Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-07-15


perats effort 10 escape the impression I
and try 20 dive deeper down IN sin. after I
awhile are broughS clear back and held |
upon the Rock OF Ages.
If 81 be possible. oh. father and
mo;heri let your sons and daughters
20 out into the world under the sem
iomnipotent memory OF a good. pure
home. About your two or three rooms
In a boarding house or a family hotel
you can cast no such glorious sanctity-
They will think Of these public car
avausaries as an early stopping place,
maiodorous with old victuals. coffees
perpctualiy steaming and meats in
everlasting stew or broil. the air sur
charged with carbOnic acid and cor
ridors along which drunken boardcrs
come staggering at one o'clock in the
morning. ripping at the door tin the
aCrightcd wife lets them in. Do not
te guilty OF the sacrilege or blasphemy
% calling such place a home.
A home is four walls inclosiur one
family with Identity OF interest and
privacy from outside inspection 80 com
plcte that il is a world in itself. no one
entering except by Pcrmissicn-bolted
and barred and chained against ali out
side inquisitiveness. The phrase so
often used in Law books and legal circles
is nightly sugges,ive-every mans
house is his castle. A. much as though
It had drawbridge. portcullis. rcdoubt,
b2stion and armed turret. Even the Of
feer Of the law may not enter 20 serve
writ except the door be Voluntarily
opened unto him. burglary or the inva-
si-u OF IL is a crime so offensive that the
law clashes its iron jaws on any one who
attempts il. Unless il be necessary 10
stay for longer or shorter time in fam
'ly hotel or boarding house--and there
Hrc thousands OF instances in which il
Is necessary. as I showed you at
the beginning this exceptional
case. let neither wife nor husband con-
sent 20 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 IL you do not entirely
lose your husband il will be because he
is divinely protected from the disasters
that whelmed thousands OF husbands
with as good intentions as yours.
Neither should the husband without
imperative reason consent 70 such
lie unless he is sure his wife can with
stand the temptation OF social dissipa-
ton which sweeps across such places
with the force OF the Atlantic ocean
when driven by a September equinox.
Many wives give up their homes for
these public residences so that they
may give their entire time 70 operas,
theaters, balls, receptions and levees,
and they are in a perpetual whiri. like
whiptoP spinning round and round
and round very prettily. until IL loses
it's equiPoise and shoots OF into n tan
gent But the difference IS. in one case
IL is top and in the other a soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous ac-
cumulatiOn OF little things around the
/ private home. which in the aggregate
make great attraction, while the dem
izcn OF one Of these public residences
i apt 10 say: What is the user l
have no place "a keep them If / should
take them" Mementos. bric-a-brac, Gu
riosities, quaint chair or cory lounge.
uphoisteries, pictures and thousand
things that accrete in a home are dis
carded or neglected because there IS no
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 70 the
appointments OF a boarding house or
family hotel as 10 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 a
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 ehirography
OF its own, speaking out something
about father or mother or son or daugh-
ter or friend that was with US awhile.
What = sacred place il becomes when
one can say: in that room such a one
was born; in that bed such a one died:
in that chair I sat on thenight heard
such a one had received a great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt for
her last evening prayer; here I sat 20
greet my son as he came back from sea
voyage; that was fathers cane; that
was mothers rocking chair" What a
joyful and pathetic congress of reui-
Hiscences!
The public residence of hotel and
boarding house abolishes the grace OF
hospitality. Your guest does not want
TO come to such table. No one wants
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