St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-14

quiet routine of home duties that
have been interrupted, and to bring
sunshine content and happiness into the
household "Irenaus'' in his able letters
published in the New York Observer, has some
timely remarks and suggestions on this mat
ter of breaking home-life rank, for the
summer season and his golden words are
here appended for the consideration of the
wise and thoughtful, or the unwise and
thoughtless as the case may be.
1.-The tendency toward hotel and boarding
lng-house life is one of the symptomatic features
of our time. 1t indicates the failure of home.
III speaks of trouble in the department of the in
terror. The Home is the normal condition of
Christian civilization, and if anything is inter
fering with it, to make it undesirable, or intol-
cradle, or impossible, there is something wrong.
Even the temporary suspension of home life
Tor few weeks or months of the year is an evil
To be deplored, and not to be suffered unless to
avert greater evil to secure some great
good, like health, not otherwise to
be gained or preserved. The habit
OF making change in summertime
is SO general, it is no longer regarded as one of
the Injuries to be enjoyed by the rich only, but
almost everybody insists upon it and seeks the
change according to their means. For, it does
cost more 10 break up the house and go into the
country than it does to stay at home. 1t has
now come 10 such pass that the inhabitants of
watering places let their own houses and go TO
some other place, making the same change with
the fish that leaped out of the frying pan into
the fire.
between the hotel and the private boarding
house there is wide difference, and when you
have discussed the question at ever great
length it is still open for de-.
bate. OF course the hotel implies
much greater expense, and that may settle the
question at once. but il your circumstances
are such that you are at liberty to decide the
matter regardless of expense. then there are
some other things to be taken into the account.
If you can have whole house 10 yourself, or
with congenial people only, you are better off
than in large hotel or in any other place where
all sorts of families huddied together for the
season. To keep house in the country during
the summer gives the mother no rest ana she
comes home in the fall more tired than when she
went But children are almost sure to suffer in
manners and morals by being thrown for months
or even weeks with other children in the daily
and continuous intercourse of the family.
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The disadvantages of the boarding house, as
distinct from the hotel, are well known, and after
having spoken of the latter | viii not 60 largely
into the former. After all, there is no place
like home. Unless health is to be saved or i'm
proved by making change, it is better TO stay
where you and bear the ills you have than
sly TO those you know not of Happy they
who have sweet homes of their own, where the
children grow up with orderly, religious habits,
where they can 90 to bed at early bedtime and
sleep without midnight alarms: where they are
not exposed to contamination by the company OF
boys whose language and habits vile, and who
will teach good boy or girl more wickedness in
a week tnan they can forget in q lifetime. 1
would not secude children and hope to bring
them up in purity of heart and life by shutting
them out of the world. They should play with
other children. But the company they keep is
of infinitely more importance than the air they
! breathe the food they eat. And it is for this
! reason that the matterof summer board assumes
! such grand proportions in the mind of a Chris
/ tian parent. IREE-EUs.