News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
TALMAGE ON HOTEL LIFE,
ADVANTAGES OF PRIVATE HouFs
FOR MARRIED PEOPLE.
Hotels and Boarding Houses Only Desira-
BILE as Places of Sojenrn for Travellers
and Temporary Guests-Not to be Called
q Home.

Hotels and Boarding Houses OnIy Desir,.
BILE as Places of sojourn for Travellers
and Temporary Guests-Not to be CaI,ea
Home.
Rev. T. De Witt Taln1age Sunday
delivered the eighth of his series of ser
mons on THE Marriage Ring" In the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. He said among
other things:
"One of the great evils of this day il
found in the fact that large population
of our towns and cities are giving up
and have given GlsSheir homes and
taken apartilel ssezsthey may have
more freedom fTssn Domestic duties and
more time for social life, and because
they like the whirl Of publicity better
than the quiet and privacy of q
residence they can call their own. The
lawful use of these hotels and boarding
houses is for most people while they are
In transitu, but as terminus they are
in many cases Generalization, utter and
complete. That is the point at which
families innumerable have begun to dis
integrate. There never has been a time
when SO many families, healthy and
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homes of their own, have struck tent
and taken permanent abode in these
public establishments. 1t is an evil
wide as Christendom. In these public
caravansaries the demon of gossip is apt
to get full sway All the boarders run
daily the gauntlet of general inspection
how they look when they come down
in the morning and when they get in at
night, and what they do for a living,
and whom they receive as guests in
their rooms, and what they wear and
what they do not wear, and how they
eat and what they eat and how much
they eat and how little they eat. If
man proposes in such place to be iso-
lated and reticent and alone, they will
begin to guess about him: Who is he2
| Where did he come from? How long
| is he going to stay2 Has he paid his
board2 How much does he pay? Per
haps he has committed some crime and
does not want to be known: there must
be something wrong about him or he
would speak. The whole house goes
| into the detective business. They must
find out about him. They must find
out about him right away. If he leaves
his door unlocked by accident he will
find that his rooms have been inspected,
his trunk explored. his letters folded
differently from the way they were
| folded when he put them away. Who
| is he2 Is the question asked with in
tenser interest until the subject has be-
| come monomania. The simple fact
is, that he is nobody in particular, but
minds his own business. The best
landlords and landladies cannot some
times hinder their places from, becoming
pandemoniums of whisperers, and rep
utations are torn to tatters, and evil
suspicious are aroused and scandals
started, and the parliament of the fam
lily is blown to atoms by some Guy
Fawkes who was not caught in time. as
swas has EAgl1Sh iyNt tsoessor of gun
powdery 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 SO
many who have nothing to do, and that
always makes mischief Rooms 90, 21,
%, 23, "a, and % are on the same cor
ridor, and when one carrion crow goes
Cav cawr all the other crows hear it
and flock together over the same car
cass. 'Oh, | have heard something
richl Sit down and let me tell you all
about it. And the first gutfaw in
creases the gathering, and it has to be
told over again, and as they separate
each carries sparks from the altar of
Cab TO some other circle, until from the
coal-heayer in the cellar to the maid in
the top room of the garret all are aware
OF the defamation, and that evening all
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houses, until autumnal fires sweeping
across Illinois prairies are less raging
and swift than that flame of consuming
reputation blazing across the village or
city. Those of US who were brought up
IN the country know that the old fash
Toned Matching of eggs in the hay NOW
required four or five weeks of brooding,
bus 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 oc-
casional falsity and take long time to
do it, many of the boarding houses and
family hotels afford a swifter and more
multitudinous style of moral incubation,
and one old gossip will get off the nest
after one hours brooding clucking a
flock of thirty lies after her, each one
picking up its little worm of juicy re-
galement. It 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 null
len stalks.
Zone of the worst damages that
cymes from the herding of so many
people into boarding houses and family
hotels is inflicted upon children. They
will overhear blasphemies and see quar-
rels and get precocious in sin, and what
the bartender does rot tell them the
porter or hostler or SslTs5oy will. Be-
s'des that the children will go out into
this world without the restraining, an
choring, steadying and all-controlling
memory of home. From that none of
us who have been blessed of such mem
ory have escaped. 1t grips man for
eighty years if he lives so long 1t
pulls him back from doors into which |
he otherwise would enter 1t strikes !
him with contrition in the very midst |
of his dissipations. If it be possible, o |
father and motherl 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 boarding house OF a family |
hotel you can cast no such sanctity. !
Your children will think of these public |
caravansaries as an early stopping
place, maloderous with old victuals, !
coffees perpetually steaming, and meats
in everlasting stew or boil, the air sur
charged with carbonio acid, and corri-
dors along which drunken boarders
come staggering at 1 o'clock in the
morning, rapping at the door till the
affrighted wife lets them in Do not be
guilty of sacrilege or blasphemy of
calling such place home. A home is
four walls inclosing one family with
identity of interest, and privacy from
outside inspection so complete that it is
world In itself no one entering except
by permission, bolted and barred and
chained against all outside inquisitive
ness. The phrase SO often used in law
books and legal circles is nightly
suggestive every mans house is his
castle. AS much as though it had draw :.
bridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion, and
armed turet Even the officer of the
law may not enter to serve a writ except
tie door be voluntarily opened unto
him; burglary, or the invasion of 1t, a
crime so offensive that the law clashes
its iron jaws on any one who attempts
1t. Unless it be necessary to stay for
longer or shorter time in family hotel or