The Banner-Democrat., 1899-09-09


quisitiveness. The phrase 50 often used
in the law books and legal circles is might.
lily suGgestive-every mans house Is his
castle, as much SO az though 1t had draw.
bridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and
armed turret- Even the officer OF the law
may not sntsr to serve a writ. except the
door be- voluntarily opened unto him; bur.
glary, or the invasion of 1t. n crlme 50
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 1
showed you at the beginnina-unless
In this exceptional case. let neither wife
nor husband consent to such permanent
residence.
The probability Is that tho wife will have
to divide her husbands time with public
sm oking or reading room or with some
coquettish spider In search OF unwary fiiea
and, II you do not entirely lose your hus-
band, 1t will be because he is divinely pro-
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 u 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, tb satres, balls,
receptions and levees, and they are In a
perpetual whirl. like a whip top spinning
round and round and round very p-ettily
until 1t loses Its equipoise and shoots OF In
to tangent. But the difference is, in one
case 1t is a top, and in the other q soul.
Besides this there Is an a siduous accu.
mutation OF little things around the pri-
vate home, which In the aggregate make a
great attraction, while tho denizen OF ono
OF these public residences Ia apt TO say:
"What is the use? l 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 as attached to the appointments OF
boardiDg-house or family hotel rs to thoso
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 n 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 fnther or mother,
or son or daughter, or friend that was with
US awhile. What sacred place 1t becomes
when. one can say: I'm that room such 4
one was born; In that bed such one died;
in that chair I sat on the night heard
such a one had received u great public
honor; by that stool my child kneit for her
last evening prayer; here sat to greet my
| son rs he came back from sen voyage; that
was fathers cane; that was mothers rock
ing chair!'' What a joyful and pathetic
congress OF reminiscencesl
Ing house abolishes the grace OF hospital
ity. Your guest does not want to come to
such table. No one wants to run such a
gantlet OF acute and merclless hypercritic-
ism. Unless you have home OF your own
you will not be able to exercise the best
rewarded OF oil the graces. For exercise
of this grace what blessing came to the
Shnnammite 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 "a hungry prophet, and to Rahab Ia
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 bis
| entertainment Of Jacob, aud to Lot in his
rescue from the destroyed city because oil
his entertainment OF the angels, and to
Mary and Martha and Znccheus 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 houses through.
| out Christendom upon which have come
blessings from generation to generation
because their doors swung easily open iu
| the enlarg!ng, ennoblinR, irradlatinG and
| divine grace OF hospitality
Young married man, as soon as you can,
| buy such place even II you have to put on
| 1t q mortgage reaching from base to cap.
| stone. The much abused mortgage, which
| is ruin to a reckless man, t. ono p udent
and provident is the beginning Of CON-
| potency and q fortune for the reason he
will not BIZ satisfied until he has paid IL OF
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
thauk God-every timber, every brick
every foot Of plumbing. every doorsill.'
ing house, and do not yourself be buried
from one. Have u place where your chill
dren can shout and sing and romp without
being overhauled for the racket. Have q
| kitchen where you can do something
toward the reformation Ofevil cookery and
the lessening Cf this nation OF dyspci tics
As Napoleon lost one of his great battles by
an attack of Indigestion, 30 many men
| have such daily wrestie with the food
swallowed that they have no strength left
for the battle OF life, and, though your
wife may know how to rlay on all musical
| Instruments and rival q prlma donna, she
is not we'll educated unless she can boil an
Irish potato and proll mutton ehop, 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 citing in 1t, and books out OF the
public library or Of your own purchase fol
the making OF your family intelligent
and checkerboard., and guessing matches
with An occasional blind mans bull, which
which is Of all games my favorite. Rouse
up your home with oil styles OF innocent
mirth and gather up in your children
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 1.
| smothered into n sob.
| First, last and all the time have Christ
in your home. julius Caesar calmed the
| fears OF an affrighted boatman who was
rowing in stream by saying, $50 long a
Caesar is with you in the same boat, nc
| harm can happen" And whatever storm
| of aiversity or bereavement or povert,
may strike your home. all is well as Iona
as you have Christ the King on bonrd
| Mako your bono so farreaching in its in
| fuence that down to the last moment o
your cbildren's life you may hold then
with heavenly charm. At seventy-sil
years OF age the Den,osthenes of tn,