Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1850-03-06


OF again heated intensely because they
are TOO busy to think. of regulating fires
which is dignifed by the title o'coun-
ting room,' and there, in an Office coat,
evidently intended more for use Than or
na.nenr, with quill in his hands or
thrust behind the ear, is the ohj"ct of
your search. There are dirty workmcn
talking with him, and while you are im-
patiently wishing them gone, you have
leisure to notice the ungarnished walls,
the dirty floor, The dipey window, guilt
less OF curtain, but which nevertheless
obslrucls the view of The tail, unsighly
warehouses before it. And here, sur
rounded by the hustle and turmoil Of bu-
siness, with no congenial sight or sound,
perplexed with intricate calculations,
and troubled losses, is The day passed by
the man whose leisure you await. YOU
fathers life passed away as busily, your
brothers are bending over some other
desk, or it may be, pace hurriedly over
wharves and through dray obslructed
by-ways. lfyour delicate nerves can
not endure the rude association for half
an hour, think you il is no sacrifice for
them to pass day after day, and year
after year, in the same unvaried round?
And TO what end-that your beauty and
your comfolt may be ministered to, and
your children he removed from want and
humber toll.
Among all working classes, from the
iadge upon tie bench, for surely he la.
bors: TO the poorest mechanic who earns
his bread by the sweat Of his brow, men
arc animated by The though, of home,
by the hope Of providing for its inmates.
Directly or Indirectly the gain is ours ;
and all this care, this perplexi,y and toll
is borne for our sake. Then shame on
US, my sisters, that We SO often speak
and think as if there was no self sacri.
flee, no endurance Of evil save among
us. And while we thus acknowledge
the devoted love that seeks TO supply
our necessities, however much it may
fail from accident or misfortune, let us
deen, those little acts of kindness and
consideration which ii is in our power to
perform for their comfort, as an ac-
acknowledgements and a return, rather
lhan tribute unwillingiy exaclcd.
How to make home happy"-it is a
lrite subject, We know, and one on which
Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Sigour.
ncy, Mrs. Hale, Miss Sedgewick, and a
host Of other noble women have cxerted
their most earnest efforts. Sill we come
like Ruth, cleaner in the fields which
they have reaped, as we tread the 'up-
lands of life Which they have passed
over before US.
"Domestic discord," says an old wri-
ter, "is that worst evil which Pandora's
box contained. From it springs hum
drrd offences. and woe to him by whom
they come. She that hath cheeicd Sne
hearth by her good deeds and kindly
offices, that hath reared up children to
call her blessed, Lenediclion which no
hardened repI obate pronouncelh on the
author of his being, hath won for herself
the thanks Of the community where she
dwelt, and The award Of a good and faith.
!ul servant, when she shall enter into
that rest which remainelh for the faith.
full"
But, aEer this earnest preface, our
light and hasty sketches may seem but
trifling comments on serious theme.
Dic,a,ion is not our place-bu, we have
had some li.tle experience, and no small
opportunities for observation-disclosures
we are animated by sincere desire to
speak a few good Words as Goethe
has it, and from these materials it shall
be our pleasure to offer you oui "House-
hold Counsels.''