Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-15

or shorter time In FAMILY notei or
boarding house-and there are thou
sands Of instances in which 1t is neces.
sary, as showed you ut 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 coquettish spider In search
Of unwary flies, and, If you do not en-
tirely lose your husband. 1t will be be-
cause he is dlvInely protected from the
disasters that have whelmed thou
sands Of husbands, with as good inten-
tons as yours. Neither should the hus-
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
lantlc 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 lcyces. and they are In perpetual
whirl, like Il whip top spinning round
and round and round very prettily until
it loses It's equipoise and shoots off into
q tangent. But the difference Is, In
one case 1t Is n top. and in the other
soul
Blessed In the Home.
Besides this there Is an asslduous ac-
emulation Of little things around the
private home, which in the aggregate
make n great attraction. while the den
izen of one of these public residences Is
ant to say: What is the use? have no
place to keep them If | should take
them" Mementos. brac-a-brnc, curl
osIties. quaint chair or cozy lounge, up
holsteries, pictures and n thousand
things that accrete in home are dis
carded or neglected because there Is no
homestead In which to arrange them.
And vet they are the case In which the
pearl of domestic happiness Is set. You
can never become as attached to the
amendments of a boarding house or
family hotel Us 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 ..cen gathering, un-
til every figure In the carpet, and every
panel OF the door. and every easement
of the window has chirography Of Its
own, speaking out something about ia
ther or mother, or son or daughter, or
friend that was with us awhile. What
n sacred place it becomes when one can
say: "In that room such q one was
born; in that bed such n one died; In
that chair | sat on the night heard
such n one had received 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 q
joyful and pathetic congress of remi-
nisccnccSl
The public residence Of hotel and
boarding house aboilshes the grace Of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such table No one wants
to run such II gantlet Of acute and
merciless hypercritcism. 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 we'll Of the mlracu-
! lous cruise because she fed q hungry
prophet, and to Rahab in the preserya-
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
and Zacchcus In spiritual blessing be-
cause they entertained Christ, and to
PublIus In tie island Of Melta In The
healing of his father because of the
entertainment of Paul. drenched from
the shipwreck. and of lnnumerable
houses throughout Christendom upon
which have come blessings from gen.
Grafton to generation because their
doors swung easily open in the enlarg-
Ing, ennoblng, irradiating and divine
grace of h..;pitalityi do not know
what your experience has been, but
have had men and women visiting at
nv house who left benediction on
every room-In the blessing they asked
at the table, In the prayer they offered
Mt the family altar In the good advice
they gave the children. In the gospel
cation that looked out from every line
amcnt of their CONFERENCE.-The their
departure was the sword Of bereave-
ment. The queen Of Norway. Sweden
and Denmark had royal cup OF ten
F, curves. or lips. each one having on 1t the
name of the distinguished person who
had drunk from it, And that cup which
we offer to others in Christian hospl-
talitv. though 1t he of the piainest
elrtnenware, Is a royal cup. and GOO
can read on all It's sides the names of
those who have taken from 1t refresh
ment. But all this is impossible unless
you have home Of your own.
A Common DelusiOn,
1t is the delusion as to what Is neces-
sary for home that binders so many
from establishing one. Thirty rooms
are not necessary. nor 90 nor 10, nor
10, nor 5, nor 3. In the right way plant
a table and couch and knife and fork,
and cup, and a chair, and you can
raise young paradise. Just start q