, 1873-04-27
Responsibility Of the Old Puritans for the
American Demon Of Unrest. ,
Exposure of Your Domestic
Skeletons.
Tho Mysteries and Miseries Of Eouse-
Hunting---Some Hints to y.
'- Landlords.
No More old-Fashioned Homes -
The Present Ragerness
for Change.

.-eS1~AAA@~A
for Change.
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Moving. Then, and Now.
II "the wicked flea when no man pursueth,"
what An ini4uitous race ne must be for, an-
nua1ly 1t least, large proportion Of US dis1odge
all our household gods, and with much worri-
ment Of mind, excessive fatigue Of body, and d
decided general Generalization, We proceed to
erect new affairs in other, not always better
places, and rainstate our Lares and Penatea for
cnother brief period. Those
RESTLESS OLD ruR1TAN9, -.
who could not bo contented with quietly gong
to Heaven IN the regular way, have much 70 an
swer for Instead Of saying their prayers IN the
old Church OF England fashion, eating their din
ners comfortably, and sojourning quietly under
their inherited roof-trces, whether manor~house
or cottage, they had to stir up that restless un-
easy, never-gaiBded moral element, called
CONSCIENCE.
They listened to its dictates they submitted
to its authority they said "good-byo" topeaco
and tranquility thenceforwerd and forever.
Conscience is, no doubt, Q doa1rable monitor;
but it ia just possible that it occasionally re-
qu1rs the guiding influence Of Reason Left
unrestssined, it is quite apt to mount upon
tigh horse take the bit in it's mouth, gallop
awsy at will, until it loses its own Bense Of intel
ligeut action, grows blind from the fury Of it's
ouu unchecked race, and may take one into all
sorts OF thorny by~paths, or perchance come to
decided grief in tho end. It Is not at all likely
that such WAS the kind Of conscience that stirred
Ill 131%1, 1nf tfn'
p.ickly ort,-a Kind Of
MENTAL NETT1E-RAsH,
that kept them constantly in an uneasy state.
Fi1rt, their moral convictions became unsettled;
thence the contagion spread to the mental; tho
stomach responded to the brain, as the brain
does to the stomach, and behold! certain
asceticism became 3 symptom. This upset the
physica1 equilibrium, and general uneasineEs
supetvened, which at last culmlnated in that
FIRST MOVE TO HOLLAND.
This ras but the incipient stage Of the disease,
which was eventually to become widespread
contagion. that, like inherited scrofula, should
affect snd infect their children and childrcn's
children to remotest posterity. 4" The nins Of the
iathars was here to be e1emp1it1ed in another
way. Holland answered very well for rstrnove;
but the Dutch we're stoid race. They were
content to tic up their cows tails, scour the out
eide Of their houses, smoke thoir pipes, drink
their unrighteous beer, sleep the sleep OF the
Justified, and not live in aperpetual state of self
torment It ia doubtful Is the unpsrdonable sin
srsr cost them an instant's thought: OF course,
this was all very dreadful, and those good, old,
nonscieuce-awakened self-1narty1s must have
beon in despair. That they resisted 1nassacrelng
the whole obtuze race for righteousness sake,
was probably only question Of numbers, not OF
zeal. However, as they could not rouse the sou-
uolent Dutchman to q realizing sense OF the er-
ror Of his ways, it was quite impossible to Etay
and contemplate it, and
-. ANOTHER MOVE WAS pERroRcE MADE.
Conscience, and the first symptoms Of dygpep-
sis, contingent upon the unsettled state Of their
moral, mental, and physical being, urged them
On, and they determined to seek home where,
IS peculiar people, they could indulge in rs
.n.nv religious pirouettea as their mental urtica-
III might suggost Plymouth Rock has become
TIE DI4ARSEI-sToSE OF AMERICA
It has been .sentimentalized upon dd hbituna
eome people are heretical enough to think cd
nausedm,-but then they are not born Yankees,
only unorthodox outsidczs, Who probably sneer
from envy. Mrs. Hemans wrote, @sIhe broaking
~aves dsahed high" and every school-boy has
declaimed, with proper emphasis, pathoB, and
pride, that self-sasisfyfng poem, reaching the
elima1 Of clrnaxes as he finishes with the lines:
They hare left unststned what there they fonnd,-
Or not to worship Him, one might add, in view
of The numerous churches and small congrega-
tons which one is forced to contemplate in large
cities. With this aspect OF the subject we have
! nothing to d. however, at present, except mas
much as it was the original seed-time from which
Americans seem to Be destined to resp per-
petual harvest: =
1torESo.2 : :.
LII. f-u& &t,a cY%fft
continent, larger than the whole OF Europe, for
them to more around in and infect with discon-
| tent Il Conaider Bare-bones' conscience waa 3
httle mora stinging and lively than Charity
Bsnd-the-knees, and ho had not sufficient phyel,-
| al power to persuade the latter into an equal
ttate Of mental disqnietude, OF he disagreed
| With the community with whom he dTelt gener-
lily, Ill he had to do was to take his poor paltry
LIE in his own hands, 1ay IN = supply OF powder
rd shot for the baneft OF his Indian neighbors,
ake his trasty dae, and
He-o be could build stocknde, or block
houae, and glorifY God according to the dictates
of his Own conscience: Oil degenerate days
I'D restless spirit, the came uneasy condition Of
mind, but the flavor has all gone out Of it. No
| nGgious disabilities now send uB OF upon our
j annual hegira~ No aromatic spice Of over
topping virtue pe1meatlng us NTH an odoE Of
| VIE CATERING TO CREATURE coNFoRrs,-
question Of gaa, furnace, range, lsvetoy pos
nhiliies, French windows, marble fronts, Nam
ss,d roots, or, degradation OF degradation, even
| rtatonsry wash-tubs. There ID not single
moral element left, for, although anathemaa
| nsy BE- hurled by both landlord and tenant, they
ha1e no regal strength or sacerdotal vengeance,
b7t are more like those curses which have been
oompared to immature members Of the dallnaca'
tnn,ly.
"1is true, It's pity,-pity It's, it's true !" and
IT, having fallen upon these later, material days,
sah no grand moral or heroic element to st1mu-
hss u, We 60 forth upon Our. weary round :! IN 7.
sa1ea Of "other evils that we know not, OF;
hehaSe heard OF people who went houae-hnnt.
FOR THE LOVE OF IT, =.
Enriab1e rnorta1s! They are none Of 5our
auet, self-satsfed creatures, who are contented
nare and lot lire; but inqulring minds, Tho'
sstead Of being who1ly engrossed with their o"n
F!; miserable home affairs, find abundant room,
hheir broad interpretation Of neighboz'iness,
nnks ni yon and your private concerns under
pecal supervision and criticism. They hare
'eseea themselves into your par]o1 and dining
I'm put ne7er yet have penetrated the Ellen"
~ of your kitchen and bedrooms. They know
W. W. aers ia skeleton IN every house, but they