Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — Other People’s Houses. [ARTICLE]

Other People’s Houses.

Why should you go and stay in other people’s houses? Another person’s house is hardly better than a hotel; indeed very often it is worse. If you don’t like the dinner hour you cannot change it; if you are given slow horses, you cannot complain; if you dislike your rooms, you cannot alter them; if you think the chef is a bad one, you cannot say so; if you find all the house party bore you, you cannot get rid of them. You must pretend to eat all day long; you must pretend to feel amiable from noon t > midnight; you must have all kinds of plans made for you and submit to them; you can never read hut in your own room, and, generally speaking, there is nothing in the library—if it be an English library—except Tillotson, Wordsworth and Darwin. I cannot imagine how any reasonable being subjects herself to such a martyrdom only because somebody else finds their country place dull without people.— Ouida’s New Novel. In company it is a very great fault to be more forward in setting one’s self off and talking to show one’s parts than to learn the worth and to be truly acquainted with the abilities of other men. He that mukes it is his business not to know, but to be known, is like a foolish tradesman who makes all the haste he can to sell off his old stock, but takes no thought of laying in any new.— Cliarron. No man’s pen should attempt to write a wrong.