Ebook A Home for All

Especially ought every married pair to secure a permanent residence for themselves and children; for, without it, one pow erful mental faculty must suffer perpetual abrasion, and many more, diminished and interrupted action and pleasure. This moving is ruinously costly, alike destructive Of property and pleasure, cripples husbandry, prevents planting trees and vines, and obliges tenants to frequent the grocery, with money in hand, for a thousand little things which, if land-owners, they would raise. None can duly appreciate home, till, having once owned and lost one, after being cast Upon stone-hearted landlords, they repossess themselves of a comfortable domicile, again to feast upon the products of their own gardens and orchards. Father, mother, whoever, wherever thou art, heed this important advice provide A home first — whatever else you do, or leave undone.