Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-11-03
From the Wool Grower.]
Thirty Years in chOOl.

Thirty Years in school.
Matrimony has been called lottery,
because there are supposed to be more
blanks than prizes; rat-trap because
it is easier to get into than cut of; aud
Paradise, because q man is likely To
find, there, an Eve to tempt him to eat
forbidden fruit. and get him turned
adriit, to work for his living With
out disputing the force or the elegance
of these figures of speech, prefer, on
this occasion to call 1T school; not
school for children, though that also
is true. bat especially and emphatic
ally school for men and women, but
most OF all, for men who secm to be in
absolute need OF some such instruc
tons, as shall proceed to show.
To avoid the egotism of speaking of
ones own experience, directly, l shall
suppose | am addressing some young
gentleman who has already entered, or
is about to enter this famous school and
so we will travel on together through
some of the lessons to be learned, aud
the result to be gained, la course of
Matrimonial Education
Thirty years may seem long to you.
my young friendwhen looking forward;
they do not seem long to me. when
looking backward 1t is possible that
you may one day be of my opinion,
that man may still have something
to learn, aud much to do, even ii he
has been thirty years ia school.
When the thirticth anniversary of
my entrance into this school occurred,
not long STAGE. | had mind to cele-
brate by metallic wedding. but /
found | could net fix it to suit me. i
lacked tuenty years of being entitled
to a colder Wedding, and l was just
five years too far advanced for .SIrer
Wedding. | have not heard of any
brass weddings, not to say tin, which
woald be too coarse and common in
deed. So l must stay IN this school
twenty years longer before | can take
the second and third degrees together.
l hope mywifc will conclude to remain.
alse. otherwise l shall miss the grand
jubilee after all.
Some body has said that expert
ence keeps dear school, bat foels will
not learn in any other" And per-
haps every body would say. that is
So" it tacy were not afraid that peo-
pie would apply the preverb to them.
Caador cesapeis me tc say that this
school ct natrimony is ccry dear
school in wore senses than enc. When
you first eater it. you thiak you have
got to heavca before year time. The
first month has been called the honey
mson, though | don't exactly see why +;
for someticRes there is va ore honey than
moon, sometimes more mooa than
honey. and sometimes, | ana sorry to
say it, net much OF either.
The discipline of this school is not
always so strict, or at least so much
talked about, as ia our common
schools, where books are better under
stood than human nature On the con-
trary, there is often great deal of ap-
parent freedcm-and very likely you
NAV take it into your head that, in
stead of icing scholar, you are actu-
ally the master, aud every thing is 60
ing 10 be just as you say. You will
get rid of that nonsense after awhile.
You find in this school plenty of schol-
ars and a great variety of teachers
But you. my ycung friend, have as
signed to you a single teachcr-a
woman Young. Pretty-at least you
think her so-geatle, loving, appar-
emily confding and very deferential.--
She don't lama on you with the fer
ule or rattan. or box your ears. or pull
your hair. Ii she did any of these
things. your ideas would be walked up
very quick, and you wonld begin to
thiak you had made a mistake about
getting into heaven so soon. and you
might even look round to see if you
was not in the neighborhood of the
other place.
Oh, no. She don't begin your edu-
cation in that way. She has under
taken to train you. and. very likely,
the silly thing does not know that she,
also. needs something of the same
training.
| One Of the first lessons youwill have
to learn. and perhaps the hardest tc
learn effectually. and you will be a
happy man il you ever do learn il
thoroughly, was expressed long ago
in terms equally simple and profound
mo man liveth unto himself" Tia
is not living which revolves around it,
own center and sheds abroad no kind,
ly beams to brighten and bless sur.
rounding objects.
! 1t will not be difficult to recogniz,
the fitness and beauty of the mean.
employed to lead you to this great and
happy discovery. When a man take:
Won hy fhe throat saving s.nav m,