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Show 0 TRUE BEAUTY OF HOSPITALITY Best Appreciated When It Calls for Self-Sacrlflce. It Is well to recognize tho fact that two young peoplo having begun married mar-ried life on tho basis of a deliberate antagonism to Its ordinary meaning nro likely to drift into an Ideal of life which Is utterly and supremely selfish. A fashlonablo woman, having been rsked whnt furniture she thought suitable suit-able for a spare room, exclaimed: "But why have n spare room? At best, you cannot hopo to compete with a good hotel. Don't attempt it!" This charming creature, who doubtless thought herself very clever, never dreamed that she was flinging out ot the window ono of the highest privileges privi-leges of human life! She never had discovered she never could discover that tho only way to know much that is best and finest In really rare, and noble, and lovnble people, Is to havo them undor your own roof and at your own table. She had never come to rcallzo that the sacrifices that one makes for an honored guest are among tho chlefest Joys of life. Above all. she had, apparently, never discovered that the best of us easily becomes "cushioned in tho inglorious ease" of a selfishly ordered home; and that the test servlco of hospitality, often. Is that which forces us out of It! Blsh- |
