Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-01

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And yet they Are the case Ia which thi
I pearl q domestic happiness il set YoJ
can never become a. attached 20 the Ap
pointments Of . boarding house or iamily
hoiel ~ to these things that you can cal
you own and are associated with the
different members OF your house
hold, or with scenes OF thrilling import in
your domestic history. Blessed is the
home in which for q whole lifetime they
have been gathering, until every figure in
the carpet, and every panel of the door
and every easement of the window has a
chirography of its own, speaking out some
thing about father or mother, or son or
daughter, or friend that was with US q
while. What a sacrei place it becomes
when one can say: In that room such q
one was born; in that bed such a one
died; in that chair / sat on the night /
heard such one had received great pub
lie honor; oy that stool my child knelt for
her last evening payer; here sat TO greet
my son as he came back from a sea voy-
age; that was fathers cane; that was
mothers rocking chair" What a joyful
and pathetic congress of "reminiscences
The public residence of hotel and board.
aing house -
ABoLIsHEs THE GRACE OF HOSPITALITY.
Your guest does not want to come to such
q table. No one wants to run such o
gauntlet of acute and merciless hypercriti.
cism. Unless you have home of your
own you will not be able to exercise the
best rewarded Of all the graces For exer
else of this grace what blessing came to the
Sbunsmmite in the restoration OF her son
to life because she entertained Elisha, and
to the widow of Zarephsth in the perpetual
oil we'll Of the miraculous cruise because
she led hungry prophet, and to Rshab in
the preservation OF her life at the demoli
ton of Jericho because she entertained the
spies. and to Lsban in the formation OF an
interesting family relation because of his
entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in his
rescue from the destroyed city because OF
his entertainment of the angels and to
Mary and Martha and Lsccheus in spirit
ual blessing because they entertained
Christ, and to Publius in the Island of
Melita in the healing OF his father because
of the entertainment of Paul, dceGched
from the shipWreck, and of innumerable
houses throughout christendom upon which
have come blessings from generation to
generation because their doors swung easily
open in the eLlargiDg, ennobling, irradia.
ting End divine grace of hospitality. /
do not know what your experience has
been, but l have had men and women Wis.
iting at my house who left benediction
on every Ioom-in the blessing they asked
at the table. in the prayer they offered at
the family altar, in the good advice they
gave the children, III tae gospelizstioA
that looked out from every lineament Of
their counteDances; and their departure
was the sword OF bereavement.
The queen Of Norway, Sweden and Den
mark had
A ROYAL cur
of ten curves or lips each one having on it
the name Of the distinguished person who
had drank from it. And that cup which
we offer to others in Christian hospitality
though it be Of the plainest earthenwsre, is
a royal cup, and God cen read On all its
sides the names of those who have taken
from it refreshment. But all this is I'M
possible unless you have a home Of your
own. 1t is the delusion as to what is
necessary for O home that binders 80 many
from establishing one. Thirty rooms are
not necessary, nor twenty, Dor fifteen, nor
ten, nor FIVE, nor three. In the right way
plant o table, and couch, spd knife, and
srR, and cup, and chair, aud you can
raise young paradise. Just start home,
on however small O scale, and it will grow.
When King Cyrus was invited to dine with
an humble friend the king made the one
condition of his coming that the only dish
be one loaf OF bread, and the most imperial
have sometimes bsnquetted
on the plainest fare.
Do not be caught in the delusion ofmauy
thousands in postponing home until they
can have an expensive one. Thst idea is
THE nEyIL's TRAP
that catches men and women innumerable
Who will never have any home at all. Cap
italists OF America. build plain homes for
the people. Let this tenement house sys-
tenn, in which hundreds OF thousands OF the
people of our cities are wallowing in the
mire, be broken up by small homes where
people can have thpir own iiresides
and their own altsrs. In this great conti-
neut there is room enough for every man
and woman to have a home. Morals and
civilization and religion demand it.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett Coutts
did in England, and some Of the large
manufacturers of this country have done
for the villages and ciies, in building small
houses at cheap rents, so that the middle
classes can have separate homes. They
are the only class no. provided for. The
rich have their palaces, and the poor have
their poor.houses aud criminals have their
iails; but what about the honest middle
classes, who are able and wi ling to work
and vet have small incomes2 Let the cap
italists. inspired by God and pure patriot,
ism, rise and build whole streets OF snail
residences. The lsborer may have, at the
close of the day, to walk or ride further
than is desirable to reach it, but when he
gets 10 his destination in the eventide, he
he will find something worthy OF being
called BY that glorious, end impas9ioned,
and hesven-descended word, home.
YOUNG MARRIED MAN,
as soon as you can, buy such place, even
if Won have to put on it mortgage reach
ipg from bese to capstone. The much
abused mortgage, which is ruin to a reck-
less man, to one prudent and provident, is
the beginning Of competency and for.
tune, for the reason he will not be satisfied
until he has paid it CT, and ell the house,
hold are pat on stringent economies until
then. Deny yourself all supsrfuities aud
all luxuries until you csn say, everything
in this house is mine, thank God every
timber, every brick, every foot Of plumbing,
eyery door sill. Do not have your chill.
dren born ia q boarding mouse. and do not
Yourself be buried from ose. Have place
where your children can shout, and sing,
and romp, without being oyerhauled for
the racket. Have c kitchen, where you
can do something toward the reformation
of evil cookery sRd the lesseping of this
nation Of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost
one of his great battles by attack OF indi-