Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-06


Grange that housekeeping in such an
establishment proved to be q vexation
and plague. No family short OF the
variety raised by Norman patriarch
could accommodate itself 10 so great
a prodigality of household room. A
man might as well try to keep house In
Noah's Ark; for the guests whom such
n house woull naturally attract might
reasonably be expected TO be as hetero-
geneous and as difficult to manage as
line varied live stock which the great
ship-master had on board. The main
tenance of this sort of a house is not
merely a matter OF expense, nor is 1t
one OF the engagement and the discharge
of competent or incompetent servants.
The trouble is that amid the coming
and going of great numbers OF incOn-
gruOus and uncongenial guests the fam
iiv element is lost in the crowd the idea
OF home becomes fiction, and the
most tender relations OF the Individual
members of the family are chilled and
forgotten. Democratic felicity IN such
a gigantic abode is almost an impOssl-
bllity. In most instances it has been
a failure. Boys and girls brought up
i'm the style which is inseparable from
this kind OF a place may for while
shine in snowy society, but they have
no more practical knowledge OF what
constitutes a real home than if they
had been raised in house OF refuge or
home for the friendless. The family
failures of the men who have built
these mammoth residence are con-
spiCuously before the public. Yet it is
the ambition of many and many man
to have house bigger than the house oil
ANYBODY else. These men hope for sue
cess where almost everybody else has
failed. AS fortune SMILES upon them
they try their luck at it, and hire an ar
chitect to design a mOnstrosty for them
| then erect it, and at last, when fortune
| frOwns and ghosts come to occupy the
guest chambers, and the Sheriff S depu-
| ties thunder at the door with writs and
| attachments, and the Sherif's auction
| Ger knocks the structure down with his
| hammer, they lamentably mourn that
| they made a sorry and shocking mistit
Of the whole business.
Perhaps Glove in a cottage" is a mar
now and contracted way of getting
| along. 1t has it's objections and incon-
veniences, especially as the roll OF the
| family grows more and more numerous
| But il has its cOmpensatlOns in the
snug and cosy surroundings which
make happiness possible. II small boy
is not more uncomfortable in his feel
ings or ridiculous in his appearance
when clad in his great-grandfather's big
Sunday suit than family is when rat
Ting around in house many sizes
too large for an easy fit. Some years
ago a wealthy gentleman in this city
| astonished his friends by selling the
large and costly mansion in which ht
had lived, and purchasing much
smaller hsuse. They thought he had
met with a sudden reverse OF fortune
But he explained that he had not. lie
gave as his reason the fact that he had
several children, and although he ex'
peCted to leave considerable property, il
would not be enough to enable any Of
them 10 live in such an expensive house
He did we'll The iather-in-law who
gave a $4,000 house 10 the young gen
tlemau at Fall River who recently turned
deiaulter, led the poor fellow into a
fatal temptation. The youth was re-
ceiving salary of twenty-five hundred
dollars, and could no more keep thirty
| thousand dollar house on such an In
come than poor Spraguc could keep his
| ninety two room house on all the
wealth of the bankrupt Sprague estate
Even though this young man may not
have sung the hymn which begins 81
love to steal" he had to live by stealing
in order to live at ALL 1t was bad bust
ness for all concerned. Give us the
house which neatly, comfortably and
| joyfully fills our needs, with a spare
room or two for choice and chosen well
come guests, and We will be happy.