Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-09-23
CHILDREN ARE WEALTH.

Many arc deferred fiom marriage for fear
OF the expense OF supporting a family. 1t
is great mistake. A single man spends
more in suppers and cigars than would sup.
port wife. Few men lay by much until
they have attained the object to lay by for,
and thus 1t comes to pass that family Is
now, as anciently, the best Of hostages to
fortune, and none are so much to be trusted
as those who have the larges. families. Still,
US family increases around man he is very
apt to feel as II five or six children were
constant drain upon his efforts at accumula-
ton, and that children were poverty instead
Of wealth. But il is not so, at least in every
respect, or even on the largest and broadest
sort of scale.
Thus, for instance, in national point of
view, cur first method Of estimating the
greatness of States is by the number and
rapid increase Of its inhabitants. Every child
born in the United States makes the nation
so much the more respected abroad and pow
erlul at home, SO much the more wealthy
and intelligent, for on the average each citi-
zen produces more Of the wealth than he
consumes, and in some department or other
adds to the accumulating stock of wisdom
and experience. Now nation is but great
family, so may We best test our views of " hat
is best for family by what is good for q ma,
ton.
Children are weak and need support when
the parents are strong to support them, in
order that they may be strong when parents
are weak, and able to protect them, and thus
is made up that bundle Of strength which a
large family ever generates. Each wisely
brought up and well educated child is the
best Of all investments of q parents wealth
Of money, Of affection, and Of effort. Happy
still is the man that hath his quver full o,
them. They are as arrows in the hands oi
the mighty.
Children keep man young He who min
giles only with those older than himself soon
grows old: but he who accustoms himself to
mingle largely and freely with those younge,
than he, MS surprisingly retains his youth.
1t is the remark Of Bulwer, certainly one
of the closest and best observers of human
nature, that it is good sign for a young
man to love the society of men who are Older
than himself, and for an old man to love thu
company Of those younger. 1t is thus tina
youth acquires the experience and wisdom
Of age, and that age retains the yigor, fresh
ness and elasticity Of youth. Children have
in themselves fund of wealth in the over
flowing affections which God has given them
which they impart to all who come near ant
have much to do with them. IF they call on,
the energy of man and make him work
hard in the hours of business, they relax md
refresh him with their warmth and geniality
and absence of care in the hours of relaxa.
ton and of throwing il off.
There is many father fearful he shall no,
be able to give his son so good an education
or so good start in life as he had or as he
could desire. If there is large family to
share his savings. But there is the best OF
all sorts Of education in the attrition of q
large family. Franklin bids q young man
who would marry well to avoid only daugh.
ters, but select his wife out of a large family
because Of thousand rough edges of TEN.
per that got rubbed off by the mutual action
Of number OF young people on each other
Each learns to be conciiating. Like pebbles
on the sea beach, they polish and round of
each other. But even in the pecunary point
of view, children are wealth.
For they make man economical lust al
that period Of life when he is most disposed
to branch out into extravaganza. From the
full possession Of conscious powers, making
money very easily, he is apt to spend as fast
II he does this as his strength declines, pow
erty must overtake 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 re-
trenchments to make, but rather power to
expand, and to take the world more easily
while he is surrounded by protectors who
love him because he has been their protect
or.--Ehiiadelpkia Ledger. ..e