The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-07-14
and rcIicent anG alone, they will begin
to guess about him: Who is he? Where

: tO guess DhOUt MIN. w no is neg Nnere
| cid he com from? How long is he .,u-
ing to stay? Has lie paid his board?
How much does he pay: Perhaps lie
| has committed some crime and does
! not want u be known. There must bc
! something wrong about him or he
| would speak. The whole house goes
/ into the detective business. They must
find out about him. They mas; tnd
out about him right aNay. If he leave
! his door unlocked by accident, he will
| find that his rooms have been inspect.
! cd. his trunk explored, his letters fold
! cd differently from the way they were
! folded when he put them away. Who
/ Is lie? Is the question asked with in
| tcnser .u'creSt, until the subject has
| become Il mOEOmania. The simple fact
is that he is nobody IN particular, but
/ minds his own business.
| The best landlords and landladics
caunot sometimes hinder their places
from becoming IL pnEdemonlum CT wills.
| pcrers, and rcputn tions are torn 10 tat
ters. and evil suspicious are aroused.
and scandals started, and the parlia-
! Eent cf the family is blown to atoms
by some Guy FawkcS who was not
caught in time, rs was lis English pred
ccessor OF gunpowdery reputation
The reason is that, while in private
| homes families have SO much TO keep
them busy, in these p-omScuous and
! multitudinOuS residences there are so
many who have nothing TO do, and that
always makes mischief. They gather
in each others rooms and spend hours
in consultation about others If they
had to walk Il half mile before they got
to tho willing ear of some listener to
lctraction, they would get ont OF breath
before reaching there and not feel in
iuil glow Of luminosity or Slanlcr. or
might, because CT the distance, not 20
at all. But roOmS 20, 81, 90, 23, 81 ana
% are on the same corridor, and when
one carrion crow goes Cav. Caw!'
all the other crows hear it and flock to-
Gcther over the same carcass ooh, |
have heard something rich! sit down
and let inc tell you al! about it," And
the first guGfaw Increases the gather
ing, and it has to be told all over again.
anu as they separate each carries
spark from the altar of CAB 10 some
other circle until, from Tie coal HEAVIER
III the cellar to the maid in the top
room of the garrct, ali arc aware of tho
defamation. and that evening all who
leave the house will bear it to other
houses uutil autumual fires swccninc
across Illinois praivics arc less raging
and swift than that fame of consum.
ing reputation blazing across the vii
lage or city.
HcriinE Together.
Those of us who were bronwhf IN in
the country know that the old fashion
ed hatching OF eggs in the haymow re-
Quirel four or five weeks of broodin:.
but there are new modes of Matching
by machinery, which take less time
anG do the work by wholesale SO,
while the private home may brood into
life an occasional falsity and take o
long time to do it, many Of the board
ing houses and family hotels afford a
swifter ana more multitudinous style
OF moral incubation, and one old gos-
SIP VIII get OFT the nest after one hours
broouinE, clucking a flock of 80 lies
after her, each one picking up its little
worm OF juicy rrgalcmcnt. 1t is no nd
vantage 10 hear too much about your
ncighhors, for your time will be so
much occupied in taking care Of their
faults that you will have no time to
look after Your own. And while you
are pulling the chicliwccd out of their
garden Yours will get all ovcrgrown
with horse #orrel and mullen stalks.
One OF Tie worst damages that come
from the hcrding of so many people
into boarding houses ""h f""':' h"toIS
is