Name: The hearthstone; or, Life at home
Author: Laura C. Holloway

sw I li- - .>.\ll!g BF-I J EVFR^SO HUMBLE ere"'is^no"place I LIKE HOME* / 4- ^ I^H i- 0^-v Di2 maMti •^' '^OT? N fm^^ t^-J WHAT GL»^RD^SO ME LOOKS OF HOUSEHOLD LOVE MEET JN THE jRUOOY ;L1«HT THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFT of Prof. Elliot A. P. Evans .'■^ ^ H S 'z. I < ^ r- THE H EARTH STON E ; OR, Life at Home. CONTAINING hints and hklps for home making; home furnishing; decorations amusements; health directions; the sick-room; the nursery THE library; the LAUNDRY; ETC. TOGETHER WITH A COMPLETE COOKERY BOOK, BY LAURA C. HOLLOW AY, Author of "Ladiu 0/ Ifu WhiU House," tte. THE INTER-STATE PUBLISHING HOUSE, BELOIT, WIS. 1883. Copyrighi by Laura C. Holloway, 1883. t-IO ^^^^■] PREFACE. ERE I to dedicate this book, it would be to the Homesick : that class, which, above all others on earth, has suffered so hopelessly, been so little understood by those who have escaped this mind disease. How it eats out the hopes and aspirations and longings of its victims, and leaves them bound to the Promethean rock of loneli- ness, only those know who are its victims. Were I to dedicate my book to the homesick, it would be consecrated to thousands upon thousands of little children, who among- strangers pine to be at home, to whom the school is the prison-house, the distant home the heaven they long to reach; to the lonely orphans found in insti- tutions where the charity of strangers gives them food and raiment, but not a mother's love, a father's presence or a home's liberty ; to the over-worked men and women, wlio are exiles to home blessings through poverty ; to the aged ones who have outlived their kindred, and have no abiding place at any hearthstone ; to the greater j^art of all God's creatures, in fact, for few, indeed, are so happy as to have (iii) 91 IV PREFACE, lived, and not suffered from this cause. All its cruel phases and manifestations, its blighting power and tenacious grasp, were realized by Payne, who spoke for the homesick when he penned his "Home, Sweet Home." He touched the univer- sal heart with his poem made immortal in song, and it seems fitting that in a book on the subject, nothing could be more appropriate than a picture of the fireside where he lived as a little child. This the beautiful frontispiece gives, and in gazing upon it may be realized the charm that hallowed the name to him. In the words of the song that has made his name dear to his kind, he did not teach, he but voiced the univer- sal sentiment ; the love that comprehends that of mother, father, sister, brother, of prosperity and contentment.

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sw - .>.\ll!g BF-I J EVFR^SO HUMBLE ere"'is^no"place I LIKE HOME* / 4- ^ I^H i- 0^-v Di2 maMti •^' '^OT? N fm^^ t^-J WHAT GL»^RD^SO ME LOOKS OF HOUSEHOLD LOVE MEET JN THE jRUOOY ;L1«HT THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFT of Prof. Elliot A. P. Evans .'■^ ^ H S 'z. I < ^ r- THE H EARTH STON E ; OR, Life at Home. CONTAINING hints and hklps for home making; home furnishing; decorations amusements; health directions; the sick-room; the nursery THE library; the LAUNDRY; ETC. TOGETHER WITH A COMPLETE COOKERY BOOK, BY LAURA C. HOLLOW AY, Author of "Ladies of the White House," tte. THE INTER-STATE PUBLISHING HOUSE, BELOIT, WIS. Copyrighi by Laura C. Holloway, 1883. t-IO ^^^^■] PREFACE. ERE I to dedicate this book, it would be to the Homesick : that class, which, above all others on earth, has suffered so hopelessly, been so little understood by those who have escaped this mind disease. How it eats out the hopes and aspirations and longings of its victims, and leaves them bound to the Promethean rock of loneliness, only those know who are its victims. Were I to dedicate my book to the homesick, it would be consecrated to thousands upon thousands of little children, who among- strangers pine to be at home, to whom the school is the prison-house, the distant home the heaven they long to reach; to the lonely orphans found in institutions where the charity of strangers gives them food and raiment, but not a mother's love, a father's presence or a home's liberty ; to the over-worked men and women, wlio are exiles to home blessings through poverty ; to the aged ones who have outlived their kindred, and have no abiding place at any hearthstone ; to the greater j^art of all God's creatures, in fact, for few, indeed, are so happy as to have (iii) IV PREFACE, lived, and not suffered from this cause. All its cruel phases and manifestations, its blighting power and tenacious grasp, were realized by Payne, who spoke for the homesick when he penned his "Home, Sweet Home." He touched the universal heart with his poem made immortal in song, and it seems fitting that in a book on the subject, nothing could be more appropriate than a picture of the fireside where he lived as a little child. This the beautiful frontispiece gives, and in gazing upon it may be realized the charm that hallowed the name to him. In the words of the song that has made his name dear to his kind, he did not teach, he but voiced the universal sentiment ; the love that comprehends that of mother, father, sister, brother, of prosperity and contentment.