Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 July 1899 — Page 7

HOME VERSUS HOTEL Dr. Talmage Speaks of the Blessings of the Former. " Points Oat Dlsadvantages of a Life Spent la Hotels and UoardlnK Houses - Wholesome Influences of Home. (Copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch.) Washington, July 9. Home life versus hotel life is the ♦heme of Dr. Talmage’s sermon for today, the disadvantages of a life spent at more or less temporary stopping places bding sharply contrasted with the blessings that are found in the real home, however humble. The text is Luke 10:34, 33: “And brought him to an inn and took care of him. Arid on the mori’ow when he departed he took out two penpe and gave them to the host and said unto him: ‘Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spcndest more when 1 come again I will repay thee.’ ” This is the good Samaratln paying the hotel bill of a man who had been robbed and almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had found the unfortuuate on a lonely, rocky road,where to this very day depredations are sometimes committed upon travelers, and had put the injured man into the saddle, while this merciful and well-to-do man had walked till they got to the hotel', and the wounded man was put to bed and .eared for. It must have been a very superior hotel in its accorm xnodayons, for, though in the country, the landlord was paid at the rate of what in our country would be four or live dollars a day, a penny being then a day’s wages, dnd the two pennies paid in this ease about two days’ wages. Moreover, it was one of those kindliearted landlords who are wrapped up in the happiness of tlieir guests, be-4 •cause the, good Samaritan leaves the poor wounded fellow to his entire e,are, promising that when he came that way again he would pay all the bills until the invalid got well. Hotels and boarding houses are necessities. In very ancient times they were unknown, because the world had comparatively few inhabitants, and those

•\yere not much given to travel, and pri\ate hospitality met all the wants of sojourners, as when Abraham rushed out at Marnre to invite the three men to sit down to a dinner of veal; as when the people were positively commanded to be given to hospitality; as in many of the places in the east these ancient customs are practiced to-day. But we have now hotels presided over by good landlords, and boarding houses presided over by excellent host or hostess in all neighborhoods, villages and cities, and it is our congratulation that those of our land surpass alb pther lands. They rightly become the permanent residence of many people, such as those who are without farailies^such as those whose business keeps them migratory, such as -those who ought not for various reasons of health or peculiarity of circumstances to t^ke upon themselves the, cares of housekeeping. Many a man falling sick in one of these boarding houses or hotels has oeen Kindly watched and nursed; and by the memory of her own sufferings and losses the lady at the head of such a house has done all that a mother eould do for a siek child, and the slumberiess eye of Cod sees and' appreciates her sacrifices in behalf of the stranger. Among the'most marvelous cases of patience and Christian fidelity are many of those who keep boarding houses, enduring without resentment the unreasonable demands of their guests for expensive- food and attentions for which they are not willing to pay an equivalent—a lot of. cranky men and women who are not worthy to tie the shoe of their queenly ^caterer. The outrageous way in which boarders sometimgs act to their landlords and landladies shows, that these critical guests had bad early rearing and that in the making up of their natures all that constitutes the gentleman and lady was left out. Some of the most princely men and some of the most^ elegant women that 1 know of to-day keep hotels and boarding Louses.

but one of- the great evils of this day is found in the fact that a large population of our towns and cities are giving up and have given up their homes and taken apartments, that they may have more freedom from domestic duties and more time for social life, and because they like the whirl of publicity better than tire quiet and privacy of a residence they can call their own. The lawful use bf these hotels and boarding houses is for most people while they are in transitu, but as a terminus they arc in many cases demoralization, utter and complete. That is the point at which families innumerable have begun to disintegrate. There never has been a time when so many families, healthy and abundantly able to supp&jrt and direct homes of their own, h§re struck ' tent and taken permanent abode in these public establishments. It is an evil wide as Cliristtendom, and by voice and through the newspaper press,! utter warning and burning protest and ask Almighty God to bless the word, whether in the hearing or reading. In these public Aravansaries the demon of gossip is apt to get full sway. All the boarders run daily the gantlet of general inspection—how they look when they come down in the morning and when they get in at night, and what they do for a living, and who they re-' ceive as guests in their rooms, and what they wear and what they do not wear*, nnd how they eat, and what they eat, and bow much they eat, and how little they eat. If a man proposes in such a place to be isolated and reticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him: Who is he? Where did he come from? How long is he going to stay? Has he paid his board ? How much does he pay? Perhap^e has committed

seme crime and does not want to be known. There must be something wrong about him, or be would Speak. The whole house goes into the detective business. They must find out about him. They must find out about him right away. If he leaves his door unlocked by accident he will find that his rooms have been inspected, his trunk explored, his letters folded differently from the wav they were folded when he put them away. Who is he? is the question asked with intenser interest until the subject bns become a monomania. The simple fact is that he is nobody in particular, but minds his own business. The |jest landlords and landladies cannot'sometimes hinder their places from becoming a pandemonium of whisperers, and reputations are torn to tatters, and evil suspicions are aroused, and scandals started, and the parliament of the family is blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as was his English predecessor of gunpowdery reputation. . The reason is that while in private homes families have so much to keep them busy, in these promiscuous and multitudinous residences there are so many who have nothing to do, and that always makes mischief. They gather in each other’s rooms and spend hours in consultation about others. If they had to walk a half mile before they got to the willing ear of some listener to detraction they would be out of breath before reaching there and not feel in full glow of animosity or slander, or might, because of the distance, not go at all. But rooms 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 23 are on the same corridor, and when one carrion crow goes “Caw! Caw!” all the other crows hear it and flock together over

the same carcass. “Oh, 1 lfave heard something rich! Sit down and let me tell you all about it.” And thefirst guffaw increases the gathering, and it has to be “told all over again, and as they separate each carries a spark from the .altar of Gab to some other circle until, H{rom the coal lieaver in the cellar to the maid in the top room of the garret, all are aware of the defamation, and that evening all who leave the house will bear it to other houses until autumnal fiites sweeping across Illinois prairies aPr less raging and swift than that flame of consuming reputation blazing across the village or city. Those of us who were brought up in the country know that the old-fash-ioned hatching of eggs in the haymow required four or five weeks of brooding, but there are new modes of hatching by machinery, which takes less time and do the work by wholesale. So, while the private home may brood into life an occasional falsity, and take a long time to do it, many of the bearding houses and family hotels afford a swifter and more multitudinous style of moral incubation, and. one old gossip will get off the nest after one hour’s brooding, chicking a flock of 30 lies after her, each one picking up its little worm of juicy regalement. It is no advantage to hear too much about yodr neighbors, for your time will be so much occupied in taking care of their faults that you will,have v.o time to look after your own. And while you arc pulling the. duckweed out^of their garden, yours will get all overgrown with horse sorrel and mullen stalks. One of the worst damages that come from the herding of so many people into boarding houses and family hotels is inflicted upon children. It is only another way of bringing them up on the commons. While you have your own private house you can, for the most part, control their companionship and their whereabouts, but by 12 years of age in these public resorts they will have picked up all the bad things that can be furnished by the prurient minds of dozens of people. They will overhear blasphemies and see quarrels and get precocious in sin, and what the bartender does not tell them the porter or hostler or bell boy Will. Besides that, the children will go out into this world without the restraining, anchoring, steadying and all controlling memory of a home. From that none of us who have been blessed of such memory have escaped. It grips a man for SO years, if he lives so long. It pulls him baek from doors into which he otherwise would enter. It smites him with contrition in the very midst of i his dissipations. As the fish already ' surrounded by the long wide net swim out to sea, thinking they can go as far as they please, and with gay toss of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on the beach, and after awhile the fishermen begin to draw in the net hand over hand and hand over hand, and it is a long while before the captured fins begin to feel the net, and then they

cart, tms way ana that, hoping1 to get out, but find themselves approaching the shore and are brought up to the very feet of the captors, so the memory of an early home sometimes seems to relax and let men out farther and farther from God and farther and farther from shore—five years, ten years, 20 years, 30 years—but some day they find an irresistible mesh drawing them | back, and they are compelled to retreat from their prodigality and wandering, and, though they make desperate effort tp escape the impression and try to dive deeper down in sin, after awhile are brought clear back and held upoh the Rock of Ages. If it be possible, oh* father and mother! let. your sons and daughters go out into the world under the semiomnipotent memory of a good, pure home. About your two or three rooms in a boarding house or a family hotel you can cast no such glorious sanctity. They will think of these public caravansaries as an early stopping place, malodorous with old victuals, coffees perpetually steaming and meats in everlasting stew or broil, the air surcharged with carbonic acid and corridors along which drunken boarders come staggering at one o’clock in the morning, rapping at the door till the affrighted wife lets them in* Do not be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy of calling such a place a home.

A home is four walls inclosing one family with identity of interest and a privacy from outside inspection so com* plcte that it is a world in itself, no one entering except by permission—bolted and barred and chained against all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase so often used in law books and legal circles is mightily suggestive—every man's house is his castle. As much as though it had drawbridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret. Even the officer of the law may not enter to serve a writ except the door be voluntarily opened unto him. Burglary or the invasion of it is a crime so offensive that the law clashes its iron jaws on anyone who attempts it. Unless it be necessary to stay for longer or shorter time in family hotel or boarding house—and there are thousands of instances in which it is necessary, as 1 showed you at the beginning—unless this exceptional case, let neither wife nor husband consent to such permanent residence. The probability is that the wife will have to divide her husband’s time with public smoking or reading-room or with some coquettish spider in search of unwary flies, and if you do not entirely lose your husband it will be because he is divinely protected from the disasters that whelmed thousands of husbands with as good intentions as yours. Neither should the husband without imperative reason consent to such a life unless he is sure his wife can withstand the temptation of social dissipation which sweeps across such places with the force of the Atlantic ocean whop driven by a September equinox. Many wives give up their homes for these public residences so that they may give their entire time to operas, theaters, balls, receptions and levees," and they are iu a perpetual whirl, like a whiptop spinning round and round and round very prettily, until it loses it3 equipoise, and shoots oft' into a tangent. But the difference is, in one case it is a top and in the other a soul. Besides this there is an assiduous accumulation of little things around the private home, which in the aggregate make a great attraction, while the denizen of one of these public residences is apt to say: “What is the use? I have no place to keep them if I should ’take them.” Mementos, bric-a-brae, curiosities, quaint chair or cozy lounge.

upholsteries, pictures and a thousand things that accrete in a home are discarded or neglected because there is no homestead in which to arrange them. And yet they are the case in which the pearl of domestic happiness is set. You can never become as attached to the appbintments of a boarding house or family hotel as to those things that you can call your own and are associated >vith the different members of your household or with scenes of thrilling import in your domestic historj\ Blessed is that home in Which for a whole lifetime they have teen gathering until every figure in the carpet and 'every panel of the door and every casement of the window has a chirography of its own, speaking out something about father or mother or son or,daughter or friend that was with us awhile. What a sacred place it becomes when one can say: “In that room such a one was born; in that, bed such a one died; in that chair I sat on tbenight I heard such a one had received a great public honor; by that stool n» child knelt for her last evening pray$T; here I sat to greet rhy son as he came back from sea voyage; that was father's cane; that was mother's rocking chair.” What a joyful and pathetic congress of renpniscences! The public residence of hotel and boarding house abolishes the grace of hospitality. Your guest does not want to come to such a table. No one wants to run siich a gantlet of acute and mercile§s hypercriticism. Unless you have a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Sliunammite in the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the widow of Zarephath in the perpetual oil well of the miraculous cruse because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Kahab in the preservation of her life at the demolition of Jericho because of his entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in Mi rescue from the destroyed city because of his entertainment of the angels, and to Mary and Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual blessing because they: entertained Christ, and to Publius in the island of Melita in the healing cf his father because of the entertainment t^fjPaul, drenched from th shipwreck, and of innumerable houses throughout Christendom upon which have come blessings from generation to generation because their doors swung easily open in the enlarging, en

noniing, irradiating and divine grace of hospitality. I do not know what your experience has been, but I have had men and women visiting at my house who left a benediction on every room—in^the blessing they asked at the table, in the prayer they offered at the family altar, in the good advice they gave the children, in the gospclization that looked out from every lineament of their countenances, and their departure was the sword of bereavement. The queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark had a royal cup of ten curves, or lips, each one having on it thb name of the distinguished person wlio had drunk from it. And that cup which we’ offer to others in Christian hospitality, though it be of the plainest earthenware, is a royal cup, and God can read on all sides the names of those who have taken from it refreshment, but all this is impossible unless you have a home of your own. It is the delusion as to what is necessary for a home that hinders so many from establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor 20, nor 15, nor ten, nor five, nor three. In the right way plant a table, and couch, and knife, and fork, and a cup, and a chair, and you can raise a young paradise. Just start a home on however small a seals and it wu. grow.

married and happy UNTIL we met face to face in.a crowded street I had not known of Ben being in London. His manner seemed a little nervous, but I attributed it to our unexpected meeting, \Ve had been friends until our walks in life widened apart. He became an architect and decorator and I had chosen medicine. When the cab stopped before a handsome house and Ben sprang out 1 was silent with amazement. He led me through halls and rooms that seemed old and grand to my American eyes, and then closed the door of a cozy den and we were alone. “Why, Ben, old fellow, you must have struck it rich," I ventured, and he looked at me, paling a little. “Haven’t you heard?” he asked. “Not a word since the old man was cut up in the wreck, and Dan Ward, being the next of kin, came in for the fortune that should have been yours,” I replied, hesitatingly, knowing what a blow all this had been to Ben. Hejaughed softly, and his hands moved in the did, restless way I had so often noticed when he had something important to tell me. “You came away before 1 took the contract to restore the old piace?” he said. “Yes,” I answered, with something like a gasp. Had the)' added insult to injury? Had they dared— “At first the offer hurt me, and then the man in me gave way to what you used tc call the artistic instinct. Hadn’t I been thinking of its {Possibilities all these years?” “But to do it for another man—for him, Ben!” 1 interrupted. “Well, he really couldn’t help it, you know, though.it was hot until later that 1 was able to take that philosophical view of it. It was only that I loved Lakewood too well to have it spoiled, and—I wanted to get away from the city, for Dolly’s fatherwell, he liked Lakewood asnd all that goes with it, and so Dan, and not I, was in high favor with him.” “It was hard when you have had every reason to expect it for your own,” I persisted. “Yes, but 'there was the bigger trouble using me up,” he said, smiling softly. He sat still then; still, except those restless hands; slender and white as a woman’s they were, and I knew by their moving that Ben’s story was a hard one for him to tell. “You don’t believe in ghosts—in the return of the disembodied spirit, do you,

Dick 7" “Well, no, Ben. I suppose I am material. My profession—” “But you'll believe my story.” lie looked up with his sweet, calm smile. “Certainly I will. Am I to hear it now?” He glanced at the clock. “Yes. I’ll teH you now before Dolly comes—” “Dolly!” “You have the last of the story first. The ‘married and happy ever after,’ you know.Well, you see, we went down to Lakewood, and the men lived at the village hotel. But I put up at the old place, with Gaston and Hannah to take care of me. Poor old things! Over and over they described the horrible scene to me. I had only reached home in time for the funeral, you know, and for the —the will, which could not be found. "For a year, a whole year, I worked, never once growing tired of the exquisite woods, metals and fabrics. A year and the anniversary of my adopted father’s death was at hand. Ah.! the place was a wonder of beauty now! “It happened that I was at work in the old man’s room, the long one along the south wing. It was midnight, and I was busy with my drawings. Now and then a splash of rain came with the wind through the window, and the light, the only one in the room, flickered and cast strange shadows on my papers. “I had measured the wall and was turning away when something on the pillow caught my eye, and I stood still. My blood froze as the horror of it came upon me, and my feet were like lead. ■ “On the pillow lay the head of Mr. Guthrie. -The tine, grim old face, with its ip-, scrutable eyes and thin lips, the brow and shining white hair—all this, but the head only-—the head severed from a body that I did not see. “I heard a voice, a low, sobbing voice, but my soul was faint with sickening fear, and I did not hear the words. I staggered to a chair, my fascinated eyes on the face that lay upon the white pillow. But only my eyes were aflive. I could not hear if there were words. The light on the table flickered and went out and I was alone with that. “Hannah came with the coffee 1 always have at midnight when I am at work. She relighted my lamp and moved it out of the draft. I glanced at the bed. There was nothing on the pillow. Hannah lpoked sharply at me and went away. I swallowed the black coffee, and went over to the table where my work lay. » “Presently, as 1 sat listening, I heard a slow, halting step. I knew the sound. A hesitating, heavy step—the step of an old man whose feet are tired of earth’s ways. I turned my head, and I saw crossing the room the lower limbs of a man—the feet and legs to the knees. They w’ere going from me. “Near the wall at the side of the bed they stopped. A flash of lightning dazzled me, and when I looked again they were gone, but turned toward me were a pair of arms, long, shaking arm3 and slender yellow hands, floating slowly, slowly across me. I felt them on mv face, the cold, clammy fingers, the icy palms. I felt them draw me from my seat and on to the wall at the side of the bed.

^6“And then I Baw them move doubtfully, carefully over the dark panels with the hesitating, uncertain motion that belongs to old people when sensation has grown dull. “I was numb with horror, but I stood there quaking like a dying thing, and I felt my own hands lifted and saw them move over the panels, guided by those other hands. And a panel moved, and I heard a rustle as of old papers, and a thud, and then I sank down and down to— “For days I was dead to things of earth. But at last I began to be'able to trace Dolly’s face in the darkness that enveloped me, and hex voice was the first I heard. It was she who held my hands one day when I was bet« ter, and told me that in my work I had somehow found the will and old papers that proved—that proved the secret I had always suspected. I told you long ago.” He left off; & sort of breathless look came to hia face. “I know. You are Mr. Guthrie’s son,” 1 said, quietly. •“Yes. But they can’t find the place where the papers were hidden. It is strange, Dick. I have had the walls searched again and again. The old room has been ruined in the search. I cannot go back and so we are here, Dolly and I, and Lakewood waits far ns. Ah, die is coming!” "Ben, are you hiding from me here in the firelight?” and Dolly, laughing, light-hearted Dolly, fluttered in.—N. O. Times-Democrat

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