Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-08-18
A home is four walls inclosing ons
IN milv with identity of interest and a

privacy lTOIn OutSlut lnspeCtlun 50 cOIh-
plcte that it is world in itself, no one
entering except by permission-bolted
and barred and chained against all out.
side inquisitivcness. The phrase so
often used in law books and legal circles
is nightly uggestive-every mans
house is his castle. AS much as though
it had drawbridge, portcullis, redoubt,
bastion and armed turret. Even the CT
iicer of the law may not enter TO serve
o writ except the door be voluntarily
opened unto him. Burglary cC lie inva-
sion of it is crime so offensive that the
.dw 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 showed you at
the beginning-unless this exceptional
ease, let neither wife nor husband con
sent to such permanent residence.
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 un-
wary flies, and If you do not entirely
lose your husband it will be because he
is dvinely protected from the disasters
that whelmed thousands of husbands
with as good intentions as yours.
Neither should the husband without
imperative reason consent to such a
life unless he is sure his wife can with
stand the temptation of social dissipa-
tion which sweeps across such places
with the force of the Atlantic ocean
when driven by September equinox,
Many wives give up their homes for
these public residences so that they
may give their entire time to operaG,
theatcrs, balls, receptions and leyeei,
and they are in n perpetual whirl, like
Il whiptop spinning round and round
and round very prettily, until it loses
its equipoisc and shoots off into tan.
gent. But the difference is, in one case
it is a top and in the other soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous ac.
emulation of little things around the
private home, which in the aggregate
make great attraction, while the den
izcn of one of these public residences
is apt to say: "What is the use? |
have no place to keep them if should
take them" Mementos, bric-a-brac, GU
riosities, quaint chair or cozy lounge,
upholsteries, pictures and a thousand
things that accrete in home are dis
carded or neglected because there is nc
homestead in which to arrange them.
And yet they are the case in which che
pearl of domestic happiness issot. You
can never become as attached to the
appointments Of boarding house or
family hotel as to those things that you
can call your own and are associated
with the different members of your
household or with scenes of thrilling
import in your domestic history
Blessed is that home in which for q
whole lifetime they have been gather.
ing until every figure in the carpet and
every panel of the door and every case.
ment of the window has chirography
of its own, speaking out something
about father or mother or son or daugh
ter or friend that was with us awhile
What q sacred place it becomes when
one can say: "In that room such'a one
was born; in that bed such one died
in that chair I-sat on thenight heard
such one had received great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt fol-
her last evening prayer; here 1 sat to
| greet my son as he came back from sea
| voyage; that was fathers cane; that
was mothers rocking chair" What q
joyful and pathetic congress of remi
| niscences
The public residence of hotel ant
boarding house abolishes the grace Of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such table. No one want,
to run such gantlet of acute and mer
ciless hypercriticism. Unless you have
n home of your own you will not be abb,
TO exercise the best rewarded of all tn,
graces. For exercise of this grace wha
| blessing came to the Shunammite in tn,
restoration of her son to life becaus,
she entertained Elisha, and to the wid
ow of Larephath in the perpetual OF
well of the miraculous cruise becaus,
she fed hungry prophet, and TO Ra
hab in the preservation of her life at tn,
demolition of Jericho because of hi
entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot II
his rescue from the destroyed city be
cause of his entertainment of the an
gels, and to Mary and Martha ant
Iaccheus in spiritual blessing becaus'
they entertained Christ, and to Publiu
in the island OF Meita in the healing o
his father because of the entertain
ment of Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and Of innumerable houses
throughout Christendom upon whicl
have come blessings from generation
to generation because their door
swung easily open in the charging, en-
nobling, irradiating and divine grac'
of hospitality. | do not know wha
your experience has been, but | hav
had men and women visiting at IN,
house who left benediction on ever,
room-in the blessing they asked at tn
table, i'll the prayer they offered at tn
| family altar, in the good advice the,
gave the children, in the gospclizatiol
that looked out from every lineamen
of their countenances, and their dcpar
turc was the sword of bereavement
| The queen of Norway, Sweden and Den
mark had a royal cup of ten curves, o
lips, each one having on it the nam
Of the distinguished person who ha,
drunk from it. And that cup which W
offer TO others in Christian hospitality
though IT be of the plainest earthen
ware, is a royal cup, and God can rea,
on all 'idcs the names of those VIII
have taken from it refreshment, bu
all this is impossible unless you hav
| n homo pf yT,ur own