DIVISION IV. 



HOME AND HOUSEHOLD. 

 BY MRS. JENNIE E. DUNNING, WASHINGTON, D.C. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE HOME AND FLOWER GARDEN. 



*' 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 

 Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home: 

 A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, 

 Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. 

 Home, home, sweet home, 

 Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." 



SHELTERLESS, homeless, and hungry, amid the cold and sleet 

 of a winter night in London, it is said, John Howard Payne 

 conceived and gave to the world " Home, Sweet Home." Now 

 philanthropic hearts and loving hands have borne his bones 

 from sunny Italy to Oak Hill Cemetery, where a lofty monu- 

 ment towers above, and evergreen myrtle creeps over his dust. 

 There is an unseen monument, whose foundations are broader 

 and firmer, and there is evergreen that is fadeless, in the undy- 

 ing devotion to the sentiment contained in those words. His 

 song encircled the world, and will live on in the hearts of the 

 children of men, until the angel of the Lord, with his right 

 foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, shall declare that 

 time shall be no more. 



Some one has said that the best words in the English language 

 are Mother, Home, and Heaven. In the broadest and truest 

 sense, they are inseparable. Standing alone they are like beau- 

 tiful melodies that are quiet and restful ; but blend them to- 

 gether in concord, with a just adaptation to one another, and 

 they become one grand, harmonious whole, whose music reaches 

 into future years and is unending. 



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