Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-15

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And yet they are the case in which the
pearl of domestic happiness is set. You
can never become as attached to the
appointments of a 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 Bless
ed is that home in which for a whole
lifetime they have been gathering, un-
Ill every figure in the carpet, and every
panel of the door. and every easement
of the window has a chirography of its
own. speaking out something about IA
ther or mother. or son or daughter, or
friend that was with us awhile. What
a sacred place it becomes when one can
say: In that room such a one was
born; in that bed such a one died; in
that chair | sat on the night heard
such a one had received a 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 sea
voyage: that was, fathers cane; that
was mothers rocking chairr' What
joyful and pathetic congress of remi-
niscences!
The public residence of hotel and
boarding house aboiisheS the grace of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such a table. No one wants
to run such a gantlet of acute and
merciless hypercriticism. Unless you
| h1 vn hnnnn of will
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 miracu-
lous cruise because she fed a hungry
prophet, and to Rahab in the preserva-
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
| dliti ZIttCChGiS SlbllIludi iltSSlHS Dt-
cause they entertained Christ. and to
Publus in the island of Melita in the
healing of his father because of the
entertainment of Paul, drenched from
the shipwreck, and of innumerable
houses throughout Christendom upon
which have come blessings from gen.
nration to generation because their
| do in, tha 10
ing, 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 a 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 gospeli-
zation that looked out from every line
ament of their countsnances-and their
| departure was the sword of bereave-
ment. The queen of Norway, Sweden
and Denmark had royal cup of ten
curves, or lips, each one having on it the
name of the distinguished person who
had drunk from it AMI that cup which
| we OneT W JULIUS CuIlSlldu uOSpl-
tality. though it be of the piainest
earthenware, is royal cup, and God
can read on all its sides the names of
those who have taken from it refresh
ment. But all this is impossible unless
you have a home of your own.
Common Delusion.
1t is the delusion as to what is neces-
sary for n home that hinders so many
| from establishing one. Thirty rooms
are not necessary, nor 20, nor 10, nor
10, nor 3, nor 8. In the right way plant
a table and couch and knife and fork,
and q cup, and chair, and you can
raise a young paradise. Just start
home on however small a scale, and it
will grow. When King Cyrus was in
vited 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 salts
factions have sometimes banqueted on
the plainest fare. Do not be caught in
| the delusion of many thousands in
postponing home until they can have
an expensive one. That idea is the
devils trap that catches men and wo-
| men innumerable who will never have
any home at all. Capitalists of Amer
lea, build plain homes for the people!
Let this tenement house system, 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 fire
sides and their own altar. In this
great continent there is room enough
for every man and woman to have Il
home. Morals and civilization and re-
ligion demand it. We want done all
over this land what George Peabody
and Lady Burdett-Co did in Eng
land, and some of the large manufac-
turers of this country have done for
the villages and cities in building
small houses at low rents so that the
middle classes can have separate
homes. They are the only class not
provided for. The rich have their pal
aces, and the poor have their poor
houses, and criminals have their jails,
but what about the honest middle
classes, who are able and willing to
work and yet have small income? Let
the capitalists, inspired of God and
pure patriotism, rise and build whole
streets of small residences. The Ia
borer may have, at the close of the
day, to walk or ride farther than is de-
sirable to reach it, but when he gets
to his destination in the eventide he
will find something worthy of being
called by that glorious and impas-