Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-10
lQ(ortester 9ailg Spp.
iuE CHILD AND TIE MAN-DOMESTIC LIFE IN
AMEklCA-IIUW TO BEALrIEY TIIE uNI -SE-LInLn
BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

not nave the magical power over us that the
red ana gold covers Of our first picture-b books
possessed. How the imagination cleayes to
the warm glories OF that tinsel even now
What entertainments make every day bright
and short for him ! The street is old as ma
ture the persons all have their sacredness.
Ills imaginative lite dresses all things in their
pest. Ills fears adorn the dark parts with
poetry He has heard of wild horses and of
BAD boys, and with pleasing terror he watch
es at his gate for the passing of those varieties
OF each species The first ride into the coun.
try, the first bath in running water, the first
time the skates are put on, the first game out
OF doors by moonlight, the books OF the nurse,
ry, are new chapters of joy, The ARABIAN
Nights Entertainments" the "Scven Champi.
ons of Christendom,, "Robinson Crusoe," and
the "Pilgrims Progress" mines of
thought and emotion, what wardrobe to
dress the whole world withal, is in this eucy-
copedia of young thinking. And so, by beau
tliul traits which, without art, yet seem the
masterpiece of wisdom, provoking the love
that watches and educates him, this little pi-
grim prosecutes the journey through nature
which he has thus gaily begun. He grows
up the ornament and joy of the house, which
rings to his glee, to rosy boyhood.
1t is Il sufficient accusation of our ways of
living, and certainly ought to open our car TO
every good minded reformer that our idea of
domestic wellbeing now needs wealth to ex-
ecute It, Give me the means, says the wife,
ana your house shall not annoy your taste nor
waste your time. On hearing this, we under.
stand how these means have come to be so ON.
nipotent on earth. And indeed the love of
wealth seems TO grow chiefly of the root of the
love of the beautiful. The desire of gold is not
for gold. 1t is not the love of much wheat and
wool and household stuff. 1t is the means of
freedom and benefit. We scorn shifts. We
desire elegancy of muniticence. We desire at
least to put no stint or limit on our parents,
relatives, guests or dependents. We desire to
play the bcneiactor and the prince with our
townsmen, with the stranger at the gate, with
the bard. or the beauty, with the man or wo-
man of worth, who alights at our door How
can we do this, if the want of each day i'm
prison US in lucrative abors aud constrain us
to continual vigilance lest we be betrayed
into expense
In the old fables We used to read of Il, cloak
brought from fairy land as gift for the fair
est and purest in Prince Arthur's court. 1t
was to be her prize whom it would fit. Eve.
ry one was eager to try it on, but it would fit
nobody; for this it was a world too wide for
that it dragged on the ground and for that
other it shrunk to a scarf. They, of course,
said that the devil was in the mantle, for really
the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing
All JTou, h,,, III, t o'''u i'''' oo.oe'.
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ultluua ais "Io'l nc auihile Inc heroes OF me
[ace men ne ilspecls thenl crltlcally ne as
.o' 'h'l '''e!i 4itls are Io"' tl'at 'hey are
w 4ui.niy Sa'isHeu' ne observes me s"lIt'
ilc9a VIZ. WHICH me cuiliillates ana Inc hu'
Vi ne eAPecta'lolls Oh Tue greatest part
VI uiJ"' ~ eaoi occuIs' soon aIter the aye
" pu'ei sumo event. OF society, OF way OF
~ ms WHICH oecolles me Crisis OF Ire anu tle
S I'ilei lact i'll !ilelr history In woman II Is
rove anu marriage, (whch is more reasona-
pie ana yet 1t Is pltltul to date and measure
an the Iacls ana sequel OF an unfolding lie
from such youthful and generally lnconsider-
ae perlou lis tne age OF courtSilp ana mar
tiaee' ~ men II Is Iielr pace OF euucatloh,
thelr cholce Oh an employment, or theM settle
llieLit III to"h OF thelr removal 10 the east or
10 t'le west or some other magnlhed trlhe,
1900 'N' -
the alter years ana actons are only to derive
interest from their relation to that. Hence it
comes that we very soon catch the trick OF
each mans conversation, and knowing his
TWO or three man fac's, anticipate what he
thlhks OF each new topic that rises 1t Is
scIrcely iess pefcelVaoie III educated men, so
caneu' IMAM IN the uheducated. we nave seen
nhely ehuo"ed men at college festivals, ten,
Menty years amer 'i' y had ieit me seminary,
re'uiiiihs' us II r seemed the same boys VINO
went away ne same Jokes pleaSed the
SAINT 9N""e 'ieHieu' Inc ni""Hoou anu Oh
hGes t'iey brought tnl'HeI a' thls return SEEM
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secUnu' t''t uiiCui'i9s ne III gong
" coiese, III " tni'u, lis Jou'hey 70 'lie "gst'
or ms Voyaee 70 Oai'oh' ~ 'ouIt' ee uis
coming OUT Vi tHe Quaher society III hl..'
ms ne" uie' anu teeiIleii III " eiAOn ms
coming ioItl ou' VI t"e apol!tlo'i sai'i@I.'ols'
anu III ee'eilt''' ms so'is mo tileii' II
NE OIL Toys anu lrihkets' we are 100 easily
p'easeu'
pe!o "u ls Pilli"'y eHus VI t"v eoiyueai
anu Pareh'l reiallon, lhe 1ouselloIu shoula
cherlsh tlle peaut'lui artS anu 'e sentiment OF
'ehe[ation
l. Whatever brings the dwei'er mo nher
lie, what educa'es ms eye, his ear OF ms
hand, whatever purlles ana enlarges num-
may well find place here And yet let nm
not think that property in beautiful objects is
necessary to his apprehension OF them, ana
seek to turn his house into museum.-
Rather let the noble practice Of the Greeks
find place in our society, in whose country,
it would seem, every statue and painting was
public, it being considered absurd and protane
to pretend property in work of art, which
balopuod to ooulJ coo II A haitian