The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-07-28

oyerlear blasphem.e=. and see cuarrels.
and Get rrecociGus III in, aud what the
bartender does not tel .aem the porter or
hos,ier or belib0y will.
Besides that the children will so out into
this world without the restraining, anchor
ing. s,eadyipG and all controlling memory
OF a. home. From tina, none Of rs who have
been blessed Of such Eemory have es-
capped. /, grips Il man for eighty years,
il be lives 50 long. II pulls i'im back from
doors into which he otherwise would enter.
II smiies him With contritiou in the very
midst of bis dissipaticEs. As tho nsh. az
ready surrounded by the long vide net,
swim outtos sea, thinking they can go "a
far rs they r:ea-e, and with gay toss OF
siivery scale they defy the sportsman Oh
the teach, ana after awhile the fishermen
begin TO draw III the Let. haLa over
hnnt. and hand over hand, and X
is 4 long While tetore tic captured
frs begin to feet the net, ana then they
dart this way and that, hoping to get out.
bet IND themselves approaching the
shore. and are brought up TO tle very ieet
OF the caEtors, 50 the memory OF an cary
home sometimes seems 10 relax and let
men out f.rther and fartAerf from God, and
farther and farther from shore, five years,
ten years, twenty years, tni1ty Years: but
some day they fad al Irresistible mesh
drawing them back. and they are COM
pe,ied TO retreat from their proilgaitty
and wandering: and though they make
desperate effort to escape tb" Impression,
and trv 10 dive deeper Town in sin,
after awhile are brought clei-- back and
held uron the Rock OF Ages.
II it be possible. O father and mother!
let Your sons and daughters 80 out into
the world under the snmiomnipotcnt !Gem-
Cry OF Il good. pure home. About EonrtWo
or three rooms in Il boarding house, or IL
family hotel. YOU can east 30 such glorious
,,t: IIA,- v-:ii tI.,,t 2 tfaSa n11tIiS
caravanearirs Is IN early stopping place,
nniodorous wit Old v5ctu"ls, cofe"s er-
petua!iv SEEMING int meats in everlast-
ing stew o roll, the AIR SurcharSeu with
caIb0ni acid, ana corrldorS. along which
drunken boarder- come staggering at l
O'Clock In tie morning. rapi,ing HI the
door till tie aTrigitc wife lets them III.
DO not I've guilty Of the >acriieGe or bias
phemy OF calling such q place Il home.
A home Is four val, iEclo>inS one
family with iG.ititv II inter st and y
privacy from outside lrsrertIcn 50 co!H-
tote that il is 4 Wcrll in itself, no one en-
terinS except by pertniss,on-holtei and
barred md chained against all outside ill.,
quisitivene>s. The phrase so often used
in the law books and legal circles is might.
lily sCCGeStIve-ever mans house is his
castle, as much go Us though it had draw.
bridge, IOrtculliS, redouht, ba ton aud
armed turret. Even the officer Of the law
me " AL y L n VIII, Atct lIo
door be voluntarily opened unto hin; bur
ClHry, or the invasion OF it. a crime so
offensive that the law clashes its iron Jaws
on any one who attempts it. Unless it 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, rs l
showed you Ut the beginning-un!ess
In this exceptional case. let neither wife
nor husband consent to such permanent
1~~sidence.
The probability is that the wife will have
to divide her husbands time with public
smoking or reading room or with some
coquettish spider in search OF unwar flies,
and. if YOU do not entirely lose your hus-
band, it will be because he is divinely pro-
tccted from the disasters that have
whelmed thousands of husbands, with rs
good intentions as yours. Neither should
the husband, without imperative reason.
consent to such Il life unless he is sure bis
vile can withstand the temptation OF So
ciat dissipation which sweeps across such
places with tue force OF the Atlantic Ocean
when driven by 4 September equinox.
Many wives give up their homes for thes E,
public residences, 50 thit they NAV give
tt'lr ent re time 10 operas, theatres, balls.
receptions and levctS. and they aic in {.
perpetual whiri, like II whip top spinning
round and round and round very ~prettily
until II loses its cQuipoise and shoots OIL in
to n tangent. But the difference is, in one
case it Is a top, and in the other a sou.
Besides this there is an a siduous accu-
mutation Of little things around the pri-
tate horne which in the aggregate make 4
great attraction, while the denizen OF one
OF these public residences is apt to say:
What is the use? l have no place to keep
them IL l shouldtAke them" Mementos,
bric-a-brac, curiostaes. quaint chair o:
coy lounge, uphoistd~es pictures aud q
thousand things that aceEcte in a home are
discarded or neglected because there is nc
homestead IN which TO arrdeKe them. And
yet they are the case In which the pearl o.
domestic happiness is set. You can never
be ome as attached 10 The appointments Of
boardiDH-lOuSe or family hotel "a ia hos,