Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-01

natural help at the starting of such day,
and unusual repentance at the close. The
annoyances are enough to make a Xantippe
out of Frances Haveraal.
Having often passed through the crisis of
annual moving day and having stood ap-
palled and confounded and helpless in the
shipwreck after awhile laying hold as well
as We could of the thing
That FIOated Ashore
out OF the breakers. | warn you, counsel
you and encourage you. 1t will soon all
be over. The 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 find time to look around on your new
home and seriously consider. My first
counsel is to those who at this season move
into better apartments. We shall now see
whether like Paul you know how to abound.
Donss allow the fact that your house is two
stories Ia CHER than your former one add
two stories to your vanity. Don't allow
the new and brighter silver-washed door,
plate become the coffin-plate to your buried
humility. AS some people succeed 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
seems to say, If smaller craft don't get out
of these waters they will be run down by
Cunarder ! have known men and women
who, while they lived in plain apartments,
where affable and genial and humble. At
ter they had crossed the threshold of their
larger residence, turned into a gratitied
nuisance. They become the
Terror of Dry Good Clerks,
the amusement OF ferry boats. If for a mo
ment compelled TO stand, by one condem-
i. all thnr
Sengers as criminals, because they were
seated They hunt upa coat of arms and
have ion conchant or roaring unicorn
on their carriage door, when their rightful
coat of arms would be shoe last or but
ter firkin or yard stick or trowel. Though
just like all the rest OF Us, made out OF
| dust they would have you believe they had
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 French dancing master. A woman
| spoiled by her fine house is bad enough,
| but man that is upset is sickening. The
| lavendered 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 femin-
inc and languid and his conversation so
larded with obs and abs that he is to me
A Great Dose eOfIpecachuna.
| If YOU move into a large. house, thank God
| for more room, for a better place to hang
| pictures, for more luxurious 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 brio. Have as fine house as you
can afford to have but do not sacrifice eth
er your common sense or your religion
TimOn Of Athens
| had all the mighty men and women at his
| banquctS 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 word to his special friends
| Lords LuCius, Sempronius, Lucullers and
VentidiuS, whom he had banqueted and to
! whom he had given large sums Of money.
| Lucullus refused help saying; 81 told you
!. 50; he vas toa lavish and ought to suffer.
7 Lucius replied: Il would like to help Ii
mon. but have just made large pur-
| chase Some gave one excuse for not help
ing him and some another. But TO the sur
prise of everybody Timon proclaimed an
other feast. Then the Lords said: EITHER
Timon has had turn of good fortune or he
has been deCeiving us to test our love,
And all the Lordly guests flock to the feast
| apOlOgctiC for their seeming lukewarmneSs
and the IOrdly guests were seated at the
table. And the covers were lifted and 10,
! nothing but smoking hot water, at which
! TimOn cried to his guests: II nCOver, dogs
| and lap" Then they saw the awful irony
| of the feast and fled the room pursued by
| Timon's anathcma a. he called them fools
of fortune, smiling parasites, lattererS un-
der the mask of courtesy, hurting the dish
es and platters after them
Some will move into smaller houses be-
cause of the
| They must sell their house or the bailif
| sells il for them, or they must pay less
rent because they have less income. Such
persons ought first to remember that ones
| happiness is not dependent on the size OF
the house they live in. Some people have
cniOyed a small house in two rooms while
others have suffered pandemonium in
twenty. There is as much happiness in
| small house as in large one. There has
been as much peace under tallow candle
as under chandelier with all the burners
full blazing Who was the happier-John
| Bunyan in Bedford Jail or Belshazzarat the
Saturnaia? Contentment Is something that
| you can neither rent nor purchase. 1t IS
|
| always mitigating circumstances Are there
| fewer rooms? You have less to take care
| of. Is it stove instead of furnace and reg
| ister? All the doctors say the modern
| modes of warming houses are unhealthy
| Is il less pier mirror Not 80
much temptation to your vanity. J. it old.
fashioned toilet instead of water pipes all
through the house? Less TO freeze and
burst when you can't get plumber. No
| .,l,o Gov htrst rHtG
| Less social position? Fewer people who
| want to drag you down with their jealous.
| No large fortune to leave in your last will
| and testament Less prospect OF spelling
| your children. A little deaf? DO not hear
so many things disagreeable. Not so much
| market money? Less prospect OF running
the health of the family with
Pine Apple and Lobster Salad.
| meet YOU at the door of your new house
| tomorrow about II o'clock, and after help
ing you over the bannister with the clothes
| closet that the cartman, red in the face, is
trying to transport to its new destination, /
congratulate you. You are going 10 have
this year the best time you have had in
long while: Only take God With you and
the religion of Jesus Christ, and
you will be grandly happy. God in
the parlor, that will sanctify your social
tiles. God in the nursery that will save
your children. God in the diningroOm,
that will make the plainest meal an i'm.
perial banquet. God in the morning, that
will launch the day Alright from the dry
docks. God in the evening that will safely
sail il into harbor
And take all of you JOY at the thought
that if we love God and trust him we shall
all have
Grand Moving Day
bye and bye. Paul gives you picture of
the new residence. We know that If our
earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved
We have building of God, a house not
made with hands eternal as the heavens.
How much rent? Why, We are to own it.
| How many thousand dollars must We pay,
leaving the rest on mortgage? 1t is to be
a fathers gift. When shall we move into
it? We are moving already. Heads OF
families on moving day are apt to wait and
see everything of. They send ahead the
children. They send ahead their yaluables
They send ahead their treasures.
1. we'll remember moving day in
the country in childhood as a jubila-
ton. We, the children. were sent on