The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-03-27
OUR HOMES.

watchfulness; home in which dlscord
prevails sends its boys and girls into the
world with handicapped aspirations.
The child who carries sweet memories
with him carries also shield for protec-
ton, but he who bears embittered memo
ries falls easier prey to the evils which will
attack. A happy home in the background
throws radiance on each succeeding day,
even though the day be stormy and tenn
pestuous.
The good father lives in the life of the
boy long after that father has crossed the
threshold of a cemetery, and the good
mother still speaks to the daughter when
that daughter has children of her own.
No mortal can have better starting
point than pous and soul satisfying home.
it is thousand times better to have an
honest father and true heated mother
than to inherit riches or social position.
An empty wallet and fathers blessing, a
bingham gown and mothers love are
safer equipment for the attainment of hap
pness than millions of money without the
blessing and the love.
We are making some serious mistakes on
this subject, and they will cost US many
hartache by and by. We are too ambitious
for our children in the direction of social
the direction of character.
Daughters are brought up to believe that
the chief end of life is to marry bank &C
count and an equipage rather than man.
When the surplus becomes deficit, how
ever, as it sometimes does, and the equip
age is sold under the hammer, the poor girl
wakes up to the discovery that she has had
an establishment for few years, but not a
home. The logic of events is relentless,
and mutual affection, which is the only
thing worth living for, since it sweetens
and deepens with adversely, is found to be
wanting. A love that depends for its con-
tinuance on good fortune has very small
value, and yet marriage vows are taken
every day which have their origin in ava
rice, and will certainly be broken unless
the avarice continues to be satisfied.
There is no other foundation for a true
home than the union of two souls by the
bonds of holy affection. Other experiments
have been tried, but no substitute for that
affection has yet been found, nor is it likely
that it will be.
The end to be sought is happiness, and if
you fail in that you fail in everything. A
wounded heart is not healed by costly med
icament, and riches never yet suppressed
sigh. Grief over withered hopes cannot
be assuaged by diamonds and splendor,
and many woman has been driven to
desperation and wrong doing because, in
spite of her credit at the bankers, she
found it impossible to live on Indifference
and neglect.
We must throw our financial theories to
the winds and be brave enough to obey
natural law. A man is man and woman
is a woman. Whatever else he needs, the
man needs love most of all, for this is a
hard life and love alone keeps him in trim
for the contest. If he cannot have it he
takes excitement instead, and then the end
is not far off. Whatever else the woman
Graves, it is all subordinate, whether she
knows it or not, to the confding affection of
manly man, and if that is denied her her
nature becomes vocanic and irrepressible.
Without the restraining influence of love
we all become more or less demoniac. But
if we have it we can part with everything
besides and still be content. That is the
verdict Of the generations, and it cannot
be reversed.
In your home, therefore, and regarding
your children, you should so teach the boys
and girls that they will develop indepen-
dence of character and moral principle.
What the world may say should influence
lhctl very ltllc, Out WAdG luoy tAcuSCIVOS
think is right should influence them great
deal. Plain and solid common sense is
worth more than anything else. Of two
lovers a good poor man is better than a bao
rich man. Pictures and furniture and rugs
and footmen are desirable in their way, bu
you cannot afford to give a human hear
for them. 1t may be unpleasant to live ir
an unpretentious home, but an unpreten.
tious home is better than snowy apart.
ments with misery. Your acquaintance
may shrug their shoulders-iti is their priv
ilege to do so if they choose-but if thu
home is bright and cheerful what care you
What this old world needs is sterling ane
unwavering moral principle, and the indie
pendence to stand by it, These grant
qualities of character must be taught in thu
home by parents who believe in them ant
exemplify them in their own lives, or the,
will never be acquired at ALL
After that you can trust both sons ant
daughters to reach safe conclusion whel
they are called upon to leave the hearth
stone of their childhood and make new
home for themselves.
They will have already learned tina
though riches and happiness sometimes g
together, it is better to depend on happi
ness rather than riches for safe journe,
through life.
A CONFEDERATE WAR BOMBSHELL.