The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-10-05
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Many are deferred from marriage for
fear OF the expense Of supporting a family.
II is gtcat mistake. A single man spends
moro in suppors and cigars than would
support vile. Few meu lay by mnch
until they have attained the object to lay
by for. aud thus it comes TO passs that q
family 10 now ~ aneeidly, tic beat or hos
togcs " fortune and none are 80 much to
Be trusted ~ tbose who have tho largest
families. Still as family increases around
= man lac is very apt TO feel a. Il FIVE or
six children were q constant drain upon
his efforts at accumulation. and that chill.
dren were poverty Instead vi wealth. But
il is not so, at least in every respect, or
even on the largest and broadcst sort Of
scale.
Thus, for instaned, IN abational point of
view, our Grst method Of estimating the
greatness OF States 10 by the number and
rapid increase Of inhabitants. Every
child b5ru in the United States makes the
nation so much the more respected abroad
and powerful ut home, 80 much the more
wealthy aud intelligent, tor Oh the average
each citizou produces more Oh the veal h
lhun he onsumes, aud in some department.
or other adds TO the accommodating stock OF
wisdom and experience. Now nation is
bnt u great family, 50 may we best test our
views of what is best for a lafaily by what
is good for a nation .
Children are woak and need support
when the parents arc strong to support
them, in order that ihoy may he strong
when parents are weak, and able to pro-
teot them and thus is made w that bun.
die OF strength which large family ever
generates. Each wiscly brought up and
educated child il the best of all invest
ments of parents wealth Of money, of ai-
fection, and Of effort. Happy still Is the
man that hath his quvcr full Of them.
They arc as arrows in the lftnds of the
mighty.
Children keep man young. He who
miuges only with those older than him
self eoon grows old but he who accustoms
himself to minglo largely aud freely with
those younger than he, as surprisingly re-
tains his youth.
II is the remark of llulwer, certainly
oao o. the closest and best observers of hu
man nature, that il is agood sign for young
man to love the society Of men who are
older than himself, and for An old man TO
love the company Of those younger. 1t is
thus that youth acquires the experience
aud wisdom OF age, and that age retains
tho vigOr, freshness aud elasticity Of youth.
Ohildren have in themselves fund of
wealth in the OVERLOOKING affections which
God has given them, which they impart to
oil who como near and have much to de
with them II they call out the energy of
a man and make him work hard in the hours
of business, they relax and refresh him
with their warmth and geniulity aud alb
sensc of caro- in the hours OF relaxation and
Of throwing it off.
There is many father fearful he shall
not be able to give his son ~ good an edu.
cation, or 30 good a start in lilo as he had
or as he could desire, it there is large
family to share his savings. But there s
the best Of all sorts of education in the ut.
triton of n large family Franklin bids a
young man who would marry well TO
avoid only daughters, but select his wife
ont ol a large family because there arc thou
sand rough ends of temper that got rub
bed of 10y the mutual action of number
OF young people on each other. Each learns
to be conciliating. Like pebbles on the
sea beach, they polish and round of each
other. But oven in the pecuuiary point of
view, children are wealth.
For they mako man economical lust at
that period of lifo when ho ia most dispos.
oil to branch out into extravaganza. From
the tull possession of conscious powers,
making money very easily, he is apt to
spend it as fast, II lie does this al his
strength declines, poverty must ovortake
him, and disappointment or dependence
cloud his latter years; but by pinching
when money is coming in fast, when his
children are grown he has no retrench-
ments to make but rather power to ex-
pand, and to take the world more easily
while he is surrounded by protectors who
love him, because he has been their
protector.