Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-08
Preparing for LIES Winter.

enjoying all the good Things Oh HE
until near its sunset. Yet what
sight is more common than that of
farmers folks in particular, living
plainly and pinchingly for a long
term of years, under the vain delu-
sion that aftera time they will sit
down and eat the fruit Of their
labors. They comfort themselves
with the thought that the old rick
ETY. house can be replaced by the
mansion later on. That mean
while, it is hardly worth repairing,
or adding to, in the way of pleas
ant pOrches and summer kitchens,
and commodious cupbOardS, and a
door cut in place where it would
save the tired housewife miles of
travel in the course of a year.
When the new house is built all
these improvements will be con-
sidered.
SO the years come and go and
the frame grows bent and the limbs
stiaened and the capacity for en-
joyment diminishes with each
added season of hard work. The
( new house so long in cOntempla-
ton is sometimes built and some
times not; and perhaps in the lat
ter case the enjoyment is just as
great. One can grow attached to
to even the disadvantages of q
situation 10y a long familiarity with
them and old people generally say
the old is BETTER even where the
facts are quite the reverse. l know
hard working man and his wife
who had scrimped and saved and
lived in wretched old house years
after any necessity existed for such
economy, who when their children
were mostly grown up took q no.
ton to build. 1t was to be no
common place country-house, like
most of their well-tO do neighbors
house, but 4 grand building of
brick and mortar. An, architect
drew the plan and they had a
pretty comfortable season Of hard
work boarding the workmen in
their narrow quarters and strain
ing every nerve to. get moved in
before Winter. 1t seemed like the
good old times when they were
making their fortune.
But when once established ia
their large house they did not
know what TO do with themselves.
The sitting room was almost too
fine for company, the parlOr was q
uper.numerary, and it was not
thought worth while to furnish
that for the Eresrnt at least. The
dining.roOm Vas alsO useless as all
their lives they Lad taken their
meals in the kitchen. The kitchen
was the only'spot they did feel free
to move about in, so there the
family gathered day after day. But
the last | knew of them they had
pulled down a part of the old house
and were building on an addition
to the already over large house, so
they would h ave some place to do
work in and save the new kitchen.
AS far as you can, 'make home
happy comfortable, and even ele'
giant, as you 60 along. 1t is just
as wellto appropriate some Of the
good things your Heavenly Father
gives.you, as to hoard them all up
for your heirs, who may sQuander
them much faster than you gather
ed them. They will be more likely
to laugh at your pains than to hold
,yOur memory in grateful remem-
bIance. No one is respected after
he is gone whose course has not
been Of sort to command respect.
They may be glad that you 'spar'
ed so we'll, but they will not be
grateful in proportion to the bene'
fits received.
A liberal, enlightened course is
the best for all parties: 1t is bad
Tor children when they cease tC
respect a father or mother. A
great deal of inherited property
cannot make up for the loss. Much
less can it make amends for pinch
ed childhood when the mind anC
soul were starved and dwarfed anC
the spirit made bitter by injustice
that the hoard might be yearly in
creased which in the end was Il
be divided among them. OLIVE