Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-05-17
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would have been a butter firkin. or a sEos |
last. or a pillow. or a trowel. Instead OF
being like all the rest of us. made ont CT
dust, they would have you think that they !
were trickled out OF heaven on q lump 0.
loaf sugar. The first thing YOU know Of
than the father will fail il business aud
the daughter will run of with q French
dancing master. A woman spoiled by q
finer house is bad enough, but a man 80
upset Is sickening.
Bat l must have a word with those who
ia this Mayday tim move out oflaryer res |
licences. into smaller. Sometimes the pa
thetic reason is that the family has
dwindled Ia size, and 80 much room is not
required, So they move out into small
apartments. / know chere are such cases.
Marriage has taken some II the members
OF the family, death has taken other mem
bers Of the family and after awhile father
and mother wake up to find their family
.ust the size IL was when they started. and
they would be lonesome and lost III a large
house; hence they move ont Of it. Moving
day is q great sadness to such II they have
the law OF association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ
enu member OF the family. l suppose
il IL SO in all your households. L is 50
III mine. We name the rooms after tho
persons who occupy them. And then
there il the dining hail where the ~festivi-
.testOok place, the holiday festivities: there
IS the sitting room where tho family net
night after night, and there is the room sa-
cred because there II life started or a life
atopred-the Alpha and the Omega Of
some earthly existence. Scene Of meeting
and parting, Of cOngratulation and heart
break, every doorknob. every fresco. every
~ruantei, every threshold, meaning more -
you than 1t can ever mean to any one else.
: When moving out Of a house. [ have always
been in the habit. after everything was
gone, Of going into each room and bidding
it & mute farewell. There will be tear,
running down many cheeks III the Nay.
time moving that the carmen will not ts
able to understand. 1t is a solemn and IA
touching and All overwhelming thing
10 leave places forever--piaces where W.
have struggled and toilei and Wept and
sung and prayed and anxiously watched
and agonizcd. Oh, life is such u strange
mixturo % hone. and Of gan, weddings
and blriaIs. midnoon and midnight
clasiing. Every home ii lighthouse
against which the bllIows OF many : Il
tumble. Thank Got that suol changes
are not always going 70 continues; other,
wise the nerves would give out and the
brain would founder on q deinentia like
that of King Lear when his laughter
Corie!ia zane to medicine his domestic
calamity.
But there are others who will move out
OF large residences into smaller through
the reversal Of fortune. The property
must he sold or the paililT will sell ii. Orthn
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. | have known people enjoy a
small hea ven III two rooms and others suf-
fer Il p~andamonium in twenty. There is
IL much happiness in q small house rs in u
large house. There is rs much satisfaction
under the light Of 4 ttllow camille as under
the glare Of a chandelier. AL the burners al
iuiI blaze. WHO was the happier-John
RS H1rrQn- III kpifnri iafl fr IplGRaTzar IN
the .aturna.ia? Coutenttnent is something
vJu IAN neither rent nor purchase. 1t IS not
extrinsic; il is intrinsic. Axe there
\ rooms i'll tho house to winch YOU move?
You will have less - take care Of. Is it
20 be stove instead Of furnace: All the
doctors say the modern modes OF warming
buildings are unhealthy. Is il less mir
rors2 Less temptation TO Your vanity. Is
it Old fashioned toilet Instead OF water
pipes all through the house? Less to freeze
and burst when You cannot get q plumber.
Is it less carriage? More room for robust
exercise. Is il less social position? Fewer
people who want to drag you down 10y
their iealousieS. Is it less fortune to leave
III your last will tnd testament? Less to
spoil your children. Is it less money for
the marketing2 Less temptation to ruin
the health Of your family with pineappies
and indiSestible salads. Is it a little deatl
= Not hearing so many disagreeab.e-
| meet You this springtime at the door OF
r. HoAti " " bc4-t, am Wilt L lCit ~ ItL
the clothesbasket over the hani-ters and
the carman il getting red in the face try
. ing to transport that article Of furniture
to some new destination [ 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 iu
r your home and YOU will be grandly happy.
God in the parlOr-that will sanctify Your
S0ciablities; God in the nursery-that will
, protect your clil!rcn: God in the dining
5 hall-thut Will make the plainesr meal an
/ imperial banquet; God in the morning.
that will ialucI tie day brightly from the
5 drydock~: God il the evening-.i at will
| sail the day weetly into the harbor.
And get Joy, one and all OF you. whether
{ Won move or TO not move: get iov ont OF
Z the thought that we are soon all going -
5 have q grand moving day. DO YOU want
I picture OF the Kew house into which You
will move? Here It IS, wrought with the
hand OF a master: " know that, ii. our
earthly house of this tabernacle were dis
solved, VIE have a building Of God. q
r house not made with hands. eternal in
. the heavens How much rent will We
: have to Ygy tor itt We are going to
own il. How much must We pay for
it? How much. cash down. aud how
much left Oh mortgage? Oar father i
going 10 give it As a free gift. When are
We going to move into it? We are moving
= now. On moving day heads OF families
!. ara very apt I" stay il the old house unit
they have seen everything Off. They send
ahead the children. and they seud ahead
the treasures and til" ~vaiuabies. Then
!. after awhile they viii come themselves.
lrriDetuber Very we'll in the country tia;
g II bovhood moving day was d jubilatiOn.
On almost the first load we, the children
!, We're sent on ahead to the new house, anf
We arrived with shout and laughter. and
i, in an hour we had ranged through ever
room III t.le house. the barn and the gran
airy. Toward night. aud perhaps in th'
last wagon. father and mother would come
looking very tired, and WE would COM
: down to the foot Of the lane to NEE
them and tell them Of all the wonder
ir We discovered IN the new place, Az;
- then, the ia,t wagon Un.oaded. can
= dies lighted, our ~ceighbors who la,
i helped Us 20 n0ve-for in those times
- ntlchbors helped each other-sat dow.
with Us az d table on which there wa
y every luxury they could think Of. Wei
= my dear Lord knows that soDe OF u
have been moving a good while. "
- have sent our children ahead. We have sel