The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-14

privacy from OUTSIDE inspection so cCul- |
plcte that il is a world in itself. no one
entering except by permission bclted |
and barred and chained against all out.
side inquisitiyeness. The phrase SO |
often used in law books and legal circles |
is nightly sugges tive-every mans |
house is his castle. Al much as though |
1t had drawbridge. portcuilis, redoubt, |
bastion and armed turret. Even the Of
fcer Of the law may not enter to serve
writ except the door he voluntarily
opened unto him. Burglary or the inva-
sion of it is a crime so offensive that the
law clashes its iron jaws on anyone who
attempts it. Unless il be necessary TO
stay for longer or shorter time in fam
lily hotel or boarding house-aud there
are thousands Of instances in which it
is necessary as / showed you al
the beginning-unless this exceptional
case, let neither wife nor husband con
sent to such permanent residence
The probability is that the wife will
| have to divide her husbands time with
/ public smoking or rcadirg-room or with
some coquettish spider in search Of un-
wary flies, and if you DO not entirely
/ lose your husband it will be because be
is divinely protected from the disasters
I that whelmcd 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 with
stand the temptation of social dissipa-
ton which sweeps across such place,
with the force of the Atlantic ocean
when driven 10y a September equinoN.
Many wives give up their homes for
these public residences SO that they
may give their entire time TO operas,
thoaters, balls, receptions and lcyees,
and they are in perpetual whirl, like
whiptop spinning round and round
and round very rrettily, until il loses
It's equipoisc and shoots OF into a tan
gent. But the difference is, in one case
it is a top and in the other a soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous ac-
emulation of little things around the
private home, which in the aggregate
make great attraction, while the den
iacn of one of these public residences
is apt TO say: "Nhat is the .se?
AAh' W Nv l'lf'' ~ N'' y AllN III "a ! TlApAli
take them" Mcmeutos, bric-a-brac, GU
riosities, quaint chair or coy lounge.
uTholsteries, pictures and thousand
things that accrete in a home are dis
cardod or neglected because there is no
homestead in which 20 arrange them.
And yet they are the case in which tie
pearl Of domestic happiness is set. You
can never become as attached TO the
appointments Of a boarding house or
family hotel as 20 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 home in which FOR a
whole lifetime they have been gather.
ing until every figure in the carpet and
every panel of the door and every case
meut of the window has a chircgraphy
of its own, speaking out something
about father or mother or son or daugh-
ter or friend that was with us awhile.
What sacred place it becomes when
one can say; In that room such one
was born, in that bed such a one died :
in that chair | sat on thenight | heard
such a one had received a great public
honor; by that stool my child kEcIt for
her last evening prayer; here ! sot 70
greet my son as he came back from sea
voyage; that was fathers cane; that
was mothers rocking chair" What a
joyful and pathetic congress of remi-
nisCenceS,
The public residence of hotel and
boarding house abolishes the grace OF
hospitality, Your guest does not wan,
to come to such table. No one wants
TO run such a gantlet of acute and mor.
ciless hypercriticism. Unless you hav,
a home of your own you will not be able
to exercise the best rewarded Of all IL,
Craces. For exercise Of this grace what
I blessing came TO the Shunammite in III,
, restoration of her son TO life becaus,
. she entertained Elisha. and to the wild
2 ow of Iarephath in the perpetual OF
/ well of the miraculous cruise bocaus,
she fed hungry prophet, ard to Ia
5 hab in the preservation of her life AT The
2 demolition of Jericho because of his
! entertainment of Jacob, and TO Lot il
( his rescue from the destroyed city be
!, cause of his entertainment of the an
I gels, and to Mary and Martha ant
r Zaccheus in spiritual blessing becaus,
( they entertained Christ, and 10 Publiu
a in the island OF Melita in the healing 0
T. his father because of tie entertain
/ ment of Paul, drenched from the ship
I wreck, and of innumerable house
5 throughout Christendom upon whicl
Y have come blessings from generation
I to generation because their door
: swung easily open in the charging, en-
e nobling, irradiating and divine grac
r of hospitality! | do not know wha
5 your experience has been, but hay
4 had men and women visiting AT m
= house who left a benediction on ever.
5, room-in the blessing they asked at tn
y table, in the prayer they offered at III
n family altar, in the good advice the.