The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-12-15
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For he Columbia Democrat.
"At Home I'm the Evening"

Col, late -
| recently met, in the course
of my reading, with the following excel
lent remarks under the above caption, in .
weekly contemporary, which are so much
to the purpose, and so appropriate to the
case of almost any country village, IN
which it is generally the custom for large
proportion of the adult males to spend their
evenings away from their own homes. en-
yeloped in tobacco smoke, or some favor
ite lounging place while the boys are al
lowed to ITO take it as they can catch IL
in the streets or elsewhere that am con-
strained to present i, to you for publication
in your own paper, which am pleased to
find so zealously devoted TO the honor and
welfare of our own village. | am persua-
ded that higher standard of intelligence
would soon be attained by us as village,i
the time spent by herds of men and boys
in strolling and lounging, were devoted to
intellectual culture ito the delightful and
profitable pursuit of well selected reading.
No boy who is properly cared for, whose
evenings and leisure time is properly oc-
cupied, will make one of the crowd-des,i-
tute alike of good sense and good manners,
which blocks up the doors of our churches,
rendering egress after service a Difficult. and
harrassipg business. A rowdy is not
the product Of a well ordered family
Fathers, your place is at home, at alf
those seasons when business does not
require your absence from it, and there
in tie midst of your families, with each
recurring evening, should you see to it,
that your boys are advancing in knowledge
and intellectual culture, and fitting for
career of usefulness and respec!abiity.--
But to the extract viz:
Zone of the grossest neglec,s Of youth,
producing incalculsble mischief and ruin, is
in the improper spending of the evenings.
Darkness was created for quiet; home is
the place of quiet. Darkness is temptation,
10 misconduct; suffering the youngto be out
when the light Of day does not restrain
them from misconduct, is training them to
it. We have already an abundant harvest
Of this seeding. Riots,mobs, crimes giving
fearful forebodings, are the result Of youth
becoming fit agents Of ou.rages by running
uncared-ior on evenings. What we see
in these respects, is deplorable enough, but
what is this, compared to what we do not
see muiu,udes making themselves miser-
able and noyious IN this world land what
in that to come!
Parents should look at the truth, that
evening pleasures and recreations are often
dearly purchased the price, their own
impaired comfort,and the blighted prospects
Of their offspring, it must be obvious,
that in this matter there can be no prescrib.
ed rule. There mus. not be an interduct Of
all evening recreation--common sense,
sound discretion must direct the parent.
Heads nf families shnuld reAac, tb,, IL.
place, best adapted of all others on earth to
be a blessing to the rising generalion,-is
home =; and by example and wholesome
regulations, they should seek to impress
this fact upon all under them. Especially
should home during the SABBATH.HouRs,
be consecrated to good influences. Sab
bath mornings and evenings are blessed in.
deed. when they gether the family into
the circle of converse and instruction: and
parents and children, masters, and sppren-
tices, in the fear Of God, attending to the
precepts of Divine truth,are instrumental in
helping each other on to glory, honor, im-
mortality and eternal ife.-Think of these
things" S.
A WET NunsE.--A house keeper recently
advertised for wet nurse. A young Irish girl
offered herself
"How old are you Bridget"