Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-04-08


and fourth generation backward; but I'm
sure it's hurting her health--wcaring her out
Why, you know Sophie used to be the life Of
our set, and now she seems 10 be really eaten
up with care from morning till night, there
are so many things in the house that some.
thing dreadful is happening oil the while, and
the servants we get are So clumsy. Why,
when sit with Sophie and Aunt Zcruah, it's
nothing but a constant string Of complaints
about the girls in the kitchen. We keep
changing our servants all the time, and they
break and destroy so thst now we are turned
out Of the use Of all our things. We not only
eat in the basement, and all our pretty table
things are put away, and we have all the
cracked plates, ard cracked ten cups, and
buck.bahdled knives that can bs raised out
Of chaos. Icou,d use them and be merry, IL
| didn't know NO had better ones; and can't
help wonder there isn't some way that our
tablerould be set'to look like a gen,lcmpn's
table; but Aunt Zerush says that I" il would
cost thousands, and what difference does il
make as long as nobody secs il but usp'' You
see, there's no medium in her between china
and crystal, and cracked csrthcnwarc. Well,
I'm wondering how All these laws Of the
Medcs and Persians are going to work, when
the children come along. I'm In hopes the
children will soften of the old folks, and
mako the house more habitable"s"' 't'"it" 'as
Welt children did come, a good many .ot
them in time. There was Tom, q bread.
shouldsred, chubby checked, active, hilarious
son Of mischief born in the very image Of his
frsher and there was Charlie, and Jim, and
Louisa, and Sophie the second, and Frank
aud better, brighter, more joy giving house,
hold, as far,as temperament and nature were
concerned, never existed.
But their whole childhood was long bat.
tie, children rs. furniture, and furniture al
ways carried the day. The first step of the
house .kcepirg powers was TO choose the
least agreeable available room in the house
for the children's nursery, and fit it up with
all old cracked, rickety furniture neighbor.
ing auction shop could afford, and then TO
keep them in it. Now everybody knows that
to bring up children to be upright, true, gen.
erous and religious, needs so much discipline,
so much restraint and correction, and so
many rules and regulations that it is all that
the parents can carry out, and all tho chill.
dren can bear. There Is only certain
amount Of the vital force for parents or chill.
dren to use in this business Of education, and
ono must choose what il shall be used fol-
The Aunt Ioruah faction choose 10 use il for
keeping TIE house aud furniture, aud the chill.
drens education proceeded accoflineiy.-
The rules Of right and wrong Of which they
heard most frequently, wrrc al of this sort !.
Naughty children were those who went up
the front stairs, or sat on the best sofa, or
| fingered the best books in the library, Or got
ont one Of The best tea cups, or drank out Of
the cut glass goblets. bsw 49, rt T
Why did thcy cyer,want TO do it, IF there
ever is forbidden fruit in an Eden, will not
you, young Adams and Ewes risk soul and
body to find out how it tastes9 Little Tom,
the oldest boy, fIads the courage and enter,
prise and perseverance, OF q Captain Parry or
DIR. Kane, and he used them all in voyages
Of discovery 10 forbidden grounds He Sole
Aunt Zcruah's $, keys. unlocked her cupbosrds
and closets, saw, Handled and tasted every
! thing for himself, and gloricd in his SINS. =
Don't you know, Tom, 'said the nurse to
him once, . if you are SO noisy and so rude,
you'll disturb your dear ma She's sick and
she may die, if you're not careful"
"Wll she dici" said Tom gravely. ..'
81" Why, she may" at far.
"Thcn," said Tom turning on his heel
":hen I'll go up the front stairs"
As soon Us ever the little rnbel was old
enough he was sent away TO boarding school,
aud then there was never found time when
il was convenient to have him come home
again He could not come i'm the spring, for
then they were house cleaning nor in tho
autumn, because they were house cleaning |;
and 80 he spcrthis vacations at school, unless
by good luck, a composition who was so iortu
nate as to have hcfne invited him there
| His associations associates, habits, principles
were az little known 10 bis mother as if she
had sent him to China. Aunt Ieruah used
TO congratulate herself on the rest there was
at home. now he was gone, and say she was
only living in hopes Of the time when Charlie
and Jim, would DO big enough to send away
too; and meanwhile Charlie and Jim, turned
out of the charmed circle which should hold
growing boys TO the fathers and mothers
sides, detesting the dingy, lonely playroom,
used to run the city streets. and hang around
the railroad depotssnd dochs. Parents may
depend that, if they do not make home an
attractive resort for their boys, Satan will -
There are places enough, kept wn,m and light
and bright and merry, where boys can go
whose mothers parlors are too fine for them
| clap them on the back, and tell them stories
that their mothers must mot hear, and laugh
when they compass with their little piping
voices the dreadful itanies Of sin and shame
In middle life poor Sophie, who MS girl was
so gay and f:olicsome, 30 full Of spirit, had
sharpencd into hard 7isagcd, angular. NO.
man, careful and troubled about many things,
and foIgetfu that one thing is nccdful.--
One Of the boys had run away TO sra ] be.
leve he has never been heard Of As to Tom
the oldest, he ran a career wild aud bard
enough for iipr, first at school and then in
college, aud then came p time when he came
home in the .u'l mightof six feet two, and
almost brok6 his mothers heart, with his ns.
sertions Of his home rights and privileges
Mothers who throw away the key of their
chidren's hearts in childhood sometimes have
sad retfbntion. AS the children never
were considered when they were little and
helpless, so they DO not consider when they
are strong and powerful. Tom spread vide
dcsolaticn among the households goods. loung.
ing on the sofas, splitting tobacco juice on
the carpet, scattering books and engrayings
hilher and thither, and Throwing oil the, fam
| lily traditions into wild disorder, 40 he would
never have done had not all his childish re.
membrance Of them been embittcrcd by the
Association of restraint and priyatiop. He
actually seemed to hate any appearance Of
luxury, or taste, or order-he was a perfect
Phiiistinc. e2 }42 <f' bf
AS for my friend Bill. from, being the pleas.
antest and most genial Of fellqys,he became
a inorose misanthrop;c man, DR.. Franklin
has significant proverb, "Silks and satin,
put ont the kitchen firc Silks and sntins--
meaning by them the uxuries Of ho,isekeep
ing put ont not only TIE kitchen fire
/ but that more sacred flame. the fire Of do
,nestic Iove. II il tho greatest possible mis-
cry tola man and to bis children 10 be homo
less; and many q man has . splendid horse
but no home.