The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-08-25
I"lOME is a cooperative establishment
I'LL which has for its foundation, love.

"l ONE is cooperative establishment
which has for its foundation, love.
IL is walled about with purity and VIZ
tue and is furnished with mutual under
standing and forbearance. Its atmos-
phere is kindliness and hospitality and
its covering is the mantle of peace.
Round about is garden where ideals
are planted and seeds of character are
sown. Here happy children play, garn-
ering the flowers of char acter which, IN
turn, implant new germs of beauty In
their souls. Then, deftly nodded by the
invisible hands of environment, the
master warder, they go forth into the
world a finished product, bearing gifts
of citizenship to make better all man
kind, and returning whence they came
bring much store of. courage and sense
human brotherhood wherewith to found
new homes, TO plant new gardens TO
make new homes and better citizens.
And so is the endless circle, wherein
the home as a maker of citizens, ana
the citizen as a maker of homes is es-
tablished. If it we're possible TO locallze
the beginning OF circle 1t would DOUBT
less be found in the home
The home is the heart of the com
munity, the nucleus of the state, the
bulwark of the nation.
The establishment of the first home is
an ideal of the most divine; the perma-
nance of the final home is promise OF
the everlasting.
The homes which have intervened
and which will intervene between the
last have been not altogether ideal, and
will continue to be transitory and MI
gratory; but the spirit of the divine,
breathing love, peace harmony. unani-
nifty of effort, dignity of purpose. divi-
nitv of plan, yet glows within the' fires
oil the family altar, keeping the ideals
of family life permanent and pure, max
ing even the imperfect home type of
that which is TO live unchanged through
all the ages.
The home is for the conservation of
divine ideals, for the renewal of life, for
the protection and training of the young
and for the propagation and dissemina-
tion of the spirit of brotherly love.
1t is place for condolences. for the
change of the finer courtesies of per-
sonal service, for moral mental and ply
sical training, to which one may return
sure of sympathy and repose, there to
find healing. or the fractional abrasions
of daily effort. 1t is a place from
which to go forth, refreshed and cour-
ageous, to fight the bloodless battles in
The world of business and in the world
of humanity.
The home is the type of all that is
best in the comm unity, OF all that i:
fine in the Nation.
The atmosphere of the home per
meates the wider atmosphere OF the
community, SO that the world policy oil
nation is but the hardened amber o
the continent influences of myriads o
homes-the purer h home-borT
streams, the clearer and more sparkling
the capitalization.
AS upon the man in the normal hom'
rests the responsibility of material pro
vision, so, TO the woman belongs the oh
legation of Il wise and just dispensing o
family resources, and from both it is de
manded that no extraneous influenc
flow from that home to become i'm
bedded and preserved in the amber @
national policy and mar its clarity o
impair It's beauty.