| Show AMENITIES OF EVERY DAY LIFE WE are almost deluged dally daily with copious oral and written accounts of weddings surprise parties birthday parties a and nd other complimentary social gatherings of a similar character from a degree of deference to the feelings of the penona concerned perhaps a little laore space has been accorded to such arcaira than should havo have been given bat but we deem de em it necessary to mako make a rascal curtail ment in this thib direction in the future when buch such matters are mentioned at allewe intend to give them acance jy more than a notice we draw attention to the subject thus conspicuously that those who might otherwise furnish matter of tills this class may not be disappointed by having thein their statements radically boiled down or not appear at all jowill we will probably be pardoned for expressing the opinion that the do de bire ure to publish accounts of birthday surprise and other parties hag has been carried to an extreme such sociable affairs are excellent in their way especially when moderately engaged in but rut they properly belong as a rue rne to the amenities of private life in which they BErve serve to break the monotony of everyday every day routine when they are described through the columns of a newspaper they become public and the charm of privacy is ii broken speaking to the community of latter day saints while on this subject it will be ba well fon for them to consider how far the spirit of adulation of others or seif helf F elf eif can be indulged in wi without thou fc overstepping the boundary line jine of the gospel an ounce of solids solid sensible appreciation la in worth EL a ton lou of exaggeration exhibited in an excess of public display too much care cannot be taken in avoid ing anything that will feed a feeling of vani Tani vanity or pride bedara of pride lest iest ye become like unto my people the Nep hites of old Is the voie of revelation to the latter iatter day saints through joseph smith it is nearing the holiday season there will be many surprise parties who can fall to observe in the community a too strong tendency to run according to class lines in this department of life the rich feast the rich and pay them numerous attentions that make their hearts run over with the oil of glad ness we are pleased to observe this and would like to see seo the hearts of the wealthy made still more plethoric with the joys of line lire we know how it can be ba done if they would extend their little courtesies to the poorer and more needy they would kill two birds with 1 th a one oue u a sto blo neThe good they would do do b by t turning u at least a part of their attention that way and the happi happl ness they would impart to those who need it so much more than those thore to whom it is ia customary to tender it would find a pleasurable echo in their own hearts perhaps we will not be esteemed hypercritical hyper critical if we express an opinion to the effect that there is some room in our community for improvement in social practices by the infusion of a little more of that gospel spirit that inspires a constant desire for the welfare of the comparatively I 1 y helpless those who are in affluence are in a position to take care of themselves A little more of the actual work of doing good without heralding the act with the blast of a trumpet would serve to increase th actuality of a professed and sisterhood we have departed somewhat fron from the strict line of our first object expressed at the beginning of the trie article but there is at the same time a connecting link throughout except in cases where occasions of the nature named are of more than ordinary note we expect to adhere to the policy of brevity or non bubli cation |
