Evening star., 1923-05-02

home, sweet nome, SlorlHcu' 10
being erected with the speed Of a
stage setting in the rear or the
Treasury in honor of the Tooth ami
versary, May s, of the first public
rendition Of the famous song of John
Howard Payne, the man who never
really had a home.
The original building in which
serves as the model for the main
lines of the new building, but its in
terror is different and expresses mod
ern architectural ideals of a model
seven-room house. After erection,
with all the modern and antique fur
niShfngs combined. the home" will
be used as an exhibition of CEN
tury's progress only a few days
where 1t Is building and then it will
roam to permanent setting else
where.
Amongst modern conveniences,
which the author Of the song never
knew and which will be shown in the
new replica" of the original home,
sweet home" will be found hot and
cold running water, electric cooking,
lighting, sweeping; also an electric
doorbell and various lesser electrical
contrivances. Will there not also be
radiophone by which the occupants
may listen i'll, even to Algiers, Payne's
ofhcial residence, where he was con-
these Inventions. Yet 'e the essence |.noof of
fayHe sweet song is that nothing
IKE these, not even the splendor OF
pleasures and Palaces" can take the
pIace or the charm from the skies"
WHICH halloWs the real home.
X x X x
Home is where the heart is-where
love reigns, where the family is q
unit, independent of outside attrac-
tions and mechanical contriyances.
we Americans sometimes arrogate to
ourselves a superiority, shared per-
maps with the English. but with
credit refused to some other nation
allties, because, for example, other
languages have no word with the
exact meaning Of home" We have
often heard the French taunted with
the fact that there Is no such word
as home" in the French language
put to any one who has lived in
french families, the devotion of mem
bers OF the family to their parents
gives the lie to the thought that Ian
guage makes Il home, or the lack of il
w ouid that the new replica of the
mouse OF the song might remind mil
lions or Americans that home is not in
the movie, nor the dance marathon,
nor the automobile, but in the low
ing hearts of parent and child, brother
and sister.
Has the modern home become too
mechanized? Probably not, for the
fact that the drudgery of housekeep-
ing has been lifted is not the cause
of forgetting what home may be to
loving hearts. The present mechanical
aids release the mother to broader
and better life than her grandmother
ever knew.
Two very young children were heard
discussing the recent death Of the
grandmoth of one, when the second
consoled her playmate by saying that
her own grandmother, too, had died.
some time previous, and after all,
"grandmothers were not very last
ing" In the days when Home, Sweet
Home was first sung, mothers were
"old" at fifty--far older than they are
today at seventy. In those days, aft
er fifty, the proper mother found her
rocking chair beside the fireplace
where she sat and knitted and doZed,
or told folklore stories to her grand
children. Today, the mother at fifty
is just beginning to be carefree to
attend her social activities.
X * x X
At the National Press Club fast
Saturday evening there was demon
strated the most marvellous miracle
of the age. BY its development, with
In the next five years, the date
home will be as far in advance of any
home of today. as the replica is in
advance of the original Payne birth
place on Long Island, Of a century
or century and a quarter ago.
The demonstrator was Francis G.
Jenkins, the inventor of the moving
picture. 1t is his invention which is
now giving delight daily, all over the