The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
HOME, SWEETEST WORD IN THE
LANGUAGE.

The story is told of a perplexed
young man who wrote to the query
department of a newspaper to know
whether the editor would advise him
to buy an automobile or get mar
ried. He said he could not afford to
do both, and was in a quandary.
The editor cautioned the young
man to deliberate earnestly and not
to make up his mind without due
consideration. He was reminded
that while an automobile costs more
it doesn't talk back, and that a Sec
ond-hand automobile could be traded
for a new one. 1t is not recorded
what was the decision of the irreso-
lutte young man.
There have been men, good men,
whose lives, measured by ordinary
standards, we're successful, who never
married; but those who hear or read
of them feel that such careers were
incomplete.
To a certain degree, a young man
should look upon marriage from a
unitarian standpoint. A good wife
is so much capital. She makes him
to be, by a kind of grace, a great
deal more than he is by nature. She
contributes the qualities needed in
order to convert his vigor into a safe
as well as productive efficiency. She
introduces, for instance, into his in
|tellectual nature that ingredient OF
sentiment which intellect requires in
order to be able to do its best work
and makes home an Eden. ITO Adam,
Paradise was home; to the good among
his descendants, home is paradise"
Most married men are saner, much
more normal and level-headed, eco
nomical and careful, or account OF
their wives. A model home is a great
corrective for a man. 1t keeps him up
to standard and saves him from get
ting blue and discouraged. 1t devel-
ops the affectionate side of his ma
ture and renders his character strong
er and more symmetrical. Men can
produce very much more because of
harmony and affection in the home.
There is nothing else which will call
out the divinest qualities of a man or
woman like unselfsh service. The
very consciousness that one has 9th
ers depending upon him tends to call
out the best in him.
A happy marriage brings cunshine
into the life and %broadens, softens and
sweetens the character. 1t is a great
educator, a perpetual influence for
good.
Who could estimate what civiliza
ton owes to mans dream o. a happy
home of his own! What an incen
tive to man in all ages has been this
vision of a home of his own! 1t is
this picture which holds the youth tC
his task, buoys him up in times o,
hardship and encouragement. This
picture Of a home. this vision of {
little cottage and some fair nader
waiting at the door-this home vision
has ever been the great incentive o
the struggler, the greatest incentive
of mankind! 1t is the dream of e
f, home of my own" that has lifted
multitudes of youths out of obscur
l ity.' There is no spur on earth which
l has haC anything like the influence
over man that this home vision has
: The thought of his home and wifi
s and children, dearer to him than life
keeps vast multitudes of men GRIND
Q ing away at their dreary tasks, whe,
they see no other light in the distance
To multitudes of people home is tn
only oasis in their desert life.
Home is the sweetest word in tn
t language. 1t has ever been the favor
g lite theme of the poet, the author, an
s the artist. History is packed wit
e the achievements Of men for the SAX
of the home. They cross oceans. the
o explore continents. They endure tn
h heat OF the tropics and the cold {
S the a~rctics, they explore mines in tn
n wilderness, cut themselves of froI
y civilization for years for the sake {
y wife and home.
N Women are alWays sincere Whe