, 1886-03-07

who have nothing to do, and that condition
always makes mischief. For whole hour
they win be in consultation about somebody's
character. Now, n they had to go half a
mile before they could reach the willing
eur they might get out OF breath before they
arrive there, and they might cool of in their
amnesty and desires TO spread the Islander
or they might not go at all because Of the dis
tance.
But rooms ~, 81, -, %, "A and %, are on
the same corridor, and when one carriou
crow cries; Cav, cav, cawI' the who'll
flock Of crows gather over the same carcass;
oh, | have heard something rich; SIT right
down here, and l will tell you all
about it; and Mt the first guffaw they
gather in from all the rooms and each one
after n while leaves the circle and takes a
spark from the altar OF CAB to some other
circle, until by nightfall everybody in the
house, from the coal heaver in the cellar to
the man in he top room Of the garnet, has
heard OF the defamation. And then, in the
evening, the boarders 20 out and carry the
tidings, and the autumnal fires sweeping
across an Illinois prairie art not 30 raging OF
70 swift us this flaming and consuming repu-
tation, blazing across the village or the city.
Those OF us who were brought up in the
country know that the old,fashioned Matching
OF eggs In the haymow required four or
five weeks of breeding. but there has been
modern machinery invented which matches
them out in shorter time and more multi
tudinously. And 30 il Is that while in pri-
vate homes may be matched out here and
there a falsity, and take n good while TO dc
IL, many Of the boarding houses and hotels
are places provided with facilities for swifter
aud more m~ultitudinous moral incubation.
One old gossip will get Off the nest after one
hours ~brooding, clucking TO a whole flock Of
thirty lies after her, each one picking up it,
little worm Of juicy Requirement
Oh, my friends, you do not want to know
too much about your neighbors, because IL
will take up 80 much OF your time TO look
after their faults that you will have no time
left TO look after your own. While you nro
plucking up a thick weed out OF their garden
your own premises will be overgrown with
horse sorrel and mullen stock One of the
greatest evils OF boarding HOUSE and hotel
life, except when there Is an imperative rea-
son for It, and ! have aid there Is often such
a reason, one OF the greatest evils Is the dam
age done TO children. 1t IS only another way
Of bringing them up ON the commons.
As long rs you have children in private
abode, you can, TO some extent, manage their
c~ompanionship and their whereabouts; but
by the time the child Is IL years OF age, and
has lived In one Of those public resorts OF
which | have been speaking, the child gathers
all the bad from the prurient lies Of dozens Of
people. They have overheard blasphemies;
they have spoiled morals; they become pre-
cocious In sin, and what the bartender has
not told them, the porter or the hostler or the
bellboy has.
Children in boarding houses know more sin
at 10 years of age than people ought to know
at ~.
Besides this, children brought up amid such
surroundings do not have the restraining, an
choring, allcOntrolling memory OF an early
home. Those of us who have been blessed
with such n memory know its power. 1t
grips n man for eighty years, II he lives that
long. 1t turns him back from many a door
that he would otherwise enter 1t brings men
TO contrition in the very midst OF their dis
sipation. As a fish already inclosed In a
great wide long net, thinks itself free 10
swim out further and further TO seq toss
ing its silvery scales In defiance OF the
fisherman ON the beach, until after a while
the net begins to be hauled in, hand over
hand, and the captured fish finds it is cap
turcd. Il darts this way and that way, and
darts downward, but still the net is hauling
them in, until they lie at the feet Of the cap
tons so 1t is that the influences OF an early
home sometimes seem to relax, and
let a mar out further and further
from God, and further and further from
shore-hve years, ten years, twenty year.,
thirty years-but after a while the man feels
around him the irresistible mesh OF the early
home influences pulling him in and pulling
him back, and he tries to get away, and he
descends deeper into sin, but still he is pulled
ON back and pulled on up until he comes on
the Rock Of Ages
o father, o mother, let your children, as
they go out into world feel the semi-omnipo-
tent memory OF a good early homei You
cannot, around the two or three rooms of
your boarding house, or hotel have any such
s%anctity. Your children will think Of it
merely as an early stopping place, more
odorous with old victuals and coffee perpetu-
ally stenming, and meats in everlasting stew,
b%roiling, and room surcharged with carbonic
acid, and corridors along which drunken men
stagger, coming at ! o'clock in the morning,
pounding at the door, until the affrighted
wife opens IL.
Do not commit the sacrilege, the blasphemy,
Of calling such a place a homei A home is
four wals, including n family with identity
Of interests, with No much privacy from out
side inspection, hat 1t Is a world in itself; no
one permitted TO enter except by your per
mission. Bolted, barred and chained against
all outside inquisitivcness The Legal term
TINT you find In law books, and
hear among legal circles, is nightly
suggestive when II speaks Of Nevery
mans house is his castle And It is as much
70 as though II had ~duwhridge, redoubt, bas-
ton and armed turret Burglary, or the IN
vnsion Of II, Is a crime 10 offensive that the
law clashes its iron jaws pom any man who
attempts 10 despon IT, Unless your reason be
most imperative-and there may be an inn
pcrntive reason-and every intelligent person
who hears me knows the exception l have al
ready made-but unless there he an inn
p%eraiive reason, husband and wife ought
not to consent to this public residence,
or strike the home tent The wife will have
10 divide her husband's time with the snok-
ing and reading room, md with some STRAIT
egic spoiler always on the lookout for the
unwary and II your husband Is not utterly
destroyed, 1t will be- because he is kept by
the grace OF God FROM temptations which
have slain thousands OF husbands as good as
yours.
Neither will the husband consent 10 such a
public residence unless there be an imperative
renson. Unless he is sure his wife can stand
the temptations and social designations which
sweep across such a place like Atlantic storms
driven by the September equinox. Many a
married woman has given up her no me- that
she might, through the leisure afforded her In
a boarding house or a hotel, give her entire
time 10 operas, theatnes and balls, and recep-
tons and levec~l Her life a perpetual whirl,
like n whipped top spinning round and
round and round very prettily, until il loss
il cquipoi-s and darts of at IA tangent In
the one case il is a top; in the other case ii Is
a human soul Besides that, therc is an nc
humiliation Of little things in a private homa
which, IN the aggregate, make up a great at
traction, while the deninen Of one Of these
public r~orts or residences says 30, what
b. tho usef Why should I gather those
things when ! have no place IA put themf
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hostertes, quaint chair, cosy sofa.
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