The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-03-17

and mullen stalks.
One of the worst damages that comes
from the herding OF so many people into
boarding houses and family hotels is in.
flicted upon children. 1t is only another
way of bringing them up on the commons.
While you have your own private house
you can, for the most part, control their
and their whereabouts;
but, by twelve years of age, in these pub
lie resorts, they will have picked up all the
bad things that can be furnished by the
prurient minds of dozens of people. They
will overhear blasphemies and see quar-
rels, and get precocious in sin, and what
the bartender does not tell them, the
porter or hostler or bell-boy will. Besides
that, the children will go out into this
world without the restraining, anchoring,
steadying and all controlling memory of
q home. From that some of US who have
been blessed Of such memory have escaped.
1t grips man FOR eighty years, il he lives
SO long. II pulls him back from doors into
which he otherwise would enter. 1t smites
him with contrition in the very midst of
his designations.
If it be possible, o father and mother,
let your sons and daughters go out into
the world under the emi-omnipotent
memory of good, pure home. About
your two or three rooms in a boarding
house or family hotel you can cast no
such glorious sanctity. They will think
of these public caravansaries as an early
stepping place, malodorous with old vict-
uals, coffees perpetually steaming, and
meats in everlasting stew or broil, the
ali surcharsed with carbonic acid, and
corridors along which drunken boarders
come staggering at one o'clock in the
morning, rapping at the door till the af.
frighted wife let's them In. Do not be
guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy Of
calling such aplace home.
A home is four walls inclosing one fam
lily with identity of interest, and q
privacy from outside inspection SO COM
plete that it is a world in itself, no one en-
tering except by permission; bolted and
barred and chained against all outside in
quisitiveness.
The phrase SO often used In law books
and legal circles is nightly suggestive
every mans house is his castle-as much
SO as though it had drawbridge, portcullis,
redoubt, bastion, and armed turret. Even
the officer of the law may not enter to
serve writ except the door be voluntarily
opened unto him; burglary, or the in
vasion of it, crime so offensive that the
law clashes its iron jaws on any one who
attempts it.
Unless it be necessary to stay for longer
or shorter time in family hotel or board
ing house-and there are thousands of in.
stances in which it is necessary, as
showed you at the beginning-unless in
this exceptional case, let neither husband
nor wife consent to such permanent resi-.
dence.
The probability is that the wife will have
to divide her husbands time with public
smoking or reading room, or with some
c0quettish spider in search Of unwary flies
and il you do. not entirely lose your hus'
band 1t will be because he is divinely pro.
tected from the disasters that have
whelmed thousands of husbands with a.
gOOd intentions as yours.
Neither should the husband, without i'm
perative reason, consent to such life un.
less he is sure his wife can withstand the
temptation Of social dissipation, which
sweeps, across such places with the force Of
the Atlantic Ocean when driven by Sep.
TENDER equinox. Many wives give up
their homes for these public residences, SO
that they may give their entire time to
operas, theaters, balls, receptions and
levees, and they are in perpetual whirl,
like whip-top spinning round and round
and round, very prettily, until it loses its
equipoise and shoots off into q tangent
But the difference is, in one case 1t is tor
and in the other soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous accu.
mutation of little things around the private
home which in the aggregate make grea
attraction, while the denizen of one of thes
public residences is apt to say: "What il
the use? Ihave no place to keep them il
should take them" Mementoes, bric.a
brac, curiosities, quaint chair or coz.
lounge, upholsteres, pictures and a thou
sand things that accrete in home are dis
carded or neglected because there is n
homestead in which to arrange them. AM
yet they are the case in which the pearl O
domestic happiness is set.
You can never become as attached to til
appointments OF boarding house or fam
lily hotel as to those things that you ca
call your own, and are associated with tn
different members Of your household, o
with scenes of thrilling import in your do
nestle history. Blessed is that home i
which for whole lifetime they have bee
gathering, until every figure in the carpet
and every easement of the window, has
chirography of its own, speaking out some
thing about father or mother, or son Q
daughter, or friend that was with u
awhile.
What a sacred place it becomes whe
one can say: "In that room such on
was born; in that bed such one died; /
that chair sat on the night heard such
one had received great public honor; b
that stool my child knelt for her last even
ing prayer; here sat to greet my son 9
he came back from sea voyage; that wa
fathers cane; that was mothers rocking
chair. What a joyful and pathetic COZ
gress of "reminiscences!
The public residence of hotel and boar'
ing-house abolishes the grace of hospital
ty. Your guest does not want to come
such table. No one wants to run such
gauntlet of acute and merciless hypercrit
cism. Unless you have a home of yol
own you will not be able to exercise Il
best rewarded of all the graces. For e.
ercise of this grace what blessing came
the Shunammite in the restoration of h
son to life because she entertained Elish
and to the widow of Zarephath in Il