Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-13

tnat was mOtnerS TOCkluE Cnalr. w nat
joyful and pathetic congress of remi-
niscences!
The Grace of Hospitality.
The public residence of hotel and
boarding house abolishcs the grace of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such a table. No one wants
to run such n gantlet of acute and mer-
CHESS hypercriticism. Unless you have
n home of your own you will not be able
to exercise the best rewarded Of all 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
Iarcphath in the perpetual oil well of the
miraculous cruise because she fed a hun
cry prophet, and to Rahab in the preser-
walton of her life at the demolition of
Jericho because she entertained the spies,
and to Laban in the formation of an in
teresting 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 and Zaccheus in spir-
itual blessing because they entertained
Christ, and to Publus in the island Of
Mclita in the healing Of his father be-
drcnched from the shpwreck, and of in
Vulnerable houses throughout Christen-
dom upon which have come blessings
from generation to generation because
their doors swung easily open in the en-
larging enrolling, irradiating and divine
grace of hospitality. l do not know what
your experience has been, but l have had
men and women visiting at my house who
left benediction on every room-in the
blessing they asked Mt the table, in the
prayer they offered at the family altar, in
the good advice they gave the children,
in the gospeization that looked out from
every lineament of their countenances,
and their departure was the sword OF be-
reavement. The queen of Norway,
Sweden and Denmark had a royal cup
Of ten curves, or lips, each one having on
it the name of the distinguished person
who had drunk from it. And that cup
which we offer to others in Christian hos
pitality, though it be of the plainest
earthenware. is a royal cup, and God can
read on all sides the names of those who
have taken from it refreshment, but all
this is impossible unless you have home
of your own.
1t is the delusion as to what Is necessa-
nv for n home that binders so many from
establishing one. Thirty rooms are not
necessary, nor 20, nor 10, nor 10, nor ),
nor 3. In the right way plant table,
and couch, and knife, aud fork, and a
cup, and q chair, and you can raise a
young paradise. Just start q home on
however small SCALE and it will grow.
When King Cyrus was invited to dine
with a humble friend, the king made
the one condition of his coming that the
only dish be one loaf Of bread, and the
most imperial satisfactions have some
times banqueted on the plainest fare
Do not be caught in the delusion OF
many thousands in postponing a home
until they can have an expensive one
That idea is the devils trap that catches
men and women innumerable who will
never have any home at ALL Capitalists
OF America, build plain homes for the
people. Let this tenement house sys
tenn, in which hundreds Of thousands OF
the people Of our cities are wallowine
in the mire, be broken up by small
homes, where people can have their OWL
iiresides and their own affairs. In this
great continent there is room enough fol
every man and woman to have home
Morals and civilization and religion de
mand it. We want done all over thi:
land what George Peabody and Lad!
Burdett- Coutts did in England and som,
of the large manufacturers Of this coun
try have done for the villages and cite.
in building small houses at low rents, 81
that the middle classes can have sep
arate homes. They are the only class
not provided for. The rich have thei
palaces, and the poor have their poor
| houses. and criminals have their jails
/ but what about the honest middle class
es, who are able and willing to worl
and yet have small income? Let the cap
italsts, inspired of God and pure patri
otism, rise and build whole streets o
small residences. The laborer may hav,
at the close Of the day to walk or rid
farther than is desira BILE to reach il, bu
when he gets to his destination in tn
eventide he will find something worthy o
being called by that glorious and impas
stoned and heaven descended word
"home."
Advice TO Young People.
Young married man. as soon as you ca
buy such place, even if you have to pu
on it a mortgage reaching from base t
capstone. The much abused mortgage
which is ruin to a reckless man, to on
prudent and provident is the beginning o
a competency and a fortune for the req
son he will not be satisfied until he ha
paid it off, and all the household are pu
on stringent economies until then. Den
yourself all superfluities and all luxurie
until you can say, Everything in thi
house is mine thank God!-every timber
every brick, every foot Of plumbing, e'
cry doorsill" Do not have your childre
born in a boarding house, and do NJ
yourself be buried from one. Have
place where your children can shout an
sing and romp without being overhaule
for the racket. Have kitchen where 20
can do something toward the reformatio
of evil cookery and the lessenng of tn
nation of dyspeptics. AS Napoleon 10,
one Of his great battles by an attack {
Indigestion, so many men have such
daily wrexte with the food swalowe
that they have no strength left for tn
battle of life; and though your wife ma
know how to play on all musical instrl
ments and rival prima donna, she is Nc
we'll educated unless she can boil an Iris
potato and broil mutton chop, sine
the diet sometimes decides the fate c
families and nateSns.
Have a sitting room with at least or
easy chair, even though you have to tax
turns at sitting in it, and books out OF ii
public library or of your own purchas
for the making of your family intellgen
and checker boards and guessing mattel
: es, with an occasional blind mans buff
which is of all games my fnvorita ROus