Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-10-20
ASHTABULA O.. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2o


Home presents noble field for the exer-
clses OF our graces We should be ambi-
! tlons OF shining there if we can not slime
anywhere else. The inmates of our houses
have the strongest claim upon our copacity
Ior contributing to the happiness of Others.
AND these claims, grounded on natural af-
lection are made the more potent by con.
Sderaiions that affect ourselves. BY max.
ing our homes pleasaut,we administer large.
" 10 our own happiness for what delights
are comparable to those enjoyed in the
bosom OF ones own family ?
There are persons who carry two faces
one for their family, and the other for their
friends. The face they wear abroad is
smooth and sunny, the one they wear ut
home is rough and dark. The forbidding
aspect is as disngreeabe as the pleasing one
is talr to look upon Abroad they nre
generous, at homo they are selfish abroad
they are the pink Of courtesy. at home tbev
are habitunlly rude abroad they are ania.
bic, at home they are churiSh abroad they
are mild and tolerant, at home their word
is law, and the law is given in no gentle
tone. They change their faces on the
threshold of their homes, aud there all their
mean and odous traits are called into play
They arc prepared to make the most of the
slightest cause for angry complaint and
spiteful censure
lie has just Saluted a lody with his bland.
est expression of eountenance his wife is
gruifly questioned concerning something
that has gone wrong in her domestic man
agement He met some friends little child
on the way home, and stopped to pat its
cheek, and send kindly message to its
parents his own offspring are hurried away
to the nursery the moment his football is
heard The unpleasant occurrences of the
morning are The topics Of talk ut the din
ner-tahIe. The evening, if spent at home,
is passed in silence, interrupted occasional. !
ly by some directions for the morrow, inter. |
spersed with cutting reflections upon some |
piece Of household extravaganza. What a |
god-send to the mother and daughters is q |
call, especially if the visitor be u person !
whose good opinion it is important the |
mean churl should retain. Instantly the |
outdoor face is put on, the manner is |
changed, the voice becomes pleasant and
more genial and delightful companion we
wond not desire to meet.
1t is as much the duty Of parents to pro.
vide suitable and wholesome amusement for
their children as il is to give them food and
raiment And their entertainment is not
the ulterior object that shond be aimed at
in furnishing these advertisements. For there
is a moral influence in a cheerful hcme, that
is only less salutary than direct spiritual
agencies. PaStimes have as much 10 do
with the development Of child's character
Ms the incnlcation of correct principles and
the performance of allotted tasks. They |
should be selected by the parents, and with |
out annoying Surveillance, enjoyed in their |
presence, so much the better if they join
in their sports, and miDgle their lnughter
with ithe ringing peals that burst from
merry young bealts Those children and |
youths deserve our pity who have to go |
from home to fiud amusement. They are
exposed 10 numerous fatal evils. |
With many persons home means nothing |
more than the place where they cot and
sleep. With ample means, generous aud
affpctionate they are so immersed in
cares and plans, their minds arc so absorb.
ed in the attainment Of greater afiluence,
that they have no time and taste for domes.
thought of some splendid speculation they
are revolving some new investment they
arc framing an answer to some application,
and while at home arc as really absent as
when in their stores and counting rooms
Their purses are always open to the de-
mands of fashion and show. They lavish
their ample means upon the minds and bod
les of the members of their circle daugh,
terS and sons crafty their tastes to the ut
most extent. They give sumptuous enter
tainments expend vast sums on works of
art, sport rich equIpages, and live in style
of dazzling splendor.
Bnt they exercise no control over wife or
children. They are not known as husbands
and fathers. The duties that belong to
those sacred relations are all ignored. They
stand simply for so much money. They are
living Golfers that fly open at look or
word Is such house home in the high,
noble, true, only sense of the word Do
the pure and refreshing delights peculiar to
home, flow from sumptuoHs living :? Is af
huenCe the source of those eevating joys
Can wood and canvass aud carpets yield
happiness Does not the pleasure we en-
JOY at home arise from the interchange of a
thousand nameless Offices of thoughtfulness
and kindness Delicate consideration, pa
tent forbearance, kindly words and sunny
smiles, the habituul exercise Of the gentler
graces-do not these things make happy
homes
c. NJ. CLAYs Personal ExPEmENCE.-
G. NJ, Clay said, in speech made few
days since in Illinois
| was born in old Kentucky was one
of the pioneers of Kentucky-the sou of
one of the men who formed the first Con.
stitution of Kentucky-thc son of the
man Green Clay, who, as a representative
of the third district of Kentucky, in the
Virginia Convention, signed the Constitu-
tion of the United States in I779. Born
under the shield and parentage Of both
these constitutions, l offered to discuss this
question of slavery right where it existed
What then did they say ? Look at the hy-
poerisy of this slave Democracy They
said Why, Clay, if you think slavery is
such an internal thing, why don't you liber-
ate your slaves ? Prove your faith by your
works | thought there was a great deal
OF force in that argument, and although ]
was not very conscientious ahouL the mai