Husbands At Home

Much of the joy and misery of home dependa on the nianner and spirit of the head of the house. Home may be a woman's kingdom, but if she is queen the prince conaort has the power of doing a great deal of dainage if not usurping the throne and taking the reins of government in hia own hands. He may not openly discrown the rightful sovereign, but he may act a worse than rebel's part, creating diaorder and destroying all her beautiful plans and ideáis. There may be a deapot behind the throne more tyrannical than the one who occupies it. Many a man who appears decently in publio is revenged upon society by acting the brute or bully towards his defenseless wife and children. This immunity from reatraint has tempted many a man into low habita and harsh, tyrannical ways toward hia family, who under other circumstancea would have been quite respectable and kind. Men who have not the native refinement and nobility of soul to treat a loving wife and defenseless children with more kindness and conaideration than they show to a mere passing acquaintance of the street, are unfit to have a wife and children, and the place they sleep in should be called i sty. The true man always goes up to his home, and while in it lives in the highest and finest and loveliest traits of his manhood. Be a beast and home will be a pen ; be an angel and it will be a paradise. What our American homes want to-day is more of the interest, the thought, the affection of men. Instead of making them the exhibition-room for peevishness, bad temper, Btupidity, and pet,ty tyranny, or even leaving them to the sole care of women and then finding fault because they are unsatisfactory, how much better and happier for all parties would it be if every man would give the best of his head and heart to make his home delightful and holy. The true home is always on the highest plane of life, and the man flnds it not by uncaging the beasts that crouch in his blood, but by unfolding the wings of the angel in his heart and brain. A man's house is his castle ; let him keep it in a knightly fashion, with true chivalric honor, keeping every vow sacred, and holding a shield like the panoply of justice over the weak and small. It is a castle if he keep it so ; let him not make it a cage. Eather should he unite with his wife in making it the sweetest and happiest spot on earth, and so blessed that