South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-26

- said 20 rent their homes.
Fifty-eight percent-this mean
/ that more than one-haf the peopl
/ i'm this country don't know the mean
ing Of a real, sure-enOugh, honest
/ to-goodness home.
They roost in apartment houses
\ they cluster in fat buildings hk
swarms of bees. they hide in tene
ments.
: They 90 back and forth to tn
| Misunderstanding the five-fifteen
| for lonesome hearths by the sea on
year. and for home-makers by tn
I forest the next.
They never own a foot OF land
never so much as a front-dOor Ike!
Of their own-pOOr things and they
| think they're living.
A rich man told me about it thu
other day.
"I never own a house" he said
1T doesn't pay. I can make my
money work for me in a dozen bet
ter ways to more advantage
Poor creature-and he meant
every word he said.
Home? Are we getting entirely
out of the habit or having a home
at all, we Americans?
know a man VINO has three
daughters and three sons-a very
rich man. And he Is building mag
nificant home for each of his chill
dren
one place is in California, in an
orange grove, with magnOlias and
oleanders and yellow mimOsa, and
purple heliotrope ablOom from Jan
uary to January. A Spanish house
il is ne has built in California,
made of plaster and set around a
little patio. with a POOL in It and
California peoples laughing at
themselves in the mirror OF the wa
ter.
And one OF the houses is on the
Hudson A stately mansion it is,
with green lawns sloping to the no
BILE river.
And one is in New England, close
TO Boston. This IS an old house, re-
modelled. a big. stately place of liv-
ing, full of dignity and with a story
for every room.
One Of the homes Is built on the
shores Of one OF the Great Lakes.
In the winter, the white snow lies
deep upon the roofs OF that home,
but i'm the summer. the dappled
birch is white and gray-the pines
are green and the water is as clear
as a baby's eyes. Canoes and little
sailing boats go up and down, and
the sand on the shore OF the lake
is as white as sugar.
And one house is in Chicago out
on the Lake Shore dr.-a splendid
mansion is this, with Conservatives
and a ballroom and every modern
convenience.
And Jne is In FlOrida-close to
the great beach where the races are
"a gay place with broad riazzas
and striped awnings.
And the man has searched the
world for treasures with which TO
fiji these beautiful houses.
And the mans six children are
very fond of him-but they are
everyone Of them planning TO sell
their homes as soon as their father
dies
one Is going 10 buy a yacht and
one is going abroad TO live and one
wants 20 travel around the world
And the others hate the thought Of
being tied TO one place.
Now. if those children were Eu-
ropean they would hang onto those
homes-though everything else fail
ed. And they would hand them down
from one generation to the next, for
Of years.
And every stone and every rafter
and every brick that went into the
building Of them would be precious
and almost sacred.
1 wonder if we Americans do not
miss something very sweet and beau
uful I'm life when we give mp the
idea OF a home I
There's a little round hill in
long. green valley. and at the foot
of the hill is a laughing river and
I'm the distance there are the forest
trees and all around about the lit
tie green hill there are miles and /
miles OF orchards and vineyards. /
And there's a windmill atop of the /
little green hill. and ii beckons and /
5eckons and saws to me. over and 1
over.
Come home-come home Here /
S peaCe-here is qUiet-here is /
.aith and love and time"
Ions afternoons. quiet mornings, /
sweet evenings in the starliEht-dear I
hours before the dancing fire on the /
plain little hearth Outside the /
rough sheep dog viii keep faithful /
watch and guard. and when the sun f.
,oes down the forest trees will seem /
o gather nearer like so many senti-
lels. And II the evenings quiet. and \
he leaves OF the orchard trees are +
not rustling too much. II YOU viii 4
isten. YOU viii hear il like a droning
ccompaniment-th thunder OF the
surf upon the beach not 10 miles
.way
And ] would rather think OF the
title round hill and the laughing
liver and the old windmill and the
.uiet hearth: than 70 read any book
however fascinating. or go 10 any
Law. however thrilling
For atop Of the little round green
ul-is-Home
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