The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10


dust, they would have you think that they
WEI trickled out OF heaven on a lump OF
loa sugar. The first thing you know OF
thG the father will fail in business and
TIE daughter will run off with French
dancing master. A woman spoiled by a
upset is sickening.
But must have n word with those who
in his Mayday time move out of larger res
licences into smaller. Sometimes the pa
thetic reason is that the family has
dwinded In 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
lust the size 1t was when they started, and
they would be lonesome and lost in large
house; hence they move out OF 1t. Moving
day Is great sadness to such II they have
the law of association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ.
enr members OF the family. I suppose
1t is so in all 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 festivi-
ties took place, the holiday festivities; there
is the sitting room where the family met
night after night, and there is the room sa-
cred because there life started or life
stopped-the Alpha and the Omega OF
some earthly existence. Scene OF meeting
and parting, OF congratulation and heart
break, every doorknob every fresco, every
mantel, every threshold, meaning more to
you than 1t can ever mean to any one else.
When II owing out OF house, have always
been In the habit, after everything was
gone, OF going into each room and bidding
1t a mute farewell. There will be tears
,.tr1 ipr> mn nv nba nLy in no q
time moving that the carmen will not be
able to understand. 1t is a solemn and q
touching and OH 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 strange
mixture OF honey and OF gall, weddings
and burials, midnoon and midnight
clashine! Every home a lighthouse
against which the pillows OF many seas
tumble Thank God that such changes
are not always going to continue; other
wise the nerves would give out and the
brain would founder on II dementia like
that of King Lear when his daughter
Corde!ia came to medicine his domestic
calamity.
But there are others who will move out
of large residences into smaller through
the reversal OF fortune. Tie property
must be sold or the baiiff 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 a
small heaven in two rooms and others suf-
fer a pandemonium in twenty. There Is
US much happiness in "a small house as in
large house. There is as much satisfaction
under the light OF a tallow candle as under
the glare OF a chandelier, all the burners at
full blaze Who was the happier ohm
Bunyan in Bedford jail or Belshazzer in
the saturnalia? Contentment is something
you can neither rent nor purchase. 1t is not
extrlnsic; 1t is intrinsic. Are there fewer
rooms in the house to which you move?
You will have less to take care OF. Is it
to be stove instead OF furnace? All the
doctors say the modern modes Of warming
buildings are unhealthy. Is it less mir
rors? Less temptation to your vanity. Is
1t old fashioned toilet instead OF water
pipes all through the house? Less to freeze
and burst when you cannot get plumber.
Is it less carriage? More room for robust
exercise. Is it less social position? Fewer
people who want to drag you down by
their jealousies. Is 1t less fortune to leave
in your last will and testament? Less to
spoil your children. Is it less money for
the marketing? Less temptation to ruin
the health of your family with pineapples
and indigestible salads. Is 1t little DEAR
Not hearing so many disagreeables.
| meet you this springtime at the door OF
your new home, and while help you lift
the clothesbasket over the banisters and
the carman is getting red in the face try
ing to transport that article OF furniture
to some new destination l congratulate
you. You are going to have 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
sociablities; God In the nursery-tbat will
protect your children: God in the dining
hall-that will make the plainest meal an
that will launch the day brightly from the
drydocks; God in the evening-tkat will
sail the day sweetly into the harbor.
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 to
have grand moving day. Do you want a
picture of the new house into which you
will move? Here it is, wrought with the
hand of master: "We know that, If our
earthly house OF this tabernacle were dis
solved, we have building OF God, u
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
1t? How much, cash down, and how
much left on mortgage? Our father is
going to give it as free gift. When are
we gcing to move into 1t? We are moving
now. On moving day heads Of families
are very apt to stay in the old house until
they have seen everything off. They send
ahead the children, and they send ahead
the treasures and the valuabes. Then
after awhile they will come themselves.
l remember very we'll in the country that
in boyhood moving day was a jubilation.
On almost the first load we, the children.
were sent on ahead to the new house, and
we arrived with shout and laughter, and
in an hour we had ranged through every
room in the house, the barn and the gran.
AIRY. Toward night, and perhaps III the
last wagon, father and mother would come,
looking very tired, and We would come
down to the foot OF the lane to meet
them and tell them OF all the wonders
we discovered in the now place, aud
then, the last wagon unloaded, can
dies lighted, our neighbors who had
helped US to move-for in those times
neighbors helped each other-sat dowa
With us at table on which there was
every luxury they could think OF. Wa
my dear Lord knows that some OF
have been moving a good while,