The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-12
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
! GOOD PLACE TO RUN AVA r
 FROM.

< Do Says Bernard G. Richards in the Boston Transcript-His Views Not 7 the Usual Sen ntimental Ones.
 z z Tn. q "Conversation with Keidansky''
 Bernard Richards thus writes in the
 Boyton Transcript:
 < There is no place like home,' said \ eidansky. and there's nothing like
 Running away from it.
 What is the matter with the homer?
 " aSked.
 Nothing" he answered, ''except that very often everything is. You are s4i1rprised?" he continued. That's sprDmising. Somehow when I see you
 shocked 1t makes me feel as if l am
 saying something, and am encouraged Ito go on. What do I mean? Just this: S There is no place that is so small DOLLY and narrow as the home is; there as no place so close, cramped and
 xroWded; so limited restricted and
 tpe- measured. There's no place where there is such agreement, unity and uni Ikormity; where there is so much sub
 nFdination, subjection and co-oppres- s0n--if you will pardon the coining of sWprd-as in the home no place where
 kare Ia such uniformity of opinion, '&6Aech and action; where there is so
 much dependence, inter- dependence and 4Htef- f-denOmination; where so much rood advice is given you. so many high s&xHMplee set up and so many paragons 'xf Sperfection presented to you; no place
 where there's so much up-holding Of !0E8 standards and so little scope for Huilding new ones; where respectabil- 1tY,iA regarded with such reverence and fha neighbors' say held so sacred; no UlRee 50 lacking initiative, so barren of s&ffkiniaIity, so devoid 0 da.ring-no |E}&ca where you are so tenderly cared &6T eo Kindly comforted, so closely watched, and so grossly misunderstood &4fhis home. It is the most dangerous place in the world.
 sNp--do not interrupt mel know 3ugt what you are going to say. Let me XkAta It for you--while am atit. What fd lis blasphemy, of course, and 3hat you want to say is that the home .f .fh4 garden where all our virtues
  4{0n Of our morals, the birthplace of ljUr highest ideals, the great character Bl{lIder, the school of patriotism, the
 ikilrce of true, religion, the protector xe our national life, the benign soul 3IySllfter, the place where goodness and 85Urity flourish, and the place where the 36& principles are manufactured. 1
 gYtOW just what you are going to say l68catlse I, too, have heard some ser- i10ns and have read some after dinner 736S1cf1es in my life. And I do not say tH&t these utterances are altogether aHl1ieading. There is some good. 41uubt not. in a sermon and some shad- xW0 of truth even in an after dinner fnsech. But because the home has ever Easn the subject of indiscriminating %610ntums and puffy panegyrics, no one HIs ever dared to say anything against M It has not been treated as hu- HnSn Institution, and so many crimes 5tafe committed in it's good name It is d|x6afise these beautiful things about it XfBE or are supposed to be, that so 519&iay of us have been sentenced to stay Tome without proper trial.
 Granting even that the halo is not 26Ifow and that home is the ideal place TN is pictured to be- the admission is II4fnape the strongest argument against " &oild for running away from it; for Fbnning away from it; for, in that case, ZEE home is almost too good place to 9&Sy in, too tame and agreeable. nest 8k the neutral, triumph of the nega- Eve. maybe, and hardly a place where $6u can grow, learn, enlarge and ex- 388nd Distinctly and in your own way. I 4SXr me that in any case home is about tISe last resort where one can express 6ia Individuality and become fully &Qufpped to grapple with the world and xhose who own it. Do not misunder- StaYid me. No one intends to wage wage against that which is held ln reverence. No one wishes to abolish for the sake of abolition. There IB ii6 satisfaction in mere annihilation. l4o a0ne wishes it. Wisdom and folly h&v3 the same intention. To say that the most destructive radical and the mott orthodox conservative are in per- eHct Agreement as far as their aim is r6ficerned will be dangerously near ut 2grdhr a acommonplace Both seek we'll beif2E and happiness. There was a time when there was little difference be- tween the two; when one of the two parties wanted to postpone that welfare Ix9.to another life; but now, in this has t3aRe, both demand all that it is pos Sible to procure here' and now. There may be difference of opinion, but there N no difference of intention. The ob- gect Of all is to preserve the virility of 1ur being, the veracity of soul, the 3frength to do and to be. There may be | uuestion as to my being a conserva five. but there is no doubt that I am a I would conserve every kffng that is conductive to growth and happiness. What I believe, what l say, (fas this object in view. And having Lhis in view, realize that in the course uf human events it ever and anon be- 1 somes necessary to demolish the divini- Hes that be.
 -sIf seem to attack this sacred in- 3titution it is because it has very 5eAniy, sore and soaring side to it. In The first place there are usually parents 3t home. What a pity that parents md children cannot be of the same age; that there cannot be some understand