News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-04-22

sure lllLO IalllIy community Wlllou
the genuine love. sympathy, comrade
ship and unity of purpose of a home
family And if even these qualities b,
absent III the family there Is tie oI
blood which has a certain degree OF
neutraIiZing power in every discord.
This homeless life in boarding
house is harder for the wife than fol
the husband, as a long term of punish
| ment is harder than short one. His
business duties, keeping him away from
the scene most of the time. make bis
| realization of it perhaps less, yet he
may suffer vicariously in noting the
subtle changes in his wife, either in
| her struggle against the environment
| or in her surrender to 1t. In the false
| perspective of their living, sources OF
misunderstanding multiply, and the
| loving adjustment of their views and
| ideals may be disturbed as the needle
| of compass is automatically DETECTED
| in certain regions.
Meals that in their own home might
be enjoyed in frank, genial, trusting
companionship and sympathy are now
taken under the fire of many eyes that
make the sweetness of instructive con-
fdence impossible. In the artificial at
mosphere of their living he may be
almost afraid to look across the table
for fear of being accused of flirting
with the new boarder from Kentucky,
who expects to be in town all sum-
mer.
If the husband does not talk he is
likely to be charged with being dis
agreeable and suIky. If he does talk
he may be accused of trying very hard
to be fascinating to some one for
whom he really does not care two
straws. Caught between the horns of
the dilemma, the husband thinks hard,
says under his breath something not
for publication and wshes-that he
had home The wife may suffer. too,
the same mistranslation of her most
innocent actions.
The quiet social evenings with few
friends have always to be considered
from the standpoint of some one else's
convenience. The lady on the third
floor back is sick and cannot bear the
floor disturbs the rest of the nervous
old gentleman in the rooms under
meath, or any of dozen other con-
siderations may emphasize the limita-
lions of boarding. Where two are
forced by circumstances to live for
tim in 81 IN, hnap1
ing houses. it makes a special call on
their finest tact. patience and love to
neutralize the effect of many condi-
tons that they would never voluntarily
choose
Hotels give more independence, but
more isolation; more freedom. but also
more loneliness. The unwelcome close
ness of contact of boarding houses is
for an equally unwe1come
lloofness and GOODNESS. Hotels are
excellent institutions for travellers or
those desiring temporary quarters, but
they pail quickly on lovers of home.
They have such an institutional at
as you walk two blocks after |
leaving the elevator, through heavy. |
ED carpeted corridors, carrying a large !
Key attached to a brass numbered ar
the size of a young plate, |
md the only mark that differentiates /
your rooms from the others as you
approach it, is the number 1422.
1t would be hard to imagine a wall
MOTTO "GOd Bless Our Home" hang
ng in hotel. 1t would seem irrever-
nee, with an undertone of sarcasm.
The elaborate array of dishes on the
menu may attract for few days. but
'ou soon grow tired of the simplest
rticles of food masquerading under
french aliases and you long for simple
meals and simpler surroundings. You
would like to see a boiled potato with
he courage to stand up boldly and de-
iantly, in spite of its humble origin,
Ed not trying to slip into your good
races under the alibi of foreign
tile. You long for palmer food and
ome cooking, for more genuine COM
ort and less gilt and glitter and dec
ration, where you can be truly your
atural self, where you can even lean
our elbows on the table if you feel
ike it. 1t is just an honest heart hun
,er for home.
Eating in restaurants has drivenmany
good young man into matrimony.
living in boarding houses and hotels
alter has driven many a man out of
The vain display, the vul-
,arity, the fictitious luxury. the con-
SANITY enforced contrast between your
and those of others COM
Zine to create a restless. uncertain.
living far from conducive to
appiness in marriage.
One vital note in the music of life
s the sense of possession. In mar
iage it transforms the lonely pronoun
mine" into the one of larger sweeter
meaning, "ours," and the alchemy Of
Dve makes "mine" and thine" inter
Manageable elements. 1t is the impel-
ing spirit that makes homes, where
he sense of dual possession in unity
transforms a new picture. a new ring,
few new boolss. new chair or new
urtains into a real event that brings
enuine pleasure. 1t is not the petty
alue of the things themselves that
cunts. for all that is best in the home
rould defy a tax assessor to discover,