Dreary Homes | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1873

Dreary Homes.

Of all the dreary places, deliver us from the dreary farmhouses which so many people call “home.” Bars for a front gate; chickens wallowing before the door; pig pens elbowing the house in the rear; scraggy trees never cared for, or no trees at all; no flowering shrubs, no neatness, no trimness. And yet a lawn, and trees, and a neat walk, and a pleasant porch, and a plain fence around, do not cost a great deal. They can be secured little by little, at odd times, and the expense hardly felt. And if the time comes when it is best to sell the farm, fifty dollars so invested will often bring back five hundred. For a man is wrong who will not insensibly give a higher price for such a farm when he thinks of the pleasant surroundings it offers his wife and children.