Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-01


ment than you do anywhere on earth.
Why, man alive, il we could get the
home bug out of our system it would be
money in our pockets, peace in our souls
and digestion in our stomachs.
Talk about the comforts of home!
Did you ever have to get up Of a cold,
biting winter morning and make the fire
in a stove that sulked and smoked and
chewed and drank and did everything
but burn, while the nipping air played
coldy around your nude shins and the
frigid iron stuck to your hand every
time you touched 1t?
did you ever on hot summers day
have to shove a lawn mower up and
down, UP and down, around the doorstep
that poets rave about? Did you ever sit
down in your own house to take your
ease, with pipe and paper and slippers
that you weren't routed out and put to
fixing the plumbing or mendlng win
dow screen or putting up shelf or hang
ing a picture?
Talk about the comforts Of a home
Why, it's a life sentence of hard labor
It's tread mill, it's a first aid to nervous
prostration; that's what a home is
And the delights of home-cooking
Say, that hoary superstition about
mothers bread and mothers pie has made
everybody a millionaire, who has ever
devised purple pill for chronic indiges-
ton, and has filled the cemeteries with
heroic souls whose spirits were willing,
but whose stomachs were weak.
''Why, mother couldn't get a job to
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done bread and underdone meat. watery
vegetables, soggy pie, dish water that
masquerades as coffee, the same old
dreary round of the same old dreary
foods, cooked in the same old dreary
manner is what home cooking represents
to 80 per cent of the people who keep
house.
mo wonder we are a nation OF dys-
poptics. It's home cooking that does It,
No wonder that you can't pick UP a paper
without reading about half a dozen men
having committed suicide without ap-
parent reason. They were derived to II
by home cooking. The marvel is, that
when the average family takes a look
at its breakfast table it doesn't rush out
en- masse and make a grab for the razor
or the gas tube. Just look at the DIFF
ference between the happy. healthy
cheerful people who live in hotels and
the aenemic, disgruntled, starved, poor
creatures who have to eat home cooking
Mark my words, it's mothers cooking
that does 1t!
Talk about the freedom Of home. Why,
a home makes a penitentiary look like
an open door. Maybe a woman has some
freedom in her home, but any man who
goes and blows in his good, hard-earned
dollars in a home in the suppositlon that
he is going to be able to do as he likes,
has gotten stung for fair. 1t doesn't take
him long to find out that the only place
where he cannot do as he pleases is in
the house that his money supports. AS
he puts his key in the lock of the front
door a voice floats out to him: "Will,
you be sure to wipe your feet on the door
natl" He is tired and throws himself
down ON the couch to rest, but he is
warned off of it. Will-yum, don't muss
UP those sofa cushions. and, for goodness
sake, look where you have got pour feet"
And, talk about the privacy of home!
There is no spot on earth so public as a
home; there are no people who strip
every garment of decent reserve from
about you as do your own people; there
is no curiosity so morbid, so trying and
so Unsuitable as that of your own family
If you want to live life Of privacy, II
you want to keep your affairs to your
SELF II you want to come and go freely
and unquestioned, then go and settle
yourself in the midst Of the biggest hoteI
YOU can find You may live there fol-
forty years, and as long as you pay your
bills and behave with decorum nobody
will ever even give you second look
You are no business Of theirs and they
respect your rights TO live your life In
your own way.
But a home! There you stand for
ever in the middle of the spotlight, with
every one about you arrogating the right
to police every single thing you do and
say and think. You cant go down town
without having to give a minute account
of every place you went and everybody
you saw, and what they said, and yor
said. and you thought they might have
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