The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-24

ence of home. but we are far enough from realizing It's full significance. IT we did a young man would no more think of taking his bride to boaro- ing house than he would dream or taking wedding journey to the divorce courts. As it is, he figures out that two people can board cheaper than one. and that he will save his wire the Iabor and care of housekeeping, ana aa ho takes "apartments" in whatever grade of hashery his means will ailow' and bv the time he finds out ms ms taLa the mischief Is done. Boaroihg | ia responsible for the alienation ol more affection, the shattering or rnore | of loves young dreams. and the begin
 ming of more silly fiirtations that emu in disgraceful intrigues than e'efS other cause combined.
 Living Just Like Animals. | ro take 1t in its baldest aspect IL Ia ,mnossible to make a home Tn | ho,rdine house or a hotel It Is mereiy | a nlace where one eats and sleeps ike an animal. No affection can striAe its roots down into room where on. tarries only a week or month' ana | that has no associations cllngins .o It. no memories to make 1t dear ana sa- | cred. Worse than that. no interest | taches to it. and there Is somethins III ,ts Atmosphere that drives you forth ir search of amusement and entertain ment Nobody can picture happy lam Uv spending a quiet evening in loVinB converse in a boarding house room:
 As matter of fact, people who hoard generally pass as little time as possible in their own rooms 1hey congregate together in the puolic places, and whether 1t Is In the stump | tuous splendor of Rubber-neck nall III tha Waldorf Astoria, or the dingy par Tor of A third rate boarding house, the | result is the same. It means the disin- | teeration of family life. The woman | learns to amuse herself In one way and her husband In another They do not depend on each other TOT com | nanionship, and thus at the beginning of their married life a young couple who board begin to drl1t apart
 Women Who Tempt Destruction.
 Another point that women seem never to have grasped Is that they have no such other ally in holding | their husbands as the home. This fact alone, and of itself, ought to make them flee boarding as they would the plague. Just as long as man IS in- terested in his home, just as long as he is willing to work to support IT, ana deny himself things to beautify It.
 just as long as he rushes home from his days work to enjoy 1t, and has 10 he dragged away from It, just so long
 may a woman possess her soul Tn peace. She has no rival. He is hnd- ing his pleasure and his interest where they should be. for nature intended tha' every young couple shouldibulld theii nest as the birds do. Indeed, 1t IS thls tnstinct-this desire to have nome of his own-that prompts most men to to marry. and a woman interferes with II | he so strong and noble that we will do right for rights sake, but the way human nature is built the majority oi us find that we are most apt to walk Tn the strait and narrow path when we've got a good high fence that we can't see over walling us in on both side, and
 tbis heinz the case, the wife who delib- erately drives man away rom the safety of his own fireside is either su-
 nerburanly vain or foolhardily reck- less
 Dangers of Outside Interference.
 | still another reason why the board ing house Is a sure promoter or domes- tic infelicity among the newly mar ried is that there Is too much outside Interference No two people in the world coming of different families with different habits ana tastes ever adtusted themselves to each other ,yitbo,t some inevitable friction. If .hoY arc bv themselves this does not roafter The bride will weep, and the lhrtdeeroom will call himself a brute i,d the little quarrel will blot itself o,,t in the kiss of forgiveness on ei- tber side; but with boardlng house hooking on and backing them as If they were principals in a prize fight the snat becomes a tragedy. Don't give =, cav the women. By George, I'd iu,a to see any woman boss me sheer +ta men and so the mole hill grows in- mountain, and the man goes on
 ,d oats drunk to drown his sorrow, anI the pretty bride begins to ilirt with I,ha etar boarGer to show her husband Ith.t she can still attract other mon' Iand the evil genii of the boarding house lbave raked in two more victims.
 IdIene.s for Women Is DemOrnlizing.
 Of inc demoralzing effect on any wo- mans character of having nothing to ido and no responsibility, 1t is need IIess to speak. This is what makes the iboarding habit for women every whit as had as the drink habit for men It Is just utterly impossible for crowd of women to sit up together with no other occupation than conversauon without becoming scandal mongers and lpossessed of malice. envy. and all nn- tcharitableness. Dress and your neigh lbors, your neighbors and dress, these lare the two topics that fill the whole mental horizon of the boarding house woman. She learns to judge people by ltheir clothes, to feel that to be in the