The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-07-14

steaming and meats Ia everlasting
stew OF broil the air suvchurgcd with
carbon!c acid, and corridors. along
which: druukcn boardcrs come stagScr.
irS at O'Clock in the morning. rap
ping 1t the door till the aftrigntcd wife
lets tEcm ia. DO not me guilty of the
sacriicgc or blasphcmy Of calling such
place home.
y homc is rour walls inclosing one
family with identity of interest and a
privacy from outside inspection so
complete that It is IL world in itself, no
enc entering except by permission
boltcd and barred and chained against
all outside inquisitivcness. The phrase
so: often used IL lawbooSs and legal
circles is nightly SugseStive-everv
mans house is his castle, us much so
as though it had tlrawbl.Ggc. portcul-
lis, rcuoubt, b&Stion and armed turret
Even the officer of tie law may not
enter To serve Il writ. except the door
be voluntarily opened unto him: bur
glary, or the inyasion OF il. Il crime so
offensive that the law clashes it's iron
jaws on any one who attempts it. Tn
less it be necessary TO stay for longer
boarding house-;nd there are thou-
sands of instances iii which it is ncces-
sary, as showed you at the beginning
unless in this exceptional case. let
neither wife nor husband consent TO
such permanent residence.
The probability is that the wife will
have to divide her husbands time with
pUblic smoking or reading room or
with some couu"ttish spider in search
of unwsry flies, and, IL YOU do not cn-
tirc1y lose your husband, it will be be-
cause he is divinely protected from the
disasters that have wholmcd thou
sands OF husbands. with as good intcu-
tions rs yours. Neither should the huS.
band, without Imperative reason, con.
sent to such II life unless lie is sure his
wife can withstand the temptation of
social dissipation which sweeps across
such places with ihc force OF the At
iantic ocean when driven by Sep.
temDCr equinox. Many wives give up
their homes for these public residences,
so that they may give their entire time
TO operas, thcaters, balls, receptions
and lcvec@, ana they are IN Il perpetual!
whirl, like Il whip top spinning round
and round and round very prettily until
it loses its cQuiposc ana shoots Off into
Il tangent. But the difference is, in
one case it is top, and il the other n
soul.
blessed Es the Home.
Besides this there is an assiduous &c.
cumuiation OF little things around the
private home, which in the aggregate
make great attraction. while the den.
iZcn Of one Of these public residences is
apt TO say: What is the use? have no
place to keep them if | should take
them" MemCutos, brac-a-brac, cu"i
ositics, quaint chair OF coZy lounge, uI,,
holStcrics, pictures ana Il thousand
things that accretc in q home are dis.
carded or neglected because there is no
homestead in which to arrange them.
And yet they arc the case in which the
pearl of domestic happiness is set. You
can never Eccomc as attached to tho
appointments Of n boarding house or
family hotel as to those things that YOU
can call your own and arc associated
with the different members or YOUR
household or with scenes OF thrilling
import in your domestic history. Bless
ed is that home in which for n whole
lifetime they have been gathering, un.
til every figure in the carpet, and every
panel of the door, and every easement
OF the window has n chirography of its
own, speaking out something about fa.
ther or mother, or son or daughter, or
friend that was with us awhile What
sacred place it becomes when one can
say: In that room such n one was
born; In that bed such n one died; in
that chair l sat on the night | heard
such n one had received q great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt for
her last evening prayer; here l sat to
greet my son as he came back from sen
voyage; that was fathers cane; that
was mothers rocking ciairr What a
joyful and pathetic congress of remi.
nlsccnces!
The public residence Of hotel and
boarding house aDoiishes the grace of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such a table. No one wants
to run such n gantIet of acute and
mercileSs hypcrcriticism. Unless YOU
nave home of your own you will not
De able to exercise the best rewarded
or ali the graces. For exercise OF this
grace what blessing came to the
Shunammite in the restoration of her
son to life because she entertained
elisha, and to the widow OF Zarephath
in the perpetual oil well of the mlracu-
lous cruise because she fed hungry
prophet, and to Rahab in the prescrva-
ton of her life at the demolition of
jericho because she entertained the
spies, and to Laban in the formation Of
an interesting family relation because
of his entertainment OF Jacob, and to
Lot in his rescue from the destroyed
city because of his entertainment OF
the angels, and to Mary and Martha