Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-05-05

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city OF England or AmerIca and Sc
how few people live where they live
10 years ago. There Is no such thin
as permanent residence. | saw Nor
; ticello. In Virginia, President Jefel
sons residence, and saw on the sam
hay Montpelier. which was either Mad
J. lson's or Monroe's residence, and saw
I also the White House. which was Pres
e ident TayloFs residence and Presidcn
I Llncoln's residence and President Gar
: helds residence. Was 1t a permanen
!; residence in any case? | tell you tha
the race is nomadic and no sooner get.
In one place than It's wants to chang,
for another place or Is compelled tC
change for another place, and so the
: race invented the railroad and the
steamboat In order more rapidly to get
INTO some other place than that in
which il was then. Aye. instead of
Ling nomadic, II is immortal. moving
on aud moving on. We whip up our
horses and hasten on until the hub OF
the front wheel shlvers on the tomb.
stone and tips us headlong into the
grave, the only pei nanent earthly resi-
dence.
Time For Prayer.
A day this spring the streets will be
~ ed with the furniture carts and the
Hays and the trucks Ii will be hard
day for horses. because they will be
overloaded; 1t will be a hard day for
laborers, for they will overlft before
they get the family furniture from one
house to another; it will be a hard day
for housekcepers to see their furniture
scratched, and their crockery broken,
| and their carpets misfit, and their fur.
niture dashed OF the sudden showers;
1t will be hard day for landlords; 1t
will be hard day for tenants. Espe-
cial grace Is needed for moving day
Many Il mans religion has suffered a
fearful strain between the hour OH the
morning OF the 1st OF May. when he
took his Immature breakfast, and the
hour at night when he rolled into his |
eStemporlzed couch. The furniture
broken sometimes will result In the |
breaking OF the Ten Commandments |
There Is no more fearful pass than the |
hall OF house where two families /
meet one moving out and the other
moving in. The salutation is apt to be
more vehement than complimentary.
The grace that will be sufficient for the
lst of January. and the LIST OF Febru-
airy, and the lst OF March, and the 1st
OF April will not be sufficient for the
LIST of May. Say your prayers that
morning II you find nothing better to
kneel down by than a coal scuttle and
say your prayers at night though your
knee comes down on paper OF carpet
tacks! You Will want supernatural
help II any or you moye-help in the
morning TO start out Alright on the
days work. help ut night to repent.
There will be enough annoyances to
make a Xantippe out Of Frances
Ridley Hayergal. | have again and
again been in crises of moving day,
and have ctood- appalled, and amazed
and helpless in the shipwreck. taking
as well as | could those things that
hoated ashore from the breakers. and
know how to comfort and how to
warn and how to encourage the peo-
Pile; so preach this practical Mayday
sermon. All these troubles will soon
be gone, and the bruises will heal. and
the stiffened joints will become supple, {
and your rufiled temper will be smooth I
al Of ftc xxvt.ipt- loc DnI op1.r will tat n
he place Of disorder, and you will sit /
lown In your new home. /
The New House. {
My first word. then. In this part Of |
ny discourse Is to all those who move {
,ut of small houses into larger ones. t
low. we will see whether, like the (
lpostle. you know how to abound. DO S
lot. because your new house has two {
more stories than the old one add two Q
tories to your vanity or make your |;
rightly polished silver doorpate the n
Offin plate to your buried humility. @
lany persons moving into a larger il
Ouse have become arrogant and su II
ercilious. They swagger where once D
hey walked; they simper where once Il
hey laughed; they go about with an ii
ir which seems to say. Let all small ii
r craft get out OF these waters If they Il
ont want to be run over by a regular Il
| have known people who n
'ere kind and amiable and Christian A
! their smaller house No sooner did e.
hey go over the doOrsill Of the new in
ouse than they became a glOrifed e'
uisance. They were the terror of dry m
Oods clerks and the amazement OF to
,rryboats into which they swept and, OF
compelled to stand moment. with
glance turning all the ey
aOple seated into criminals and con- ca
cts. They began to hunt up the fam W
y coat OF arms and had lion couchant m
: unicorn rampant on the carriage tn
,or when. If they had the appropriate III
,at Of arms. II would have been TO
litter firkin. or Il shoe last. or a plow, to
trowel. Instead Of being like all W
e rest Of us. made out Of dust. they ir
ould have you think that they were w
ickled out of heaven on lUnp Of a
af sugar. The first thing you know w
them the father will fail in business m
Id the daughter will with a he
rench dancing master. W~man m,
oiled by finer house Is bad enough, su
II man so upset Is sickenng The co
wondered foot goes around so dainty ri,
ID so precise and so affected in the on
II Of his eyes. or the whirl Of hls wi
ne. or the clicking of the ivory ham me
2 against his front teeth. or his ef-
inmate laDguor. and his conversation ,
interlarded with "Oh'sw and "Ah'sw OH
at he Is to me dose Of ipecaeua aha. tbl
'w, my friends, If you move into Or,
rger house thank God for more room sci
Tor more room to hang your pictures, cal
r more room in which to gather your all