Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-03-11

Sone Iistenerrs distraction they would gee
ont af breath before reaching there,
and mot feel in full glow Of aninosity OF
sIander, or MIGHT, because Of the distance
not 90 al oil. But rooms 20, q, n, 23, "a,
and 25 are on the same corridor, and when
one carrion crow goes "Cawl Caw!" all the
other crows hear Il aud flock together over
the same carcass. "0h, have heard some-
thing rich! Sit down and let me tell You
all about it," And the first guffaw in
creases the gathering, and it has 10 be told
all over again, and as they separate each
carries spark from the altar of CAB to
some other circle until from the coal
HEAVIER in the cellar 10 the maid In the top
room of the garret all are aware OF the de-
famation, 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 consuming reputation blazing
across the village or city. Those Of MS
who were brought up in the country know
that the old fashioned way of Matching
eggs in the haymow required four or five
weeks of brooding, but there are new
modes of Matching by machinery, which
take less time, and do the work in whole
sale. So. while the private home may
brood into life an occasional 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 in
cubation, and one oldgossip will get OF the
nest after one hours brooding clucking o
flock of thirty lies after her, each one pick
ing up lis little worm Of juicy regalement.
1t is on 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
oyergrown with horse -sorrel and mullein-
stalks.
One of the worst damages that comes
from the herding of so many people into
boarding.ho houses and family hotels is in
fiicted upon children. 1t 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 IL years of age in these public 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
blasphemies, and see quarrels, and get pre-
cocious in sin, and what the bartender
! does not tell them the porter or hostler or
bell-boy will. Besides that, the children
will 90 out into this world without the re-
straining, anchoring, steadying, all-con-
trolling memory of home. From that
none Of us who have been blessed of such
memory have escaped. 1t grips man for
eighty years, if he lives 80 long. 1t pulls
him back from doors into which he other
wise would enter. 1t smites him with con-
| triton in the very midst of his dissipations.
As the fish already surrounded by the long,
wide net swim out to sea, thinking they
can 90 as far as they please, and with gay
toss Of silvery scale they defy the sports
men on the beach, and after awhile the
fishermen begin to draw in the net, hand
over hand and hand over hand, and it is q
long while before the captured fins begin
to feel the net, and then they dart this way
and that, hoping to get out, but they find
themselves approaching the shore, and are
brought up to the very feet of the captors,
so the memory of an early home some
further and further from God and further
and further from shore-five years, ter
years, twenty years, thirty years; but some
day they find an irresistible mesh drawing
them back, and they are compelled to re.
treat from their prodigality and wandering
and though they make desperate efforts tt
escape the impression. and try to div
deeper 6swn in Gin, sftss awhile they an
brought clear back and held upon the Rocl
Of Ages.
Ifit 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 OF
three rooms in aboarding- house or family
hotel you can cast no such glorious sane
tity. They will think of these public car.
avansaries as an early stepping place, NAL
odorous with old victuals, coffees perpetu.
ally steaming, and meats in everlasting
stew or broil the air surcharged with car
bonic acid, and corridors along which
drunken boarders come staggering at
o'clock in the morning, rapping at the dool
till the affrighted wife lets them in. Dc
not be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy
Of calling such place home. A home is
four walls inclosing one family with iden
tity of interest, and privacy from outside
inspection so complete that it is world ir
itself, no one entering except by permission
bolted and barred and chained against all
outside inquisitiveness. The phrase SC
often used in law books and legal circlet
is nightly uggestive-every mans house
is his castle; as much as though it hai
drawbridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion
and armed turret. Even the officer of tx
law may not enter to serve writ exceptth'
door be voluntarily opened unto him; burg.
larry, or the invasion of it, crime SO oHen
sive that the law clashes its iron jaws OF
anyone who attempts it. Unless it be ne
cessary to stay for longer or shorter time il
family hotel or boarding -house-and there
are thousands of i, st tnces in which it il
necessary, as I showed you at the begin.
ning-unless in this exceptional case, le
neither wife nor husband consent to sucl
permanent residence.
The probability is that the wife will have
to divide her husbands time with publ,
smoking or reading room, or with som'
coquettish spider in search of unwar!
flies, and if you do not entirely lose you
husband it will be because he is divinel.
protected from the disasters that hav'
whelmed thousands of husbands with al
good intentions as yours. Neither should
the husband, without imperative reason
consent to such life, unless he is sure hi
wife can Withstand the temptation of socia
dissipation, which sweeps across sucf
places with the force of the Atlantic Ocea1
when driven by a September equinox
Many wives give up their homes for thes
public residences SO that they may Civ
their entire time to operas, theaters, balls
receptions, and levees, and they are in
perpetual whirl, like, a whip-top spinning
round and round and round, very prettil,
until it loses it's equipoise and shoots off il
o tangent. But the difference is, in on
case it is top and in the other soul.
Besides this there. is an assiduous &C
cumulation of little things around the pri
vate home, which in the aggregate make
great attraction, while the denizen Of on
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