The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-08

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it to the rear end of the vehicle,
where it can jog along comfortably
and docilely, and be on hand when
you need it. Be sure, however, to
tie it good and fast, for when you
want it you want it bad.
Let me get back to where | jump
ed the track. The direct cost
mind you, the direct cost-of board
ing, is less than the cost of keeping
house, everything being equal. That
is the one thing that can be said
in it's favor when It is being con-
sidered by two healthy, right-mind-
ed young married people, who have
enough money in hand to buy a lit
tie furniture, rent a small fiat and
lay in a months provisions The
boarding house may be accepted as
a temporary expedient, but as a
permanent abode it won't do. Real,
true, domestic life is impossible in
it. You are confined, as a rule,
to single room in the Furnishings
of which you have only a lateral
interest At the table you are fore
ed to meet a miscellaneous lot of
people. some of whom you wouldn't
care to know Ii you had your choice.
You must accept the food that is
placed before you and thank heaven
It is no worse. No matter what
your individual tastes may be, you
can't satisfy your desires, for if you
can induce the landlady to supply
you with special dishes you will
incur the jealousy and i'll will of
other less favored boarders. In this
delectabie atmosphere your wife
will be left alone all day, with
nothing to do. She will for a while
take breakfast with you, but will
soon find lying in bed becomes a
more pleasant method of killing
time, and you will leave the house
without waking her. When the
pangs of hunger compel her she will
rise, mince a little breakfast, do
a little fancy work, read a little
book, indulge in little gossip with
the other women boarders, make a
few calls. perhaps, and by the time
you come to dinner will be sufi-
GENTLY bored to make even a fam
lily quarrel seem diverting. A wo-
man doesn't differ much from a man.
She cannot develop unless life has a
purpose, and in the demoralizing
surroundings Of boarding house she
shrivels up morally and intellec-
tually unless she breaks out and
finds work or mission for her.
self. Ordinarily boarding house life
is absolute stagnat;on, and 1t is one
of natures memorable laws that stag
nation breeds death | know there
are people who will rise above adj
verse conditions wherever they may
be placed. but have as yet seen no
reason to count you among them.
At any rate, IL is a serious risk, and
l earnestly hope you VIII not take it.
On the other hand, a home is
natures training school for the
making of genuine men and women.
I'll admit that nature doesn't al
ways turn out a firsu-class job, but
that's the fault of the material. /
know some persons who wear trous-
ers who couldn't be turned into
men by any process, natural or arti-
fetal. / would not De so ungallant
as to apply the same statement
to some persons in petticoats. whom
| have met. but | am afraid their
transformation into women with
hearts and minds and souls, all in
active operation, would be a task
too great for any agency. How
ever, that's diversion. If you want
to grow in every way-mentally.
morally, spiritually-if you want
to be happy, get you a few rooms
that you can call home 1t
doesn't matter whether 1t is a three
room fiat or a $4,000 apartment.
Just so the rent is in proper pro-
portion to your income. | don't
mean to say that home makes hap
piness any more than -four makes
cake. but it's mighty necessary in