Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-05-20
The Useful and the Beautiful

gIrI III MY nearing tile other day, ".
sorry am! On, how glad am, said her
brnIher, IA fine looking fellow of nineteen,
whose manly face and symmetrical propo:-
tions showed that lie had had good physical
rraming in life. Glad why, Henryr 'Yes
| am glad. III had my way, every one of
your fol-de>rols should go over The fence,
and The garden should be turned into a sheep
pasture.' 10 --C-
Now, BOYS, are there not TOO many of you
that think just so?-tliat forget that God has
blended the useful and beautiful together,
through all His works and that there can
be no harmony without this blending.
1t seems 10 be the fashion Of the world 10
run INFO extremes. If a man is mechanic,
he is all mechanic; if u farmer, all farmer
if a florist, all florist, &c. The man of sci
ence is TOO apt 10 look with contempt upon
the hard-fsied son of loil and the loiler
turns with equal contempt from the white.
fingered deliver among books. Now this is
all wrong, from The boy who spurns his sis
tcr's flowers, 10 The statesman who spurns
the Irishuau's buggy. Everything is useful
in its place, and The man who loves the
beautiful OF this world, will be all the better
and happier il lie makes that love useful !;
and he who loves the useful will enliven his
care worn hours, by strewing The beautiful
around him.
The mechanic will not be loser by know
ing how 10 prune up an apple Tree, or trIHI n
grape vine, nor bit less hnppy for under
standing and approaching the beauty and
fragrance Of a hyaciDth, or a lilac; neither
will il injure the farmer boy to know how
10 make "a rake or hoe handle; and it
would be, if he would try it, a pleasant rec
| Hal haon iv
and adorn their homes.
Help the girls and they will help you,
when you need them. Learn ic love the
same things, to sympathize with each orher
in liltle, as well as great matters. and-hall
The anlagonism of life will vanish like the
cloud Of lhe morning.
| know dozen men who will not consent
10 have flower vase in their house, though
their wives love flowers well as birds love
sunshine. My word for il, such men will
soon learn their wives 10 refuse 10 90 10 the
barii-yard TO look at and admire the fine call
or colt, and then will their wives have little
eye for the beauty Of n pIowshare or drill
ing machine.
Now, boys, what wish to say TO yon is,
thai nothing that God has made is beneath
your care !; and that you will be more useful
and efficient men, if you cultivate all the fac
uliies OF your ture, and give 10 each one
the highest possible development you can,
under the circumstances in which you are
placed have seen men, who thought u
beneath them TO admire flower and love
music, or shed kimIiy tear: or give way to
a generous emotion; men who have har-
dened their hearts ill the heart that was once
good. soft, loveabe f1ssh and blood, bee nriie
as unmpressible as granite. Better be TOO
gentle than 100 rough. There are great gen.
fuses who bend all the powers of mind and
body.to one point. and thus upon that one
point become masters of tue art. We need
a few such men. But they are not always
the most useful 10 their day and generations
II is the man who has the mind 10 grasp q
hundred things and 10 do them all to the sat.
isfacron of himself, Of his neighbors and
friends-makng himself useful in the whole
round of common life duty, who receives lis
highest reward in this life from his fellows
the reward Of grateful hearts for the happr
ness they have slrewn around tLem.-O OH,
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