The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-02-21


do all for them at home thai my means will
allow 20 encourage them to improve. /
generally take two or three newspapers of
different kinds, to give them a taste for
reading, and let them have some knowl-
edge the literary & political world before
they come into active life. | think that a
school will do them very little good, unless
something is done for their Improvement
at home and have found that periodic
ais are valuable, to give them a taste for
reading, and to enlarge their views of the
world.
". I expect they are good
things; but then it always COSTS so much to
get them always refuse to subscribe when
they come along. I've heard it said, too,
they have strange stories in them; and no.
body knows whether they're true.
! s.. | know they are expensive );
bu, ! believe the money paid fer them is
we'll laid out. A few dollars every year
thus expended will do my children more
good, than the same money could in any
! other way. Besides / think there is M
| loss of money on the whole. l have as
much at the years end, as should have,
if purchased nothing of this kind. Were
it not for these books, my children would
otten want to be spending money. Now,
their amusement is at home and when
| they are abroad they seek such company as
! does not expose them to habits of diSsipa-
ton, and needless expense. With reg ,rd
! to the correctness of the Statement made.
ia these publications we must satisfy IL =
selves by reading more--by learning the
characters Of those who write--whefher
they are men OF principle and men of
J knowledge. If We read nothing we have
reason to doubt every thing. A man who
will be affected with rational evidence, and
will search diligently may satisfy himself :
but he who trusts to hearsGy, must always
be in doubt, and is as likely to believe a
lie as the truth. Now do you think you
are NOT true
u. Why Squire J say,
it is very doubtful He don't believe
syllable about these great doingS.
S.. Now, Mr.. W, woulc
ask first whether Squire J--is mar
of prlnciple-whether good people believe
all he says; and secondly, whether Il,
reads much Does he Know any thing a,
bout these matters.
". [ never a&l, cd nm about THAI
| He's one of our leading men, and ought II
know.
S.. Whom does he lead Any one
that has eyes Of his own! or only those
who never search for themselves, and Cal
be led about by any body who has a smootl
tongue should be unwilling to trust nv
self to any one, and especially to thai Ii,
centious Squire j, without searchin.
for myself.
W, But | want to know how you
boys get time 10 read | have Away
thought, if my boys should get to love read
ing, they would not work So well. Whe.
D, they go to school tell them to learn AM
when school is done, they don't look into
book till next winter.
s.. Why every body has some leis
ure.-Iherc is Stormy weather, and man,
little spells when one may read if he wish
es without diminishing The prohi of his la
Dor. Beside>, we have very long evening
in which tarms,g do not calculate on doin.
much.
W. My boys are always wanting t.
be off at such times aud they are eve
vexins me, by spending money i'll SOM
scrape.
S.. Well, Mr.. wilson, you can re
gulate things just as yon please. If yo
want your children should get knowledge
Won must Drovidc the means and nlace he
fore them inducements to search for them
{ selves. But if, with all your proper,y,yo'
are afraid of expanding little money t,
make your children wise, you must expec
them to grow up in ignorance and be tn
associates of the low and vicious. Yo'
can now see the reason of what you asked
me.
". Well, well, will go home
and think about it. Coed night