Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-22

Hotels and Homes.
The American hotel is really the best in
the world. One among many reasons for
this is that it is the most home-like of the
ho.telries of all countries. Usually
the proprietor or manager has a knowl-
edge of human nature and an abundance
of taste, and knows how to appear to every
guest as personal friend, and to recognize
his face and call his name on his second
and on all subsequent appearances. Then
setting good table, serving his guests
acceptably and putting them in clean,
comfortable beds, he has made them feel
that they are much at home when they are
abroad For this reason classes OF Amer.
leans have come TO live at hotels, and to
become as result Of this, restless and
| dissatisfied because really homeless people.
| One element OF the strength of the
English people is that England is a coun-
try of homes-homes coy and comfort
able. The typical English cottage has
place in literature, in poetry, romance and
history The English people stop at the
hotels when travelling, but they never live
in them. They live at home!" as they
ought to. 1t is only Americans and other
foreigners who live il English hotels, and
not the wisest Of them, either.
As a matter Of course those who live in
castles, villas and country houses, have
luxures as well as comforts, but the com
mon people have, in their cottages, pleas
| ant places of permanent sojourn.
| Many an English cottage, now occupied
was built in the seventeenth century, with
low ceilings, small rooms and windows
but with its exterior walls covered with
evergreen ivy. and the neatness and tast,
everywhere displayed is pictur,
of comfort and in fact an ideal home
is the owners castle There he Worship
his Lares and Pcnates. A people com
posed OF the occupants Of such homes can
not be conquered.
BY way Of contrast with this, we may
allude to France. II Paris is France, &C
cOrdlng to the current proyerb, thei
France is a country without homes, for it
people live in apartments, in suites o
! rooms in flats, in all French cities, whi
the tillers of the soil live in huts A suit
= OF rooms in block OF buildings is no man
y castle, and no mans home, in prope
sense. And in other respects, less cred
table to the French people, it can be sal
f that they are without homes and withou
home life. And even they do not live i
hotels They have rooms to sleep in, an
, they take their food at restaurants
finest in the world.
! There is a tendency in Americans t
permanently abide in hotels, and it
. vicious. IL is bad for the hotels and 10
those who sojourn there. And it has a
. untavorable influence on the country q
; large. A permanent guest at the best {
! hotels bee omes pampered and spoiled. II
3 eats too much, OF rich dishes, in too gres
9 variety, and destroys both APPETITE and
gestion. \ family should live in it's ow
= house, and build up home life thi
~ else in the, world. True luxury-the lu,
10 ury that endures--is found in a man 5 ow
Il home, presided over by his own wife, wh
= has the whole range OF the worlds pr
g ducts from which to choose, as she selec
: the food for her table At his own HON
3 and IN that place only can he and h
wife and children, have the crisp, juic
: rich, outside pieces of the roast beet, ht
= and fragrantly smoking from the oven, an
4 the very articles OF food which he desire
at the very time he wishes them, serve
as he likes them. And with this, he h,
his books and pictures, and morning {
/ evening newspapers, and the wood or col
II fire to sit by and chat with wife, childre
and neighbors.
Is All this is possible in quite low-prce
!, houses, as is illustrated in hundreds
thousands of houses in the United State
# and IN thousands in this city OF Sprin,
e field, famous, largely, for the cheerin
5 homes OF It's people--a large proportio
OF them owned by workingmen. The ma
is whose home is the most attractive of a
't other places on the earth is safe man
sogiety and in public affairs.
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