Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-09-23
The Farmers Homestead.

If now finally, we go back with him
from all these exterior liabilities TO his
own premises again, we shall need, BY
this time, to memoIinlize the farmer of
what is required Of him in his house. If
The school has disciplined his thinking
faculty and refined his taste; if the town
meeting has awakened in him the exalt-
ing sense Of citizenship; if the church has
lifted his heart into communion with the
father of all families, and inspired his con.
science by the prophecy of life eternal,
he will scarcely be content TO live a driv.
ing dullard lille at home, to play the self
ish tyrant in the little political economy
of kitchen and parlor, or to be worse than
an inidel by not providing for his own.-
BY derivation the significance Of your
common ,itle--hushandman, holds you to
do something. Husbandman, suppose,
are not bachelor men. Now, as nature
has done her part towards furnishing a
husbandman, by making you man, she
| presumes you will finish the business by
making yourself husband. Husband is
house.band, or organizer of household
life. Organize itby not only the sterling
home-brcd domestic moralities, but by the
binding charm of those thousand ameni.
tics tha. distinguish cultivated home
from a barbarian's hut. The delicate an.
gel ol the beautiful knncks a, your door
and begs admission, as we'll as the strong
angel of the useful. Is there the fine elo,
quence of order; is there the displaying
touch Of tasle; ir there the simple and Just
adornng of nature round all your door.
stones, in all your front lawns, on the
walls aud tables and furnishing of your
dwellings!
How many hours of spring morning
" uld it take 10 nbower your windows
with all tha! is graceful in green foliage,
and winning in floral splendor ? Plant
trees before you purchase Venitian blinds
and panied pickets. You will carry a
geniler and therefore manlier hear, in
your breast all day, if you pass out of a
genial circle through The fragrance Of ILL.,
les, and roses, and honey suckles. See
that the sons and daughters are in;erlaced
r by hanes more spiritual than gregarious
bipeds. Let the harmonies of evening
music weave their souls into some gentle
and lofty sympathics, winning the boys
over from ruder pleasures and youthful
comp anionships by the pre-occupatlng
satisfactons of a cheerful courteous and
hosptable Gresde. Ssarve your palate,
ii need ever were for such denial to sock
your library. Raise the tone of the farm
house table,talk, If you can. and let the
ladies help, above stale gossip. common
, places of The days and scondaIous cattle,
Hang the proceeds of your premiums al
callle.shows on the wall, not in battle
scenes, or daubel millinery, but in the
> shadings of some pleasing picture thai
. reflects a glorious idea or heroic sacri,
:, fee. Household lite is not to unfold in
!, 10 grace and moral loveliness by accident
= any more than the wealth of your garden
> or orchark. I! must be cultivated. And
: l take it Christianity speaks as much OIL
. that higher kind of economy as of butch
:. er's meat and breadstui1s, when it pro
nounces him tha, provideth not for hi!
own worse than an infide.
y Req. F. D. Huntington