Show nt J. J vt 1 re Is 15 No Place LiRe Like Horne Home II More n New Yorkers Known to Many Time It Was Favorably Fn At Ono One J t J. J I B By THO THOMAS MASL L. L MASS MASSON ON lads and dames said HIS young TillS the tho future state guardian of ot the tho I his charges chiuses Into showed Joung he be y young oung as the rIght wing of or the coming mu museum um Homo Home aa as our ancestors an an- Th The la a replica of oC knew it looking peo- peo j I those What are arc I there so quietly sitting p pie pIc le who are arc i said bald child chUd No typical family of or the That was the including including- the I Father tho lother Mother day two male and two and four reading reading read read- Is Tho father as you see female book bool called the tho an ing from read an and which was at one time Bible Dible a a. number of or l in by quite people Father did Is 15 that all that all the tho household household household house house- Oh no He lie ruled over hold In his austere and dignified way ay way way- hired and the that Is all except Mother and the children Also l Father bather girl the Homo llomo earned the tho mone money whereby That I may say was why was 15 run Important was WitS considered so ho bo breathlessly breathlessly breathlessly breath breath- And did Mother do nothing lessly asked child No a n. charming she lawyer lawer lawyer law law- little girl of or eight a a. a n director or a or yer er or a statesman or a a. riding or delegate delegate or anything any any- anything thing IA No said sald the tho inspector Tho ne J. later you you refer to came just a n. little She Sho was then only just Just Mother Being Being Be Be- almost exclusively to Tho The confined ing Home sho she frittered away her time ii iia In Ina called callec a 8 species l s of ot person personal debasement dusting and sweeping mending cool cookIng cook cook- InS Ing and teaching her offspring to kneel knee kneeland and arid pray pray pray-en an ancient practice resorted delightfully absurd Inno Inno- to by these We should not be too hard upon them observed lad No Many lived in the countr coun coun- of of the poor wretches surrounded by byth tr try where they were ere th Hogs gs called led trees At that time there v.-ete v. not only trees which they thoy used for fuel uel and a a. process they called education education edu edu- cation but thero there was also a a. substance called coal from which they obtained heat Instead of ot directly from tho the sun aa as s at present They also believed in a Being called God the Historical Form Porm- Formula Formula ula um which is now now now-at at the beginning of ot in advance by bya every overy prepared century century prepared a L few cabinet officers not then having ha been invented But tell us Paw Paw who wore were the ingenious minds among our ancestors who first conceived ed tho the j Idea ea of ot getting getting- rid of this ridiculous thing ne- ne called The Home Like all great advances which occurred oc- oc before the management of the Universe was vas discovered by bj a tt Kansas I man who had flunked at ot Harvard to tolio tolie to lie lio in a 3 historical formula which he Inv in invented In- In that The Home v vented the realization was superfluous came about gradually The cities were no doubt responsible for lor it and thero there seems to bo be evidence t to support the belief that the movement move move- movement ment ent to get rid of or The Tho Homo Home originated in In- Ina a a. place called New cw York a 1 small island filled tilled with flivvers limousines and profiteers and entirely surrounded by a hostile chemical reaction called politics And now let us turn back the scroll of however tIme however howe embarrassing and sant this process may be to be to the theU U nt the tho benighted age in which f. f The The- passing passin of ot the Home in Amer- Amer p lea has been boen going on for tor some sonic It is died hard time Tho The Home has still struggling in tho the outlying districts dis- dis districts dis present Indications nobody no o- o but from is much worried about its sur sur- body it ft probably probably probably proba proba- with us vival vl While it was W work wore Pretty soon when bly did good born according to acard acard a are being children tired bustness business business busi bust and the tho card Index system ness woman Is running tho state tho the remembered as be home borne will or should Primitive as asIt asIt asit having tided us all over ever It was out of ot It emerged a number of or people pe-ople who If It we saw them coming along tho street today toda we would not meeting cross over to avoid So persistent however Is the tho homo home that It Is still to be seen at odd Intervals intervals Inter Inter- o of the suburbs around vals als In many New cw York But it Is only fair to say apartments apartments apartments apart apart- that In place of or homes largo where men and ments are going up women entirely Independent of ot one another congre congregate ato at Intervals for tor brief companionship and then go on their separate ways was The Tho Influx of ot thousands of ot women into the tho industrial field has given shen to every young girl anew anew a anew new opportunity and rendered parents superfluous Brooks Adams in his book boole The rho Degradation of or tho the Democratic Dogma Dogna Dog Dog- ma na puts it thus Tho family principle has decayed It has until as a legal conception ceased eased to exist The Tho father has no authority tho the wife Is absolutely in independent Independent In- In dependent and so are arc the children savo save so far tar as tho state exerts a modified modified mod mod- fled control as In the matter of ot edu cation This does docs not prevent people from Irom getting married On the tho contrary there being no restrictions the affair altair Is often one of or a few hours The question question ques tion as to where one Is to live livo Is o ono of or orno no Importance to those whose responsibilities responsibilities end when the bell rings a at Dot all Is only a minor minor mi ml 5 p p. m. m Living after nor matter The main point as it t Is chiefly understood in New York and ani vicinity Is to get some soma excitement out of or life Ute To get s-et married occasionally h ha Is Isa a a. help As for the quarters one Jives live In It need only onh be pointed out that more children are born In the tho slums of or Now New York than in an any other section and there Is not a a. homo home there The machinery machinery machin machin- slums alums are arc a vast ery of ot wood and steel with occasional fire Ire escapes and Inextricably mixed up in this Inchoate mass are hundreds of or thousands of human beings s crawling In and out and swarming s like Uko Insects I New York has undoubtedly tho the very ven i best slums In the country countr and is justly proud of or them Anyone who ho doubts the supremacy of New York over all other cities should visit her slums and be convinced They are a practical the old- old example of oC how unnecessary fashioned home was Besides this Is a democracy where the tho majority decide to bo be born In tho the slums Is positive proof that a slum is the only proper place to be born and live lIvo in The Thc few people left eft in New ew York who still continue to dwell in brownstone brownstone brownstone brown- brown stone fronts know this that Is why hy they are ashamed to have o any children As soon as they do they send them away to boarding schools to shift shUt for tor themselves Even these thes people however however however how how- ever cannot bo be said sald to live livo In a home lathe Inthe In tho sense cense that It was used by Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham Lincoln Lincoln- Father lives mostly at athis athis athis his club Mother divides her time be between between between be- be tween her club and her other othor various interests If It there is a boy he goes gocs to his preparatory school at an early age and nc neter er appears appear again except at holidays boUdas If It there is a girl she sho also goes to school and at the ago of ot 19 or so when she is supposed to be finished h her mother gives her a di dl diner ner ncr dance she Is then ready to be bo married or divorced dl as many times as necessary f- f 1 LT r to maintain her po- po position position po po- In society I Between Betwee brownstone front on tho one hand and the slums on the theether theother theother other ether thero there is no chance for tor the tho home Tho The difference between what Is called a living apartment and a hotel Is growing less and less all the he time as seri servants ser ants become obsolete obsolete ob ob- solete soleto tho the management of or tho o groups of t people who used to he be I classed as families will come under the head of or big business It Is not Improbable however that in tho the near future futuro nobody can cnn afford aCCord to be born except in tho the slums Thus the future of ot the slum seems to be as- as asI as as- I sure As for Cor the tho suburbs It Is only a question of t m hen wh n they will consist of ot a a. vast barracks o of ai al houses j b by under under- ground It will soon no longer bo be considered respectable to be bo seen walking on the face taco of or the tho earth Men and women will reach their offices either by tunnel or air On arriving within tho the city limits they will be bo shot through tubes to their various desti desti- nations And thus to go bO back to the Future But Paw Pa Paw said No lo o. o did not our ancestors themselves on their Inventions This made mado Paw Paw smile To show how crude the they were he replied It is only necessary to state I that In order to communicate the they actually actually actually ac ac- ac- ac strung copper wires all over the I and when both Mars and Ve Ve- nus flue were wigwagging them frantically l ly Iy It took them several se years before they thoy even noticed it it or could reply Nevertheless children you must not despise this family group STouP as it is set setIn setin setin in the home that was Without It we might never ne never have been bean here At this No perhaps tho the brI brightest and most In intelligent en l you youth of ot them all laughed Nonsense Paw Paw Pan he said My I prehistoric ancestors caino came from froma a place called Boston and in the course courso of ot time almost an any one of ot us would haVe been able to evolve a work working ins ins- cosmos out of our consciousness conscious conscious- ness with witha a a human race or s so so b on the side bide Maybe so said sard Paw Paw lint But now children you OU must move alon along Here come a a. lot of or disembodied spirits who are out for the afternoon and you mustn't mingle with them as they come como from tho middle wes west a know we beings of the Atlantic must l keep up our dignity As the they floated out of thea the then a n. voice olce called caned Buy the Hourly Houry- rap the latest n news wR from Jupiter Venus and tho the minor planets onlY |