Connecticut western news., 1900-05-03

was applied to: Well, thought that Timon would come down. He was too lavish Let him suffer for his reckless ness" Iucius said, Il would be very glad to help Timon. but I have made large purchases. and my means are all absorbed" And one lord sent one eX- cuse, and another lord sent another ex- cuse. But, to the astonishment of ev- erybody. after awhile Timon proclaim ed another feast. Those lords said to themselves. Why, either Timon has had a good turn of fortune or he has been deceiving us. testing our love-" And so they all fiocked to the banquet apologetic for seeming lukewarmness. The guests were all seated at the ta- ble, and Timon ordered the covers lift ed. The covers lifted, there was noth- ing under them but smoking hot water. Then Timon said to his guests, Dogs, lap, lap. dogs!" And under the terrific irony they fled the room, while Timon pursued them with his anathema. call ing them fools of fortune. destroyers of happiness under a mask, hurling at the same time the pitchers and the chalices after them. Oh, my friends, l would | not want to make you oversuspicious in the day of your success, but l want you to understand right well there is vast difference between the popularity of Timon the prosperous and Timon the unfortunate; 1 want you to know there is vast difference in the number of people who admire a man when he is going up and the number of people who admire him when he is going down.
 Sad Changes.
 But I must have word with those | who in this Mayday time move out of larger residences into smaller. Some | times the pathetic reason is that the | family has dwindled in size, and so l much room Is not required; so they | move out into small apartments. l know there are such cases Marriage | has taken some of the members of the l family, death has taken other mem | bers of the family, and after awhile | father and mother wake up to find their family just the size it was when | they started, and they would be lone some and lost in large house; hence | they move out of it. Moving day is | great sadness to such If they have the | law of association dominant. There are the rooms named after the differ ent members of the family. I suppose 1t is so in all your households. It is so | In mine. We name the rooms after the persons who occupy them. And then ] there is the dining hall where the fes- tivities took place, the holiday festivi- | ties; there is the sitting room where | the family met night after night and | there is the room sacred because there a life started or life stopped-the | Alpha and the Omega Of some earthly | existence. Scene of meeting and part l ing, of congratulation and heartbreak, | every doorknob, every fresco, every ! mantel, every threshold, meaning more | to you than it can ever mean to any | one else. When moving out of house, I have always been in the habit, after everything was gone, of going into each room and bidding it a mute fare well. There will be tears running down many cheeks in the Maytime moving that the car men will not be able to understand. 1t Is a solemn and a touching and an overwhelming thing to leave places forever-places where we have struggled and toiled and wept and sung and prayed and anxiously
 watched and agonized. Oh, life Is such { a strange mixture of honey and of gall, I weddings and burials, midnoon and midnight clashing! Every home light house against which the pillows of many seas tumble. Thank God that | such changes are not always going to | continue; otherwise the nerves would | give out and the brain would founder on dementia like that of King Lear when his daughter Cordelia came to medicine his domestic calamity.
 How to Be Happy.
 But there are others who will move out of large residences into smaller through the reversal of fortune. The property must be sold or the bailiff will
 sell it, or the income Is less and you cannot pay the house rent. First of all, such persons should understand that our happiness Is not dependent on { the size of the house we live in. I have known people enjoy small heaven in
 two rooms and others suffer a pande-
 monium in 20. There Is as much hap
 piness in small house as in a large
 house. There Is as much satisfaction
 under the light of tallow candle as
 under the glare of chandelier, all the
 burners at full blaze. Who was the
 happier-John Bunyan in Bedford jail
 or Belshazzar in the saturpalia? Con-
 tentment Is something you can neither
 rent nor purchase. It Is not extrinsic;
 it is intrinsic. Are there fewer rooms
 in the house to which you move? You
 will have less to take care of. Is 1t to
 be stove instead of furnace? All the | doctors say the modern modes of
 warming buildings are unhealthy. Is 1 1t less mirrors? Less temptation to
 your vanity. Is it old fashioned toilet l Instead of water pipes all through the
 house? Less to freeze and burst when
 you cannot get plumber. Is 1t less
 carriage? More room for robust exer- | else. Is 1t less social position? Fewer
 people who want to drag you down by
 their jealousies. Is it less fortune to
 leave in your last will and testament?
 Less to spoil your children. Is it less
 money for the marketing? Less temp
 tation to ruin the health of your fam
 fly with pineapples and indigestible
 salads. Is 1t little deaf? Not hear
 Ing so many disagreeables.
 l meet you this spfingtime at the
 door of your new home, and while
 help you lift the clothesbasket over
 the banisters and the carman Is get.
 ting red in the face in trying to trans
 port that article of furniture to some
 new destination I congratulate you.
 You are going to have a better time
 this year, some of you, than you ever
 had. You take God and the Christian
 religion in your home, and you will be
 grandly happy. God in the parlor-
 that will sanctify your sociabilities; l God in the nurserT-tbat will protect