The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-10
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The Gsass Of pstality.

uOep1toutys lOuE guest uOcb uOt WANT
to come to such table. No one wants
to run such gantlet Of acute and mer-
ciIess hypercriticism. Unless you have
a 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
Zarephath In the perpetual oil well Of the
miraculous cruise because she fed 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 Publius In the island Of
Melita in the healing Of his father be-
cause of the entertainment of Paul.
drenched from the shipwreck, 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, ennobling, irradiating and divine
grace of hospitality. do not know what
your experience has been. but have had
men and women visiting at my house who
left benediction ON every room-in the
blessing they asked at the table, in the
prayer they offered at the family altar, In
the good advice they gave the children,
in the gospelisation 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 royal cup
of ten curves, or lips, each one having On
1t 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 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.
It is the delusien as to what Is necessa-
ry for home that binders 80 many from
establishing one. Thirty rooms are not
necessary. nor 20. nor ID, nor TO- nor 3,
nor 3. In the right way plant q table,
and couch, and knife, and fork, and a
cup, and a chair, and you can raise q
young paradise. Just start home on
however small scale. and II will grow.
When King Cyrus was invited to dine
with = humble friend, the king made
the one condition of his coming that the
only dish be ono 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-
TEN, in which hundreds Of thousands Of
the people of our cities are wallowing
in the mire, be broken up by small
homes where people can have their own
firesides and their own affairs. In this
great continent there is room enough for
every man and woman to have q home.
Morals and civilization and religion de-
mand it. We want done all over this
land what George Peabody and Lady
Burdett- Coutts did in England and some
of the large manufacturers Of this coun-
try have done for the villages and cities
in building small houses at low rents, so
that the middle classes can have sep
arate homes. They are the only class
not provided for. The rich have their
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 work
and yet have small income? Let the cap
italists, inspired Of God and pure patri-
otism, rise and build whole streets of
small residences. The laborer may have
at the close Of the day to walk or ride
farther than Is desirable to reach 1t, but
when he gets to his destination In the
eventide he will find something worthy Of
being called by that glorious and impas-
stoned and heaven descended word
"home."
Advice to Young People.
Young married man. as soon as you can
buy such place, even II you have to put
on it mortgage reaching from base to
capstone. The much abused mortgage,
which Is ruin to q reckless man, to one
prudent and provident Is the beginning Of
a competency and fortune for the rea-
son he will not be satisfied until he has
paid it off, and all the household are put
on stringent economies until then. Deny
yourself all superfuities and all luxuries
until you can say, Everything in this
house Is mine, thank God!-every timber,
every brick, every foot of plumbing, ev-
cry doorsill." Do not have your children
born in boarding house, and do not
yourself be buried from one. Have a
place where your children can shout and
sing and romp without being overhauled
for the racket. Have kitchen where you
can do something toward the reformation
of evil cookery and the lessening of this
nation of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost
one of his great battles by an attack of
Indigestion, so many men have such
daily wrestle with the food swallowed
that they have no strength left for the
battle Of life; and though your wife may
know how to play on all musical instru.
ments and ryal a prima donna, she Is not
well educated unless she can boil an Irish
potato and biol mutton chop, siIce
the diet something's decides the fate Of
families and ,1atiout.
Have 5 sitting room with at least one
easy chaif, even though you have to take
turns at sitting In 1t, and books out Of the
public library or Of your own purchase
for the making Of your family intelligent,
and checker boards and guessing match
es, with an occasional blind mans buff