CASTLE;

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13983, 14 August 1909, Page 6

CASTLE;

the chess figure of defence. We sometimes say "Home is a woman's castle." If that is so. the husband should be its defender. The word "husband 71 is derived from the Saxon, which means "house-band." It is in the power of the husband to bind and consolidate or to dissolve and destroy his household. On .the husband lies the chief responsibility of securing domestic happiness. Alts ! that the reverse is often true. First a kneeling slave and then a tyrant. Guard your nomes, you men. That is a black day of wedded life when the husband begins to seek his pleasures outside and lavishes on others the money and affections that ought to be given to those at home ; prodigal of smiles and attentions to others while his family starve for a merry look. If I had my way I would limit the membership of our clubs to bachelors. What need has a married man for a clubr Clubs are a bane to the home, a menace to the social life of a community. With all his faults, Charles I, had a real love for his home. Between his sentence and execution he sent a message to his queen, to tell her that during the whole course of his life he had never once, even in thought, failed in his fidelity towards her, and that his conjugal tenderness and his life should have an equal duration. The home is the family rastlc, and the home does more for the nation than the parliament. The parliament makes the laws, but the home makes the citizens of a nation. A noble nation can never be built on ignoble households. Home is the training school of the nation. A great general Kke Napoleon may be produced in a military school ; a great diplomatist like Metternich may be developed in a court; a great philosopher like Hegel may be evolved in an university; but a great man like Washington can come only from a pure and noble home. Guard well your home, for it is the castle of the family. The next piece is the