Capital Journal Building Section, Friday, March 10, 1950 9
True Heart
Of the Home
Is a Hearth
By qewrrr mqckenzie
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
What is a home?
Well, to me it's more than
just a place to hang your hat. It's
the institution that binds the
family into a unit of love and
loyalty.
And what physical property
of the establishment contributes
inost to this? It couldn't be
golden faucets in the bathroom,
could it? I set my mind to back
tracking into the homes I have
had the privilege of knowing in
many lands and then I got it.
The big fireplace in the living
room with the blazing logs or
coal or peat! That's it! There's
the symbol of love and loyalty
which makes the home.
America, of course, used to
have plenty of fireplaces but
central heating pushed them in
to the background. Still to you
who have experienced them
isn't the fireplace one of tne
first things you think of when
your mind reverts to the old
homestead? Isn't it grouped
about the fireplace that you see
mother and dad and brothers and
sisters? Sure it is.
1
: Tt was while lying on the rug
before the blazing logs that you
had some of your grandest ad
ventures. Remember how fairy
castles and other wondrous im
ages used to form among the
embers? And how mother smiled
with understanding as her knit
ting needles clicked, and dad
said sure, he saw them too?
- Romance, adventure and
dreams of the future. Who knows
but that young Abraham Lin
inin as hp did his lessons before
the flickering fire, had his first
visions of the White House and
Of the great work he was to do?
But that isn't all the open fire
means. It also is an emblem
Af HnQnitfllitv. and has been
through the centuries, whether
you find it in the mansion ot tne
mighty or in the cottage of the
peasant.
'- I think back to one of the tense
nights of Southern Ireland's
"Bloody Easter Week Rebellion"
in 1916. As an AP correspond
ent I all but lost my silly life,
and that of my Irish chauffeur,
ertentlv violating Bri
tish military law at the height
nf fh fiffhtin?. As we approach
ed Kingstown at midnight, my
driver said:
'It will mean certain death if
I drive into the heart of Kings
town at this time of night. The
place is filled with troops who
.will shoot on sight. I live here
and I'm going to take you to my
cottage by a back way. You
can sleep there and give your
self up in the morning."
In due eourse we arrived at
the driver's little two room
i.nmo TTic wife threw her arms
about his neck with fervent
repetitions of the "The Saints be
praised," while two small girls
clung to him. Then they turned
to their guest and, after the man-,
ner of the Irish, offered me all
the hospitality their poor abode
afforded a place to sleep on the
couch before the open fire of the
living room.
That fire, built of sweet-smelling
peat, was a godsend. It
brought not only warmth of body
but warmth of heart, for it was
the symbol of a grand hospitality.
So my vote is for a fireplace
the bigger the better in the liv
ing room. It is the heart of the
home and a builder of love and
loyalty and character.
Kiickoff Breakfast
Opens Lebanon Drive
Lebanon The Red Cross fund
drive, headed in Lebanon by
Delmar Clem, will open March
13 with a quota of $4100 set for
this community. Solicitors for
the business section are being
recruited from among mer
chants. A kickoff breakfast for all so
licitors, captains of women's
groups, and rural workers was
served Friday morning at the
coffee shop.
Besides the downtown solici
tors, others will canvass mills
and industries throughout the
region, while still others will
The Red Cross effort will be
make door to door calls.
the first major drive conducted
this year.
Since Delicious apples are
plentiful you may want to use
some of them in cooking and
baking. If so, remember that
their flavor benefits when lemon
juice is added.
Sodality Presents
Program of Amateurs
Sublimity The first amateur
program held for the students
of St. Boniface school proved to
be a huge success. First prize
was won by Joanne Birkolz,
who sang, "There's No Tomor
row." Second prize went to Mar
lene Odenthal, who played a
piano solo. Third prize was won
by Fred Farrell, who sang "It's
Me, O Lord." The proceeds went
to the Sodality treasury.
Luminous Ceiling
Is Squint-Proof
a rn.,mf.nrftftf luminous ceil
ing, designed to ease eye strain
j ,f.;ol lieht. has been
developed by Brown university
and Massachusetts insmuw: u
Technology engineers.
A translucent plastic eeiling
diffuses a shadowless glow of
;ii,.m,t,v,n from concealed flu-
iiii.i""".-
orescent lights. Its ease on the
othutprl to the lack of
eye adjustment necessary under
uniform lighting oi an paiu
- Anvi Tho eves are not con
fronted with a variety of light
intensities.
The cost of installation was
estimated at about ?2 pec square
foot. y .t... .-u.a
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