Miss M. D. Clapp, The Vendome,

Boston; Mass.

HOME LIFE:

WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT NEEDS.

BY

JOHN F. W. WARE.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK:

LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863 by JOHN F. W. WARE,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TENTH EDITION.

TO THE MEMORY OF HEP,

WHO HAD FAITH IN THE BOY, WHO COUNSELLED AND COMFORTED THE MAN; WHO WAS GIVEN ME THAT I MIGHT KNOW

HOME IN ITS DAILY BEAUTY; WHOM ALONE

I KNEW AND LOVED AS

MY MOTHER.