New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-10

to relish the solid comfort Of a certain chair by
the fire, loose old coat, quiet doze OF chat
about the two or three children who make up
the world to him, better than any other way OF
spending the evening. Women never will
know how many men are saved from vice and
ruin by this preventive negative sort of treat
ment If @patern cannot have these things, he
will have something akin to the passionate
draughts of his youth, and he will go down
town to find it. He will not be content with the
mad dissipation of the evening assembly i'll
boarding house parlor.
Mater" is too often content with it. What
else has She She cannot lingcr comfortably
for delightful romps or chats with the children
in the stufly hall chamber when they are put TO
bed. What with beds and trunks and French
bonnie, and the baby's night-lamp and pap, and
the baby aud its collie, one can barely turn
round in ii. So she leaves bonnie and baby TO
fight it out together, and descends to the parlor,
where Johnny has brought his school books and
his sister is already seated curled, frillcd and
sashcd. She cannot read there. She cannot sit
and mediate; though She may fancy she wants
90 do both, so she joins in the conversation with
the other ladies'. 1t is overwhelmingly polite,
and most acgrcssiycly virtuous and ladylilc.
Nobody ever forgcts that they are, so to speak,
on parade. In fact, the sense Of living on the
street of gIimacing and talking your best in
public, Is A. much the atmosphere of a board
ing-housc as is the smell Of boiled beef and soup
in the halls She talks Of sh;rrcd sleeves, or of
the receptions and dinners of which she has read
in the reports of fashionable society of those
horrid stories of certain fire ladies whrh cannot
be- true and which she amiably refuses TO be
love. She affects = certain intimacy with these
fine people. They all know she has no such
acquaintance and -hc knows they know il; but
-hc Affect IL al the same. Tie children l,te,
opcu-mouthcd To- il ali. Johnny steals ont 10
the billiard room and hears the talk of the men,
which j, broader perhaps, but gcrimcd with
slang and criticism of actresses with which the
hd adofns his own ideas pouttlcSs there are
s.uc good foil, among these people, who feel
deeply ard think simply on certain subjects,
and under thr shutter of their own roofs would
deal with th, feeling, and thought, of their
children win truth and liacy. But who can
parade debate thoughts OF deep feeling III AZ
altcr-diah-r pourplIlcr here! Ia Rome rs the
Romans. Let u- 10 ON SHRED sleeves and
fashionable ag-pi,llng asin.
Seed "c 20 over ali the members Of The clan
The ii.llrd and cutlcd l',lc rirl, hanging on the
balu,trr- to hcpottcd and kissed aad fed with
honhor. hy successive s"n.ra'on' of borders
or Tie young l.dy into which she bo--oms
r,.-.ntl.. vho hooks upon heart, father u.an
boabons as her pi'y? OF the young man Who
u,,,r ha- huoNu he soltcnin- influence Of
home, the mol',t.cs. the privacy, the hos
p.,aiuy, tl, religious teaching that belong 10 a
home. Do We not all know thcmi Every
mans llc has io' IT, foundation the home OF Dbl,
c.ridiood. What sort Of toarlltiou doc, he
have in 90 lolria--hoH.c2 u j. TIM, tlat We
should lo'l info t,.- and .-'. orr~cI,c-. too, Us
to D." ql.l.t! O.. t'o-, peculiar traits in or
national character which ha', come from til,
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