Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-07-14

sary. as | 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 TO divide her husbands time with
public smoking or reading room or
with some coquettsh spider In search
Of unwary files. and. II you do not en-
tirely lose your husband. II will be be-
cause he is diyinely protected from the
disasters that have whelmed thou
sands Of husbands. with as good inten-
tlOns as yours Neither should the as
band, without imperative reason. con-
sent to such life unless he Is sure his
wife can withstand the temptation or
social dissipation which sweeps across
such places with the force OF the At
lantIc ocean when driven by Sep
tember equinox. Many wives give up
their homes for these public residences,
so that they may give their entire time
to operas, theaters. balls, receptions
and Ievees. and they are in a perpetual
whlrl, like a whip top spinning round
and round and round very prettily until
II loses it's equipoise and shoots of into
a tangent But the difference Is. In
one case 1t is a top. and in the other a
soul.
Blessed IL the Home.
Besides this there is an assiduous ac-
cumulatIon OF little things around the
private home, which In the aggregate
make a great attraction. while the den
lzen of one OF these public residences is
apt to say: what is the use? have no
place to keep them II | should take
them" Mementos. brac-a-brac. curl
osIties. quaint chair or cOzy lounge. up
holsterles. pictures and a thousand
things that accrete In home are dis
carded 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 - set. You
can never become as attached to the
appointments OF 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 whole
lifetime they have been gathering. I'M
til every figure In the carpet. and every
panel of the door, and every easement
Of the window has a chirOgraphy OF It's
own, speaking out something about IA
ther 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 a one died; m
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 rocking chair! 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 table. No one wants
to run such a gantlet Of acute and
merciless 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
ghunammite In the restoration or her
son 10 life because she entertained
Elisha. and TO the widow Of Zarephath
In the perpetual oil well Of the niiracu-
lous cruise because she fed hungry
prophet. and to Rahab in the preserya-
ton of her life at the demolition or
Jericho because she entertained the
spies. and to faban in the formation or
an interesting family relation because
OF his entertainment Of Jacob. and to
Lot In his rescue from the destroyed
city because OF his entertainment or
the angels. and to Mary and Martha
and Zaccheus In spiritual blessing be-
cause they entertained Christ. and to
PublIus In the island OF Melita in the
healing Of his father because Of the
entertainment Of Paul, drenched from
the shipwreck. and OF innumeraDle
houses throughout Christendom upon
which have come blessings from gen
Grafton to generation because their
doors swung easily open in the enlarg'
ing. ennoblng, lrradiating and divine
grace Of hospitality | do not know
what your experience has been, but
have had men and women visiting at
nv house who left a benediction on
every room-ln 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-
xation that looked out from every line
ament OF their countenances-and their
aeparture was the sword OF bereave-
ment The queen OF Norway. Sweden
and Denmark had a royal cup OF ten
curves, or lips. each one having on II the
name OF the distinguished person who
had drunk from Il. And that cup which
we offer to others in Christian hospi-
tality, though II be Of the piainest
sarthenware, is a 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
A Common DeiusioB-
Il is the delusIon as to what Is neces-
sary for a home that hinders so many
from establishing one. Thirty rooms
are not necessary, nor 20. noy 10, ner
10. nor 5, nor , In the right way plant
a table and couch and knife and FORK
and a cup, and a chair, and you can
raise a young paradise. Just start a
home on however small a scale. and II
will grow. When King Cyrus was In
yited 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 a home until they can have
| - oxooosfxo ona That idea Is the