Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-04
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5f1u - -iS'fsyf IT'S sr1'li-1s eiiii >,
! ~, Henae Life I'm America. -sii'
Its the habit of old people to cry
down the present, and to cry up the
past. - 1t was different when we were
young" they say; isand it was better
they generally add; The old time i
always the good time, with the old, and
we suppose, always VIII be. The poets
have done! much to bring atFout this
opinion, for they are never weary d
singing about 'gFhe days that are nc
m6re.n Itwas SO in Greece and Rome
and 1T was 50 in England. tfWhen this
old cap was newe everything was as Il
should be; and every virtue under the
sun was. .impersenated in 'ePhe Queens
Old. Courtief, ~ and !" Fine Old English
Gentlemang' 1t was q pity that these
worthies had to die before their virtues
could be found out; but they had to all
the same. We do not agree with the
poets in this matter, and never shall
Butwe are willing to agree withthem
If they will agree with US. - We will
admit that the old time is the best time,
but they must admit that no tune is SO
old as tiie present time. 1t Is the fact,
whether they admit 1t or not, and ii
follows, therefore, that 1t is the best
time. 7An,i 1t ought to be; for peoples,
like persons, s'liSe'and leafn.n We're
it otherwise, all the battles that have
been lost and won, all the great men
who have lived and died everything
In short, that WAS, and is not, would
have been to no purpose. 1t is the crab
that walks back wards mot man. The
race advances; II does no. recede.
.1h Not to philosophise. on so evident Q
truism, however, let us look q little into
the simple matter OF home life. Forty,
thirty, twenty years ago, the Home
Life Of America was very different
from what it Is to-day. It was less ex-
pensive, and Il was less comfortable
The man Of average means lived with
in his means, but it was at the sacritice
of something. IiHedid not. deny ,hitn7
self the i'screature comforts" but he
denied himself the luxury Of books,
and his wife and daughters the luxury
of dress Fifty calico dresses were
worn then where one, is Worn new;
while books, which now run through
twenty editions, were long time then
in, creeping through one Whether
there are not too many ijooks and toe
few calico dresses 1loW. issnnt tia dueJ-
ton. 1t Is the fact which we are con-
sidering. Thirty years ago the cost of
q good brick house, in q pleasant city
street, was about equaf to the yearly
rental Of such a honse now: atAny rate,
IL was not much greater - To be sure,
there, were drawbacks to those houses,
which no longer exist. we have ven
tigatio,, where we had none: we are
warm where iywep were icOld. inJ bitter
words, we have comfort where we had
discomfort; This las cost iiis s.5fnething.
but it il wertiI ,ghat Il has leefjst us.0 ~,
Who wifi 1aa y wish hack the icTose
ichambers. the windy nr,8{ssssa oe- ways. the
hasii tbiscx Ifhairsrioth 3 4 Lsnias az FORTY
lvea rs 400 !cWrskynuM ;asI lsonni wish
Rack the lur,f.ar, ,sfeI f;oors and tbe
WeOf3eI, setfIesliif ofnnr dnSestnrs sThese
wsSs Co,1oa -, ,,,a,iSH : sIierfs NJ tha old
finas 6isf theS ~ y nj : 4 sfiS 81 enn,,oh for
fhe S,tieri lima } 1SyaIhaXh IivedSand
learned ''o --ff
4 ssThere As, nd roraI fbad In learning. -
ia an old ariarn INT the ayasa9a. "A n, All
can wiII .naf h, s,,,,ysnce,i ~ 3he- str,5tIs
of IT. IF ia hard to oonv;nce him of the
fruth. Of anv tbirg wher n -ie' ~ lid
interest a. to heliaue tha oonttaru ~
can and ere1maEe,I roval'. srnads- INV
where, Ard he doae eSbangb- [ n,anv II
thar, no nayed wifi . \ bis, q, h,,t 1;o,,d
intentions, !. .HGetrieh' NV @ son, @ @et Tich H
1T was not a Frenchman, who said this.
although one might think SO, lbut i