The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-06-15
to the Dissemination Of Lstegence

sons and daughters can hold loving. Cult
yate the trees-they are God s messengers =
Don't say that you care nothing for looks Yo
do care, else why do you build that two ST. or
white house, with cupola into which yol
never go? Or why did you. years ago, care
fully brush your coat and pull up your shirt
collar when YOU were starting on Sunda.
evening 10 visit the good woman who nov
shares your home?
Care much more for books and pictures
Don't keep a solemn parlor into which you ge
but once month. with the parson or sewing
society. Hang around your walls picture,
which shall tell stories of mercy. hope, courage
faith and charity. Make your living room the
largest and most cheerful in the house Let
your place be such that when your boy has
gone to distant lands or even when, perhaps
he clings 10. single plank in the loseIy waters
Tof the wide ocean. the thought of the still
homestead shall come across the desolaiion
bringing always light. hope and love.
Have no dungeon about your house-no
room you never open-po blinds that are
always shut.
Don't teach your daughters French before
they can weed flower bed or cling to a side
saddle. And daughters do not be ashamed
of the pruning knife. Bring to your door the
richest flowers from the woods; cultivate the
friendship of birds; scorn the scamp that levels
bis murderous gun at the blue bird OF the
robin. Study botany, learn to love nature,
and seek higher cultivation than the fashion
able world would give you.
BE Systematic
Saws writer in Halls Journal, it will add
more to your comfort and convenience through
life than you can imagine. 1t saves time
saves temper, saves patience, and saves money
For a while, it NAV be little troublesome
but you will soon find it is easier to do rio ht
than wrong; that it is easier to oct by rule
than without one.
Be systematic in everything; let it extend
20 the minutest triles, it is not beDeath you.
Whitfield could not go to sleep at night, ii.
after retiring, he remembered that his gloves
and riding whip we're NOT in their usual place.
where he couldslay. his hands right on them in
the dark, on any emergency; and such are the
men who leave their mark for good on the
worlds history. 1t was by bis systematic bab
its from youth to age that Noah Webster was
able to leave the world his great dictionary
Method was the presiding spirit of his life, :
writes his biographer.
Systematic men are the only reliable men
they are the men who comply with their en-
gagements. They are minute men. The man
who has nothing to do is the man that does
nothing. The man of system is soon known
10 do all be engages TO do; to do it well and
TO do it at the time promised; consequently,
he has bis hands full. When / want me.
chanical job done, / go to the man whom ii
always find busy, and I do not fail 10 find him
to be ibe man to do that job promptly and to
the hour.
And more, teach your children to be sys.l
tematic. Begin with yonr daughters at five
years of age; give them drawer or two for
their clothing; make it point to go to that
drawer any hour of the day and night; and if
each article is not properly arranged. give
quiet and rational admonifion; if arranged
well, give afectionate praise and encourage
mept. Remember that children. as we'll as
grown people. win do more to retain a name
than to make one.
As soon as practicable, let your child have
room which shall be its own, and treat that
room as YOU did the drawer; thus yoa will
plant and cultivate habit of systematic action
which will bless that child when young, in
crease that blessing when the child becomes
parent, and extend its pieasurabe influences
to the close of life A single unsys,ematic
person in house, is curse TO any family. A I
+. ife who has her whole establishment so ar
ranged. from cellar to attic, that she knows, on
any emergency, where TO 60 for required ar I
ticle, is a treasure TO any man, (my experience,
reader while one who never knows where
ANYTHING is, and when it is by accident found,
is almost sure to find it crumped, soiIed, or out
of order, such wife as the latter is unworthy
of the name. and is a living reproach to the
mother who bore her.
The Student
He had toiled earnestly and too long. Like
an imprisoned bird, his spirit, struggling for
more perfect freedom. had beat against its
prison bars, and now its earthly tabernacle W as
shattered l.
1t is melancholy to see the decay, the grad.
ual dropping, and premature death of the
Young and strangely gifted. How many hopes,
how many Affections, clustered around and
cinging to such an individual are withered and II
crushed by the blow that lays their object in
the dust The altar is over thrown, and the {
'fiterlng profaned lrsage 3ssTB = 9T1eRLs I
& The student sat alone. His task was done. I
One pale cheek rested upon his emaciated hand
and his eyes were fixed thoughtfully upon the Ii
volume before binl--yet the page was to him
but q blurred and confused mass. His mind !
was away among earlier days and brighter
scenes. He thought of the past, and a faint 8
'mile lighted up for moment his pallid eoun- =
enance. There were hopes, and JOYS, and as. '
Dirations. and anticipated trinmphs, that came 7
throneing upon bis soul.in that brief retrospect
and hiss strong ambition awoke again--to die e
The panorama passed The realities Of the
present were before his eyes; and be sighed to
thiak that the brilliant promise of bis morning
bad departed ere noon. Theobject for which
ne had toiled was unattained. Ease had been
foregone, health sacrificed. the springing affec
tlons OF his heart crushed down and strangled
in their birth, hut the prize he sought was still
unwon. Oh Fame thou nocker of the s.n 4