Young Married People and Boarding-Houses
A FRIEND of the Spectator wonders if anything can ever be done to keep young married people from rushing into hotels and boarding-houses, instead of going to housekeeping, as all young married people should. He fancies he can trace many a divorce suit and many an unhappy marriage to badly conducted boarding-houses and hotels. The best of these places cannot be one-half so good, one-half so beautiful, as three or four, or even two or three, rooms, neatly furnished and hallowed by the name of home. Better live in one room, even, than go to a boarding-house. Every young couple beginning their journey as “bride and bridegroom, pilgrims of life together,” should heed this bit of well-meant advice, and keep out of even the best of boarding-houses.—Sel.