Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-13

are aware OF the defamation, and that
evening all who leave the house will bear
il to other houses until autumnal fires
sweeping across Illinois prairies are less
raging and swift than that flame of con-
Stunning reputation blazing across the vii
lage or city.
Gossip of the Boarding House.
Those Of us who were brought up in
the country know that the old fashioned
Matching of eggs in the haymow required
four or five weeks OF brooding, but there
are new modes of Matching 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 n long time to do it, many OF the
boarding houses and family hotels afford
a swifter and more multitudinous style of
moral incubation, and one old gossip will
get off the nest after one hours brooding,
clucking flock of 30 lies after her, each
one picking up its little worm of juicy re-
galement. 1t is no advantage to hear too
much about your neghbors, 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
Won are pulling the chckweed out of
their garden, yours will get all overgrown
with horse sorre and mulenstals.
One of the worst damages that come
from the herding of so many people into
boarding houses and family hotels is in
Ricted upon children 1t is only another
way of bringing them up on the COM
mons. While you have your own private
house you can, for the most part, control
their companionship and their where
abouts, but by - 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 peo-
pie. They will overhear blasphemies and
see quarrels and get precocious in sin,
aud what the bartender does not tell
them the porter or hostler or bell boy
will.
Besides that, the children will go out
into this world without the restraining,
anchoring, steadying and all controlling
memory OF home. From that none Of
us who have been blessed Of such men,
DRY have escaped. 1t grips a man for so
years, if he lives so long. 1t pulls him
back from doors into which he otherwise
would enter. 1t smtes him with con-
triton in the very midst of his disspa-
lions. As the fish already surrounded
by the long wide net swim out to sea,
/
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,
hoping to get out, but find themselves
approaching the shore and are brought
up to the very feet of the captors, so the
memory of an early home sometimes
seems to relax and let men out farther
and farther from God and farther and
/ farther from shore-5 years, 10 years, 20
years 80 years-but some day they find
an irresistible mesh drawing them back,
and they are compelled to retreat from
their prodigality and wandering, and,
though they make desperate effort to es-
cape the impression and try TO dive deep
err down in sin, after awhile are brought
clear back and held upon the Rock of
Ages.
If it be possible, oh, father and moth
er! let your sons and daughters go out
I into the world under the semiomnipotent
memory of good, pure home. About
your two or three rooms in n boarding
house or a family hotel you can cast no
such glorious sanctity. They will think
of these public caravansaries ms an early
stopping place. malodorous with old
vctuals, coffees perpetually steaming
and meats in everlasting stew or broil,
the air surcharged with carbonic acid
and corridors along which drunken
boarders come staggering at ! o'clock in
the morning, rapping at the door till
the affrghted wife lets them in. Dc
not be guilty of the sacrilege or bias
phemy of calling such a place a home.
The Privacy of Home.
A home is four walls incosing one fam
lily with identity of interest and privacy
from outside inspection so complete that
it is a world in itself, no one entering cX
cept by permission-bolted and barred
and chained against all outside inqus
tiveness. The phrase so often used ir
law books and legal circles is nightly
suggestve-every mans house is his cas-
tie. AS much so as though it had draw
bridge, portculls, redoubt, bastion ant
armed turret. Even the officer Of the
law may not enter to serve writ excep
the door be voluntarily opened unto him
Burglary or the invasion Of it n crime sc
offensive that the law clashes it's iror
jaws on any one who attempts 1t. Tn
less it be necessary tc stay for longer OF
shorter time in family hotel or boardin,
house-and there are thousands of in
stances in which it is necessary, as
showed you at the beginning-unless thi
exceptional case, let neither wife no
husband consent to such permanent resi-
den0.
The probability is that the wife will
have to divide her husbands time will
public smoking or reading room or will
some coquettish spider in search of un
wary flies, and If you do not entirely los
| your husband it will be because he i
divinely protected from the disasters tina
! have whelmed thousands of husband
with rs good intentions as yours. Neithe
should the husband without impcratv
reason consent to such life unless he i
, sure his wife can withstand the tempta
!, ton Of social dissipation which sweep
across such places with the force of tn
= Atlantic ocean when driven by Ser
} TENDER equinox. Many wives give u
, their homes for these public residences s
that they may give their entire time I
g operas, theaters, balls, receptions an
levees, and they are in perpetual whir
like whiptop spinning round and roun
Y and round very prettily, until it loses il
e equipolse and shoots off into tangen
S But the difference is, in one case it is
y top and in the other soul.
q Besides this there is an nssiduous a.
emulation of little things around the pr
I vate home, which in the aggregate max
a great attraction, while the denizen c