Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-02-24
WINTER EVENINGS FOR UNCERTAINTIES


! From our arm chair we would dictate few
words of advice to our young friends respecting The
employment of their winter evenings We are No
among the number Of those who think that all kind.
OF amusements should be discountenanced" as
thrilling employments." There is nothing which
tends more to elevate man and woman than ration.
al and social amusement The grand question is
the rationale of the matter. Let every one choose
to their taste in this respect We find no fault, il
1t De not impure and foolish. We would direct at
tentlon to the storing of the mind with useful
knowledge There are many men who are COM
PEELED to toll unremittngly during the summer sea-
son from sun rise to sunset and have no opportun-
lty, and never had of acquiring a suitable educa-
ton before they were obliged to toll for their veIi
hood To such young men, and there are too ma
ny OF them, and young females too, we would say,
let your winter evenings be well spent in acquiring
all the education you possibly can If YOU are
near an evening school, do not neglect to attend it
and pay attention to your studies. If you are not
near school, be sure and have a good book, a
writing copy and slate in the house, and dig out
OF them all the gold contained therein. Mental
study is more severe and less agreeable than phys
zeal toll but set up your stake and march to it with
unfilnching perseverance. You may be baffled of
tened and feel discouraged, but whenever this is
the case lay down your studies for moment and
reflect upon the prize before you The difference
between an American and savage, is in their ed
ucatlon, and Just IN proportion as we are an en-
llghtenen people so are we removed from barbar-
ism. As it is with nations so tits with individuals
every man will find his level, except it may be the
fortutous circumstance of being born rich and even
that IN our country is not of SO much consequence.
Young mechanic remember that you have a title
to the highest office in the commonwealth.
''Let not. thy mind recoil,
At transitory pain or manly toll;
Be thine the task be thine the care,
Nobly to suffer and sublimely dare
Wisdom waves on high a radiant prize,
And each hard step but leads thee to the Skies
We hope that the young men belonging to our
1arious Mechanics Institutes are availing them
selves of the winter lectures and the good books in
he libraries. In the Mechanics Associations
throughout the State, (of which there are now
great number, one IN almost every village and 9TH
states, VIC hope that the older members are by
PRACTICAL lectures scattering the good seed in good
oil You,have still great task before you but
is power" & in union there is strength
We would not dictate to any man what course of
tudy to pursue, we only say lay out the track,
hen on to it like locomotive We regret that
here are so many vicious and foolish books read by
ur young men-rank trash they are to mind and
'ody. They tend to make a man like nothing but
N old shoe in this world and good for nothing in
he next Our young females, too, are perhaps the
most criminal in this respect We are afraid that
he fine matronaly character of our old American
ady is fast disappearing from among u.s. We know
hat it is hard task to study work that is OBJ
cure and of logical nature-but a continued ef-
ort for some time to master such a work, imbibes
task for it and every one knows the difference in
oint of benefit in being acquainted with the use
u sciences, instead of the heroes and heroines of
omance. To those who would desire to know the
alue of winter evenings in acquiring useful nfor-
nation we may spend them well now, and tell us
l ten years after this what has been the result
We predict that California with all her gold would
e no equipoise for its value If at this moment we
yere offered all the wealth of Mexico as an ex-
hange for the information we possess, so as to
cave the mind savage blank, we would not look
t the offer as a measure for the enjoyment we
Tould lose There is many sermon contained in
he old maxim:
" 'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent the trees inclined"
With our excellent School Libraries, there is no
xcuse for ignorance: let the winter evenings be
-el employed, and there will be none needed. +,
Scientific American