Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-01

aroused, ana SCANDALS started, and the
parliament OF the family is blown to atoms
by some Guy Fawkes who was not caught
in time, as was his English predecessor OF
gun npowdery reputation.
The reason is that while in private homes
families have so much to keep them busy.
In these promiscuous and multitudlnous
residences there are 30 many who have
nothing TO do, and that always makes
mischief. They gather in each others
rooms and spend hours in consultation
about others. II they had to walk half
mile before they got to the willing ear Of
some listener to detractiOn, they would
get out of breath before reaching there
and not feel IN full glow of animosity or
slander, or might, because Of the distance,
not go at all. But rooms 20, II, -, %, a
and % are ON the same corridor, and
when one carrion crow goes "Cawl
CawW all the other crows hear
il and flock together over the same
carcass. ''0h. l have heard something
rich Sit down and let me tell you all
about it," And the first gutfaw increases
the gathering, and it has to be told all
over again, and as they separate each car
ries spark from the altar of Cab to some
other circle, until from the coal HEAVIER in
the cellar to the maid in the top room of
the garrett, all are aware OF the defama-
tion, and that evening all who leave the
house will bear it to other houses. until
autumnal fires sweeping across Illinois
prairIes are less raging and swift than
that flame OF cousuming reputation blaZ-
ing across the village or city. Those of
us who were brought up in the country
know that the old-iashiOned hatching of
eggs in the hay NOW required four or i've
weeks of hr0odiug, but there are new
modes or Matching by machinery, which
ts4I Tnca fffaa q I'D n tho uOrk in tUhnla-
sale. So. while the private home may
brood into life an occasional
falsity and take a long time
TO do 1T, many of the boarding g-houses
and family hotels afford swifter and
more multitudnous style of moral Incu
baton, and one old gossip will get of the
nest after one hours Drooding, clucking
a flock of thirty lies after her, each one
picking up its little worm of iuicy regale-
ment. 1t is no advantage to hear 100 much
about your neigh bors, 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 chickweed out of their garden
yours will get all oVergrown with horse
sorrel 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
nicted upon children. 1t is only another
way of bringing them up on the COM
mons. While you have your own private
house you can for the most part control
their companionshTp and their whereR-
bouts, but by II years of age in these pub.
lie resorts, they will have picked up all
the bad things that esa be furnished by
thelprufiepe minds 8f dozens ofspe0ple.
They will overhear blasphemies, and see
quarrels, and get precocious in sin, and
what the bartender does not tell them th O
porter or hostler or bellboy will. Besides
that, the children will 90 out into this
world without the restraining, anchor
Ing, steadying and all-eontrolling men,
ory of home. From that none OF us
VINO have been blessed OF such memory
have escaped. 1t grips man for eighty
years, ii ne lives so long. 1t pulls him
back from doors into which he otherwise
would enter: 1t smites him with contri-
tion in the very midst OF his designations.
AS the fish already surrounded by the
long, wide net swim out to sea thinking
they Will go out as far as they please, and
with CAV toss of silVery scale they defy
the sportsman ON the beach, and after
while the fishermen begin 20 draw in the
net, hand over hand and hand over hand,
and it is long while before the captured
fish begin to feel the net, and then they
udIb luis way duu budt HOplu& W Scb Outs
but find themselves approaching the
shore and are brought up to the
very feet OF the cHptOrs 50
the memory OF an early home sometimes
seems to relax, and let men our further
and further from God and further and fur
ther from shore-hye years, ten years,
twenty years, thirty years; but soma day
they find an irresistible mesh drawing
them back, and they are compelled to re-
treat from their pTodigality and wander
ing, and though they make desperate
effort to escape the impression, and try TO
dive deeper down Ia sin, after awhile are
brought clear back and held upon the
Rock of Ages.
If it be possible, O father and mother,
let your sons and daughters go out into
the world under the semi-omnipotent
memory Of a good, pure home. About
your two or three rooms IN boarding
house or a family hotel you can cast no
such glorious sanctity. They will tnnk
Of these public caravansaries as an early
stopping place, malOdOrous with old vic
tuals, coffees perpetuailV steamiDg and
meats in everlasting stew or broil, the
air surcharged with car0onic acid, and
corridors along which drunken b0arders
come staggering at I O'Clock In the morn
ing, rapping at the door till the affcighted
wife lels them in. Do not be gully OF
the sacrilege or blasphemy OF calling such
a place home. A home is four walls in
closing one family with identity OF inter-
est, and a privacy from outside inspee-
ton SO complete that It is world within
itself no one entering eXceptby permission
-b0lted and barred and chalned against
all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase
so often used in law hooks and legal Cir
cles is nightly uggestiye-eyery mans
house is his castle. As much so as
though it bad drawbFldge, pOrtcullis, re-
doubt, basti0n and armed turret Even
the officer OF the law may not enter 10
serve writ, except tue door be voIunta-
rily opened unto him; burglary, or the
invasion OF IL, crime 50 offensive that
the law clashes it's iron jaws on any one
who attempts IL. Unless IL be necessary
TO stay for longer or shorter time IN fam
lily hotel or clearinghouse there
are thousands OF instances in which II IL
necessary, as showed you az the begin-
ning-uniess In this ceptional case, let
neither wife nor husband consent TO such
permanent residence.
The probability is that the wife will
have to divide her husbands time with
public smoking or reading room. or with
some cOquettish spider In search OF un-
wary flies. and II you do not entirely lose
your husband 10 will be because he is
divinely protected from the disasters that
nave wbelmed thousands OF husbands
with as good intentions as yours. Neither
should the husband, without imperative
reason, consent 10 such life unless he ts
sure his wife can Withstand the tempta-
tiOn nj eoefaI dfaafuakiOn which sWeeDa