Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-10


stew or broil, the air surcharged with
carboaic acid, and corridors, along
which drunken boarders come stagger-
ing at 1 o'clock in the morning, rap
ping at the door till the affrighted wife
let's them in. Do not be guilty of the
sacrilege or blasphemy Of calling such
place home.
A home is four walls fnclosing one
family with identity Of interest and
privacy from outside inspection so
complete that it is world in itself, no
one entering except by permission
bolted and barred and chained against
all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase
so often used in lawbooks and legal
circles Is nightly suggestive-every
mans house is his castle, as much so
as though it had drawbridge, portcul-
lis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret.
Even the officer of the law may not
enter to serve a writ, except the door
be voluntarily opened unto him; bur-
glary, or the invasion of it, a crime so
offensive that the law clashes it's iron
jaws on any one who attempts it. I'm
less it be necessary to stay for longer
or shorter time in family hotel or
boarding house-and there are thou
sands of instances in which 1t is neces-
sary, as I showed you at the beginning
unless in this exceptional case, let
neither wife nor husband consent 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
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tirely lose your husband, it will be be-
cause he is divinely protected from the
disasters that have whelmed thou
sands Of husbands, with as good inten-
tons as yours. Neither should the hus-
band, without imperative reason, con-
sent to such life unless he is sure his
wife can withstand the temptation of
social dissipation which sweeps across
such places with the force of the At
lantic ocean when driven by a Sep
TENDER equinox. Many wives give up
their homes for these public residences,
so that they mayogive their entire time
to operas, theaters, balls, receptions
and levees, and they are in perpetual
whirl, like a whip top spinning round
and round and round very prettily until
it loses it's eQuipoise and shoots off into
a tangent. But the difference is, in
one case it is a top, and in the other
soul.
Blessed Is the Home.
Besides this there is an assiduous ac-
emulation of little things around the
private home, which in the aggregate
make a great attraction, while the den
izen of one Of these public residences is
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place to keep them If l should take
them" Mementos, brac-a-brac, Curl
osities, quaint chair or coy lounge, up
holsteries, pictures and thousand
things that accrete in 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 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, I'M
til every figure in the carpet, and every
panel of the door, and every easement
of the window has a chirOgraphy of it's :
own, speaking out something about ia
Their or mother, or son or daughter, or
friend that was with us awhile, What
a sacred place it becomes when one can
say: In that room such a one was
born; in that bed such q one died; in
that chair l sat on the night I heard
such one had received a great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt for
her last evening prayer; here [ sat to
greet my son as he came back from sea
voyage; that was fathers cane; that
was mothers rocking chairr' What a
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 a table. No one wants
to run such gantlet of acute and
merciless hypercriticism. Unless you
have 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 we'll of the miracu-
lous cruise because she fed hungry
prophet, and to Rahab in the preserva-
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