Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-12-31


ton. Let us make short summary OF
the blessings of our city lives and see
how much there is in them for which |
we ought to thank God.
We should in the first place thank |
God for our homes. | do not here use |
the word home in the broad, but in the |
narrow, sense. 1t may be but humble |
cottage with poor, worn furniture; Dut
it is home, and every article in it has
its tender associations. Perhaps it IS
more afiiuent. Then there is the more
cause for gratitude to God. Then we
should humbly thank God for our beds
and carpets and pictures upon the
walls, our dining room tables anu
kitchens and for the four walls OF our
own libraries. / want you to thank
God today for your city house which a
few weeks ago you looked upon as
prison, but now, with its rooms and
its closets and its familiar entrance,
you consider the most blessed place in
all the world
BLESSINGS of Home.
1t is strange fact that, in order
to appreciate our city homes as we'll
as our other blessings, most of US
have to be deprived of them for awhile.
We are 4 great deal like that quaint
laborer who was hod carrier. A
| friend was commissioning with him be-
cause he had to carry his heavy load
| of bricks up the ladders to the top OF
| a high wall "Oh," he said, Il do not
| mind the going up much, for when /
reach the top l always feel so con-
| tented when | put my load down"
| Most of Us, once in awhile, have to
carry a heavy load in order to be
| happy when we do not have any loads
| to carry. We must be separated for
| time from our blessings in order to
appreciate them when they come back
to US We are like some people living
in the climate of southern California,
one of the most glorious climates in
all the world. Here people sometimes
grow absolutely tired of the sunshine.
oh" said a man to me some time ago.
Il wish | could get rid of the sun. l
am so tired of looking at it. 1t is beau
tiful day after beautiful day for week
in and week out and for month in and
month out / would that / could see
just one old fashioned New England
| storm or Illinois blizzard" Yes"
answered my friend. You wish you
could see Chicago blizzard again, but
as soon as it begins TO howl about your
ears and send its chills running up and
down your backbone and make you
hug the fire you would mighty quick
wish you could feel again the glowing
warmth of the California sun" Ii
does seem strange that perpetual bless,
| ings can pail upon us. We must be
deprived OF blessings for u little while
| to appreciate them when we get them
, back. This fact is especially true OF
the comforts of our city homes.
Longing For the Country.
When the summer months drew neal
last spring the city house did not looE
) as attractive to- us as it is today. We
: longed for that little cottage by til,
+ seashore, or we longed to give III
e housekeeping and have change o.
t cooking and 90 and board at the sum
e mer hotels. We pictured the beauti
] full visions of sitting under the trees
S and hearing the bees hum GU
: mouths watered at the idea of eatin!
D the fresh laid eggs and drinking Tia
;. rich milk. thicker than our city cream
T The trunks were packed; the ticket
: were bought; the city house was de
$ serted. For what? Instead of tn
t, beautiful cottage by the sea. some o
It us exchanged our comfortable cit
p homes for little bandbox of house
le 1t was SO small that we had to go on
N into the front yard to turn around, c
y else we might have done ourselves
physical injury Or, instead of th
great wide parlors of our city h5m
Is we were shut up in two or three littl
lie rooms Of Il hotel, where Ii was so hl
he that like the chickens on a sultry da.
of we had to keep our mouths open mo,
ar of the time to catch our breath The
ry the food. Rich milk? Fresh laid eggs
ee | Delicious vegetables? Oh, no! III
sp best of the farm products are sent
We the city markets, not to the countr
mt We We're crowded and jostled We ha
an to read our books in stiff backed, u
to comfortable chairs, or sit down und
EST the trees, where Ne were always afra
en- of being stung by the yellow jackets
ice Instead of our great big city close
os- we had to live for the most part
ito trunks. And the beds, Oh. my. T
a mattresses must have been made O
en-. | of Shayings. And everywhere v
the turned you kept longing for the co
IDS forts Of your city home. Now, /
tty friends, we are back to our city hom
is Let us thank God for them. Let
mn thank God for the simple, wholesol
led meals we have. Let us thank him !
cry the sitting rooms, with their big, co
lnr Portable chairs, and for the bedroom
in where we have a place for everythi
ere and everything in its place. Do /
the talk to me of the sublime blessings O
hes summer watering place, but of |
IAN sublime blessings and comforts of
hat own city homes.
ged The Gold Setting.