Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 294, 22 November 1915 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAII.

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HOME HEAVENLY

BY EDGAR ILIFF. Book agents and tramps tell us that houses have a physiognomy. Some invite, others repel. They say they can guess the character of a family by 'the outside and surroundings of the house. Some day, says John O- Nlehardt, author 'of "The River and I." some one will write a hook on "The Physio-Psychological Aspect of Houses," and he conclude with this: - ' "God grant that no man in need may ever look wistfully at ybut house or at mine and pass on with a shake of the head. It is a subtle compliment to have book agents and tramps frequently at one's door." Henry Ward Beecher said that in his circuit riding days he could almost infallibly judge the character of the famj ily by the general aspect of the house, jand that if a woman had flowers in 'her window or' vines around the door ,' he had no fear of stopping over night. House Voices Personality. Balzac and Hawthorne, two of the

greatest imaginative ' writers of modera times, believed in the aura or atmosphere of houses. The very wallnaoer. the window blinds and the spirit

'of the house were saturated with the I personality cf the dwellers within, ac- ' cording to Balzac. To the Puritan genius of Hawthorne, houses were stained with crime or sensua.lty, or meanness or selfishness, or they might be j perfumed and glorified by sweetness of i character. Read the "House of Seven Gables" and see. , x ';.. y

Some houses need no sign to tell that the latchstring is out. They look

jit. Others are so forbidding that one

cannot call them homes, but institutions. One often sees houses that look as mean as the mean, stingy people within, them. Little and humble houses may, shine -with the spirit of the great soul dwelling . there, and big

houses may show that a little, soul Is whining there over the cost of living.

Mansions Chill Spines. There are houses of the rich in Chicago that give you a cold chill down the spine. A stone wall, a ten-foot iron fence, an iron gate doubled locked and , iron bars at the windows. You imagine1 the "Man With the Iron Mask" is there, or you see some pale-faced prisoner behind the bars, like a "Bird in a Gilded Cage." These houses are jails, asylums, sanitariums, institutions, not homes. In the yard the shrubs and plants seem starved, like poor Smike of Dotheboys Hall in 'Nicholas Nlckleby." In one yard stands a dead and shriveled pine tree. Everything is dead, for the soul is dead that sleepeth. A white-faced little girl comes out of the Jail with a servant-maid. The gate is unlocked and they look up and down the street like a scared cat does before it risks its life in running the gauntlet of dogs lying in wait for its frantic rush across the street. There are no laughing children in this neighborhood. Everybody has" a care-taker. Every .little act must be performed by a flunkey. These people are not free. They are dependents. Very few rich and great people are free and independent. Look at the swarming children of the Ghetto on Central and Woodlawn avenues in Cleveland. There you see life as free as the birds of the air. There you see the mills of the gods slowly grinding out men and women who will care for themselves and not be dependent, who will some day control the money and markets of the world. Blocks Are Cheerless. On Euclid avenue, Cleveland, the mansions of the very rich stand far hack from the street. At night they are cold and cheerless to look at, no lights anywhere unless some function of display is going on. These houses are as cold and barren as a distant snow-capped mountain. Venture on the lawn and you may be shot for a poacher. You would never ask for bread there. . You would go down to the Ghetto, where the poorest Israelite would feed you if you were hungry. The houses of these Jews! There may be goods hung on the outside walls for sale; the yard may be cluttered with stove iron, crocks, pots, panB and kettles, all price-marked. The -veranda may have blankets andi shawls mattresses and carpets hung all over them. Swarms of laughing children may be seen eating big slices of bread and jelly. There may be an outburst of the commercial spirit seen in a plant marked, "This rubber plant, only 98c." There may be, what seems to your orderly views, confusion and chaos, but the spirit of home is maintained and a hungry man applying there for bread would not have the dog set on him. He would be fed. Poor Share Freely. Harry A. Pranck, who tramped abroad and related his experiences in his "Vagabond Journey Around the World." tells the same story. The less people had the more they shared with the unfortunate. He always found food and lodging, poor and mean as they were, among the very poor Jews in all Eastern land3. Tboreau treated true hospitality right when he said: "Rather than money or fame give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, hut sincerity

HERE'S PROOF A Richmond Citizen Tells of His Experience. Tou have a right to doubt statements of people living far away but can you doubt Richmond endorsement? , Read it: Edgar S. Mote, mail carrier, 1117

South H street, Richmond, says: "I suffered from backache and kidney weakness. The least cold affected me and at times I could hardly straighten up, owing to the intense pain across my kidneys. I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at Luken & Co.'s drug store, and they made a permanent cure." The above statement was given on December 14, 1908, and on Septemeber 3 8, 1916, i Mr. : Mote said i "The ; cute that Doan's Kidney Pills gave me has been permanent." ' Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply - ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Mote has twice publicly recommended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props.. Buffalo. N. Y. Adv.

and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable ' board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices. I thought there was no need of ice to freeze them. They talked to me of the age of the wine and the fame of the vintage, but I thought of an older and purer wine,' of a more glorious vintage, which they had not got and could not buy. The style, the house and grounds and entertainment pass for nothing with me. I called on a King, but he made meF Iralt in his? hall, and conducted himself, like a man Incapacitated for hospitality. There was a man in my neighborhood who was bred In a hollow tree. His manners were truly regaL I would have done better had I called on him. The town's 'poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not needed to buy one necessary of the soul." Houses Resemble Faces. Some houses suggest head ' lines, "Where the Crime was Committed." Some like human faces suggest sham and fraud. Others tell tales of the "cheap skate," the "tightwad" and the criminal perpetration of arrested development in children. There still stands a bouse in Indiana on a country road, surrounded with weeds and brambles, its window panes broken and its rooms empty. It la the bouse of fraud and crime. Its original owner had made a deed of trust of it to a i friend and the friend ..betrayed himby keeping it. .Jbe traitor was murdered by burgters The jjon' and heir ' afterwards- 'committed suicide there. "There wsb nae luck about the house," a "plague upon it." No novelist has used this theme to better purpose than George Douglas in his "House With the Green Shutters." It has all the glood of Hawthorne and all the tragic nemesis force of Aeschylus In his "Furies." . - Very few houses express the charity,

freedom and noble hospitality seen in Emerson's at Concord, Mass. If you have ever seen a mere wood-cut picture of this house you will at once recognize it the moment you enter the town. It is plain, painted white with green shutters. The very soul of the serene and sane philosopher shines from it. It has the simple beauty of the sincere and honest Friend Quaker face of old. Nothing can surpass the beauty of old colonial doorways in old Salem, MasB. They are portals of peace, gateways of home in its highest spiritual sense. Homes Are Temples. "If men lived like men should," said Ruskln, "their homes would be temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live." But "beautiful houses,' said Bacon, 'are built only by poets who build them with small expense." I dq not believe with the pessimist that ihe. main traveled-road f iHfe is long and wearyful. Every blade of grass has its own drop of dew. Every condition has its compensation. I do not believe that our age is full of discontent, that the poor are unhappy, that the ignorant are miserable and that every man will commit suicide if you give him a razor or become a drunkard if you show lam a bottle. This is a gastric dream, a bad liver phantasy. When Home Is Heaven. I say this of the fair-to-middlin' people : Wherever mutual love dwells, wherever little children prattle at mother's knees, wherever the cradle is the shrine of the home, wherever childhood is one long, joyous dream, wherever the honey-suckle and the lilac bloom at the door of purity and faith, and the mother is the royal queen of the hearthstone, there is heaven, though it be in a cabin, and the world is full of such heavens. But wherever bitterness destroys and dis-

trnst warpsv and the aonr of th.chil4 Is checked with terror and its voice hushed with fear; wherever the father's step is dreaded; wherever -the mother loves fashion mora than child, and the father -chooses ."success" instead of life; wherever criticism and hate and lust have-entered, there Is hell, though it be fit a; million-dollar house, for Shakespeare wsa right when he said: "'Tis better to be lowly. born and" range with humble livers in content than to be perked up in a glistering grief and wear a golden sorrow." And Epictetus was right when he said . that any city was better off where great souls lived in small houses rather than small souls In big houses.

Garfield Notes

- - PAUL HEIRONIMU8. . w The first issue of the Garfield school paper was distributed Friday, and more .than 400 copies were sold in the bnlldlhg. . Sample copies witl be sent

to the other junior high schools in the country and also regularly to the 6A rooms in the grade schools in this

city, to famniarize pupils witn warfield activities.

The eirls of the Garfield cooking

classes attended the demonstrations

given by Miss Alma Garvin of Purdue university Wednesday and Thursday under ' the auspices of the Domestic

Science club.

The bad weather has increased the

patronage of the luch room, one nundred and twelve lunches were served Friday at an average cost of nine and one half cents. The entire number

was served within fifteen minutes

after dismissal of the classes. The Garfield pupils are much inter

ested in the proposal to enlarge the building. The boys are dissatisfied as. they, -have no gymnasium classes

thlir year. Ths nelr. uildtngHt-prob

ably have. separate gyms for' the boys

and the girls. The manual depart

mento are also hampered for lack of

space.

WEAK, AILING CHILDREN Made Well and Strong by Simple Remedy. Here is another letter that has just come to our attention, showing the power of Vinol to build up health and strength for weak, puny, ailing children. W. A. Smith, of Shanesville, Ohio, says: "My little child was puny, weak and ailing, could not rest at night and would not eat. I learned about Vinol and tried it, and within a week noticed an improvement. The child's appetite improved, it slept well, strength and health were soon built up. We think Vinol is excellent for weak, puny children." Vinol is a delicious cod liver and iron tonic without oil, containing beef peptone, which creates an appetite, tones up the digestive organs, enriches the blood and creates strength, children love to take it. We ask all parents of weak, sickly, delicate children In this vicinity to try Vinol with the understanding that we will return .your b money if if falls to benefit your, little-ones. P. S. In your town wherever' 'you live, there is a Vinol drug store; look for the sign. Leo H. Fihe, Druggist, Richmond, Ind. Advt.

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RENK Viola It, aged . 8. daughter of Ernest and Alta Renk, died Sunday afternoon at the home of her parents, 462 South Twelfth streeL Funeral at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning at the First English Lutheran church. Rev. E. G. Howard, pastor, officiating. Burial in Earlham. The 'daughter was a member of the church. 4 Friends may call at any tlm. BLOMEYER The " funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Blomeyer was held at 2 o'clock .yesterday afternoon from St. John's Lutheran church, the pastor. Rev. -A. J. Feeger, officiating. "A quartette sane selections at the church and at the grave. Burial wis ' made in Lutherania cemetery. The pallbearers were .Wesley Kettering, Walter Ben-

feldt, Charles Hackraan. Henry Haworth. T. Tapy and William Kramer.

HARMAN PRAISES PRESIDENT WILSON President Wilson Is the man of .the hour. He is the man who God train

ed and prepared to meet the crisis tat the nation's affairs, just as He has la reserve a man for every exacting and complex situation. : This was the tribute paid the chief executive by the Rev. Harry C Hanman. pastor of First Methodist church, in. bis Thanksgiving sermon last night

LODGE WILL MEET.

The first regiment. Uniform rank. Junior O. U. A. M. will meet Tuesday evening at the hall to consider business of - Importance. Refreshments will be served. The meeting has been called at the order of the captain.

Hot Water The Best Liver and Bowel Medicine Says glass of hot water before breakfast washes poisons from system. Physicians the world over recommend the inside bath, claiming this is of vastly more importance than outside cleanliness, because the skin pores do not absorb Impurities into the blood, causing ill health, while the pores in the ten yards of bowels do. Men and women are urged to drink each morning, before breakfast a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it. as a harmlass jneans. of helpttr. to wash from; the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day's Indigestible material, poisons, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Just as soap and hot water cleanse and freshen the skin, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the eliminative organs. Those who wake up with bad breath, coated tongue, nasty taste or have a dull, aching head, sallow complexion, acid stomach; others who are subject to bilious attacks or constipation, should obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store. This will cost very little but is sufficient to demonstrate the value of inside bathing. Those who continue it each morning are assured of pronounced results, both in regard to health and appearance. adv.

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