Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-13
BLESSINGS OF HOME.
REV. DR.. TALMA6E ON A QUESTION
OF DOMESTIC INTEREST.
POINTS Ont the DISADVANTAGES of n
Life spent In Hotels aud boarding
uouses-The wholesome Influences
of Home.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1909 J


copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1901
WASHINGTON, July 9.-Home life ver-
sus hotel life is the theme of DR.. Tai
IMAGES sermon for today, the disadvan-
tages of life spent at more or less tenn
porary stopping places being sharply con
trasted with the blessings that are found
In the real home, however humble. The
text is Luke X, "a, 3d. "And brought him
to an inn and took care of him. And on
the morrow when he departed he took
out two pence and gave them to the host
and said unto him, Take care of him, and
whatsoever thou spendest more when /
come again l will repay thee"
This 10 the good Samaritan paying the
hotel bill of a man who had been robbed
and almost killed by bandits. The good
Samaritan had found the unfortunate on
q lonely, rocky road, where to this very
day depredations are sometimes commit
ted upon travellers, and had put the in
jured man into the saddle, while this
merciful and we'll to do man had walked
till they got to the hotel, and the wound
ed man was put to bed and cared for. 1t
must have been a very superior hotel in
its accommodations, for, though in the
country, the landlord was paid at the
rate of what in our country would be 81
or s. n day, n penny being then day $
wages, and the two pennies paid in this
case about two days wages. Moreover,
It was one of those kind hearted land
lords who are wrapped up in the happi-
ness Of their guests, because the good Sa-
marian leaves the poor wounded fellow
10 his entire care, promising that when
be came that way again he would pay all
the bills until the invalid got well.
Hotels and boarding houses are neces-
stiles. In very ancient times they were
unknown. because the world had compar-
atively few inhabitants, and those were
not much given to travel, and private
hospitality met all the wants OF sojourn-
crs, as when Abraham rushed out at
Mamre to invite the three men to sit
down to n dinner of veal; us when the
Deople were positively commanded to he
;iven to hospitality; as in many of the
places In the east these ancient customs
are practiced today. But we have now
hotels presided over by good landlords,
and boarding houses presided over Ivy cx-
>ellent host or hostess in all neghbor-
hoods. villages and cities and it is our
Generalization that those of our land sur
pass all other lands They rightly become
the permanent residence of many people
such as those who are without families
such as those whose business keeps them
migratory, such az those who ought not
70" various reasons of health or peculiar
ity Of circumstances, to take upon them
selves the cares Of housekeeping.
Many man falling sick in one of these
boarding houses or hotels has been kindly
watched and nursed; and by the memory
of her own sufferiugs and losses the lady
at the head of such a house has done al
that a mother could do for sick child
and the slumberless eye Of God sees ant
appreciates her sacrifices in behalf OF the
stranger Among the most marvelou.
cases of patience and Christian fidelity
are many of those who keep boarding
houses, enduring without resentment thu
unreasonable demands of their guests fo
expensive food and attentions for which
they are not willing to pay an equivalen
"a lot of cranky men and women wh'
are not worthy to tie the shoe Of thei
queenly caterer. The outrageous way il
which boarders sometimes act to thei
landlords and landladies shows that thes
critical guests had bad early rearing
and that In the making up of their ma
lures all that constitutes the gentleman
and lady was left out. Some of the mos
princely men and some of the most ele
CANT women that | know of today keel
hotels and boarding houses.
Home Versus Hotel Life.
But one of the great evils of this day i
found in the fact that large population
OF our towns and cities are giving up an,
have given up their homes and takel
apartments. that they may have NOR
freedom from domestic duties and nor
time for social life and because they lik
thewhirl of publicity better than the quie
and privacy of residence they can cal
their own. The lawful use of these he
tells and boarding houses is for most pee
pie while they are in transitu, but as
terminus they are in many cases demora
ization, utter and complete. That is tn
point at which families innumerable hav
begun to dsintegrate. There never ha
been time when so many families
healthy and abundantly able to supper
and direct homes of their own, hav
struck tent and taken permanent abod
in these public establishments. 1t is a
evil wide as Christendom, and by voiC
and through the newspaper press / ute
warning and burning protest and ask A
mighty God to bless the word, whether
the hearing or reading.
In these public caravansaries the d,
mon of gossip is apt to get full sway. a
the boarders run daily the gauntlet of gel
eral inspection-how they look when the
come down in the morning and whe
they get in at night, and what they do IL
living, and who they receive as guess
in their rooms, and what they wear an
what they do not wear, and how the
eat, and what they eat, and how muc
they eat. and how little they eat. If
man proposes in such place to be isola
ed and reticent and alone they will beg
to guess about him: Who is he? Whel
did he come from? How long is he goir
to stay? Has he paid his board? Ho
much does he pay? Perhaps he has cor
mitted some crime and does not want
be known. There must be somethr
wrong about him, or he would spea
The whole house goes into the detecti'
business. They must find ont about hir
They must find ont about him rig
away. II he leaves his door unlocked
accident. he will find that his rooms ha'
been inspected, his trunk explored,
letters folded differently from the W,
they were folded when he put the
away. Who is he? Is the question ask
with intenser interest until the subje
has become a monomania. The simp
fact is that he is nobody in particula
but minds his own business.
The best landlords and landlades ca
not sometimes hinder their places fro
becoming a pandemonium of whisperel
and regulations are torn to tatters, a.