The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-14

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for it is and ever viii be your best
Selected.
Prize Essay on Home by Mrs. Frank
Jennings
The following from the pen of Mrs.
Frank Jennings of jacksonville. which
won fifth prize. s25 for the Jackson
Vile Woman's Club, in n Pictorial
magazine contest. viii be read with
interest by the friends in this section
Of the gifted writer. who was DIS
tinguished SPEAKER at the Ocala
Woman's Club last spring:
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 mar;!e
of peace.
Round about is garden where
ideals are planted and seeds of char
acter are sown. 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 wardeT
they go forth into the world a finish
ed product, bearing gifts of either
ship to make better all mankind. and
returning whence they came. bring
much store of courage and sense oil
/ human brotherhood wherewith t.
found new homes, to plant new gar.
dens, to make new and better citi.
zens.
And so it is the endless circle
wherein the home as a maker of citi-
zens, and the citizen as a maker OF
homes is established. IF it were pos
sible to localize the beginning of &
circle it would doubtless be found IL
the home.
The home is the heart of the corr
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 ;
promise of the everlasting.
The homes which have interviewed
and which viii intervene between th,
first and the last have been not al
| together ideal, and viii continue to %
transitory and migratory; but tn,
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 family
, life permanent and pure, making ever
the imperfect home a type Of tina
which is to live unchanged through
all the ages.
! The home is for the conservation o
divine ideals, for the renewal of life
for the protection and training of tn,
young and for the propagation anC
dissemination of the spirit of brother
ly love.
/ 1t is place for condolences, for tn,
exchange of the finer courtesies o
| personal service, for moral, menta
and physical training, to which on,
may return sure of sympathy and re
pose, there to find healing for tn,
FRACTIONAL abrasions of daily effort
is a place from which to go forth. re
freshed and courageous, to fight tn
bloodless battle in the world of bust
ness and in the world Of humanity
The home is the type of all that i
best in the community, of all that !
fine in the nation.
The atmosphere of the home per
meates the wider atmosphere of tn
community. so that the world polio,
of nation is but the hardened ambe
of the continent influences of myriad
of homes-the purer the home-bor1
streams, the clearer and more spark
ing the disqualification.
As upon the man in the norma
home rests the responsibility of ma
terial provision, so, to the woman be
longs the obligation of a wise an
just dispensing Of family resources
and from both it is demanded that n
( extraneous influence flow from tina
home to become imbedded and pre-
! served in the amber of national polio
and mar its clarity or impair it
beauty.
Miss Ellen Stripping expects {
leave in a few days for a visit 10 on
Of her charming young friends. Mis-
Ethel Lamb, at Worthington Spring.