Connecticut western news., 1899-07-13
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always makes mischief. They gather In each others rooms and spend hours in consultation about others. If they had to walk half mile befors they got to the willing ear of some listener to they would get out of breath before reaching there and not feel in full glow of animosity or islander, or might, because of the distance, not go at all. But rooms 20, 21, p, 23, 24 and 9 are on the same corridor, and when one carrion crow goes Cav! Caw" all the other crows hear it and flock to- gether over the same carcass. "Oh, I have heard something rich! Sit down and let me tell you all about It." And the first guffaw increases the gather ing, and 1t has to be told all over again and as they separate each carries a spark from the altar of gab to some other circle until, from the coal heaver in the cellar to the maid in the top room of the garret, all are aware of the and that evening all who leave the house will bear 1t to other houses until autumnal fires sweeping across Illinois prairies are less raging and swift than that flame of consum- ing reputation blazing across the vil- lage or city.
 Herding Together.
 Those of us who were brought up in the country know that the old fashion ed matching of eggs in the haymow re- quired four or Ave weeks of breeding, but there are new modes of matching by machinery, which take less time and do the work by wholesale. So, while the private home may brood into life an occasional falsity and take a long time to do it, many of the board ing houses and family hotels afford a swifter and more multitudinous style of moral incubation, and one old gos- sip will get off the nest after one hours breeding, clucking a flock of 30 lies after her, each one picking up its little worm of juicy regalement. It is no ad- vantage to hear too much about your for your time will be so faults that you will have no time to look after your own. And while you are pulling the chickweed out of their garden yours will get all overgrown with horse sorrel and mullen stalks.
 One of the worst damages that come from the herding of so many people into boarding houses and family hotels is inflicted upon children. It is only another way of bringing them up on the commons. While you have your own private house you can, for the most part, control their companionsMp and their whereabouts, but by 12 years of age in these public resorts they will have picked up all the bad things that can be furnished by the prurient minds of dozens of people. They will over- hear blasphemies, and see quarrels, and get precocious in sin, and what the bartender does not tell them the DOT ter or hostler or bellboy will.
 Besides that the children will go out into this world without the restraining, steadying and all control ling memory of home. From that none of us who have been blessed of such memory have escaped. It grips a man for 30 years, if he lives so long. 1t pulls him back from doors into which he otherwise would enter. It smites him with contrition in the very midst of his dissipations. AS the fish, already surrounded by the long wide net, swim out to sea, thinking they can go as far as they please, and with gay toss of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on the beach, and after awhile the fishermen begin to draw in the net, hand over hand, and hand over hand, and 1t Is long while before the captured fins begin to feel the net, and then they dart this way and that, hop Ing to get out, but find themselves ap- the shore, and are brought up to the very feet of the captors, so the memory of an early home some times seems to relax and let men out farther and farther from God, and far her and farther from shore; five years, ten years, 20 years, 30 years; but some lay they find an irresistible mesh them back, and they are com pelled to retreat from their prodigality and wandering; and though they make desperate effort to escape the impress sion, and try to dive deeper down in sin, after awhile are brought clear back and held upon the Rock of Ages.
 A Lasting Influence.
 If it be possible, O father and mother! let your sons and daughters go out into the world under the semiomnipotent of a good, pure home. About your two or three rooms in boarding house, or a family hotel, you can cast no such glorious sanctity. They will think of these public caravansaries as m early stopping place, malodorous with old victuals, coffees perpetually steaming and meats in everlasting stew or broil, the air surcharged with carbonic 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 lets them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy of calling such a place home.
 A home Is four walls inclosing one family with identity of interest and privacy from outside inspection so complete that 1t Is a 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 drawbrfdge, 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 1t, a crime so offensive that the law clashes its Iron jaws on any one who attempts it. Un- less 1t 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