Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — HOME-MADE HELL. [ARTICLE]

HOME-MADE HELL.

Yes, my son, there is a hell—in fact several of them; most of them are home-made with the makers trade-mark stamped thereon so we know they are genuine. The drunkard bpilds his own hell and inhabits it himself. If ills hell does not. suit him he usually blames his wife, the neighbors, the devil, and some of his other relatives, and then goes home and tries to make a new hell. This is hell for everybody! The man with the ingrowing grouch who goes home and picks a row with his wife and family is building his home-made hell! The wife who nags her husband—the common scold—the old henpecking mother-in-law —-the young man who knows more than his daddy, and tells him so, too, all are building their home-made helis. The thief, the libertine, the gambler, the forger and the little girl on the great white way, with her broadway smile, all of themi, my son are slowly but surely building their home-made hells! Heaven is in the heart, my boy, and hell is all our own making-—the old home-made brand that came in with Adam and Eve (ho same hell that Cain raised with Abel.—Wm. H. Dixon.