The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-03-19
"HoME. SWEET HOME"
IL should Never Degenerate Into . Nss
Lodging House,

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II Should Never Degenerate Into Moe
Lodging House.
The infinite difference between a
lodglng-honse and home is felt by
every perly-constituted individual.
4tasqusually thesindolent and frivolous
who prefer hotel life. Even the most
luxurlant hotels, with all the comforts
that modern luxury throws about them,
are barren and devoid of rest to one
who has known and felt the refining
influences of home. The table of the
hotel, with it's variety of food, cooked
by the very best methods, soon becomes
tlresome and monotonous, while the
home table, if properly kept up, seldom
pals upon the taste. Strange as this
seems, it is literally true. Whether it is
because the food at a hotel is cooked in
mass, and acquires in that way
monotonous flavor or not. it is certain
that one soon becomes tired of it, and
after a long experience one never re-
turns to hotel table with the same ex-
pectation of good things to come as one
returns to home fare, plain and humble
though that home may be. It has been
said in disparagement of the French
that they have no word that is equiva-
lent to the Anglo-Saxon word shome."
lat the house of my friend'' is quite
different thing from Eat the home of
my friend.' His house may be his
clearinghouse or any temporary abid-
ing-place. A great deal of the domestic
trouble of this world arises from the
failure of people to appreciate the diff
ference between a clearinghouse and
home. 10 coarse, worldly person
there is no essential difference. Provid-
ing he is fed and lodged. he is satisfied
The only objection to-day to co-opera-
ton is the fact that it destroys the
home. 1t is only where our individual
tastes are catered to, where our indi-
viduality is recognized, our personal
fancies and even our whims regarded,
that we can have a genuine home.
Such a thing as this can not be done in
a wholesale way The cut and cook
ing of beef that will satisfy Mr.. Brown
may be wholly unsatisfactory to Mr.
Smith. The particular way of busting
and other methods of work which NAV
suit one housekeeper may be entirely
distasteful to another. The house of
an American or an Englishman is his
castle. 1t is the place where he has the
right to have his meat served to him in
the way that best suits him, whether it
be the orthodox or the heterodox meth
3D. But above all, it is in the home that
there is always the atmosphere of
trust and love. Those within it are
joined by the strongest ties-the ties of
love, trust loyalty and a common in
terest Their parlor and their hearths
are in common to themselves alone.
Their cares and their joys are shared
together. It is a little kingdom by it.
self, which knows no higher laws be-
yond it's own present will, and it is all
the happier if conducted on purely re-
publican basis, with no household
tyrant within it's precincts. Probably
the most deplorable feature of the serv-
ant girl problem is that it drives SO
many households to hotel or boarding.
house life. And it needs no sage to
tell us that none of the features that
make home life beautiful can be ever
conceived as existing in the arrange
ments of clearinghouse or hotel-N.
Y. Tribune.