AT HOME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 6

AT HOME.

RY WALT MASON. I’m glad I have a pleasant home, with costly chromos there, the lamplight- gowing on my dome, an aunt in every chair. There simple pleasures do beguile the night hours as they sail : T play the phonograph a while, and hear great singe-s wail ; I read a volume large and thick, or dominoes 1 play. I take a drink that has no kick, and hie me to tho has . I’d rather read a goodly book beside the evening. fire, than roam the town and meet a crook who’d rob me of my lyre. The folks who stay at home o’ nights, witli aunts and other pets, may miss some garish, wild delights, but they have no re grets ; their simple life is sane and wise, their accidents are few. and in the morning when they rise they are as good as new. The light of crimes would quickly slump if giddy gents and dames would gather round the kitchen pump and plav some homely games. I’d like to see the home restored to what it wqs lang syne. when children grouped around the hoard till half past eight or nine ; thev read strange tales from Mother Goose concerning Miss 80-Peep, and when the bedtime hour cut loose, they promptly went to sleep. Old ways are gone and out of sight, and won t came back, T guess; where, are- those kids of ours to-night, as we proceed to press?