Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-07-15

Ind when they get an at night. and what /
they do for living. and who they re- !
csive as guests in their rooms. and " hat 4
they wear and what they do not wear.
n I'D how they eat. and what they eat.
and how much they eat. and how little
they eat. IN a man proposes in such a
place go be isolated and reticent and
alone. they viii begin 90 guess about
him; Who is heT Where did he come
from? How long Is he going &c stay?
Has he paid his board2 How much does
he payf Perhaps he has committed
some crime and does not want 20 be
known. There must be something
wrong about him. or he would speak
The whole house goes into the detect
i've business They must find out about
him They must find out about him
right away. n he leaves his door un-
locked by accident he will find that his
rooms have been inspected. his trunk
explored. his letters folded differently
from the way they were folded when he
put them away. Who is hc Is the qucs-
tion asked with inteascr interest until
the sub iect has become a monomania-
The simple fact is that hc il nobody in
particular. but minds his own business
The best landlords and landladies
cannot sometimes hinder their places
from becoming a pandemonium OF
whsperera and regulations are torn TO
tattcrs, and evil suS Spicions arc aroused.
and scandals started. and the parlia-
ment of the family is blown 60 atoms by
some Guy Fawxes who was not caught
in time. as was his English predecessor
Of gunpossdery reputation. The rea-
son is tha: ~ lille in private homes fam
lies have - much 20 keep them busy.
in these prorniscuous and multitude
nous residences there are so many who
have nothing 20 do. and that always
makes misosief. They gather in each
others room, and spend hours in con-
sultation about others. II they had 20
walk half mile before they got 10 the
willing ear OF some listener 10 detrac-
zion they would be out OF breath before
reaching there and not feel in full glow
OF animosity or slander. or might. be-
cause Of the distance. not 20 at all. But
rooms 20. n. -. %. "A and - are on the
same corridor. and when one carrion
crow Uocs Cav! Cawi" oil the other
crows hear il and flock together over
the same carcass. ~Oh. have heard
something richl Sit down and let me
tell YOU all about IT," And the first guf-
faw increases the gathering. and IL has
% be told ali over again. and as they
separate each carries a spark from the
altar of Cab 70 some other circle until.
from the coal HEAVIER ia the cellar 70 the
maid in the top room Of The garnet. all
are aware OF the defamation. and that
evening all who leave the house viii
bcar il 20 other houses until autumnal
fires sweeping across Illinois prairies
are less raging and swift than that
flame OF consuming reputation blazing
across the village or city.
Those Of Us who were brought up in
the country know that the old-fash-
ione& Matching OF eggs in the haymow
required four or five weeks Of brooding,
but there are new modes Of Matching
by machinery, which takes less time
and do the work by wholesale. So,
while the private home may brood into
life an occasional faisity, and take =
long time 10 do IL, many OF the boarding
houses and family hotels afford a
swifter and more multitudinous STYLE
Of moral incubation. and one old gossip
will get OF the nest after one hours
brooding, clucking a flock Of 30 lies
after her. each one picking up ats Htus
worm OF juicy regalement. Ii is no ad-
vantage 10 hear too much about your
neighbors, for your time viii be sc
much occupied in taking care of their
faults that you will have 70 time "a
look after your own. And while you
are pulling the chickweed out OF their
garden, yours viii get all overgrowu
with horse sorrel and mullen stalks.
One Of the worst damages that come
from the herding of SO many peopls
into boarding houses and family hotels
is inflicted upon children. 1t is only
another way of bringing them up or
the commons. While you have your
own private house you can. for the
most part, control their companionshiT
and their whereabouts, but by l2 year.
of age in these public resorts they viii
have picked up all the bad things thar
can be furnished by the prurient mind,
of dozens of people. They Will overheai
biasPhemies and see quarrels and ge
precocious in sin, and what the bar
tender does not tell them the porter
or hostler or bell boy will.
Besides that. the children will 20 on
into this world without the restraining
anehoring, steadying and all CONTROL
ing memory of a home. From that non,
of us who have been blessed OF surl