The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-11

~ 4OOeSSIOh VI luInlluTe-caTS and trucks
and drays will fill the streets. Hard
day for the horses! They viii be over over
loaded. Hard day for labOrers! They
VIII oYer-lift before they get the family
furniture out of one house and into
another. Hard day for hOusekeepers, to
see the furniture scratched and the
crOckery broken and the carpets misfit
anu tne m0Veables dashed with sudden
shower. Hard day for landlordsl Hard
day for tenantsl Especial grace is
needed for moving day. Many a mans
rehglOn has been feaTfully strained he
tween the immature breakfast of the 1st
OF May and the hour when at night he
rolled himself into an extempOrized
eouch: The breaking of his favorite
t pIts .! furniture nearly resulted in the
breaking Of the third commandment.
There is no more fearful pass than when
TWO families meet in the same hall. one
moving out and the other MOVING in.
Inc style OF salutatiOn is apt to be more
vehement than complimentary, The
grace that will do for the 1st of january.
or the lst OF February, or the 1st of
March, or the lst of April, will not do
Tor lst OF May. Say your PRAYERS that
morning, if you find nothing to kneel
by but coal scuttle. Say your prayers
tLat night, though you put your knee
on paper of carpet tacks. You must
have supernatural help at the starting
OF such day and unusual repentance
at the close. The annOyances are
enough to make Gantippe out of
Frances HaYergal.
Having often passed through the crisis
OF annual moving day, and having stood
appalled, and confOunded and helpless
in the shipwreck after a while laying
hold as well as we could of the things
that hoated ashore out of the breakers,
warn you, counsel you and encourage
WnT
bruises will leave, stiffened limbs will
become supple, your patience will be
smOOthed OF its wrinkles, and order will
take possession. of all things, and YOU
Will lind time to look around on your
new home and seriously consider. My
hrst counsel Is to those who at this sea-
son move into better apartments. We
shall now see whether, like Paul, you
know how to abound. Don't allow the
fact that your house is two stories
higher than your former one add two
stories to your vanity. Don't allow the
new and brighter silver washed door
plate to become the cOffin-plate of your
buried humility. As some people sue.
ceed they get stuck up. They swagger
where once they walked. They simper
where once they laughed. There is some
thing in their gait and manner which
seemed to say: IF smaller craft don't
keep out of these waters they will be
run down by a CunaTder." l have
known men and women who, while
they lived in plain apartments, were
affable and genial and humble. After
they had crossed the threshold of their
larger residence, turned into a glOTitied
nuisance, they became the terror of dry
goods clerks. the amusement of ferry
boats, If for moment compelled to
stand, by one cOndemnatOTy glance, con-
Yicting all the other passengers as
criminals, because they were seated.
They hunt up cOat-Of-aTms and have q
lion cOuchant or roaring unicorn on
their carriage door, when their Tightful
cOat-Of-arms would be shoe last, or
butter tiTkin, or yaTd-stick, or a towel.
| Though Just like all the rest of us, made
| out of dust, they would have you believe
| that they trickled out of heaven on a
lump of loaf sugar. The first you know
their father has failed in business, and
| the daughter has run off with a French
| dancing master. A woman spoiled by
her fine house is bad enough, but a man
that is upset is sickening. The laYen-
deTed fool is so dainty, so precise, so
| affected in the roll of his eyes and the
pounding of the handle of his ivory cane
against his front teeth, and he is so
feminine and languid, and has his con-
yersation so 'larded with obs and abs,
that he is to me great dose of ipeca-
chuana. If you move intOa large house
thank God for more room, for a better
place to hang pictures, for more luXuTi-
Gus upholstery, for more opportunity for
the entertainment of your friends, for
more space in which your children can
rOmp, for great book cases filled with
choice reading, for wealth of bric-a-brfA e.
Have as fine house as you can at t5Td
to have, but do not sacrifice either your
common sense or your religion.
Three summers ago we were guests in
an English manor. StatuaTr. and fnrni-
tuTe and botanical and Architectural
genius could do no more for the grounds
than they had done, and the house for
many generations. had been amassing
its riches OF p'. .dte and furniture and
costly attenr r4ances. At half-past nine
Ihe Dell ST, dnded, and twenty men SER
wants a.nd maid servants came in to
pray RS, The proprietor of the estate
read the Scripture lesson, gave out the
}, hymn, started the tune, and then led in
| prayer, while all the employees of the
estate knelt in the worship. God can
| trust such man with fortune. "Oh,"
you say, "he was brought up In the
luxury, and, therefore, it was tG him nc
novelty" No, he started poor be-
| but rose till he bought out the plate, the
| equipage, the house, and the parks of a
ruined English Lord. Our host loved
God and wOrshipped Him, and God took
good care of him all through the allure
ments of great success. Like Paul, he
knew how to abound. Do not be spoiled
by the number of liveried coachmen
that stop at the front door of your new
dwelling, nor the long trail of guests
sweeping across the imported tapestry,
Many of them are fawning parasites.
They are in love with your house, not in
love with you. Move down to No. 32O on
Low Water Mark street and see how
many of them will call. 1t takes all
your ten fingers to count their carriages
on now. Move down to 32O Low Water
Mark street and you can cOnnt all their
carriages on your nose.
TimOn of Athens had all the mighty
men and women at his banquets, and
they drank deep to his health. They
sent him costly presents and he sent
costlier presents back to them. There
was no man like TimOn, the Lord, while
he kept up his great establishment. But,
after awhile, through his too lavish
hospitality and their betrayal, he lost
all. Then he sent to his special friends,
Lords Lucius, Sempronius, Lucullus and
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