Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-11-17
Three Wise Paragraphs.

Three Wise Paragraphs.
BOYS, TAKE HEED I'm short time
past, a number of young men in vari-
Gus parts of the country, have been
arrested for high crimes. 1t has turn
ed out, in every instance, lessons of
ruffianism were taken when they were
permitted to be on the streets, in the
evenings, among bad associates. The
rum shops, the hotels and the gamb-
lihs rooms of a town, arc the schools
of hell. 1t is the frcqucnting OF such
places and indulging in idleness with
out any honest object in pursuit to
absorb ones time and mind, that make
murderers, swindlers, or highwaymen
of thousands, who, if properly train
cd, would be good and useful men,
bers of society. How is it in our
community? Parents! can you tell
how and where your boys spend their
evenings? Are they at home, impro-
wing their minds, and conducting
themselves in such manner that you
feel assured will never dishonor their
families, injure society, and ruin them
selves by indulgence in crimes? or
are they roaming the streets, lounging
in stores, shops, taverns, or worse
places, and fitting themselves for the
poorhouse. penitentiary and the gal
lows? These are solemn questions,
that should star,le every parent.
Ponder them, carefully and prayerful-
ly. Think of the duty you owe your
children, to God who gave them, and
to society which is to suffer by your
negligence or be blessed by your
watchful care and Thoughtful training.
A fearful responsibility rests upon
you, and you should he able to dis
charge your duty to those under your
care, so that they may not become OBJ
iccts of dread and loathing in COM
muniies when you are no more.
IDLE GIRLs.-The number Of idle,
useless girls, in all our large cities,
seems to be increasing. They lounge
or sleep through the mornings, parade
the streets during the afternoons, and
assemble in frivolous companies OF
their own and the other Sex to pass
away their evenings. What a store
of unhappiness for themselves and
others, are they laying up for the COM
ing time, when real duties and high
RESPONSIBILITIES shall be thoroughly
assumed! They are skilled in no
domestic duty-nay, they dcspise
them have no habits of industry, nor
taste for the useful. What will they
he as wives and mothers !? Alas for
the husbands and children, and alas
for themselves! Who can wonder, if
domestic unhappiness or domestic ru-
in follow? 1t is one of the worlds
oldest maxims, that idleness is the
nursing mother of all evil and wretch
edness. How sadly strange is it that
20 many parents-mothers, especially
forget this, aud bring up their
daughters in dainty idleness! They
are but sowing the wind to reap the
whirlwind.
GIVE HIM A TRADE.-If education
is the great buckler and shield of lib
erty, well developed industry is equal
" the bucklcr and shield of individu-
al independence. AS an unfailing
resource through life, give your son,
equally with an education, good,
honest trade. Better any trade than
none, though there is ample room for
the adaptation of every inclination in
this respect. Learned professions
and speculative employments may fail
o man; but an honest handicraft
trade, seldom or never-if its possess
or chooses to exercise it. Let him
feel, TOO, that productive handicrails
are honorable and noble. The men
of trades-the real creators Of what.
ever is most essential TO the necessi-
ties and welfare of mankind-above
oil others, in whatever repute they
have been held by their most fastidi.
Gus fellows. must work at the ore of
human progress, or all is lost. But
few brown handed trade workers
think Of this, or appreciate the real
power and position they compass.
Give your son a trade, no matter
what fortune he may have or seem
likely to inherit. Give him a trade :
he can always battle with temporal
want with this, and can always he in
dependent.
Tha North Ameninaa ...a.. .h.A : IL