Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-02-16
Make Farm Life Attractive.

/. BY less hard work. Farmers often
undertake more than they can do we'll.
and consequently work too early and too
I late.
2, BY more system. The farmers
should have a time to begin and stop
labor. They should put more mind and
machinery into their works; they should
theorize as well as practice, and let both
go together Farming is healthy, moral
and respectable; and, in the long run,
may be made profitable. The farmer
should keep good stock and be out Of
debt The farm is the place to begin and
end life, and hence SO many in the cities
and professional life covet rural homes.
B. BY taking care Of health. Far
mers have healthy variety of exercise,
but too often neglect cleanliness, omit
bathing, eat irregularly and hurriedly,
sleep in ill-ventilated apartments, and
expose themselves to cold. Nine tenths
Of the human diseases arise from cold
and intemperancc. Frequent, bathing is
profitable, so is fresh air, elaboration at
the dinner table, and rest after a meal,
4. By adjoining the home. Nothing
is lost by pleasant home. Books,
papers, pictures, music and reading
should all be brought to bear upon the
in door family entertainments; and neat
ness and comfort. Home should be a
sanctuary 50 holy and happy that child
rem will love it, women delight in it,
manhood crave it, and old age enjoy it.
There would be less assertions of home.
steads, ifpains were taken to make them
agreeable. Ease, order, health and
beauty are compatible with farm life.
and were ordained to 60 with it--Aa-
burn Journal.
HOME AND MOTHER. - Home, where
father and mother, brother and sisters,
have unity of interest, sympathy and
affection, becomes in mature life the
most sacred picture
"That hangs on meniory's wall.''
In after years, when the destroying
angel has crossed the household and
silenced its familiar voices in their death
when the hand Of changing time has
torn down the woodbines that climbed
above it's portals and its windows, and
when its paths echo to the tread Of
strangers feet, how often does renetn-
brance lead us back TO it's sacred pre-
cincts, and make us realize that the
home of childhood is the brightest spot,
the fairest oasis ON the desert Of life. Ii
is during these moments ofretrospection
that the religious instructions Of youth
flow back upon the soul. II is then that
we kneel again by the side Of her,
" Whose breast with gentle pillows,
Rocks to rest our infant woes,'
and lisp over the prayer she taught US.
Poetry has cncircled the name Of '.mether"
with haloos of beauty, but its language
will never be adequate to measure her
Influence. To her the first years Of our
lives belong, and it is then in her power
to plant seeds Of virtue that will bud and
blossom in the soul when age has plowed
its deep burrows in our pale cheeks, or
covered our locks with its SHOWS. The
prayers Of pious mother are like a
precious legacy. They are like tho
dews of heaven, which first ascend from
the earth to the skies, and then descend
again to bless and revive the unfolding
plant. Infidelity may array itself against
the Bible, and its clamors may be loud
among the assemblies of men, but it has
not the courage to enter the sanctuary
of a religious home, and there listen to
the earnest prayers Of a holy mother as
she points her children to the throne OF
God.
THE True Man. He is above mean
thing lie 5etrays no secrets confided
to his keeping by another Ho never
struts in borrowed plumage. lie never
takes selfish advantages Of our mistakes.
He never stabs in the dark. He is
ashamed of inuendocs. He is not one
thing TO a mans face and another behind
his back If by accident he comes in
possession Of his neighbours counsels, he
passes upon them an act of instant OBJ
livion. He bears sealed packages with
out tampering with the wax. Papers
not meant for his eye, whether they fut-
ter at the window or lie open before him
in unguarded exposure, are sacred to
him. lie encroaches on no privacy OF
others, however the sentry's Sleep
Bolts and bars, locks and keys, hedges
and pickets, bonds and securities, notices
to trespassers are none Of them for him.
He may be trusted by himself out Of
sight-near the thinnest partition--any-'
where. He buys no office, he sells none
he intrigues for no one. He would
rather fail Of his rights than win by dis
honor. lie will eat honest bread: He
insults no man. He tramples no sensi-
tive feeling. If he have rebuke for an
other. he is straightforward, open, man
ly. In whatever he judges honorable
he practices toward every man.
Eft A Western editor, speaking of
quill-driving cotemporary, says:
His intellect is 80 dense that il
would take the augur of common sense
longer to penetrate it than 70 bore
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