Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 September 1874 — Page 4
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Society Meetings.
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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TEKBK HAUTE, SEPT. 19,1S74.
SKOOND EDITION.
TWO EDITIONS
Of thl• Paper an» puWlshed. The FIH^T EDITION, on Friday Evening, 4M*lai»0ci!«u!atton J»l|liWW«iil towiks, artieiv is ^«o» :hy n#w*ofs and
The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday ETen log, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in tfie city, «»d
ONE CHAHOE.
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enofOUaimtaedlaMrlcdnltar* Every Week's Issue!*, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS Irt which all Advertisement* appear tor
WHY SO MUCHHVRR Yf l-here is a leeUng that lurks verjr generally In the human mind that the world to ooinfcng to an end, notwitt»tand»ng the sun rtsesand eeta daily, with Home abotr of «^«larity, and the seasons suooeed each other In the same order with which they began,, e*ch ahcfwli& fom* anticipaUon of the one that is toooino aa well as reminlaoence of the one that h«i jtH* departed. This feeling has lurked there, certainly in all historic time hat biased out now and then into afire of burning expectation and dMftd M»d to every generation there are men and whole classes of society to whom the coming end in the stimulus to action, or the paralyser of honest work.
Ifow there Is no gteat, comprehensive, or penetrating impulse moving men and generations, which has not its miniature presentiment to the petty ways of life thereis the flicker of some phan torn future which makes ordinary mortals discontented with the present, and turns thsiir daily work into an unseemly push and incontinent hurry. Something is coming—be it Saturday, or payday, or the annual balance-sheet, or the visit of a relation, or a journey, a marriage, a birthday, an anniversary—the end of the world in which wo are dwelling for the time is at hand then is to v^gin something new some changed circumstances, afresh day, a new week, anew account, different society, a now start in life* a settlement, a beginning after the end.
It would be idle to lay d&wtt a set of rales by which one might hope to exorcise this evil demon of haste *ndf unrest, bat one would take much pal Us It lie could
hope
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fesayftrtsfOM mttjr in UMt«*saMa
•sllar Msek Coal llw WqijMW nf beat quality. fay Hi. «oea«rfm^»n|oa4.
X/t^bx-rft orders at1»eOflk^ 9m Cb**«not streets at QtWlWW bwdt« rArte, Main rtreet. «r at Lee Brosu, eoraer ^txUt awl OhJa*„_ PT** ssr.AT. R.I.R. mm* C*m*w«t itr*et. ai'A*KKX«HUIW*4kp^Rtxf
to porwade the unhappy man
of hurry that the fitult waa all hi* own, and lay in the very spirit with whidi he set about his work thai, in short, hurry was an evil spirit, ty he exorcised by whatever power is tnljgbfy enough to oontroi it, It ia among men of business that it shows itself most clearly, while it la moat offensive when flaplayed to the life of men of thought, Bo*ifleM and harry, so tar from being necessary partmsm, ars eppoMd to each other by the most violent contrast. It may safchr be wM ttsat tttfftfttiit Ittd^lbTtnen of tw" stness are the least hurried, for hurry is an open trtl^rtMMtfltf &e law of o*w
low himself to be turned from them who few the wW torefiti^wiirlt, in spite oft hit anost ittMewble ooaaptoint, the
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Along with the ^trit of evdsrWhleii! hwAa ewe to arrange Ida worksothstit will not be always at ]tto heels, and the
courage whtote maksa him
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smpeeted of shirking—that moat hatefit} thing to his soul—there Is also the dannt, «Wel»i«4M4l»W tfeasptot of order and tf awnfi ootnbiaed, of Toaoinui reserve of leisure. Foreter, to his aocoant of Dickens, hae touched upen the fundamental weakness of that sad Ills, the aheeaee of any "city of the mind" to whidi be eouldflee for refuge ftom the Incessant pressure o# (the a««ual and real upon hint. It is, we bold, a necessity for every man ©f biwlttesa to have sod to guard jealously some period of each day which shall be consecrated to leisure—the leisure of books, er of gentle society, or of nature, or of worship. The last to essential the other* are grateful aide. In this shelter he has a chanee to set his w«eir try the htsrwmiy bodies and when he Issues fuitty Into wheterver thicket ef inea|^f may plunge, he will at any rate fee himself and not thealaveqf^eep#y. There to no need of hurry, for hurry is at variance with freedom and the weed that men have is freedom.
TIX.TO!» ftirnlshes the statement lor this week. It filled fonr pages of yesterday evening's Chicago Tribune. We believe the publio are heartily tired cf these long winded statements, in which little or no additional rwai evidence ia produced. The fact of the matter is no ex parte documents can now affect the
The matter is soon to oome before the courts for trial, and that public, which Moulton and Tllton assail with such relentless length of blather will not give heed to anything the parties in the ease may have to say until they are put on the witness stand. If Messrs. Tllton, Moulton, Beecher, Carpenter and the others mixed up to this scandal will but keep quiet until they come before a court and are put under oath, they will act much more wisely than thoy have hitherto dpiie, acid will relieve thedsiiy press Of a. vast, amount of reiterated twaddle, and the public from much disgusting and disreputable nonsense.
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It is impossible for one to sit down and think at all of what enters into the motive of his life, without seeing how very large a share new beginnings have in it how constantly he looks to the end with reference to the beginning that is to come after. The point at issue is not how to eradicate hope, small or great ftom one's life, but how to get rid of this perpetual hurry and drive, this galloping to the end of a Journey, only to mount afresh steed and gallop on to the next stage the clatter of the horses' hoofs being an accompaniment to all one's thoughts. There is ceftainly something igaotuinous hi the oobftsBion which people are constantly making that they have no time to do this or that needful thing, and that they shall breathe more fteely if they can once clear their desk, or finish this job, or wipe out this obligation. One comes to feel that Time has been borrowed from, and that one's notes are perpetually maturing, while one makes a vain effort to cancel them by giving fresh notes. We torn round in a hopeless sort of fashion, and berate the age we live in, with its whizzing locomotives, and its clicking telegraph-*, aa if the punctuality of rail road trains and th$ inatantaneotoDftw of dispatches were not the very friends and servants of honest leisure.
FERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL
Louis Gl&be notes a mwked
feature of recent publications is the tendency to multiply books of elementary scienoe for the young. It to a natural and necessary change from the flimsy, silly, childish trash that has been fed to the young people in church and to school and in home libraries, The leading publishers of London and Edinburgh have done considerable in the line of a good, substantial literature for the young for several years. Our American publishers are moving very rapidly in the same direction. In the first place, school books of this class are largely to demaud. The introduction of science alongside of arithmet'c and geography to a suocess, not only in the St. Louis schools, but wherever tried. The child cannot know too soon the fundamental fects about his own structure and the laws of life. He needs to be made conversant with vegetable structure quite as much as be needs to know where any special plant grows. The facts in natural philosophy that meet him at the threshold of life should understood quite as well as the science of figures. The same is true of child literature. Books like those of Mace and Verne combine the'interest of the most gorgeous romance with an amount of positive information that is wonderfdl. There is no excuse at present for the enervating moral novels, the sentimental bosh that fills Sunday school libraries. If that is the road to the heavens, the young ones had better go some other way. Give tbem the healthy food that is stored «J by nature.
RKVOL UTION IN LO VI8IANA On Monday last, in New Orleans, the White League, thoroughly organized in companies, regiments, brigades and divisions, to the number of ten thousand men, dispersed the Metropolitan police drove the Kellogg government from place and McEnery's Lieut Governor Penn, who claim* to have been elected Governor In 1872, took the reins* The oonfflftf was short and sharp, showing that the revolution had been carefully and deliberately planned. Twenty or thirty men were killed.
Governor Kellogg has invoked the afcl bt the national government, and Fratf dent Grant issued a proclamation on Tuesday all turbulent and dtoordtarly person* to disperse 'within Ave dayv. United States troops have been-eftiitfo N«W#rfeans, ahd exciting
news may he expected next week. Thew to, Without doubt, a deplorable
der, and order i* the fto»iM4|ty#me q§ njfkirs in iouidip. Ikit there a business houie. Add there we touch OQ]y 0
the secret of a totourdy lite, one which 4iaa Um play. *rttbattt this tideasnnt jp«f*h Hrftm totAnd. He vtfhe ontarn hto
tffe, and rettraes the neaf^jst e«fW(fit
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cpurso to pursue at thto
time. That to to restore the Kellogg government at all hawrds. He has been declared Governor by the State
ft** coafte and racofftdtf* fey &>n-
—owada his put- Pfaridrat. A new tdetv
aaerad «nd dee» noe-Hghliy to to be Uftld In November, and then the people can as»ttl» the question at the polls. To let this revolution pass, to to aet a precedent that may be followed by any Slate at any Mm*
tridrk fit to he who
out heps t*«*ftiy to live a life of leisure Isitnot pltla»l» to«*oiierwKl!&wi 'Sto'vety asxietf drmmstanees sosia W toy
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ottnwianes, aadsMrte «t iwry M« «Meh **to tfr whhfpw th«t he Is IMA MthMl! He wears hie life eway to a te*mj«Me«w9,totM vain Htmptte leave noUdtm undone, when it w««M «re been nohler to leave mueb wariene which be has done OL Usdto^iotots hla maststs hytlii ^teesa cf hi« endeavef, yet none to to dtoapp(dated as himself, for the solao* of having tried to do vhalaoefceenotdoitetoamoeitery. It to doing whidt bris^ eomlbrt.
hAm
to
do
what he cannot do well, thongh he he itl»flto»» of hto last statement.
soon would Vn» anarchy. The at the ballot box would be dferafarded any dtoapprtnfcert party with sufficient nerve to revolt. But ih«M «n be hardly a doubt that General Grant knows hto duty and ftgtowing it he will ndt &dl to cxercls* the po*tr at hto command to enioiyb obedience to tan, and, tn vtow or the Iwsmnaofthe past, it wMi be tlone wt^'flie Hwt $**• atbto^tay .aingi'the ttpe for' the Unit edftfeM the «MttQrlnt onmes th«t the «*volotie«Mto have turn* «d thsStategovernmentovertothemn' H»*y, and ao the wartoover.
Ann now hweoomosBdna Dean Proctor with a salt again* Moulhsn, tor damages to the amount of #100,000. She
to the tody Moulton referred to towards
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iTtestated that notone-fifth of theland in Illinois to under thtptow,
PuiSH for rain were offerad to the Philadelphia churches last Sunday. GSKBBAt. BCTI.KR, or somo such man, is needed again down to New Orleans.
Evnrrs to Jiew Orteana thie week have proven the sword mightier than the Penn, 11b.
the pill man, wants to go
Oougraes. Let him g6. A little purging Is needed at Washington.
RkktiiKit
HKRIST
it
Maine election thto we»-k- went
Hciuhliran bv over 11.000 majority—a slight ir *.«* over last year, SBBKSSSBSOOBSSSSBSBSSSBtS
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pasuiueu hut liutiw pastor
of Plymouth Church two weeks from to-morrow, "no preventing Pn^videnoe."
*iui die with arms in their
hands," comes up tl^e South* These words sounds like tboee of a doaen years ago.
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Tiue new one-dollar greenbacks are out, They xmmW# old onc«,#and will be received at this office for uwi»* scriplion.
IT la stated that the mJ^ority of the male population of Switzerland die before they have attained their fiftieth year. The cause to said to be intenaper* anoe, v*
Tits English Spiritualists profess to have discovered a spirit that will '-materialise," and while in that state write
936
words in six seconds. He must write a "running hand."
WOOMTOLIi'Sstatement
Bosxon
was good Suu-
day-echool reading, oompared with Moulton's. In view of these latter statements, the arrest of the Woodhull party. Is (h^etllt to understand. r&seaetsBamssss* *g •.' ,,
put a woman at tfae bead of
one of those grammar schools and pays her the same salary that the ibaie pedagogues receive. Abby Smith's cows wont have lived to vain.
WHjen
J,s*
you pull that wooden stick out
of your roast beef, as you carve It, you will be astonished to learn that the only manufactory of wooden skewers in the world exists at Toledo, Ohio, and skips millions of these meat-pins every year to England and other countries. The skewers are made from hickory blocks, which are cut by machinery into cylinders about the sise of an ordinary lead pencil. Eighty-six thousand six hundred are made per day, consuming 100,000 feet of hickory slats, and they are of fouz.sixes.
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CHEERING TRADE PROSPECTS. The New York Dispatch gtatea that the general opinion among those who 'have given thought to the sutyeot is that we are about to enter on a season of unexampled business activity. The Bulletin, a paper of commercial tendencies, says that it will "surpass anything known in the world's history." We trust this prediction may prove true, though we would scarcely make so sweeping an assertion. Still, we think that we have seen the worst of the panic, and that trade will now very generally revive. Though we may not do so large a trade as in some former seasons, that which is done will be safer. It cannot be denied that
the
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sales of merchandise
of all kinds ought to be heavy this season, as for the past three or four years careful people have bought nothing which they did not want for immediate use. The prospects for tho merchants and workingmen are much more cheering than they have been in several years, and though Winter Is approaching, there is nothing like the same gloom in its advent that there was last year.
THE BL VE AND ORA Y. At thto time when the condition of affairs In Louisiana excite the gravest apprehensions in tho hearts of all friends of the tftiion and^good order, it to cheering to hear of the formation at Yicksburg, of a society called the "Order of the Blue and the Gray." Its memberships will be limited to the former soldiers of the ""Federal and Confederate armies who fought in the civil war, and its object to to tester and encourage kindly relations between the soldiers of the late war, and to form a bond of mutual trieodabip and good feeling. jThto toasitshotitd be. The men who fought the battles of the rebellion are the proper parttoa to take the initiative in a movement looking to a restoration of Wn" fteliftg* bMw*eeh the people of the No and^outb* The P»« .who met qn the battlefield to bloody contention know best the iMtrnn^ and ttw humanity of each other. It to a notable feet that While the prisonars of either aide were to the hands of the soldiers who had captured tbem Ahey were kindly treated. It was the "fedtte guards'^ who abuAed the unfortunate victims of war. It to the soldiers or the South who most bravely
aght that have since the war accepted situation with the greatest loyalty, and who have been foremost In counsel* ing kind treatment of tba jngroes. When Otto society shall have spread overall pwt* orthe country, its noble and patriotic example will hate the effect or into silence the narrow-souled demagofoae North and South, who for their Own petty anda would keep alive forever the bitterness springing from the war. We hall thin "Order of the BtoeeandGray*"a* means toward the more closely knitting of the bondeof union between the various sections of the country, and of e^ablWWng a^more just appreciation of the kindly' qualities the people of tl»e North and South*
A
max
who
kmc
to Kansas to settle on
a homestead must expect to eat roots, sleep on the floor, ftgnt gnats and get away from the Indiana fer a whole five y«sirs before he can begin to eqjoy life. —[Detroit Free Press.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special CMnrsapondMMe UTS» Mali.! WAsmarRar, D. CL, Sept 15,1874. Yon say you want a regular aeries of Washington Istteia. Watt, lot thia inaugurate the effort.
Since your visit to the ^ationm Capital in the early SumotOT, the dty has been drwadfol dulL Instantly on the adjournment of Congress, everybody who had cash or credit, and was not absolutely compelled to remain here, left for mountain and seaside reeorta. "The Avenue" waa as lonely aa "tho continuous woods where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound save its own dashing." The big hotels, Arliugton, Willard's, Sbbitt, Metropolitan, *»., looked like "banquet! balls de^rttd." Trade died. "Hoclety" subtended, tliurches bolted their front doors. Theatres "flowed for repairs." Only to the departments waa there evidence of life, and there the weary elerks and other iU-paid servant# of the grudging public only tnanagod to "live ai a poor dying rate." To any Hooaler who, weary of the care and turuioil of busy Western life, desires a season of absolute quiet and undisturbed repose, I would any, get thee te Washington when Congress to not in session and when "the administration" to out ef town. You will find here a serenity and placidity that cannot be equalled at Merem or excelled at Bawling Green.
During the laaS few weeks, the mountain and seaside have been sending back portions of their Washington visitors, and there is now a hint or suspicion of vitality on the streets and to places of publio resort. But as thaw returning tourists oome home with collapsed pocket books, trade feels no reviving Influence. Even the doctors and "druggists "have no delight to pass away their time," except in cursing "Boas" Shepherd and the late Board of Public Works for ho effectually draining the city, that disease can no longer do its usual work. The old canal and hundreds of other receptacleeand magazines of filth, that were wont to furnish profitable occupation for medical men, apothecaries and undertakers, are among the things that were. Tbey exist "only in the sangs and chronicles of their exterminator." Bless the "Boss," say I, and so say nine-tenths of those who know what he has done for this city and district. Though he te under a cloud now—because tie Senate waa afflicted with a temporary pliancy and suppleness of its vertaebral mechanism—yet the time is coming, and that right speedily, when be will have the honor that he has faithfully earned. If there were such a thing as popular suffrage here, Mr. Shepherd could be elected, by an overwhelming m^jorlt™ to any office to which he might aspire. And this reminds me ef
THK STRANGEST ANOMALY
that has ever existed in the United States, disfranchisement of the people of this District! Just as the inhabitants of this great Republic are getting ready to celebrate Its one hundredth anniversary while they are training their leather lungs and brazen throats to shout the praises of sdf-govemmeat In the ears of the "efifete despotisms of the old world just on the eve of thto mighty culmination of self-laudation, the Congress of the United States, by a deliberate and solemn act, declares that self-government to our nation's Capital to a failure,and disfranchises every voter among the 150,000 people of the Diatriot of Columbia! What a comment on "a government of the people!" on republicanism! on democracy! Three kings, called commissioners, rale thto political emporium. They are very amiable gentlemen, and have not yet caused any summary executions or other exhltions of tyranny. But a monarchy, even a tri-partite monarchy, te a queer insti tutlon to be sported at the headquarters of thto "Model Republic." It ia doing goad work, and te to be commended on the score of limited expense, for such a machine Is so simple that it to ran cheaply but if our hundred years of self-gov-ernment have ended to nothing nobler than this, we had better shut up shop and ask Her Brittanic Majesty to graciously permit us to return to the tender care of "the Mother Country." At least, so It seems to me, although it may not he the proper thing for a woman to "dabble to politics" or give an opinion on afiaiis of State. However, I was never muoh distressed about the proprieties and both sexes are on equal political footing here, where all are alike deprived of the right of suffrage, think 111 stay here and enjoy this feqnality till women vote in Indiana! When will that good time come?
A OAY SEASON.
It is confidently predicted, by old AttMwes of Washington, that the coming season commencing Dee. 1st and continning till the adjournment of Congress, on the 4th of March—will be one of unusual gaiety. As tha session will be a ahort one, the lobby will fit! promptly and push buatoees actively. Philadelphia is expected here to feroe,
If
not
KMtaae, to get an appropr*e*ton for the Centennial. True, Simon the Senator, stands pledged not to ask for any money but hto ailence will oaly neoeaaitate moi* on the part of others. It is flhm «w a detail of fifty of the moat beautiful and polished ladiea of the Quaker City are already in training for thto patriotic service. I predict that tbey will win. As there to to be no election next year, the final session of the 43rd Congress will not be so distressingly "economical" as waa the last session. Pages will not quake to dread apprehension of a raid on their paltry per deist. Clerks will hope to indulge In Gy»tom and overcoats. Monopolists will «es channels through which their schemes may be pushed.
Our theatres and opera halls have prepared by far the best and most varied lines of amusements ever annouueed here. All that ia most desirable to the drama, including English, German and Italian opera, will be produced at Find's *v and the National to the beat style. All the leading stars that are to appear to New York, have made brief engage-r mants with our energetic managers. 1 am forward to the advent off Kellogg and her incomparable oombin-r ationas tAeevent of the season. It is J. likely that Terra Haute will get herr usual "nquare maal" of good things iuu-* steal and dramatic. fr nmso&tAC.
Washington "Society" is a good deal^ exercised jost now, over the approach-* tog marriage of Miss Minnie, daughter,*' of General Sherman, to party by tho\, name of Fitch, who to an officer of mod-? erate rank in the Navy. Miss Sherman is very much respected and beloved in this city, and her dear five thousand*^ flrienda are happy In the belief that the!' young naval officer Is worthy of his beautiful and amiable bride-elect. Sixteen hundred invitations have been prepared but those Intended for thin locality have not yet been sent out. Aa the wedding occurs the first of October, thereis Utile time for such Washington belles aa are to be the recipients of these missives, to get up suitably "stunning" toilets for the occasion.
Col. Thomas H. Nelson is again in th© city, after an absence of some months at Newport, Saratoga and other points at tho east. He returned on Saturday and, took quarters at 009 Thirteenth street.
Judge Key to often seen on "the Avenue" on hto way between hto home and his law office. The Judge keeps up his old-time interest in Indiana aflfeirs, social and political.
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Hie many Washington friends of General M. C. Hunter are rejoiced at,!' his excellent prospect of an easy victory next month. His constituents will' show their appreciation of a most faithful and efficient Congressman by swelling his majority. All the Hoosiera in this Capital City desire a long continuance of the General's Congressional career. He te one of the most popular members of our delegation. This te not. merely the opinion of a lady, but of allthe masculine members of the Indiana1 Club. Though I don't admit that sex affects the value of such an opinion, one way or the other.
A DRBADFUI, 9CABE*
recently convulsed the Caucasian portion of this district's population. It happened thus: The tri-partite monarchy, Messrs. Dennison, Elow and Ketchum, promulgated a decree consolidating the white and colored school' boards of Washington, Georgetown and the rural region aqjacent^ix boards into
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one. This harmless measure was trumpa step preparatory to tho consolidation of white and colored schools. And what a howl was there, A\y countrymen! The streets, highways, avenues, alleys, parks and reservations •were resonant with direst malediction You have heard of "swearing a bluo streak," and "swearing like the army in Flanders." But these familiar illustrations are too tame to even faintly portray the astonishing fetts of profanity elicited by this order of consolidation. Even now, when it is known that the tri-partite does not propose to Interfere witn tha schools, one can almost hear the echo, the replication of those tremenduous "swear words" from the convex dome of the Capital and among tho few scattered trees that the "march improvement" has left in the Capital Park, &G* A"
HOME. J,.
After all, when one comes to think of it, there are not many homes. There are, of course, innumerable places which go by the name of homes, called so for a want of a better designation, or because everybody calls the plaoe where ho eats and sleeps "home but when you oome down to the real sober fed homes are comparatively scarce. A home is a reftiire-place from the storms, tho !fret and worry of life. It te a place where, the husband comes to a sanctuary, where smiles and loving words answer his smiles and loving greetings. It te a place where the wife reigns in her benijrnity And grac© not, it may be, to© grace of the outward beauty, or cultivation, bat of the true womanhood, where she receives honor and love, even as she gives them both. It te a plaoe where children were happier than anywhere else In the world, because there are tho cheeriest words, the brightest looks and the kindest acts. Such are not the majority of homes as we find them. How does it happen that when you see a real home, a light, pleasant spot, where every one seems to be happy where if husband and wife have misunderstanding's no one ever knows it where the children seem to be hopeful of ono another where laughter and smiles are terpetual guests, why does it strike one as peculiar and noticabio? ^Simply because there
are
so few of them. I will
not ask yon to think of your own home. Let us indulge in the luxury of talking about our neighbors. There is Mr. Smith's bouse. What are your ideas about his home? You see him go in at nightlkll, looking used up by the wear of the day, and if you could step it with Mr. Smith, andrw there In invisible presence, I don't believe yon would be wholly charmed with the looks of things. Possibly the flint words of Mr. Smith are directed Infinitely, What's all this noise about? I donTt me why these children are kicking up such a row." "lite said children take tho hint arid move out of the way, not thinking —for which tbey are pardonable—to say "Good evening" to their fether. Ho soon "settles" them. The family sit down to the evening meal. Mr. Smith feels tired, and don't care to talk. Tho children have something to they learned long ago that &her'» does not care to be bothered ,witV.t.h®lr tales of school, nor to be asked about kites and balls. He bad forgotten all be ever knew about them, cr, indeed,thatbe^ thcm.^ejv senafbly enough, keep
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On the
whole, theyhave, ifnot, a towL a very stupid time of it. The fkmily is a company of animals, who feed,and leavo when they have enough. They do not know precisely what to do with themselves se they mope about, and are
gut
to go to Ded, though tbey don't want to go, except to escape the dullNow, this is not a btiautiftxl pic* ture, but is it a very uncommon one. An honest confession would teli of more homes of that sort than of better onesAre they real homes?
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