Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-10-12
miscellaneous.
The Love Of The Beautiful.


Every man, no matter how poor he may
be, can do something townrds making this
world more beautiful. lie can leave behind
him monuments, through which the grateful
zephyrs shall wnrble his praises, long after
he shall be sleeping in the dust. Are you
poor man, toiling hard for frugal fare? You
will be more than repaid for tic lnbor that is
required to keep the plat before your door
clean aud green aud you will love your
home the better for the rose bush which
blooms in the yard, looking up Into your eye,
os il were with gratitude, through It's green
leaves and busiug flowers. II was but the
work of half al hour 10 plant IL there. Aud
many year will it reward YOU anl your wife
and your children, with its smiles. A mnn
cannot i1Ve n rose, without being better
man for that exercise of love, A child eau
not pruue il ard water il, aud watch with
affection its swelling buds, without becoming
more gentle in character, more refined in
feeling, more dncile IN spirit.
Walter Scott in Que of lis graphic de-
scriptions, represents u Scottish Lord, riding
by the humble hut of peasaut, who IL pant
ing tree before his door. lie comments
him for hIs iuste, eXclniuing "Wheu you
tave nothing hotter TO do Jock, he aye stick
irg out n tree Jock, twill grow when you're
asleep Jock" There is no little philosophy
an this declaration. You plant a iree--give
il that gentle nurturing which it may for a
short time need, and il will ever nfler re-
ward you with its foliage and its shade. You
sleep, aud il steadily advances, Ia its growth,
TO the perfection of beauty. You 90 away
for months, perhaps for years, aud it forgeis
not to grow. and ON your return your heart is
gladdcncd by its fair proportions.
Aud tree is property. Who will not give
a few dollars more for farm house, beneath
the shade of whose ornamental trees, his
children can play, or his cattle slumber in
the noon tide heat? And how can the oc-
cuPant of village house make better in
yestment of u few dollars, than in attaching
TO his hOuse those ornaments which every
man of taste so engerly covets2 A few green
sods will change an uusighily sand bank
into beauty, where the eve may rest with
pleasure aud where the feet may love to ling
er. A few hours work, in spring morn
ing, may give to your home the riches, ornu-
ments home eau have, temperimg the fierce
blaze OF the summers sun, aud breaking up
the fury OF the winters storm.
Property is worth more in beautiful we'll
shaded village, than OH bleak, sunburnt,
unsighily plain. lie ipho has no regard for
The appearance Of his oicn premises, not only
SINKS the ralue Of his o,cn property, but also
SINKS The raiue Of The property Of his nsighLOrs.
No one likes 10 Hue in bIe sight Of ugiiness.--
On the other hand, he WHO makes his own
home attractive, contributes to the rising val
ue ofall the region around him. lie is thus
npublic beneiacior, contributing not merely
to the qualification of the taste of those who
look upon his Improvements, but adding to
The real marx ksgelle yalge Of the properly in
his vicinity.
Do not think that we are here urging cx-
pense upon those who are i'll able to afford
IL. No man is so poor, but that llc eau plant
few trees before his dwelling. No man is
so poor, that he must hare his pig size al his
front door. We only contend tlIut every man
should exercise that taste which God has
given TO every man. Aud though we may
not he abe 10 vie with the rich in the grand
eur Of our dwellings, the lowlest cottage
may be ombellislied with loveliness, aud the
hand of industry and OF neatness may make
il home full of attractions. Let there once
be formed, in the heart of man, an apprecia-
ton of the beautiful and the work is done.-
Year after year, with no additional expense,
the scene around him will be assuming new
aspects of beauty.
Say not, am not the owner of house or
lands and therefore have nothing to do.-
All are but tenants at will. We are all soon
10 leave, 10 return no more. Wherever you
dwell, even ifit be in your own hired house
but one short year, he sure and leave your
impress behind you--be sure aud leave some
memorial that you have been there. The
benevolent man will love TO plant tree, be-
meath Whose shade the children of strangers
are TO play. 1t does the heart good 10 sow
the seed, when il is known that other lips
than yours shall eat the fruit.
Neither think that this is question with
out its moral issues. The love of home as
one Of the surest safeguards ofhuman virtue.
And he who makes home SO pleasant that
his children love il, that in all the wander
ings Of subsequent life they turn to il with de-
light, does very much to guide their steps
away from all the bannts of dissipation, and
TO form in them tuste for those joys which
are most ennobling.-REv. john ABDorr.