The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-16
FLORIDA CLUB WOMAN
WINS PRIZE.

The Pictorial Review recently Of
fered number of prizes to the
Woman's Club represented in the
Federation of Women's Clubs, sub
hitting the best essay on home. The
fifth prize in this contest was won
by Mrs. Frank E. Jennings, of Flofi-
da, and is as follows:
Home is a cooperative establish
ment which has for its foundation,
love.
It is walled about with purity and
virtue and is furnished with mutual
understanding and forbearance. It's
atmosphere is kindness and hospi-
tally and its covering is the mantle
of peace.
Round about is a garden where
ideals are planted and seeds of char
ter are shown. Here happy children
play, garnering 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 finish
ed product, bearing gifts of citizen
ship to make better all mankind, and
returning whence they came, bring
much store of courage and sense of
human brotherhood wherewith to
found new homes, to plant new gar
dens, to make new and better citi-
zens.
And 30 1t is the endless circle,
wherein the home as maker of citi-
zens, and the citizen as a maker Of
homes is established. If it were pos
sible to localize the beginning of a
circle it would doubtless be founr in
the home.
The home is the heart of the COM
munity, the nucleus of the state and
the bulwark of the nation.
The establishment of the first home
is an ideal of the most divine; the
permanence of the final home is a
promise of the everlasting.
The homes which have interviewed
and which will Intervene between
the first and the last have been not
altogether ideal, and will continue to
be transitory and migratory; but the
spirit of the divine, breathing love,
peace, harmony, unanimity of effort,
dignity of purpose, divinity of plan,
yet CLOVIS within the fires Of the fam
lily altar, keeping the ideals Of fam
lily life permanent and pure, making
even the imperfect home a 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 propaga-
ton and dissemination of the spirit
of mrotherly love.
It is place for condolences, for the
exchange of the finer courtesies of
personal service, for moral, mental
and physical training, to which one
may return sure of sympathy and
repose, there to find healing for the
FRACTIONAL abrasions of daily effort. It
is place from which to go forth, re-
freshed and courageous, to fight the
bloodless battles in the world of bus
mess and in the world of humanity.
The home Is the type of all that is
best in the community, of all that is
fine in the nation.
The atmosphere Of the home per-
meates the wider atmosphere of the
community so that the world policy
of nation is but the hardened am
Der Of the continent influences Of my
riads of homes-the purer the home
born streams, the clearer and more
sparkling the capitalization.
AS upon the man in the normal
home rests the responsibility of ma
terial provision, so, to the woman be-
long the obligation of wise and just
dispensing of family resources, and
from both it is demanded that no ex-
traneous influence flow from that
home to become imbeded and pre-
served in the amber of national poll
icy and mar its clarity or impair its
beauty.