The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-02-18
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
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Make Home Pleasant.


We always suspect errors in domestic training,
when find children preferriug al other places
10 home. Parents should throw around the home
circle u magne ti-In % be found nowhere else. y
pleasant and loved home l. one of the most power
ful restraints from vice. and keeps alive within
the heart pure thoughts and generous aspirations
We find some good thoughts Oh this point IN Life
illustrated
"A child may rs easily be led to associate
pleasure with home ideas To think Of il in CON
nectiOn with the home of his Playmates. Ger
tany, if alljSrd % 10 80, he can readily con-
meet happiness with parents, brothers, and Sis
ters, with those Of other kin And the child
will Il, - unless happiness and pleasure, when he
calls for them under the parental roof, respond
Not home! Ail home pictures s-Ou!d be
bright ones. Tie domestic hearth should be
clean and jyyOus.
. If home life Il well ordered the children
having according To age, wOrk-time. play-time,
books, games and household sympathics, they
Will love home, and find pleasure there.
- Give the IittI- ones states and pencils and
e-cDuTage their attempts - make pictures. Draw
ing viii amusS them vine noisy plays have lost
their zest or are unreasonable; and the art will
be useful % them IN all the business of after life.
Have them read to each other stories and para
graphs Of yOEr selection, and the funny
things and the pleasant ones you in papers
and books, to read TO them at your leisure. You
cannot ina gine how much IL Will please them,
and how it will bind them to you. But choose
we'll for them, for the impression made on their
minds now will last when the hills orumble.
Have them sing together, and sing with them,
teaching them songs and hymns. Let them sing
all day, like the birds, at all proper times. Have
them mutually Interested III the same things.
amusements, and occupations having specified
times for each that their habits will be orderly.
Let them work tOgether-knitting and sewing
both boys and girls. They enjoy it equally
less the BOYS are taught that it is unmanlY to
understand girls work. They should know how
to do IL. aud practically. too, as there y they
Hiay avoid much discomfort III future life. Let
them work together in the girden-bOys and
g.rls-both need Out-Of-do0r work. Together LET
them enjoy their games, riddles, etc; ali their
plays, books, and work, while the parents eyes
direct and sympathize, and their vol es blend in
loving accord Have the children do some little
things, daily, for your personal comfort let
tkssLn tIat &c gives you pleasure. and that you
depend them for the service. This will attach
them To you more strongly and if they feel
responsibility, even in matters of themselves
trivial, and are sure Of your sympathy, their
affections and joys VIII cluster around the home
hearth.
Children like to be useful-it makes them
happy 80 give them work time well as play
time. But IN any case and III all cases give them
sympathy. Express love for them
More than building snowy mansion,
and fine array,
More daulss lofty stseples,
More than station power, ald sway,
Max. your hJJac both and tasteful,
Bright pleasant. always fair,
Where each heart shall rest couieutct
Grateful t5r each beauty there
More than lofty. swelling titles
More than fashions luriug glare.
More than rlauluan's .iIdrd houo-s,
Nore than thought well compare,
See that home = male
BY surroundings pure aHd bright,
Trees arranged order.
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