The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-08-17
aOME VERSUS HOTEL.
3, ralmage Speaks Of the Bless
ings Of the Former
Omt Disadvantage OF q Life
r....t in Hotels and Boarding
uo..es Wholesome Influ-
ences Of Home.
1r.,vrieht, 1899, by Louis Klopsch.)
Washington,

" "dSAIAo eo't
u.ne life versus hotel life is the
Z. of DIR. Talmage's sermon for to-
Is The disadvantages of life spent
:. more or less temporary stopping
.s.ces being sharply contrasted with
4. blessings that are found in the real
/ s.,.e however humble. The text is
inte 1884, IS: .And brought him to
/ y, INN and took care of him. And on
a. morrow when he departed he took
a,t two pence and gave them to the
.cet and said unto him: Take care of
Nm and whatsoever thou spendest
4,.re when come again l will repay
lice
This is the good Samaratin paying
/ Il. hotel bill of man who had been
obbed and almost killed by bandits.
ne good Samaritan had found the un-
hrtunate on lonely, rocky road. where
s this very day depredations are some
lines committed upon travellers. and
!: h,d put the injured man into the sad
sdle. while this merciful and well-to-do
nan had walked till they got to the
hotel. and the wounded man was put
I to bed and cared for. 1t must have
teen very superior hotel in its accom-
! uodations, for, though in the country,
lie landlord was paid at the rate of
what in our country would be four or
s I've dollars day, penny being then a
day's wages, and the two pennies paid
/ IN this case about two days wages.
Moreover, it was one of those kind
! kearted landlords who are wrapped up
d the happiness of their guests, be-
cause the good Samaritan leaves the
{ poor wounded fellow to his entire care,
{ promising that when he came that way
again be would pay all the bills until
the invalid got well.
Hotels and boarding houses are neces-
sties. In very ancient times they were
{ tnknown, because the world had COM
paratively few inhabitants, and those
wire not much given to travel, and pri-
sate hospitality met all the wants of
seiourners, as when Abraham rushed
out ct Mamre to invite the three men
! u sit down to dinner OF veal; as when
{ IL people were positively commanded
70 Be given to hospitality: as in many
of the places in the east these ancient
! customs are practiced to-day. But we
hare now hotels presided over by good
I landlords, and boarding houses presid-
- over by excellent host or hostess il,
1sa neighborhoods, villages and cities,
- It is our congratulation that those
sa our land surpass all other lands.
Ihey rightly become the permanent
residence Of many people, such as those
! Who are without families, such as those
\ shose business keeps them migratory
such as those who ought not for va.
nous reasons of health or peculiarity
q circumstances to take upon them
elves the cares of housekeeping.
Many man falling sick in one OF
seese boarding houses or hotels has
peen kindly watched and nursed; and
~ the memory of her own sufferings
ID losses the lady at the head of such
4 house has done all that mother could
I e Tor sick child, and the slumberless
y OF God sees and appreciates hel
scs1iices in behalf of the stranger
But one Of the great evils of this day
ionnd in the fact that large popula.
aon OF our towns and cities are giving
and have given up their homes ant
ken apartments. that they may have
05s Freedom from domestic duties and
ofe time for social life, and because
IKE the whirl of publicity better
aatne quiet and privacy of resi-
ase they can call their own. The law
~ use OF these hotels and boarding
.eases y for most people while they are
= lansit1. but as a terminus they ar,
d nany cases Generalization, utter an6
piete. That is the point at which
liies lnnumerable have begun to dis
.eerate. There never has been 1
ne when so many families, health,
sau aoundantly able to support and di
ss.scl homes of their own, have strucl
M and taken permanent abode il
asse public establishments. 1t is al
%. vide as Christtendom. and by yoic,
ea through the newspaper press ut
~ warming and burning protest ant
- almighty God to bless the word
sse'ner in the hearing or reading.
= these public carayansaries the de
mon of gossip is apt to get full sway
80 lnc ooarders run daily the gantle
2 general inspection-how they lool
aen they come down in the mornin,
J. ~ Wnen they get in at night, and wha
10y go Tor a living, and who they re
8 s''s as guests in their rooms, and wha
wear and what they do not wear
~ NOW they cat, and what they eat
.aa now much they eat, and how littl
eat. II man proposes in such
GO De isolated and reticent an,
49, they will begin to guess abou
Who is he? Where did he com
~ How long is he going to stay
80 ns paid his board? How much doe
Perhaps he has committe,
as crime and does not want to b
=. There must be somethin
N ABOUT him, or he would speal
aoie house goes into the deteca