Litchfield enquirer., 1832-02-02
BY REQUEsT.7

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 Let me entreat farmers and their wive: to educate their sons and daughters fol their own professions. All the idle and studious professions are crowded to over- flowing. Go through our cities, and re- slst, if you can, the rising sigh over human folly, when you see the streets lined with idle, beggarly Lawyers, Doctors, Mer- chants, unpaid or half paid Clerks, unem- ployed Schoolmasters, and Scrivners, seek ing for places, &c. &c. Or where you enter the dwellings, and examine the con- dition of families without employment, without any of the fruits of industry, in,- portuning half distracted fathers for finery and gewgaws, who are borrowing notes, and begging for delays for thirty days more, hanging about brokers, in order to avert for few months, threatened de- struc.ion. I beg that farmers and their wives will reflect moment on the stua- ton ofour thousands of disappointed young ] men and women, whose parents folly has thrown them upon the world, unqualified for any of those pursuits which will ensure them competency. The illiterate clerk IS begging for school, which he is not qualified to teach. The boarding school girl, who can tinglo the piano very we'll, and Ilas said off set lessons in Stewart, En- field, Euclid, &c. SO we'll as to procure newspaper pufls for her teacher, but is ab- solutely unqualified to teach an A-B-C- darian school, is also seeking a place as teacher without success.
 How easy it would be for two or three wealthy farmers in one parish, to rcvolu- tionise tho state of things in their vicin- age; other parishes would witness their improvement and initiate their example.
 As I havc long since passed my half century birth-day, have sons in several professions, and daughters advancing in life, have been bred to farming in the good old way, (which calling I fooIishly aban- doned for the Law, one of the learned professions as it is absurdly called) ask for hearing among tho respectable Far mers along the banks of the delightful Gen cssee. Should you succeed in reforming the taste, and improving the course of ed- ucation there, so far as to become pattern for imitation throughout our country, the waters of the Genessee would become as sacred in America, as the waters of the Gangcs are in India. Future poets would refer to it as the sacred fountain, from which flowed the streams of true science, industry, and consequently the most per- feet terrestrial happiness.
 1 As soon as your sons and daughters are old enough to walk without tottering, put them to some one of the numerous employ ments which your situation will afford where they may Do able to see traces o their first labors for long timo. Son. may have small patches of ground assign. ed them as mimic farms. They may there raise their. two feet fields of flax oats, barley, &c. their current orchards their potasoe patches, their cabbag grounds, their wheat fields, and meadows may all be laid out on a few rods ofground
 Your daughters may have their mimi cheese-presses and churns. Their eigh ounce cheeses may be kept for their wed ding tables; such exercises in mimic agri
 culture and house keeping, will lead clsil
 dren to make profitable inquiries, and ex
 cite love of labor which can never be ex
 tinguished.
 When your children are sufficiently ad
 vanced in bodily strength, change their mi
 mic labors to those of real gaius. Inaddi
 ton to their labors in the service of thei
 parents, let the sons always procure thei own pocket money, by cultivating smal portions of ground assigned to each an'
 while the daughters have an agency in th manufacture of their own homespuns, il kitchen cookery, cleaning and regulatin rooms and furniture, let them procure al their extra ornaments by the sale of stock ings, mittens, &c. knit by themselves; bu braids for hats, and other saleable articles the produce of their own industry. Nev . CT fail to make every son and daughter in ! timately acquainted with all your view and calculations. Farmers should have n
 secrets in their business, for they neve
 proceed on a false credit. The faths f should tell his sons how much he owes to wards his farm, and all his prospects and a his fears.
 n The mother should instruct each daugh ter in all the details of her household man Q agement. with the precise value of what :. ever was consumed in food and clothing n Thus your sons and daughters are prepaI @ ed to enter upon tho theatre of life, wit l. all the advantages of experienced actors. Ia Having said as much on the first, and in ,t finitely the most important part of the cd ucation Ofyour sons and daughters. as yO ,. may be disposed to read, will give you m concise view of my opinion, on the subje' ,- of their scientific and literary education. I. Never send son or daughter from hon
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