TOPICS OF THE DAY
Houses and Hornes This is the time of year when the word “ home ” is close to the people’s hearts. “We hear much about housing schemes nowadays. But man’s need is for a home rather than a house, and it would be well if the reformers of our day would concentrate upon the idea of a home, which is more than a house,” says a South African writer. “ For the home is the particular and needful possession of the children, their mother and the breadwinner. A house may be full of bitterness and strife, but a home is the sanctuary of the family; it is what men fight for—hearth and home; it is what men dream of as they labour. In the phraseology of our day, to 4 keep the home fires burning ’ is the inspiration of all nobly-directed effort. So let us talk of the people's homes, not of mere shelters from the elements, not of houses to be constructed on economic or sub-economic lines, but of the creation of homes, nests, refuges froi*i distress, sanctuaries, shrines, temples of an abiding peace. 4 Home ’ connotes no mere shelter, but a fit setting for the development of spiritual ideals and ©urposas.” .. V
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21303, 23 December 1940, Page 6
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