Connecticut western news., 1899-07-13

lzen or one Of these public residences is apt to say: What is the use? have no place to keep them if I should take them." Mementos, brac-a-brac, curi- | oslties, quaint chair or cozy lounge, up holsteries, pictures and thousand things that accrete in home are dis carded or neglected because there Is no l homestead in which to arrange them. And yet they are the case in which the pearl of domestic happiness Is set. You can never become as attached to the appointments of a 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. Bless ed Is that home in which for a whole lifetime they have been gathering, un- til every figure in the carpet, and every panel of the door, and every easement of the window has chirography of Its own, speaking out something about fa- ther or mother, or son or daughter, or friend that was with us awhile. What a sacred place 1t becomes when one can say: "In that room such one was born; in that bed such a one died; in that chair I sat on the night heard such a one had received a great public honor; by that stool my child knelt for her last evening prayer; here I sat to greet my son as he came back from sea voyage; that was fathers cane; that was mothers rocking chairv' What joyful and pathetic congress of remi- niscences!
 The public residence of hotel and boarding house aboiishes the grace of hospitality. Your guest does not want to come to such table. No one wants to run such a gantlet of acute and merciless hypercriticism. Unless you have a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Shunammite in the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the widow of Zarephath in the perpetual oil well of the miracu- lous cruse because she fed hungry prophet, and to Rahab in the preserya- ton of her life at the demolition of Jericho because she entertained the spies, and to Laban in the formation of an interesting family relation because of his entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in his rescue from the destroyed city because of his entertainment of the angels, and to Mary and Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual blessing be- cause they entertained Christ, and to Publius in the island of Melita in the healing of his father because of the entertainment of Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and of innumerable houses throughout Christendom upon which have come blessings from gen eration to generation because their doors swung easily open In the enlarg ing, ennobling, irradiating and divine grace of hospitality I do not know what your experience has been, but I have had men and women visiting at my house who left benediction on every room-in the blessing they asked at the table, in the prayer they offered at the family altar, in the good advice they gave the children, In the gospeli- zation that looked out from every line ament of their countenances-and their departure was the sword of bereave- ment. The queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark had a royal cup of ten curves, or lips, each one having on it the name of the distinguished person who had drunk from 1t. And that cup which we offer to others in Christian hospi- tality, though 1t be of the piainest sarthenware, is a royal cup, and God can read on all it's sides the names of those who have taken from 1t refresh ment. But all this Is impossible unless you have a home of your own.
 A Common Dslusion.
 It is the delusion as to what is neces- sary for a home that flinders so many from establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor 20, nor 15, nor 10, nor 5, nor 8. In the right way plant a table and couch and knife and fork, and cup, and chair, and you can raise a young paradise Just start a home on however small scale, and 1t will grow. When King Cyrus was in- vited to dine with a humble friend, the king made the one condition of his coming that the only dish be one loaf of bread, and the most imperial satis- factions have sometimes banQueted on the plainest fare. Do not be caught In the delusion of many thousands in postponing home until they can have an expensive one. That idea Is the devils trap that catches men and wo- men innumerable who will never have any home at all. Capitalists of Amer sn. k-I IaIx e.. A1a lAf Let this tenement house system, in which hundreds of thousands of the people of our cities are wallowing in the mire, be broken up by small homes, where people can have their own fire sides and their own altar. In this great continent there Is room enough for every man and woman to have a home. Morals and civilization and re- ngion demand it. We want done all over this land what George Peabody and Lady Burdett- Coutts did in Eng land, and some of the large manufac- turers of this country have done for the villages and cities in building small houses at low rents so that the middle classes can have separate homes. They are the only class not provided for. The rich have their pal aces, and the poor have their poor houses, and criminals have their jails, but what about the honest middle classes, who are able and willing to work and yet have small income? Let the capitalists, inspired of God and pure patriotism, rise and build whole streets of small residences. The la hnx o% khA nlo 70 thn day, to walk or ride farther than is de- sirable to reach 1t, but when he gets to his destination in the eventide he will find something worthy of being called by that glorious and impas- stoned and heaven descended word home"
 Plea For Children.
 Young married man, as soon as you