Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — Elegance of Home. [ARTICLE]

Elegance of Home.

Dr. Halaxaa. I never saw a garment too fine for man or maid; there never was a chair too good for a cobbler or a cooper or a king to sit in; never a house too fine to shelter the human head. These elements about us—the glorious sky. the imperial sun-*-are not too good for the human race. Elegance fits man. But do we not value these tools for housekeeping a little mure (han they are worth, and sometimes mortgage a house for tirt* mahogany we bring into it? I had rather eat my dinner oft the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all r.iy life, than consume all myself before I got to a home, and take so much pains with the outside that the inside was as hollow as an empty nut. Beauty is a great but beauty of garment, hoiise and furniture are tawdry ornament compared with domestic love. All the elegance in the world will not make a spoonful of real, hearty love nor will whole shiploads of furniture, and all the gorgeousness all the upholsterers in the world can gather.