Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-28

Analyze the feeling OF hospitality to
its ground work and trace its develop
ment. and the common estimate OF the
hospitality found among various per-
sons and peoples will have TO be recon-
structed Ii is essentially a sympa-
thetic feeling aud has had the origin of
the other sympathetic feelings. Hospi-
tality, though often very prominent, IS
not always what it seems Such feel
ing as this, directed toward making
others comfortable, if not happy, at
ones own expense of effort or property,
usually both, is found in the lower races
in crude form, apparently much re-
sembiIng the hospitality OF the most de-
yelOped peoples. but in reality consider
ably unlike it in substance. The MAIN
spring of action at first, is the proba-
bilty tina, it will be returned; there is a
mere exchange OF services in situations
where now one is in need of host and
now the other; the host expects to get
even With the guest by in turn becom-
ing his guest.
Ont OF this very primitive condition
of hospitality people grow as they travel
further from home and enter situations
in which the comforts OF some one else's
home win be particularly agreeable, for
"a night or some brief time. But the
host u such case, realizes that, very
likely. he viii never have the opportuni-
" of becoming the guest of his guest
Hospitality then becomes somewhat like
a bill Of exchange payable eventually
by the one who draws il, but in the first
instance by another The entertainer
expects TO collect ont of some third party,
TO whom the guest will repay. Hospi-
tally then aunns that stage in which
it IS ~ custom the host entcrtans guests
who win never repay him, but he knows
that hr will have occasion to draw up
on other people for the same kinG of en-
tertainmeut There is hardly trace of
aluul-tc feeling; it &, almost entirely
eooistic.
Hospitality however becomes an
absolutely certain and known quantity,
Just like amy other wetl established Gus
tom. ono may travel and know that
he may tlnd free entertainment at any
house or camp where he may stop He
will not have 10 ask for it, because it
wa be offered to him. This is the kind
lied peoples and largely in frontier
countries thinlr settled by people termed
civilized; and because ,uch hospitality
is so certain to be- offered, travellers,
Nho know nothing about lis source,
have eNoIicd it far above its deserving.
lhi, is HE hospitality OF the indigenous
MuNjcans men OF Indian race, who
have driftcd into the southwestern
purt OF thr United States. They VIII
offer % white man the best place in the
house TO sleep, and a seat at the table
whore neither women nor children are
allowed to sit at the same time; but, let
the smoke of a white mans camp fire
be- ever so distanty visible. and tho
Mexican will mount his horse and at
once proceed TO the camp that he may
be invited to eat.
A. the sympathetic feelings grow and
friendships are formed, the hospitality
oi custom grows into spontaneous bospi-
taliy The demand for entertainment,
implied 10y custom, is much subject to
abuse and, rs travelling becomes easier
and more comfortable, the impositlons
will not bo tolerated, and the custom
falls into dise-e, and hospitality can be
found and paid for at public houses.
The oNlgenclc, OF travel no longer re-
quIro that every house shall offer ITS
welcome. The Mexican OF Arizona viii
frequently entertain strangers. because
that IS the custom there, and he will i'm
uru ask other, to entertain him; but in
Massachusetts the resident win rarely
give hospitality to the stranger Yet