The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-21

The reason is that, while in private
homes families have so much to keep
them busy, in these promiscuous and
multftudinous residences there are SO
always makes mischief. They gather
in each others rooms and spend hour
in consultation about others. II they
had to walk a haf mile before they got
TO the willing ear of some listener to
detraction, they would get out Of breath
before reaching there and not feel In
full glow OF animosity or SANDER, or
might, because of the distance, not go
at all. But rooms 20, q, %, %, "a and
% are on n same corridor. and when
one carrlon crow goes Cav! Cav
all the other crows near II and flock to-
| gether over the same carcass. "Oh, /
have heard something rich! Sit down
n let me tell 0 all about it." And
the first guffaw increases the gather
ing. and it has to be told all over again.
and as they separate each carries a
spark from the altar Of CAB to some
| other circle until, from the o HEAVIER
in the cellar to the maid in the top
room Of h garnet, all are aware OF the
| defamation, and that evening all wno
houses until autumnal fires sweeping
across Illinois praires are less raging
and swift han hat flame Of consum-
ing reputation blazing across the viii
lage or city.
HERDING TOGETHER.
Those of US who were brought up in
the country now hat the old fashion
ed Matching of eggs in the haymow re-
CURED four or five weeks of brooding,
but there are new modes Of hatchiag
by machinery, which take less time
and do the work by wholesale. So,
while the private home may BROOD into
life an occasional falsity and take a
long time to do it, many Of the board
ing houses and family hotels afford a
sWifter and more multitudinous style
Of moral incubation, and one old Cos
sir will get off the nest after one hours
brooding, clucking a flock of 80 lies
after her, each one picking up it's little
worm of juicy regalement. 1t is no adj
vantage to hear too much about yoCr
neighbors, 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 chickweed out Of their
! garden yours will get all overgrown
with horse sorrel and mullen stalks.
! One of the wost damages that come
from the herding of so many people
into boarding houses and family hooeis
is inflicted upon children. 1t is only
another way Of bringing them up on
the While you have your
own private house you can, for the
most l0rt, control their ~companionship
and their whereabouts, but by II years
Of age in these public resorts they Will
have picked up all the bad things that
can be furnished by the prurient minds
of dozens of people. They will over
hear blasphemies, and see quarrels,
get precOciouS in sin, n what the
bartender does not tell them the por-
-er or flostler or bellboy will.
Besides that the children will go out
into this world without the restraining,
archoring. steadying and all CONTROL
ling memory of a home. From that
rore OF us who have been blessed OF
such memory have escaped. 1t grips a
man Tor so years. if he lives Sc long.
Il pulls him back from doors into
which he otherwise would enter. II
smites him with contritiOn in the very
midst of his dissipatons. AS the fish,
already surrounded by the long wide
net, swim out to sea, thinking they can
go as Ear as they please, and with gay
toss Of silvery scale they defy the
sportsman on the beach, and after
awhile the fishermen begin to draw in
the net, hand over hand, and hand over
hand, and it is a long while before the
captured fins begin to feel the net, and
then they dart this way and that hop
ing to get out, but find themselves APP
preaching the shore, n are brought
UP to he very feet of the captors, 81
the OF an early home some
times seems to relax and let men Out
farther and farther from God, and far
Their and farther from shore; five years,
ten years, 20 years, 80 years; out some
day they find an irresistible mesr
DIRE wing them back, n they are com
PEELED TO retreat from their prodigality
and Wardering; and though they make
iespt rate effort to escape the impress
sion, ana try to dive deepe doWn in
sin, after awhile are brought cleal
back and held upo the Rock of Ages.
A LASTING INFLUENCE.
If it be possible, o father and moth
er! let your sons n daughters go gu
into the world under the semiomnipo.
tent memory of a good, pure home
About your two O three rooms in {
boarding house, or a family hotel, yol
can cast nc such glorious sanc5ity
They will think of these public cara.
~vansaries as an early stopping place
malodorouS with old %victuals, coffee:
perpetually steaming and meats IL
everlasting stew or broil, the all
surcharged with carbonic acid, ant
corridors, along which drunken board
ers came staggering at 1 O'Clock in the
morning, rapping at the door till thu
affrighted wife lets them in. Do not bt
guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy Of
calling such a place a home.
A home is four walls inclosing one
family with identity Of interest and 6
privacy from outside inspection 81
complete that it is a world in itself, NJ
one entering except by permission
bolted and barred and chained againsr
all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase
SO often used in lawbooks and Iega
circles is nightly suggestive-every
mans house is his castle, as much 81
as though it had d~rawbridge, portcul.
lis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret
Even the officer of the law may no
enter to serve a writ, except the door
be voluntarily opened unto him; bur
| glary, or the invasion of it, a crime 81
! offensive that the law clashes it's iror
jaws on any one who attempts it. I'm
less it be necessary to stay for longer
or shorter time in family hotel OF
boarding .houSe-and there are thou,
sands of instances in which it is neces.
sary, as I showed you at he beginning
-unless in this exceptional case, let
neither wife nor husband consent tt
such permanent residence.
The probability is that the wife will
1 H. yo no divide bpr hnChand'S time u;fl