The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-04
The HOSPITABLE HOME.
The True Host Shares with Less
Fortunate Ones - The
Ready Welcome.

If ones home is fair and fine, with
soft carpets, rugs, pictures, marbles
china, with gentle service, luxurious
living, loving children, gracious wife,
should all the blessings that these
things give, even If one is the appar-
emit source of them himself, has gath
cred and secured them by close effort
and self-denial, be kept to ones self
alone, like the bone the dog gnaws.
and buries till he can come back TO itY
1t is not privacy and seclusion that
gives a home its sacredness. Fan from
it. 1t is its happiness, its health
fulbess, its h~elpfulness, its capacity
to do good, to impart that hap
piness and healthiness, its power
of lifting all the rest of the world
into its W atmosphere. Those
homes that are open to the homeless
are the sacred ones; the homes where
there is always a pillow for the weary.
always a spare place at the table for
the wanderer; the homes whose beauty
is shed abroad like the gracious dew
from heaven that Portia talked about.
There may be many mansions in
heaven, but he who thinks they are
mansions from which every other
heavenly habitant is excluded has
made a mistake in the place; it would
not be heaven then. However we
may dispute and declare that a man
has q right to be undisturbed in
his own house, yet we know in our
inner consciousness that we all re-
gard the mar who brings another
home to dinner. sure of a cordial
greeting for him there; who will not
let the stranger find his welcome in
an inn on a holiday when homes are
dearest, who throws open his house to
the parish, whose lights are always
shining and inviting as you go by his
windows, across whose doorstep
guests are often coming and going.
who loves his home SO much and finds
it so complete that he must have other
people to love it too, and if they have
nothing half so choice, then share
some brief portion of it with them
that man we all know to be a good
citizen, a husband honoring his wife.
a Christian i'm deed whatever he may
be in faith. and withai a gentleman
Hayper'S Bazar.
Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Inc IuleS anu icSuidIiOho 0ictdbcu
by etiquette were the same for Balti-
more as for Philadelphia, The latter
and larger city has always exerted a
certain influence over its smaller
neighbor. In the more modern day 1T
has pushed its red brick and white
marble houses into a town whose
native taste is for far more picturesque
and comfortable dwellings. Each town
haze its dancing assembly, and it was
the custom of the times that q young
man should dance with the same part
ner the evening through. On the
following day it was his bounden duty
to call on the young woman, and take
tea at the home of her parents, when
there was a brave display OF silver and
china.
In essential things, however. there
was much difference between the
society of the Southern town and that
of any of the northern cities. The
social line between the north and the
south may be said to be drawn at
Baltimore. 1t was a city of caste, a
city in which there was practically no
white labor; in which there was a
dominant society of cultivation, and
the subservient slaves, white and black
were below the average in intelli-
gence. what was said of Virginia by
the Due de la Rochefoucauld-Lian-
court in the account Of his travels
through the United States in the
years immediately following the adop-
tion of the Constitution might have
been also written of Baltimore. 1t
was this
I'm spite of the Virginian love for
dissipation, the taste for reading there
is comInoner among men of the first
class than in any other part OF Ameri-
ca; but the population is perhaps
more ignorant there than elsewhere
-Hnrnelss WeeLIn