The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-03-10


from the herding Of so many people into
boarding houses and family hotels is in
ficted upon children. It 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 ofoage, in these pub
lie resorts, they will have picked up all the
bad things that can be furnished by the
prurient minds of dozens Of people. They
will overhear blaspnemies and see quar-
rels, and get precocious In sin, and what
the bar tender does not tell them, the
porter or hostler or bell-boy will. Besides
that, the children will go out into this
world without the restraining, anchoring,
steadying and all controlling memory Of
q home. From that some Of us who have
been blessed of such memory have escaped.
It grips man for eighty years, II he lives
so long. II pulls him back from doors into
which he otherwise would enter. 1t smites
him with contrition in the very midst Of
his designations.
II It be possible, o father and mother,
let your sons and daughters go out into
the world under the semi -omnipotent
memory of good, pure home. About
your two or three rooms in a boarding
house or family hotel you can cast no
ouch glorious sanctity. They will think
of these public caravansaries as an early
stopping place, malodorous with old vict-
uals. coffees perpetually steaming, and
meats in everlasting stew or broil, the
air surcharged with carbonic acid, and
corridors along which drunken boarders
come staggering at one O'Clock in the
morning, rapping at the door till the af-
frighted wife lets them in. Do not be
guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy of
calling such aplace home.
A home is four walls inclosing one fam.
lily with identity Of interest, and q
privacy from outside inspection so COM
piete that 1t Is a world in itself, no one en-
tering except by permission; bolted and
barred and chained against all outside in
cuiItiveness.
The phrase so often used In law books
and legal circles is nightly suggestive
every mans house is his castle-as much
SO as though II had drawbridge, portcullis,
redoubt, bastion, and armed turret. Even
the officer Of the law may not enter TO
serve writ except the door be voluntarily
opened unto him; burglary, or the In
vasion of it, crime SO offensive that the
law clashes its iron jaws on any one who
attempts it.
Unless II be necessary to stay for longer
or shorter time in family hotel or board =
ing house-and there are thousands OF in
stances in which 1t is necessary, as /
showed you at the beginning-unless in
this exceptional case, let neither husband
nor wife consent to such permanent resi-
dence.
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 unwary fhes
and II you do not entirely lose your hus-
band II will be because he is divinely pro-
tected from the disasters that have
whelmed thousands of husbands with as
good intentions as yours.
Neither should the husband, without i'm
perative reason, consent to such life un'
less he is sure his wife can withstand the
temptation of social dissipation, which
sweeps across such places with the force OF
the Atlantic Ocean when driven by Sep
tember equinox. Many wives give up
their homes for these public residences, so
that they may give their entire time to
operas, theatefs, balls, receptions and
levees, and they are in perpetual whirl,
like whip-top spinning round and round
and round, very prettily, until II loses its
equipoise and shoots Off into tangent.
But the difference is, in one case It is top
and In the other a soul.
Besides this there is an aSslduous accu-
mutation OF little things around the private
home which in the aggregate make great
attraction, while the deniEen Of one Of these
public residences is apt to say: "What IL
the user Ihave no place to keep them II
should take them" Mementoes, bric-a-
brac, curiosities, quaint chair or cory
lounge, upholsteries, pictures and a thou
sand things that accrete In a home are dis
carded or neglected because there Is nc
homestead in which to arrange them. And
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