Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-03

productive industry, men Of refined taste and
sound Judgment AT their places of business
order reigns and perfect neatness PREVAILS
There is a place for everything, and every
thing is in its place. an entry on the book
can be shown, when occasion requires and
ifan important paper Is wanted it can be found
at once.
1t is not uncommon to see men, with whom
all this is reversed-disorder everywhere,
neatness nowhere. Itwould seem as fittings
were never overhauled to be cleaned, and
never touched but to be thrown into disorder.
It is confusion conbunded to all but the
master, and perhaps to him also. You might
about as well look for a needle in hay-mow,
or rusty three-cent piece in barnyard,
under the feet of a herd, as for an entry in
their books. If an important document is
wanted, it must be waited for till it pleases
to turn up. t.Il .HII
With the fair specimens of creation it is
somewhat so. Go into one house, and If the
husband has provided well, you find all right,
everything clean, everything comfortable,
everything where it should be; all so nicely
arranged and having such an air of comfort,
that you would almost wish you were that
woman husband or at least that you could
be an inmate other house. And even if her
husband has not provided very well, every
thing viii seem to put its best foot forward
poverty viii have assumed a charm; and you
will feel as if you could be contented with
/ little, under such an administration. mother
houses you might think that the upholsterer
had done a costly duty long ago, but that few
I duties had been attended to since, and that
whether the general indications were those of
wealth or the reverse, there was little Of taste
OF comfort.
1t would not be true to say that men who
are orderly, tasteful and neat in their busi-
ness arrangements always succeed, or that
/ those who are slatternly always fail. 1t is
/ enough for our argument, that the former are
certainly as often successful; and ifit cannot
be said that housekeepers who excel in neat
ness in the furnishing arrangements and in
| the administration of the food, are always the
best wives and mothers, it is enough to affirm,
what none viii deny, they generally are
They, oftener than others, are the wives of
happy husbands and the mothers of happy
families. And just so, men of business who
insist upon order, neatneSs, good taste, and
something like comfort in their business ar
rangements, ,oftener provide well for their fam
lilies and become wealthy. A decent regard
to these things pays everywhere.
But nowhere does it assume higher i'm
| portance than on the farm. If the farmers
wife ought to be tidy, he ought not to be
sloven. His daily labor avocation requires q
| garb strong rather than fashionable; but that
| is no good reason why his brogans should
walk straight from the dung-hill into the
parlor; no reason why be should wear soled
dress always and everywhere; none why his
wife and daughters should be mortified and
made to feel that they belongto lower caste;
none why his house, with all its indoor COM |
forts and all its surroundings, should not be |
neat, pretty, tasteful, expressive of a culti- |
waited mind and of refined appreciation of
the beautiful.
But twas not my purpose to speak so |
much ofwhat is personal and domestic as of 4
the outdoor, the real estate, the rough-and- |
tumble the proft-and-lOss matters of the farm. |
Here also is a field for the display Of sound |
Judgment and cultivated taste. wei par
titioned, safely inclosed, and finely cultivated /
farm is one of the most beautiful objects in
nature God made the whole earth beauti-
full. Is that a reason why man should make
the little he may control ugly2 Nature de-
lights in graceful forms and rich colOrs. Shall .
man pay no regard to the Divine teachings in .
nature2
He who controls mile, a rood, or rod of .
land, should make it beautiful not at the .
sacrifice of the useful, but in perfect harmony |
with it. This is duty plainly revealed, if
not in the Word, yet in the example of Him
who clothes mountain and valley with ex-
quisite forms Of life, tinges the clouds with
gold, plants the prairie with flowers, and per-
fumes the air with their fragrance.
Perhaps you ask, What care for looks, if
1 can only reap good crop2 Did not the
Father Of all care for good looks when he
made the world for man to dwell in2 And
dare you make the spot he intrusts you with
a piece of deformity? He treats his children
to forms and tints of beauty wherever they
turn their eyes. Viii you doom yours, so far as
lies in you, to look on ugliness where they
are to spend their best and perhaps their only
days2
Think you God cares nothing for appear
ance2 He could have made your horses
eye dull unsightly, expressive of no fire,
spiritIess, could have made the eye of the OK
such that it would have looked no love, no |
patience, no endurance, no gratitude, on you;
could have made plants without flowers, and |
women even without loveliness and grace
In that he made her beautiful, be taught her |
to adorn herself with both outward and in
ward charms. Whoever thwarts her in a |
reasonable attention to either, opposes the
viii of the Maker.
Yes, God made all things beautiful and
ten thousand commands would not more
clearly indicate his will that man, according
to bis ability, should do likewise. We have
said that a well-ordered farm is the most
beautiful object in nature. About this there
may be a difference of opinion; but there
win be no dissent from the declaration that
badly arranged, shabbily cultivated farm is
the ugliest object on the face of the earth -
divisions where they should not be, fences
overgrown with brush and inadequate to the
object for which they were built, fields ram
pant with anything but the crop desired to be
grown, building badly situated and out of
order, men, women, and children, beasts,
swine, and fowls, all well enough off to-day, |
ifthe sun shines, but not having the promise
ofeomfort tomorrow, if it should storm
To 90 BY such form would make one sor-
row to the very heart if there was heart in |
him. The man who lives there may have /
wealth, if he has had any way to get it ex-
cept out of the ground. But he has no right |
to make such blotch on the fair face Of |
Gods creation. It is sin. Some farmers |
tell US, "Oh, we HAVEN'T come to anything |
like nice farming yet; We are backward in |
our part Of the country; the stumps are not |
out Of our fields; and if the deluge or any [
other power brought boulders on them, they |
are there yet" And so there they are ali /
sinners together and alike; but let them re-
member that ''thOugh hand join in hand, the /
wicked shall not 60 unpunished = and it is
wicked to shave and to hold2 such farm
We say it thoughtfuIly, considerably, con