Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-10

bridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and
armed turret. Even the officer OF the law
may not enter to serve writ, except the
door be voluntarily opened unto him; bur-
giary, or the invasion Of It, q crime SO
offensive that the law clashes its iron jaws
on any one who attempts 1t. Unless 1t be
necessary to stay for longer or shorter
time In family hotel or boarding house
and there are thousands Of instances
in which it is necessary, as
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, II you do not entirely lose your hus-
tected from the disasters that have
whelmed thousands OF husbands, with as
good intentions as yours. Neither should
the husband, without imperative reason,
consent to such life unless he Is sure his
wife can withstand the temptation OF So
cial dissipation which sweeps across such
places with the force of the Atlantic Ocean
when driven by September equinox.
Many wives give up their homes for these
public residences, so that they may give
their entire time to operas, theatres, balls,
receptions and levees, and they are in
perpetual whirl, like whip top spinning
round and round and round very prettily
until 1t loses its equipoise and shoots off in
to tangent. But the difference is, in one
case 1t is top, and in the other a soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous accu.
mutation of little things around the pri.
vate home, which in the aggregate make
great attraction, while the denizen 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,
bric-a-brac, curiosities, quaint chair or
cozy lounge, upholsteries, pictures and
thousand things that accrete In home are
discarded 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 is set. You can never
become rs attached to the appointments ofa
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. Blessed
is that homo in which for a whole lifetime
they have been gathering, until every
figure In the carpet, and every panel of
the door, and every easement of the win
dow has chirography of its own, speak
ing out something about father or m other,
or son or daughter, or friend that was with
us awhile. What Il sacred place 1t becomes
when one can say: ''In that room such
one was born; in that bed such one died;
in that chuir l sat on the night heard
such u 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 rock
ing chair!' What q joyful and pathetic
congress Of reminiscences!
The public residence of hotel and board
ing house abolishes the grace of hospital
ity. Your guest does not want to come to
such table. No one wants to run such
gantlet of acute and merciless hypercritic-
ism. 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 miraculous cruise because
she fed II hungry prophet, and to Rahab in
the preservation of her life at the demoli-
tion 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 Zaccheus In spiritual
blessing because they entertained Christ,
and to Publius in the island OF Melita in the
healing of his father because of the enter
tainment of Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and ofinnumerable OF houses through
out Christendom upon which have come
blessings from generation to generation
because their doors swung easily open in
the enlarging, ennobling, irradiating and
divine grace OF hospitality!
Young married man, as soon as you can,
buy such place even IL you have to put on
1t II mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much abused m mortgage, which
is ruin to reckless man, to one prudent
a tl..S ,,k L.
potency and fortune for the reason he
will not be satisfied until he has paid 1t off,
and all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny yourself all
supernuities and ali luxuries until you can
say, Everything in this house is mine,
thank God-every timber, every brick,
every foot of plumbing, every doorsill."
ing house, and do not yourself be buried
from one. Have place where your chill
dren can shout and sing and romp without
being overhauled for the racket. Have a
kitchen where you can do something
toward the reformation of evil cookery and
the lessening of this nation of dyspe, tics.
AS Napoleon lost one of his great battles by
an attack OF indigestion, so many men
have such daily wrestle with the food
swallowed that they have no strength left
for the battle OF life, and, though your
wife may know how to play on all musical
iuStEunentS anu rlVul u pTlma Gonna, Sn6
Is not we'll educated unless she can boil an
Irish potato and proil mutton chop, since
the diet sometimes decides the fate Of fam
lilies and nations.
Have a sitting room with at least one
easy chair, even though you have to take
turns at sitting in 1t, and books out of tho
public library or of your own purchase for
the making Of your family intelligent,
and checkerbourds, and guessing matches,
with an occasional blind mans buff, which
which is Of all games my favorite. Rouse
up your home with all styles of innocent
mirth and gather up in your children's
nature reservoir of exuberance that will
pour down refreshing streams when life
gets parched, and the dark days come,
and the lights go out, and the laughter is
smothered into sob.
First, last and all the time have Christ
In your home. julius Caesar Gained the
fears of an affrighted boatman who was
rowing in stream by saying, $50 long as
Caesar is with you in the same boat, no
harm can happen" And whatever storm
Of adversity or bereavement or poverty
may strike your home, all Is we'll as long
as you have Christ the King on board.
Make your home so farreaching In its in
fluence that down to the last moment of
your children's life you may hold them
with heavenly charm. At seventy-six
years Of age the Demosthenes Of the