Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-07-14

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tcnser interest. until the subject has
become n mOnomanla. The simple fact
Is that he is nobody in particular. but
minds his own business.
The best landlords and landladles
rannot sometimes hinder their places
from becoming pandemonium Of whis-
percrs. and regulations are torn TO tat
ters. and evil suspicious are aroused.
and scandals started. and the parlia-
ment Of the family is blown TO atoms
by some Guy Fawkes who vas not
caught in time. as was his English pred
ecessOr of gunpOwdery reputation.
The reason is that. while In private
homes families have so much to keep
them busy. in these promiscuous and
multitudnous residences there are so
many who have nothing to do. and that
always makes mischief. They gather
in each others rooms and spend hours
In consultation about others. II they
had to walk half 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 slander, or
! might. because OF the distance. not go
mt all. But rooms 20. 21. %. %. "a and
25 are on the same corridor, and when
| one carriOn crow goes "Cawl Caww
all the other crows hear it and flock to-
gether over the same carcass. "Oh,
have heard something richl Sit down
and let me tell you 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
spark from the altar of CAB to some
other circle until. from the coal HEAVIER
| in the cellar to the maid In the top
room of the garret, all are aware OF the
defamation. and that evening all who
leave the house will bear ii to other
houses until autumnal fires sweeping
across Illinois praires are less raging
and swift than that flame Of cOnsum.
ing reputation blazing across the VII
lage or city.
IIerding Together.
! Those of us who were brought up In
| the country know that the old fashion
ed Matching of eggs in the haymow re-
quired 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 a
long time to do it. many OF the board
ing houses aud family hotels afford a
swifter and more multitudnous style
Of moral incubation, and one old gos-
sip will get off the nest after one hours
brooding. clucking a flock of 80 lies
after her. each one picking up its little
worm of juicy regalement 1t Is no ad-
vantage to hear too much about your
neighbors, for your time will be so
much occupied in taking care or their
faults that you will have no time to
look after your own. And while you
arc pulling the chickweed out Of their
garden yours will get all Oyergrown
with horse sorrel and mullen stalks.
one of the worst damages that come
from the herding OF so many people
into boarding houses and family hotels
Is inflicted upon children. 1t is only
another way of bringing them up on
the commons. While you have your
own private house you can, for the
most part. 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
and get precOcious in sin, and what the
bartender does not tell them the por'
ter or hostler or bellboy will.
Besides that the children will go ou'
into this world without the restraining
anchoring. steadying and all control
ling memory Of home. From tha'
none of us who have been blessed OF
such memory have escaped. 1t grips
man for 50 years, If he lives so long
It pulls him back from doors int(
which he otherwise would enter. Il
smltes him with contrition in the yery
midst of his disspations. AS the hsh
already surrounded by the long wid'
net. swim out to sea. thinking they car
90 as far as they please. and with gal
toss Of silyery scale they dery I'M
snortsman on the beach. and afte
awhile the fishermen begin to draw II
the net hand over hand, and hand owe
, hand. and It Is a long while before TIT
captured fins begin to feel the net ant
then they dart this way and that, hop
ing to get out but find themselves ap
proaching the Shore, and are brough
nm TO tae very feet OF the captors, 81
the memory of an early home some
: times seems to relax and let men ou
farther and farther from God, and faS
, ther and farther from shore; i've years
ten years. 20 years, 30 years; but som
day they find an irresistible mes
: drawing them back, and they are CON
pelled TO retreat from their prodigalit
and wandering; and though they mak
desperate effort TO escape the impres
sion, and try to dive deeper uo"n
> sin. after awhile are brought ciea
y back and held upon the Rock OF Ages
A Lasting influence.
II II be possible. o father and mothei
}. lei your sons and daughters go out Int
!. the world under the semiomnipoter
il memory of good, pure home. Aoor
: your two or three rooms in n boardin
a house. or family hotel. you caH cas-
n no such glorious sanctity. TheyIw
, think OF these public caravansaries q
% an early stopping place. malodorou
!. with old victuals. coffees perpetual
,teaming and meaCs IN eyerlAstin
,tew or broil, the air surcharged'w
e earbonlc acid. and corridors, alon
:. which drunken boarders come staggel
4 ing at o'clock In the morning, rnJ
* ping at the door till the affrlghted VII
g let's them In. DO not be guilty of tn
d sacrllege or blasphemy OF calling sue
10 place home.
s. 4 home Is four walls incloslng on
y family with identity OF interest ARd