Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-04

after them. Oh. my friends. I would
not want 10 make you oyersusplcious
In the day Of your success. but want
you TO understand right well there is a
vast difference between the popularity
OF Timon the prosperous and Timon
the unfortunate; l want you TO know
! there is vast difference I'm the number
OF people who admire n man when he
is going up and the number of people
who admire him when he is going
| down.
Sad Changes
But ! must have a 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 I'm size, and so
much room Is not required: so they
move out into small apartments.
know there are such cases. Marriage
has taken some of 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 just the size it was when
they started. and they would be lone
some and lost in n large house: hence
they move out of 1t. Moving day is
great sadness TO such il they have the
law OF association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ
ent members of the family. | suppose
IL is SO in al your households. 1t Is so
in mine. We name the rooms after the
persons who occupy them. And then
there is the dining hall where the fes-
tiyties 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
life started or n life stopped-the
Alpha and the Omega of some earthly
existence Scene OF meeting and part
Ing. of congratulation and heartbreak.
every doorknob. every fresco. every
mantel. every threshold, meaning more
TO you than IL can ever mean to any
one else. When moving out of n house.
have always been I'm the habit, after
everything was gone. Of going into
each room and bidding It n 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 n solemn and n
touching and an overwhelming thing
10 leave places forever-places where
we have struggled and toIled and went
ADD sung and prayed and anxiouslv
watched and agoniZed. oh, life is such
strange mixture of honey and of gall.
weddings and burials. midnoon and
midnight clashing! Every home a light
mouse 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 Cordoba came to
medicine his domestic calamity.
How go BE Enppy.
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. have
known people enjoy n small heaven in
two rooms and others suffer Il pande-
monium In 20. There is as much han
ptncSs I'm small house rs i'm large
house. There is rs much satisfaction
under the light OF n tallow candle as
under the glare OF n chandelier. all the
burners at full blaze. Who was the
happier-John Bunyan i'm Bedford iail
or Bclshazzar i'm the Saturnalia? Con-
tentmcnt is something you can neither
rent nor purchase. 1t is not cxtrinsic:
II is intrinsic. Are there fewer rooms
I'm the house 20 which you move? You
Will have less TO take care OF. Is II to
be stove instead OF furnace? All the
doctors say the modern modes OF
warming buildings are unhealthy. Is
1t less mirrors? Less temptation 10
your vanity. Is Il old fashioned toilet
instead Of water pipes all through the
house? Less 90 freeze and burst when
you cannot get n plumber. Is IL less
carriage? More room for robust oxer-
else Is II less social position? Fewer
people who want TO drag you down by
their 1calousies. Is IL less fortune 10
leave in your last will and testament?
Less 10 spoil your children. Is IL less
money for the marketing? Less temp.
tation Go ruin the health OF your fam
lily with pincapples and indlgestible
Ing so many disa greeables.
L meet you this springtime ut tho
door OF your new home, and while /
help you lift the elothesbasket over
the banisters and the carmen is get
ting red In the face I'm trying 10 trans
port that article or furniture 20 some
new destination L congratulate you.
You are going 10 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
grandiy happy. God In the parlor-
That VIII 'sanctify your sociabilities;
God In the nursery-that will protect
your children; God In the dining hall
that viii make the plaIneSt meal an
imperial banquet; God In the morning
that will launch the day brightly |
from the drydocks; God I'm the evening
that will sail the day sweetly into |
the harbor.
Our Fathers House.
And get JOY, one and all of you.
whether you move or do not move: |
get JOY out OF the thought that we are |
soon all going 10 have grand moving |
day. DO you want a picture OF the |
new house into which you will move?
Here 1t Is. wrought with the hand of a |
master: 1--WE know that, IL our earthly |
house OF this tabernacle were dissoly- |
ed, we have building OF God, a house |
not made with hands. eternal in the
heavens How much rent will we
have TO pay for it? We are going to
own IT. How much must we pay for
II! How much, cash down, and how
much left on mortgage? Our Father
Is going TO give it as free gift. When
are we going to move into it? We are
moving now. On moving day heads of
families are very apt to stay in the old
mouse until they have seen everything
OH. They send ahead the children. and
they send ahead the treasures and tbe
Valuabies. Then after awhile they win
come themselves remember very
wen In the country that in boybood
moving day was tubilation.
On almost the first load we. the chill
uren, were sent on oheod 70 ~, -. |