Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-10

blazing across Inc village or city. 1noSo VI
us who were brought up in the country
know that the old fashioned hatching OF
eggs in the hay NOV required four or live
weeks of brooding; but there are new modes
Of Matching by machinery, which take less
time and do the work in wholesale. SO.
while the private home may brood into life
an occasional falsity and take long time
to do it. many of the boarding houses and
family hotels afford swifter and more
multitudinous style of moral incubation,
and one old gossip will get off the nest af-
ter one hours br oding. clucking flock OF
thirty lies after her, each one picking up it's
little worm of juicy regal ment. 1t is no
advantage to hear too much about your
neighbors, for your time will be so much
occupied in taking care of their faults that
you will have no time to look after your
own. And while you are pulling the chick
weed out of their garden yours will get all
overgrown with horse-sorrel and nSllein
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
companionship and their whereabouts, but
by twelve years of age in these pnbic re-
sorts, they will have picked up all the had
things that can be furnished by the pruri
ent minds of doz ns of people. They will
overhear hlasphemies, and see quarres, and
get precocious in sin. and what the bartend
er does not tell them the porter or hostler
or bell boy will. Besides that, the children
will go out into this world without the re-
dvip md
trolling memory of home. From that
none of us who have been blessed of such
memory have escaped. 1t grips man for
ghty years. if he lives 80 long. It pulls
him back from doors into which he other.
wise would enter 1t smites him with con-
triton in the very midst Of his designations.
As the fish already surrounded by the long
wide net swim ont to sea, thinking they
can GO as far as they please aud with gay
foss of silvery scale they defy the sports
man on the beach, and after while the
fishermen hegin to draw in the net, band
over hand and hand over hand and it is a
long while before the captured fins begin to
feel the net, and then they dart this way
and that hoping to get out, but find them
selves approaching the shore. and are
brought up to the very feet of the captors;
81 the memory of an early home sometimes
seems to relax and let men out farther and
farther from God and farther and father
from shore-five years, ten years. twenty
years. thirty years. but some day they find
an irresistible mesh drawing them bick.
and they are com mpeiled To retreat from their
urndigaity and wandering. and though
thev make desperate eff rt to escape the
i'm prrsslon and try TO dive deeper down in
sin, after while are brought clear back
| apI balH ,,Dnu tho Rock Of 200
| If it lie possible. 0 father and mother! let
your sons and daughters goont in-
to the world under the semi omnipo-
tent memory Of good, pure home About
your two or three rooms in boarding
house or family hotel you can cast no such
| glorious sauctity. They will Shink of these
public caravansaries as an early stopping
place, malOdnrous with old vcSuals, cofftes
perpetually steaming and me.ts in ever
lasting stew or broil, the air surcharged
with carbonic acid, and corridors along
which drunken boarders come staggs Tag
at O clock in the morning. tapping al the
door till the afffightsi wife lets them in
Do not be guilty of the sacrlege or blasphe-
my of calling such place home. A nome
is four walls enclosing one family with
identity of interest, and privacy from .ut-
side inspection So complete that it is a world
in itself. no one entering except by permis-
sion; bolted and barred and chaine against
all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase so
often used in books and legal circles is
nightly suggestive-every mans house is
his castle. AS much SO as though it had
dra wbridge, portculis, redonbt, bastion and
armed turret. Even the officer of the law
may not enter to serve writ except the
door be voluntarily opened unto him; bur-
rlarv or q nf Grin off
sive that the law clashes it's iron jaws on
any one who attempts it. Unless it be nec-
essary to stay for longer or shorter time in
family hotel or boarding -house-and there
are thousands of instances in which it is
necessary. as l showed you at the begin
ning-unless in this exceptional case, let
neither wife nor husband consent to such
permanent residence.
The proba bility is that the wife will have
to divide her husbanC 's time with public
smoking or reading room, or with some CO.
quettsh spider in Sc ,rch of unwary flies.
and if you do not entirely lose your hus-
band il will be because he is divinely pro-
tected from the disasters that have whelmed
thousands of husbands with as good inten-
tions as yours. Neither should the hus-
band, without imperative reason, consent
to such life unlt IS he is sure his wife can
withstand the temptation of social dIssipa-
tinn which sweeps across such places with
the farce of the Atlantic ocean when driven
bs September equinox Many wives give
up their homes for these public residences
SO that they may give their entire time to
operas, theatres, balls, recs ptinns and levees,
and they are in perpetual whirl like a
whip-top Spinning round and round and
round very prett,ly until it k.ses it's equi-
ShnpfS nff inf ont Rr1t
the difference is, iu one case it is a top and
i'll the I'll her a soul.
Besides this there is An assiduons accumu-
latlon of little things around the private
home which in the aggregate make great
attraction, while the denizrn "f one of these
public residences is apt To SAY: What is
the use? have no place to keep them if l
should take them " NJ nent',es. bric-a-
brnc, cnr,osities, quaint chair or cosy lounge,
uphulsteries. picIu and Thousand things
that accrete III home ale discarded or neg
lec,ed because there is no homestead in
which to arrange them. Aud yet they are
the case in VIII CHI the pearl of domestic hap
piness is set. You Can never become as at
tached to the app,,iutmen of a bnardrng
house Or family hotel dts Ia those Rings that
you cAn Call your own and are ssncil'ed
with the different members of your house
hold, or with scenes OF thrill ny lfnpUlC Ill
your domestic history. Blessed S that home
in which for Il whole lifetime they have
been gathering, until every fisnre in the
carpet, and every pauel of the door, and ev-
cry Easement of the window has chirog-
rhphy ot it's own. speaking out something
about father or mother, Or son or daugh
ter, or friend that was with us while -
What a sacred place it becomes when one
can SAY: In that room such one was
born; in that bed such a one died; i'll that
chair sat on the night heard such one
had received "a great public honor; by that
stool my child knelt for her last evening
prayer; here I sat to greet my son as he
came back from a sea voyage; that was IA
theirs cane; that was mothers rocking
chair What joyful aud pathetic COIL
gress of "reminiscences!
the public residence of hotel and board
ing-house aboli>hes the grace of hospitality.
Your guest does not want to come to such
table. No one wants to run such gaunt-
let of acute and merciess hypercriticism. -
Unless y,u have house Of your own, you
will not be able to exercise the best reward
ed of ali the graces. For exercise of this
grace what blessing came to the ShuDam-