The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-10-17
GREAT OPENING!
FREE TURTLE LUNCHl !
GOOD MUSIC PROVIDED {!

ON WOulQ nave gone tucIC ldot
night, if he hadn't been persuaded to
stay at home. We had the best features
of that free lunch at your house-the
sociability, the free-and-easy jolliness,
and the good music, sweeter by far than
any that trained artists could have fur
nished, for it came from the sweet lips
of our own happy children.
You outbid the saloon last night,
Mrs. Brown, and you can do it all the
time; but let me tell you sincerely and
candidly, you have got great work OF
reform before you.
Yes; yes, I know; you are good
moral woman, kind, careful mother,
and a neat, thorough housekeeper. But
while you know how to keep house you
have yet to learn great deal in keep
ing A0me. You have set I'D certain.
methodical, mathematical standard OF
life and you have been trying to make
YOUR husband and children conform to
it. You have certain ideas of neatness,
order and propriety, and you continu-
ally keep yourself and your family IN
hot water because they don't always
keep themselves ranged, eyes right, as
soldiers say, on the straight line you
have marked out. You make the chill
dren toe the mark you take Tom to
task with very free tongue for his
shortcomings until the poor fellow goes
to the saloon and gets little cold
tongue for change. Now l appreciate
discipline and good housekeeping quail
tiles as much as any one, but when they
are carried so far as to destroy the peace
and comfort of home, why I would
rather live in log cabin and sleep
every night in hay NOW if in that log
cabin found all the rest, the comfort
and enjoyment of home.
Mrs. Brown, was panied when saw
last night the extraordinary neatness OF
everything around your place. Your
| parlor is evidently kept entirely for
company-as if any company can be as
| good as your family. Your children
have no books or innocent games to
keep their young active minds employed,
and playthings, I suppose, make too
much of litter to be allowed to dlsar-
range your very correct system.
Well, Mrs. Brown, do not wish you
TO abate in the slightest degree your
ideas of neatness, but just want you
TO consider the fact that the saloons are
doing their best to furnish the attrae'
items that your home doesn't admit, and
| if the saloon wins, who is to blame?
What shall you do, do you say9
That is hard matter to outline in
single sentence; but in the first place
take Tom and the children, not as yol
would like them, but as you find them
and give them the pleasures that thell
innocent natures crave. Tom likes SO
ciety; we'll, see that he gets plenty o
it. Invite the neighbors in, not to b.
bored by stiff reception, but for
free-for-all social enjoyment. Civ
more time and tongue to the discoverie
of good traits in Toms character thai
TO bad ones. Persuade him to get al
organ for your eldest girl and flute 70
Tom, Jr. l saw the little chap tryln
to make one one day out of joint c
alder; but he made litter on the fiool
and you boxed his ears and burnt u
his work-how sorry 1 felt for him-an
suppose you fattered yourself that yo
were giving him lesson in neatness.
Going, are you, Mrs. Brown. Wei
: lust think little on what 1 have sait
Study the methods of the saloons
5 providing home attractions, and be-
them at their own game!