The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-08-17

| MIN. They must find out about him
| right away. If he leaves his door un-
| locked by accident he will find that his
rooms have been inspected, his trunk
explored, his letters folded differently
from the way they were folded when he
put them away. Who is he? is the ques-
| ton asked with intenser interest until
the subject has become monomania
The simple fact is that he is nobody in
particular, but minds his own business
The best landlords and landladies
cannot sometimes hinder their places
from becoming pandemonium of
whisperers, and regulations are torn to
tatters. and evil suspicious are aroused,
and scandals started, and the parlia-
ment of the family is blown to toms by
some Guy Fawkes who was not caught
in time. as was his English predecessor
OF gunpowdery reputation. The rea-
son is that while in private homes fam
lilies have SO much to keep them busy,
in these promiscuOus and multitude
nous 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 con-
sultation about others. If they had to
walk half mile before they got to the
willing ear of some listener to detrac-
tion they would be out OF breath before
reaching there and not feel in full glow
of animosity or slander, or might, be-
cause of the distance, not go at all. But
rooms 20, q, %. 90. "a and 25 are on the
same corridor, and when one carrion
crow goes ''Caw! Caw!" all the other
crows hear it and flock together over
the same carcass. "Oh, / have heard
something rich! Sit down and let me
tell you all about it, And the first guf-
faw increases the gathering, 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 it to other houses until autumnal
fires sweeping across Illinois prairies
are less raging and swift than that
flame of consuming reputation blazing
across the village or city.
Those OF us who were brought up in
the country know that the old-fash-
ioned Matching of eggs in the haymow
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 a
long time to do it, many of the boarding
houses and family hotels afford a
swifter and more multitudinous style
of moral incubation. and one old gossip
will get off the nest after one hours
brooding, clucking flock of so lies
after her, each one picking up It's little
worm Of juicy regalement. 1t is no adj
vantage to hear too much about your
neighbors, for your time will be so
much occupied in taking care of their
faults that you will have no 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 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 ths
most part, control their rcompanionshiT
and their whereabouts but by IL years
of age in these public resorts they will
have picked up all the bad things tina,
can be furnished by the prurient minds
of dozens of people. They will overheal
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 ou
into this world without the restraining
anchoring, steadying and all CONTROL
ing memory of a home. From that non,
of us who have been blessed of sucl
memory have escaped. 1t grips.a maj
for so years, if he lives SO long. Itpull'
him back from doors into which h,
otherwise would enter. 1t smites hin
with contrition in the very midst o
his dissipations.
\. If it be possible, oh. father ant
, mother! let your sons and daughter
Igo out into the world under the sem
iomnipotent memory of a good, pur'
home. About your two or three rooms
lin a boarding house or a family hote
. you can cast no such glorious sanctity
They will think of these public car
avansaries as an early stopping place
malodorous with old victuals, coffee
perpetualiy steaming and meats il
everlasting stew or broil, the air SUI
charged with carbonic acid and cor
|. ridors along which drunken boarder
come staggering at one o'clock in tn
morning, rapping at the door till tn
affrighted wife lets them in. Do no
be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphem
OF calling such place a home.
81. A home is four walls inclosing on
family with identity OF interest and
) privacy from outside inspection so con-