The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-07-15


separate each carries e spark from the
altar Of Cab 10 some other circle until
from the coal HEAVIER In the cellar TO the
maid in the top room Of The garnet, al
are aware Of the defamation, and that
evening al who leave the house viii
bear It 10 other houses until sutumnal
fires sweeping across Illinois prsiries
ara less raging and swift than that
fame Of consuming reputation blazing
across the village or city.
Those Of Us who were brought up in
the country know that the old-fash-
toned Matching Of eggs in the hsymow
required four or five weeks Of brOoding,
but there are new modes Of Matching
by machinery, which takes less time
and do the work by wholesale. So,
while the private home may brood into
life an occasional falsity. and take 8
long time TO DO 1t, many Of the boarding
houses and family hotels afford .
swifter and more m~ultitudinous style
Of moral incubation. and one old gossip
will get on the nest after n hours
hrooding, cluchng a flock Of 30 lies
after her. each one picking up Its little
worm Of juicy regalemeDt. II Is no ad-
vantage 20 hear too much about your
nslghbors, for your time will be 90
much occupied In taking care Of their
faults that yoa will have 70 time TO
look after your own. And while you
are pulling the chickweed out Of their
garden, yours will get all overgrOwn
with horse sorrel and mullen stalks.
One Of the worst damages that come
from the herding Of 30 many people
into boarding houses and family hotels
Is inflicted upon children. It Is only
another way Of bringing them up on
the u While you have your
private house you can, for the
most part. control their compsnionship
and their whereabouts, but by u 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 oyerhear
blasphemies and see quarrels and get
~precocious in sin, and what the bar
tender 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,
a%nchoring, steadying and all controll-
ing memory Of a home. From that none
Of US who have been blessed Of such
memory have escaped. II grips a mar
for 50 years, II he lives 50 long. It pulls
him back from doors into which he
otherwise would enter. II smites him
with contrition In the very midst Of
his designations. As the fish already
surrounded by the long wide net swim
out 70 sea, thinking they can go as far
as they please, and with gay toss Of
silvery scale they defy the sportsman
Oh the beach, and after awhile the fish
ermen begin to draw in the net hand
over hand and hand over hand, and it
Is a long while before the captured fms
begin 10 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 mem
I DRY Of an early home sometimes seems
) 10 relax and let men out farther and
farther from God and farther and far.
; Their from shore-fve years, ten years
20 years, 30 years-but some day they
find an irresistible mesh drawing then
back, and they are compelled TO re
treat from their prodigality and wan
= dering, and, though they make des'
= perats effort TO escape the impression
and try to dive deeper down in sin, sftsl
+ awhile are brought clear back and helC
= upon the Rock Of Ages.
= II II be possible, oh, father anC
h mother! let your SON and daughter
go out into the world under the sem
n iomnipotent memory Of a good, pur'
home. About your two or three room
In u boarding house or a family hote
you can east no such glorious sanctity
q They will think Of these public car
y ayaDsaries as an early stopping place
malodorous with old y~ictuals, coffee
e p%erpetually steaming and meats Il
e everlasting stew or broil, the air sur
4 charged with carbonic acid and cor
+ ridors along which drunken boarder
come staggering at one o'clock in III
morning, rapping at the door till tn
y affrighted wife lets them in. Do no
+ be guilty Of the sacrilege or blasphem.
x OF calling such a place a home.
d A home Is four walls ~inclosing on
family with identity Of interest and
d privacy from outside inspection so com
Plete that IL is a world in itself, no on
entering except by permission-bolte'
T. and barred and chained against all out
side inquisitiveness. The phrase a
often used in law books and legal circle
e is nightly suggestive-eyery man
house is his castle. As much as thougl
d it had d~rswbridge, p~ortcullis, redoubt
h bastion ana armed turret. Even the OF
feer Of the law may not enter TO sery
a q writ except the door be y~oluntaril,
opened unto him. Burglary or the iuya
/ sion Of II is a crime so offensive that th
X law clashes its iron jaws on anyone VIII
attempts II. Unless IL be necessary I
stay for longer or shorter time in fan
,e lily hotel or boarding house-and ther
L are thousands Of instances in which
ID Is necessary, as | showed you 0
q, the beginning-unless this exceptions
case, let neither wife nor husband col
E. sent to such permanent residence.
Y. The probability is that the wife wi
have 10 divide her husbands time wit
* public smoking or reading-room or wit
~ some coquettish spider in search Of III
At wary flies, and II you do not entirel
e. lose your husband II will be because 1
At is d~iyinely protected from the disaster
that whelmed thousands Of husband
4, with as good intentions as your
lie Neither should the husband withol
IMPERATIVE reason consent 10 such