The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-07-15

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wrong about him, or he would speak.
The whole house goes into the detect
i've business. They must find out about
him. They must find out about him
right away. II he leaves his door I'M
locked by accident he will find that his
rooms have been inspected, his trunk
! explored. his letters folded differently
FROM the way they were folded when he
| put them away. Who is lie? is the qucs-
ton asked with intenser interest until
| the subject has become monomania.
| The simple fact is that he is noboey in
! particular. but minds his own business.
The best landlords and landladies
cannot sometimes hinder their places
from becoming a pandemonium of
whispcrcrs, and regulations are torn TO
tattcrs, and evil suspicious are aroused,
and scandals started, and the rarlin-
ment of the family is blown to atoms by
some Guy Fawkes who was not caught
in time, as was his English predecessor
of gunpowdcry reputation. The rea-
son is that while in private homes fam
lilies have so much to keep them busy,
nous residences there are so many who
have nothing to do, and that always
makes mischief. They gather in each
others rooms and spend hours in con-
sultation about others. If they had to
walk half mile before they got to the
willing ear of some listener 90 dctrac-
ton they would be out of breath before
A.. /, in fIl
of luminosity or Islander, or might, be-
cause of the distance, not go at aU But
rooms 20, 81, %, 30, "a and - are on the
same corridor, and when one carrion
crow gocs Cav. Caw!" all the other
crows hear it and flock together over
| the same carcass. "Oh, | have heard
| something rich. Sit down and let me
tell you all about it," And the first guf-
faw increases the gathering, and il has
to be told all over again, and as they
separate each carries spark from the
altar Of Cab to some other circle until,
| from the coal HEAVIER in the cellar TO the
| maid in the top room of the garnet, all
are aware of the defamation, and that
evening all who leave the house will
|
fires sweeping across Illinois prairies
are less raging and swift than that
| flame of consuming reputation blazing
across the village or city.
| Those of us who were brought up in
the country know that the old-fash-
toned Matching of eggs in the haymow
required four or five weeks of breeding,
| but there are new modes of Matching
| by machinery, which takes 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 boarding
| houses and family hotels afford a
| swifter and more multitudinous style
| of moral incubation, and one old gossip
will get off the nest after one hours
brooding, clucking flock of 80 lies
after her, each one picking up ITS little
worm of juicy regalcment. 1t is no adj
vantage to hear too much about your
neighbors, for your time will be so
much occupied in taking care Of their
faults that you will have 10 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. 1t 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 companionship
and their whereabouts, but by II years
of age in these public resorts they will
have picked up all the bad things that
can be furnished by the pruyicnt minds
of dozens of people. They will overhear
blasphemies and see quarreJs and get
precocious in sin, and what the bar
tender does not tell them the porter
or hostler or bell boy will.
Besides that, the children Will go out
into this world without the restraining
anchoring, steadying and all CONTROL.
ing memory of home. From THAT none
of us who have been blessed OF such
memory have escaped. 1t grips man
for so years. il he lives so long. 1t pulls
him back from doors into which he
otherwise would enter. 1t smtes him
with contrition in the very midst oil
his designations. AS the fish already
surrounded by the long wide net swim
out to sea, thinking they can go as fan
as they please, and with gay toss OF
silvery scale they defy the sportsman
on the beach, and after awhile the fish
ermen begin to draw in the net hand
over hand and hand over hand, and i
is n long while before the captured fin,
begin to feel the oct, and then they
dart this way and shat, hoping to get
out, but find them selves approaching
the shore and are brought up to tn,
very feet Of the captors, so the mem
DRY of an early home sometimes seems
to relax and let man out farther ant
farther from God and farther and far
Their from shore-five years, ten years
20 years, 30 years-but some day the,
find an irresistible mesh drawing then
back, and they are compelled to re
treat from their prod,gality and wan
dering, and, though they make DIES
perats effort to escape the impression
and try to dive deeper down in sin, alto
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