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Squire (search for this): chapter 6
as she retains that, she is strong and self-respecting; and even if she parts with it, so strong is the instinct of home that she can sometimes reconstruct it for herself even in a boarding-house. If the home is combined with a little freedom in the use of money, it gives more comfort and more local prestige than a lone man can win by a fortune. What would be the social condition of any country village in our Atlantic States without its first-class Maiden Lady? She is the daughter of old Squire somebody, or of Parson somebody else; she lives in the great square house with its elms, and its white lilacs, and its breezy hall; she has a maid or two, who have lived with her so long that they seem like half-sisters; she has in daily use the precious china and the old chairs that her envious city nieces try vainly to rival at auction-rooms. She manages the book club and the church sociable; she is the confidante of all the love affairs; she calls upon the new-comers, if worthy-indeed, t
E. A. Sophocles (search for this): chapter 6
m, this being the result not of his sins, but of his sex. Undoubtedly each reader will think, or try to think, of some exception to all this — some single man who is happy, some jolly bachelor, some cheerful widower. No doubt there are those who can be happy, especially during the first half of life, without the sense of ]home. A, with his wealth, and his paintings, and his yachts, and his delightful monologue; B, with his perpetual journeyings; C, with his six dogs; and our late Professor Sophocles in Cambridge, with that family of hens which he tended, like a herdsman, with a long staff, and which he trained to take food from stakes placed upright in the ground instead of scratching in the flower-beds --all these may doubtless have found a bachelor life not inconsistent with happiness; but where, after all, is the home? Neither yachts, nor pictures, nor steamer tickets, nor dogs, nor hens can supply that. Home, says the proverb, is where the heart is; but if so, no man seems
William Shakespeare (search for this): chapter 6
hood and women, or of that womanhood which creates home. It is not only potent for itself, but it extends its potency over all other homes. What, compared to this, is the social position given by wealth to the lonely old bachelor of the country village? Though he be a millionaire, he is simply the old bach. The truth is that as people grow older it is the man who becomes dependent, and the woman the central and essential figure of the household, since she can do without him, and he cannot do without her. The proof of this lies in the fact that we see all around us self-sufficing and contented households of women, while a house that contains men only is a barrack, not a home. In youth it is easy to ignore this, to say with Shakespeare in Henry V. Tis ever common That men are merriest when away from home; but the merriment is shallow, the laugh is forced, and years and illness and sorrow soon bring man back, a repentant prodigal, to his home and to woman, the only home-maker.