The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-01-23
SUNSHINE AT HOME.
BY r. 8. ARTHUR.

Sunshine for home plants is Just as Beces-
sary as sunshine for garden plants; yet from
how many homes is the sunshine banished! |!
Il is..no wonder that so many children grow
up morally blanched. or with strange, one
sided developments Of character.
Without heart-sunshine. beaming from ra-
diant faces al home. the affections cannot
blossom IN fragrant promise Of good fruit.
The proposition being made self.evident,
needs no enforcing argument. Thought as
serts. But picture from real life. may give
the precept an active force in some heart
which otherwise might continue to dwell in
the darkness Of its own siekly fancies, in.
stead Of coming into the sunlight.
/" But how asks one. IAN TO get sun
shine into my home ]"
..Open the doors and Windows" We aa-
swer. "TLe heavens are foil Of warm light.
Open the doors and windows, aud II will
come in"
:" How am to open the dosrs and win
dowsf IL is easy to say open them. But
hss s--how ?"
We will undertake ysur case. friend. IL
is difficult one, we own; your close httIng
doors and windows have been shut so long,
that the bolts and hinges are rusty. Lichen
| aid moss have grown over hundred narrow
chunks where single rays used TO penetrate ;
aud closr-leayed i,;ss are hanging their cur.
iains IN front Of old loopholes through which,
/ at least once day, in former times, the san
/ glanced into two Or three small chambers oil
YOUR guarded dwelling. Your children, the
home plants whose culture has been so un-
wisely neglected, are sickly aud deformed
in their moral growth. They do not sdorn
and beaulily. and make vocal with al sweet
melodies your home. There Is small hope
tor them. uEless you open the doors and sln.
dows Ol winch we have spoken, aud get them
Into the sunshine.
Its evening, and you have turned your
feet homewsr,s. What have 700 been do.
ing ali dsyi Gathering IN and boarding
what ,ou have already lost the puwer ot en-
loving. lsit not sof Let your thought g
away down into consciousness. Look al th'
face Of ,our real self. How Is il. oi THU
life. which you are spending your lie 20 %
lains Yuu enjoy. Il the word may be used
tie excitement Of getting; but. ia the dis
pensatiun, how little OF true pleasure 10 evol
we'd.
And 50. when YOU turn yourself away fron
your counting room, and look home~sra, IN
shadows begin TO lall around you, and yo'
bring these iastssJ OF sunlight into you
dwelling. -.
They are falling around ysu now. Th
feet that bear you onward, a'e not singe'
by sweet sntiCipations but seen heavy laden
You have left all light heart.pulses behini
! yon. IL is with you Bor as II has been 10
months; We might say, years. Voc kno'
how II will be on your arrival; aud ho~
will not be. No dumping of glad little fee
down the stairs and along the hall will an
s~er, like musical responses. 70 Jour hrs
steps, long waited for. And yet there sr,
Young fest aud ehildres's voices IN you
d.ellIng. Thus IL will not be. But instead
. the sharp notes Of srangling. or the disso
nant cries ol passion, are the sounds that ga
for your reluctant ears. The memory Q
What has been 10 too distinct 70 Jour mint
, Tor anything like .elf.iorgstiulnsss. Th
shadows lsll more and more heavily aroun,
! you; there lies weight upon your bosoa
! Expecting the worst. you ale going HON
. prepared lor the wort.
Hut this /. not we'll. Try il yos came
iske home q lille sunshine. Il will be sue
novel thing, that we should not wonder Z
any magical results that might follow.
"li Is easy for you TO say. Tsks i hom'
But where as to hnd the sunshine oi whic
. you spe-tf"
You are not very anxious 20 get home. :
turn aside ~iih ns into the public square b
: which We are passing. YOU rarely 60 throus
Ia, 4 believe. There 10 plenty VI heart sur
shine in there about this hour Of The ds.
= = Maybe ray or two msy find path thrcue
!. Y the cloud that envelops you. aud brights
y you with ils radiance.
. What's pleasant transition from the bar
: red pavement, and the aia, red houses. v