HOME LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.
BYT. S. ARTHUR,
AUTHOR OF "LIFE PICTURES," "OLD MAN'S BRIDE," AND "SPARING TO SPEND."NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU STREET.
1853.Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the SouhernSouthern District of New York. TOBITT'S COMBINATION-TYPE, 181 William-st. R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER, 53 Vesey st., N. Y.
CONTENTS.
- RIGHTS AND WRONGS 7
- THE HUMBLED PHARISEE 30
- ROMANCE AND REALITY 44
- BOTH TO BLAME 72
- IT'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS 89
- THE MOTHER'S PROMISE 115
- THE TWO HUSBANDS 126
- VISITING AS NEIGHBORS 164
- NOT AT HOME 191
- THE FATAL ERROR 204
- FOLLOWING THE FASHIONS 217
- A DOLLAR ON THE CONSCIENCE 237
- AUNT MARY'S SUGGESTION 249
- HELPING THE POOR 261
- COMMON PEOPLE 279
- MAKING A SENSATION 299
- SOMETHING FOR A COLD 328
- THE PORTRAIT 337
- VERY POOR 361
PREFACE.
HOME! How at the word, a crowd of pleasant thoughts awaken. What sun-bright images are pictured to the imagination. Yet, there is no home without its shadows as well as sunshine. Love makes the home-lights and selfishness the shadows. Ah! how dark the shadow at times—how faint and fleeting the sunshine. How often selfishness towers up to a giant height, barring out from our dwellings every golden ray. There are few of us, who do not, at times, darken with our presence the homes that should grow bright at our coming. It is sad to acknowledge this; yet, in the very page: iv[View Page iv] acknowledgement is a promise of better things, for, it is rarely that we confess, without a resolution to overcome the evil that mars our own and others' happiness. Need we say, that the book now presented to the reader is designed to aid in the work of overcoming what is evil and selfish, that home-lights may dispel home-shadows, and keep them forever from our dwellings.
