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Show get a little better fixed, and they put it oil' too long, and finally put it off altogether. They do not J know what a home is. Nobody ever j puts out their slippers in front uf the fireplace. Nobody ever meets them at the doorstep, and winds a fine pair of arms three or four times around their necks. They never hear the prattling of children norany of the other sounds of home. The renter and the bachelor arc somewhat alike the renter intends to have a home of his own, but he keeps putting put-ting it off until he gets better oli and after awhile he gives it up altogether. al-together. And so its goes all through life, living in somebody else's house anrrrvnyTng ituvownn-every ituvownn-every month for the privilege of doing it. If e never takers any pride in his home because it isn't "his'n." He never plants a tree or a shrub, nor does anything else to beautify the premises he occupies, ueeausc il won t pay ne may noL live there very long. But if he has a home of his own, no landlord comes to him. Within its charmed circle he is master, and so he beautifies beau-tifies it and learns to love it. His children were born there: and in after years when he is old they return re-turn to renew their acquaintance with it. Ex. j WHY PEOPLt DOIfT MARRY- ! Did il ever occur to you why tbc:e i are so many old bachelors in the world men who ea; at restaurants and r-b't p iii f.in.b !e-d room-, men 'who a re ei'.i n k v and d is-al i- lb d ? Thcy.-tarteil in life w ith just as mm h , hope .is you did, and with ju.-t as ' firm an intention as yon bad of marrying and settling down; but ; during the springtime of life ihey i kept puling it off Until they Could |
