Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-01

Ipnbllc smoking offradlne room, OF VIII
some coqnettlsh spider n search " IN
wary fice, and II you do not entirely lose
your husband Il will b. because be i
dlylnely protected from the disasters thai
have whclmed thousands Of husbands
with ns good Intentions ~ yours Neither
should The husband, without imperative
reason. consent 20 such life unless he n
sure his wife can Withstand the tcmpta.
ton OF social dissipation which swoeps
across such places With the force OF tho
Atlantic ocean when driven by y
September equinox, Many wives
give W. their homes for these
public residences 80 that they
may give their entire timc 20 operas,
theatcrs, balls, receptions and lcyees, and
they are in a perpetual whlrl liko whip
top spinning round and round and round,
very pfottlly until II loses its cquipois0
and shoots Oh into a tangent But the
difference Is, ~ one case II Is u top and In
the other soul
Besides this there Is an asslduous &C.
emulation OF little things around the
private home which, In the aggregate,
make a great attraction, while the deni.
zen OF one OF these public residences Is
apt 10 say "What II the user ! have
no place 10 Keep them II should take
them" Mementocs, bric.a-bfac curl.
osItics, quaint chair or coscy lounge, up
holsterles, pictures and thousand things
that accret0 In q home are discarded or
neglected because there Is no homcstc toad
In which 10 arrange thcm And
yet they are the case IN which
the pearl OF domestic happiness IN set.
You car never become az attached 10 the
appointments Of boarding house or fam
ily hotel as 10 those things that you can
call your own aud are associated with the
different members Of your household, or
with scenes OF thrilling import IN your
domestic history. Blessed h that home
In which for a whole lifetime they have
been gathering, until every tiWirc in the
carpet, and every panel OF The door, and
every easement OF the window has chi.
Biography Of It's own, speaking out some.
thing about father or mother or son or
daughter or friend thu was with us
a while What a sacred place II becomes
when one tnn say sin that room such
a one was borni in that bed such one
dlcdi In that chair | sat on The night
heard such one had received grpnt pub.
lie honor; by that stool my child knelt
Tor her last evening prnyeri hero ! sat 10
greet my son a. he came back from sen
voyage that wus fathers cane, that was
mothers rocking chair" Whntn joyful
and pathetic congress OF "reminiscences
The public residence OF hotel and
boarding -houso abollshos the grace Of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
TO come 10 such q table. No one wants
TO run such gauntlet of acute and mer,
clless hyporcrltlcism, Unless you have II
hone OF your own you Will not be able to
exercise the b0sG rewarded OF all the
graccs. For exercise Of this grace what
blessing came 10 tho Sliunammlte in the
restoration OF her son TO life because She
entertained Elisha, and TO the widow OF
Iarephath In the perpetual oil well u the
miraculous cruise because she fed
hungry prophet, and to Rahab IN the
preservation OF her life at the demolition
OF Jericho because she entertained The
spies, aud 20 Labnn In the formation of
an Interesting family relation bc.
cause Of his entertainment OF
jacob, and TO Lot In his
rescue from the destroyed city because of
his entertainment OF the angels, and 20
Mary and Martha and ~ chpus In spirit.
nal blessing because they entertained
Christ, and 10 PublluH In the island OF
Mcllla IN The healing OF his father be.
cause OF the entertainments OF Paul,
drenchcd from the ghlpwrcck, and OF In.
houses throughout Chrlston.
dom upon which have come blessings
from generation TO generation because
their doors swung easily open i'm the on
lnrglng, ennobling irradlallng and divine
grace OF hospitality, | do not know what
your experience has been, hut have had
men and women visiting at my house who
left benodlctlon on every room 10 the
blessing they asked at the table in the
pray they offered at the family altar, In
the good advice they gave the children,
Ia the gospcllaation that looked out from
every lineament ~ their countennnces;
and their departure was the sword OF
bereavement,
Tho queen OF Norway, Sweden and
Denmark had u cup OF ton curves or lips,
each one having on 1t the name Of tie
person WHO had drunk from
u. And that cup which we offer 10 others
IN Christian hospitality, though It BE- Oi
lhe plnlnest earthcnware, rs q royal cup,
and God can read on all its Sides the
names oi those who have taken from IT,
refreshments But all this ls Impossible
Nhi'NH 1bh ihNN ~ HbUlt vi your OWL ~
Is the dclnslon as TO what Is necessary for
! home that binders 80 many from ostab.
fishing one. Thirty rooms are not neccs.
iafy, nor twenty, nor nftcen,
nor ten, nor i've, nor three. In
-hc right way plant table,
md couch, aud knife, and fork and cup,
lnd n chair, and you can raise n young
just start home, on however
mall scale, aud II win grow. When
King Cyrus was invited TO dine with an
humble friend the king made The one
condition OF his coming that tho
)nly dish DO one loaf of bread, and the
most imperial satlsiactions have some.
lines banqueted on the plainest fare
DO not be caught Ia the dolnsIon Of
nnny thousands In postponlng a home /
NTH they can have an expensive one. |
That Idea IL tho devils trap that catches
neu and women innumerablc who will
lever have any home ut all Capitalists |
u America build plain homes for the PEG !
DE Let this tencment-houso system. IN 1
which hundreds OF thousands OF the peO. |
De OF our cities are wallowing IN The I
nirc, he broken up by small homes, /
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