St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-08-12

reaching there and not feel in full glow
of luminosity or SANDER, or might, be
cause of the distance, not go at all. But
rooms 20, 81. %, s3. "a and IS are on thu
same corridor, and when one carrios
crow goes Cav, Caw!" all the othcl
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 GUT
faw increases the gathering, and it ha.
4 to be told oil over again, and rs they
separate each carries a 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 garnet. nj
are aware of the defamation, and tina,
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-
toned 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 of the nest after one hours
brooding, clucking q flock of 30 lies
after her, each one picking up ITS little
worm Of juicy regalement. 1t is no ad-
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 the
most part, control their companionship
and their whereabouts, but by IL 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 overhear
blaSphemies and see quarrels and get
precocious in sin, and what the bar
tender does not tell them the porter
or hos!ler or bell boy will.
Besides that, the children will 60 out
into this world without the restraining.
anchoring. steadying and all controll-
ing memory Of a home. From that none
of us who have been blessed of such
memory have escaped. 1t grips man
for so years, If he lives 10 long. 1t pulls
him back from doors into which he
otherwise would enter. 1t smites him
with contrition in the very midst of
his designations. AS the fish already
surrounded by the long wide net swim
out to sea, thinking they can 60 as far
as they please, and with gay toss of
silvery scale they defy the sportsman
on the beach, and after awhile the fish
ermen begin to draw in the net hand
over hand and hand over hand, and it
is q long while before the captured fins
begin to 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
DRY Of an carly home sometimes seems
to relax and let men out farther and
farther. from God and farther and far
ther from shore-five years, ten years,
90 years, 30 years-but some day they
find an irresistible mesh drawing them
back, and they are compelled to re-
treat from their prodigality and wan
dering, and, though they make des-
perate effort to escape the Impression
and try to dive deeper down in sin, after
awhile are brought clear back and held
upon the Rock of Ages.
II it be possible, oh, father and
mother! let your. sons and daughters
go out into the world under the SEM
memory Of . good, pure
home. About your two or three rooms
in boarding house or q family hotel
you can cast no such glorious sanctity.
They will think Of these public car
rs an early stopping place,
malodorous with old victuals, coffees
steaming and meats in
everlasting stew or broil, the air sur
charged with carbonic acid and cor
ridors along which drunken boarders
come staggering at one o'clock in the
rapping at the door till the
ahrighted wife lets them in. Do not
be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy
Of calling such place home.
A home is four walls inclosing one
family with identity Of interest and
privacy from outside inspection so COM
plcte that it is a world in itself, no one
entering except by pcrmissicn-boltcd
and barred and chained against all out
side inquisitiveness. The phrase 80
often used in = v books and legal circles
is nightly sdggestive-every mans
house is his castle. As much as though
it had drawbridge, portcullis. redouht,
bastion and armed turret. Even the CT
ficer Of the law may not enter to serve
. writ except the door be voluntarily
opened unto him. Burglary or the inva-
sion of it is crime SO offensive that the
law clashes its iron jaws on anyone who
attempts it. Unless it be necessary to
stay for longer or shorter time in fam
lily hotel or boarding house-and there
are thousands OF instances in which it
IS necessary. as I showed you at
the beginning-unless this exceptional
rase, let neither wife nor husband con-
sent to such perrnanentresidence.
The probability is that the wife will |
have 70 divide her husbands time with |
public smoking or reading-room or with
some coquettish spider In search of un-
vary flies, and if you do not entirely
ose your husband it will be because he |
IS divinely protected from the disasters
hat whelmed Thousands of husbands
with a. good intentions as yours.
Neither should tho husband without |
Imperative reason consent to such q
life unless he is surs his wife can with |
stand the temptation Of social dissipa-
ion which sweeps across such places |