HOME BUILDING 267 



tentious home with the most beautiful surround- 

 ings. If their childhood's home is a hovel the 

 vision of the home they see in their dreaming is 

 not of the hovel kind. 



While we have seen the home instinct so strongly 

 developed in the young, that a young man seriously 

 injured in the marts of trade piteously pleaded 

 that we take him to his childhood's home which 

 we found to be nothing but a two roomed hovel, 

 reeking with filth and the walls alive with foul 

 crawling vermin that dropped from the ceiling 

 upon us as our footsteps shook this hovel mis- 

 named home, yet we dare say that when this 

 young man dreamed of the future home, he would 

 have for his own, his dreaming did not picture the 

 kind of a home his parents had given him, but was 

 that of a palace or the beautiful ones he saw in 

 his neighborhood. 



One day at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, 

 the author found himself in the great art exhibit 

 standing with a large crowd gazing with moistened 

 eyes at the simple picture of farm life entitled 

 "Breaking Home Ties." It represented a farm 

 home scene with the mother bidding adieu to the 

 young man about to leave the farm. The father 

 with sad face was waiting with the farm team to 

 take him away ; the smaller brother and the farm 

 dog were looking on with apparent sorrow. 



After standing for a long time looking through 

 tears at this simple picture he turned about and 

 saw dozens of men and women with weeping eyes 

 and with tear stained cheeks looking at the picture 

 as the author had looked. Why the interest and 

 tears for a simple picture? It represented the 



