Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-19

necessary 10 stay IOf longer or 60OFt0r
! time In family hotel or boarding house
IN which 1t is necessary. as I
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
% divide her husbands time with public
smoking or reading room or with some
coquettish spider in search Of unwary flies.
and, II you do not entirely lose your hus.
band, 1t will be because he Is divinely pro-
tected from the disasters that have
whelmed thousands of husbands, with as
good Intentions as yours. Neither should
the husband, without imperative reason,
consent to such life unless he Is sure his
wife can Withstand the temptation OF So
cial dissipation which sweeps across such
places with the force OF the Atlantic Ocean
when driven by September equinox.
public residences. SO that they may give
their entire time to operas. theatres, balls.
receptions and levees, and they are in .
perpetual whirl, like a whip top spinning
round and round and round very pretttiy
until It loses its equipoise and shoots of In.
to tangent. But the difference Is. in one
case 1t is top. and In the other a soul.
Besides this there is an a siduous accu-
mutation Of little things around the pri-
vate home, which in the aggregate make a
great attraction, while the denizen of one
Of these public residences Is apt to say:
them II should take them" Mementos,
bric-a-brac, curiosities, quaint chair or
cozy lounge, upholsteries, pictures and a
Thousand things that accrete in a home are
discarded or neglected because there is no
homestead in which to arrange them. And
yet they are the case in which the pearl Of
domestic happiness is set. You can never
beso ONE as attached to the appointments ofa
boarding house or family hotel AS TO those
things that you can call your own and are
associated with the different members Of
your household or with scenes OF thrilling
import In your domestic history. Blessed
Is that home in which for a whole lifetime
they have been gathering, until every
figure In the carpet, and every panel Of
the door, and every easement OF the win
ing out something about father or mother,
or son or daughter, or friend that was with
us awhile. What a sacred place 1t becomes
when one can say: 'In that room such a
one was born; in that bed such one died;
in that chair sat on the night heard
such one had received a great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt for her
last evening prayer; here sat to greet my
son as he came back from sea voyage; that
was fathers cane; that was mothers rock
Ing chair!' What a joyful and pathetic
congress of reminiscencesi
The public residence of hotel and board.
ing house abolishes the grace of hospital
ity. Your guest does not want to come to
such q table. No one wants to run such q
gantlet OF acute and merciless hypercritic-
Ism. Unless you have 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 x-on ~ ha on,rlo
she fed a hungry prophet, and to Rahab in
the preservation Of her life at the demoli-
ton OF Jericho because she entertained the
spies, and to Laban In the formation of an
interesting family relation because Of his
rescue from the destroyed city because Of
ms enteEtalnment-of the angels. and to
Mary and Martha and Zaccheds In spiritual
blessing because they entertained Christ,
and to Publius In the island of Melita in the
tainment Of Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and offnnumerable houses through
out Christendom upon which have come
blessings from generation to generation
because their doors swung easily open in
the enlarging, ennobling. irradiating and
divine grace OF hospitality
Young married man. as soon as you can
buy such a place even II you have to put on
1t a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much abused mortgage, which
is ruin to a reckless man, to one pt udent
and provident is the beginning of COM
potency and fortune for the reason he
will not pe satisfied until he has paid it of,
and all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny Yourself all
superAuities and all luxuries until you can
say, Everything in this house Is mine,
thank God-every timber, every brick,
every foot Of plumbing. every doorsill."
Do not have your children born In a board
ing house, and do not yourself be buried
from one. Have a place where your chill
dren can shout and sing and romp without
being overhauled for the racket. Have a
kitchen where you can do something
toward the reformation of evil cookery and
the lessening Of this nation Of dyspel tics.
As Napoleon lost one Of his great battles by
an attack Of Indigestion, so many men
have such a 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
instruments and rival prima donna, she
Is not we'll educated unless she can boil an
Irish potato and proil mutton chop since
the diet sometimes decides the fate of fam.
lilies and nations.
Have a sitting room with at least one
easy chair, 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 checkerboards, and guessing matches,
with an occasional blind mans buff, which
which is of all games my favorite. Rouse
up your homo with all styles Of innocent
mirth and gather up in your children'a
nature a reservoir OF exuberance that will
pour down refreshing streams when life
gets parched, and the dark days come,
and the lights go out, and the laughter is
smothered into a sob.
First, last and all the time have Christ
In your homo. julius Caesar calmed the
fears Of an affrighted bo Altman who was
rowing In stream by saying, 80 long as
Cesar IS with you IN the same boat, no
harm can happen" And whatever storm
of adversity or bereavement or poverty
may strike your home, all is we'll as long
as you have Christ the King on board.
Make your home so farreaching In its in
fuence that down to the last moment OF
your children's life you may hold them
with a heavenly charm. At seventy-s six
years OF age the Demosthenes of the
toni mean Henry Clay. Of Kentucky.
His pastor sat at his bedside, and "the old
man eloquent" after a long and exciting
public life, Transatlantic and cisatlantic,
was back again in the scene, OF
his boyhood, and he kept saying in
his dream over and over again, my
| mother, mother, motherl" May the paren-
tai influence we exert be not only poten-
tiai, but holy, and so the home on earth be
the vestibule Of our home in heaven. in
Wnlch piace may we ali meet-fatner.
| mother, son, daughter, brother, sister,
grandfather. grandmother and grandchild,
| and the entire group Of precious ones, OF
whom we must say In the words Of trans.
porting Charles Wesley:
One family we dwell in him.
One church above, brneath,
Though now div ded by the stream
The narrow stream of death;
One army OF the living God,
| To His command we bow;
| Part OF the ost have crossed the flood
And part are crossing now.
! Courts in Philadelphia and in Al
legheny and Schuylkill counties. Pa
| hold sessions from tea to three O'Clock
| with no recess at the lunch hour.
| 1t is said that one pound of but
! ter gives a working force equal I
| that of five pounds of beef, nine pound