works for his money either in shop store outdoors or
office gets his best and practically only chance to select
home to advantage Sunday.
Participation a spectator in of these Sunday real
estate inspections would probably be beneficial for
minister of the gospel There element of disorder or
msbehavor in evidence The people there with serious
upose and the open air and of freedom attending
upon day outdoors to the and women shut up for
six days make it occasion of genuine physical and
moral benefit we'll of keen enjoyment in the prospec
tive founding of a domestic altar
There is outbreak of commercial hawking ns)or
tuning, but simply courteous attention and assistance in
making selections and furnishing information The land
and location lies under the feet of prospective purchasers
leaving opportunity for the deception that might be
were the prospective nOmeOWner compelled to
buy without seeing what he getting.
In the present method of selling home property the Spo-
kane real estate doing the work that makes cities
really great and humanity most happy. Nowhere has
workngnan the chance to acquire home terms
favorable than IN this city He can buy it what the
average transient (who is about church)
spends for liquor and other dissipation He live it
and fashion it as he pleases while he is paying for it.
To do this he would have to work considerable Sun
day, and how many men and women dependent wages
would have comfortable homes Of their today did they
not devote and effort to home improvement on
Sunday and at odd hours?
Yet this class of and is the solid oun-
dation upon which the whole national fabric including the
churches, rests.
Selecting and improving domestic is labor of love,
labor that brings into play the finest instincts. 1t
the sures bulwark of liberty and civic purity forms the
best safeguard and inspiration of family happiness and
surest safeguard and inspiration of family happiness and
domestic security. Bibles and rarely read in
tenement districts.
Give every and women that aspires to own home
chance to get it, If Sunday offers them the opportunity
to this end the better the day the better the deed Instead
of opposition free transportation Sunday should be
universal to home site for those who have other
time to representatives. consecrate the God given mis-
sion of creating home And especially home in Spokane
Ministers must remember that few people who
are most earnest IN support of the church have the time to
spare from actual toll through the week that the minister
has And please think this before you The
Press OF being influenced by the fact that real estate
advertise extensively. Press readers are the people who
are buying homes and this paper knows of way it
better serve the public than to encourage them in it.
Lawyers want elevator in the courthouse to acceler
ate and make easy their occasional trips the Justice of
peace court on the fourth floor Very likely they will get
It, But when voters desiring to register having other
business at the city clerks office ask elevator save
wearlsome climb Of the distance the council can
hear sound And city hall visitors outnumber attorneys
at the courthouse by ratio of about 100 to L.
DEATH, WHERE is THY STING?
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