The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-04-20

hours Of every dsy, and laying by -
much as possible Of ~ha. he earned He
INDUCED in nothing which cost money
and did not produce it, though i. might
yield rich harvest of foe thoughts .ud
delightful emotions. All such growth
was nonsense; he preferred the tsngi.
bles, turnips and potatoes. His wife
cooked, scrubbed and stitched, tended
the cradle and the dairy, tried out tsllow
aud cleansed tripe, which was al very
we'll if she set out rosc. bush he dug it
up end replaced j, BY an apple tree, only
tolersting sunfowers because the seeds
are good for poultry H,r love Of Gov.
ers found stinted food 10 beds Of sage
and sweet marjorsm, which we're spared
to flavor sausases for the winters break.
| fasts.
As to children, Farmer Bangs feels not
richer but poorer for every new conner
from the babylsnd, He speaks Of them
habitually as SO many mouths to 6ll. for.
getting his own lean heart With his fam.
ished mouth which these little oncs
might Gil, if he would let them, with
loves delicious food He likes to multi.
ply horses and cove, though they have
too many mouths to 6ll, but then he can
realize money from them, aud about the
children be is not so sure. He does his
best, however. The first lesson he teach.
es them is that this is an expensive
world, aud that though they did not
come into it voluntarily, they are run.
ming up . bill for board aud clothing
which they must pay IS 5000 ~ they arc
abe. With the boys he 10 tolcrsbiy sue.
cessful. At ten they earn their bread;
at twenty they have Handsomely return
ed all earlier outlsy., down to the lung
clothes Of cbesp cslico and the rs.ious Of
maternal milk. But da0 lighters arc poor
property any way. Besides helping their
mother, (who, If he had no children,
would need no help,) they Gun drop corn
and rake hay. it is true, but it doo't
amount to much, after sl So, as soon
they are eighteen years Of sre, he makes
them feel that they are superduous; they
must either leave home at once or pay
their board if they remain. Therefore
they arc wanderers upon the earth. II
they are sick or sorrowful, they have no
house Of refuge to which they can Zee, no
assured welcome awaiting them in the
paternal nest. 1t never occurs to him
that these daughters might have been,
the ornaments Of his life. He does not
think his life needs any ornament F.; he
prefers the useful, by whnh he n.sns
what can be turued to money. If any
body should ask, What is the use Of
money! he would be bowildered by the
absurdity Of the question. Money is
good for its own sake, while wife and
children are not. If uuy one should sug.
gest to him that one Of the best uses of
money is to make home tasteful and 10.
viting, and wife and children intelIieeot
and agreeable, he would stare 10 mysti.
fed surprise He cant afford such non.
sense Besides, he is not ssviny fot
himself When he dies, his widow will
have her "thirds" and bis children the
remainder; in fact, he is nov working
for them and not they for him He does
not refeo' that they may die before him,
or that 1t they survive, it may be with
natures so dwsrfcd aud narrowed for lack
OF the culture he has withheld, that their
lives may prove rather a burden than .
blessing As it is, his children are the
scrawn,est stock he turns of. aud HE
wife's condition is such thst. were she
quadruped instead OF b,ped, he would
almost question 10 the fall whether she
were worth wiDtering.
This, as | have said 10 an extreme
case, but not the worst that might bo
fouod. Farmer Bangs has good nstured
endowments Of mind and heart; he 10
never unjust or unkind The best 10
him is undeveloped; he has no idcs how
much he has missed His nature is 90
dwarfed by overworked muscles snd IN
under worked brain that he has no per-
ceptioD Of its needs, He loves his wife
and children as well as himself, and
stnrves their finer instincts as he has his
own, simply because he sees no better
way The source of the strange torpor
that has crept over hi. manhood is to be
found ir early habit, the habi, OF divid.
ing his hours between food, sleep, aud
labor in the open air | do not Us ert
that out door work was the sole cause of
his bluuted sensibilties, but it was Que
cause, and had more to do with the rc
suit than would at first appear he
had been shoemaker or a tailor, if he
had followed any calling that kept him
chiefly in doors, his feelings would have
been quicker, his perceptions keener,
and his mental powers more sctive than
they arc at present And this not be-
cause fresh air is q bad thing to breathe,
nor because farm life favors stupidity
when rightly followed Pure air il =
blessing beyond praise, it is the very
elixir of life; tilling the soil is not only
the earliest but one of the purest, most
healthful and ennobipg Of occu pstioo.,
if it be only conducted wisely and we'll.
But We may easily have too much of .
good thing; the finest ideas; the most
attractive pursuits, may in practice be
carried to excess, and We can better avoid
unpleasant results when they ere cle~rlv