HOME AFTER BUSINESS HOURS
The road
along which the man of business travels in the pursuit of competence or wealth
is not a macadamized one, nor does it ordinarily lead through pleasant scenes
and by well-springs of delight. On the contrary it is a rough and rugged path,
beset with ”wait-a-bit” thorns, and full of pitfalls, which can only be avoided
by the watchful care of circumspection. After every day’s journey over this
worse than rough turnpike road, the wayfarer needs something more than rest; he
requires solace, and he deservers it he is weary of the dull prose of life and a
thirst for the poetry.
Happy is the business man who can find that solace and poetry at home. Warm greetings from loving hearts, fond glances from bright eyes, and welcome shouts from children, the thousand little arrangements for comfort and enjoyment that silently tell of thoughtful and expectant love, the gentle ministrations that disencumber us into an old and easy seat before we are aware of it; this and like tokens of affection and sympathy constitute the poetry which reconciles us to the prose of life. Think of this, ye wives and daughters of business men! Think of toils, the anxieties, the mortification and wear that father undergo to secure for you comfortable home and compensate then for their trials by making them happy at their own firesides.
Title: HOME AFTER BUSINESS HOURS
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Media: Newspaper article, glued to page 7 of the Ledger of Captain W. B.
Blair
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