The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-09

next door to us should be just as care
fully cared for and nursed by us as II
he was our own son.
Clubhouse Versus Home.
I deplore also the iconoelasm which Is
robbing this country of the sanctity OF
home life The iconoclasts profane
hands are ruthlessly laid upon our an
cestors' Sabbath observance and our
forefathers' doctrine of do to others as
you would have them do unto you. They
go further than this Those same pro-
fame hands are also snatching away our
ancestral home enjoyments as well. Phey
are saying to modern man: Man, do not
be an old-fashioned granny Do not
think that because your grandfathefs
found most of their enjoyment In the So
ciety of your grandmothers and your I'M
cles and aunts that you have to find most
of your enjoyment In the society of your
wives and children. DO not forever pc
a stay at home Come; let us build Tor
you clubhouses, where YOU can ma
nightly fellowship with strong and bril-
liant men. Come out of that little mem
coop of yours If you want to give a
reception to your friends. do not give
it in your home. 1t is too small Hire
a big hall in the center of the town,
where you can receive In better style.
There, instead Of having a few cakes
baked by your own hands and some ice
cream which you made In your own
freezers you can have fine caterer
furnish am elaborate supper; instead or
having your own daughter sing a sim
ple song or your little boy reeite a piece
YOU can have the finest OF orchestras
furnish the music. If you want speak
ing you can hire professional elo-
cutionist to recite. This Is an age or
progress. The clubhouse, the public re-
ception halls the large dinners given IN
large downtown restaurants, just as GER
tainly mark the evolution of the human
race in pleasure as a locomotive train IS
an Improvement over the old prairie
schooner or the telegraph communication
by electric wire Is an Improvement over
the cowboys express that forty years
ago used to carry the mail from New
York to San Francisco. before the great
Union Pacific railroad was built
Do YOU my brother, think for one In
slant that the advent OF the modern club
house and public reception hall and Del
monieo banquets IS a moral improve
ment for modern men over the old fash
Toned quilting parties and merrymaking
frolics which once made the rafters or
the old farm house creak like the beams
of ship at sea and bend almost Ike
William Tells bow? DO you think this?
I do not | believe that an enjoyment
TO find outside of the society of his wife
and children and home Is depicting.
eneryating and ultimately degrading en-
iovment I believe that any enjoyment
which systematically makes a mother
relegate the care of her children to
nurse girls and to hrde hands IS an en-
joyment which Is poisoned through and
through by evil influences which will III
imately bring forth harvestings not fol-
God but for Satan. / believe this ten
dency of the human race. this evi
poison almost everywhere prevalent &c
| find enjoyment anywhere, everywhere ex'
| cept by your own fireside. will ultimately
result In n second downfall of n man
| as dramatic and overwhelming and com
| plete as when Adam and Eve ate of the
| fruit Of the forbidden tree. unless man
| himself, by the grace of Cod hats ana
| learns again to find his chief pleasures
| in the associations Of his wife ana emil
| dren within the four walls Of his own
| home ] once heard father say 10 my
| mother. 81 hope after we are dead that
| our children will believe that we loved
| them and have wanted TO ne with them
more than with any one else on earth.
| they lived for us. Yes. our parents llved
| for US May we be like the olq foiks.
Nav we find our chief enjoyment not
| only in living for our children. bit also
| in the companionshp of our children no
matter how old or how young they may
| lie. MAY modern society not be involuted
| into the pleasures Of clubhouse or a
] public reception hail. but be evoluted into