The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-10-13
WHOLE NO. 1889.
Hospitality Analysed.


Analvze the feeling II hospitality 70 its
-rpand work and rraee its development,
and s.ns common estimate If the hosPi-
tality found among various persons and
people wiz have to b,t reconstructed Il
l. essentially sympathetic feeling and
has had the origin of the other sympa-
thetic feelings. Hospitality. though often
very prominent. is not always what Il
seems such a feeling a tins. directed
toward making Others comfortable II
not happy. at ones own expense Of r.
fort or property, usually both, i found m
the lower races ia erIBie form, apparently
much resembling the hospitality Of the
most developed peoples. but in reality
considerably unlike il in substance The
main spring IT action, at first. j. the
probability that it VIII be returned +;
there is mere exchange of services N
situations where noa one Is in need of
host ami now the other; the host ex-
poets to get even with the guest by IN
H,Iru becoming his guest
Out of this very primitive condition OF
hospitality people grow as they travel
farther from home and enter situations
in which the comforts of some one else's
home VII be particularly agreeable. for
a night or some brief time. But the
host, in such case, realizes that, very ike
", he VIII never have the opportunity Of
becoming the guest of his guest. Hospi-
taliry then betones somewhat Ike
Dill of exchange- payable eventually by
the one Who draws IL but il the first in
stance by another Tn, entertainer ex-
pt.,.ts 70 collect ouu of some third party
to whom the guest VIII repay Hospi-
Ellitv then attains that stage in which it
II a custom the host enterrains guests
who viii never repay him, but he knows
that he viii have occasion TO draw up
on other people for the same kind Of en-
tertlinment There is hardly a trace Of
aItruistic feeling It Is almost entirely
egoistic.
Hospitality, however. becomes an ab-
solutely certain and known quantity.
just ike any other wel established css-
tom. One may travel and know that he
may fnd free entertainment at any house
or camp where he may stop. He vii not
have to ask for it, because it viii be- Of
fered to him This IL the sind Of hospi-
taiity found among seini-civilized people
and largely In frontier countries thinly
settled by people termed civilized and
because such hospitality IL 50 certain to
be- offered, travellers. who know nothing
about its sourre. have extolled il far
above it, deserving This Is the. hospi-
tllity Of the Indigenous Mexicans. men
If Indian race. who have drifted into the
southwestern part Of the United States
They vii offer a white man the best
place in the house u sleep, and seat at
the table where neither woman nor child
ren are allowed to sit at the same time !;
but, let the smoke ola white mans camp
ire be ever TO distantly visible, and the
Mexican viii mount his horse and at
once proceed 70 the camp that he may be
invited 70 eat
A. the sympathetic feelings grow and
friendships are formed the hospitality Of
cilstom grows into Spontaneous hospitali-
ty. The demand for entertainment. i'm
piled BY custom. is much subject 70 abuse
and. as travelling becomes easier and
more comfortable, the impositiOns viii
not be tolerated, and the custom fails into
dislse, and hospitality can be found and
paid for az public houses. The exigencies
Of travel no longer require that every
house shall offer it, welcome The Mexi-
can Of Arizona viii frequently entertain
strangers. because that il the custom
there. and he vii in turn ask others %
entertain him, but IN Massachusetts the
resiuent viii rarely give hospitality t0
the stranger. Yer the Massachusetts
man viii entertain his friends with
heartiness md bounty that the Mexican
il incapable Of though the Yankee has
10 expectation or even thought Of ever
enjoying the hospitality Of his guest or
Of any one else in return This, which
may be called spontaneous hospitality.
grows OUT Of altruistic feeling, and Is Civ
en- for the mere purpose Of seeing some
one else happy. There may BE- fewer in
stances Of hospitality among given
number Of people IN New England
though this l. BY no means certain than
among the same number Of semi-ciyiIi-
zed people among whom hospitality Is
strong custom; bus multiplied by it, in
teusity and quality, the Yankee hespi-
tality ten thousand times outweighed the
other