Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-09-04

mere underlings working for their
board. They should have sheep, n
calf, latnb, a colt, or pig, which
they might call their own, and the
increase Of which should in reality be
theirs to be reared or disposed of for
their benefit. Give the boy some
thing to begin with, anything Of sHb-
stance enough to establish a proprie-
torship in and add to this n patch
of ground with time and means for
its cultivation, the produce and pros
ceeds of which shall be the boys own.
These little attentions and confess
ions of right will work wonders to-
wards developing lads manliness,
and attaching him to the occupation
and the homestead of his father.
Farmers need u hint or two in
another matter, also. AS class
they are far more niggardly and close
with their boys than any other. -
They keep item more rigidly at
work without recreation allow fewer
holidays, fewer homo pleasures, and
less spending money to seek variety
elsewhere, than the sons Of parents in
other employments have. Most 9TH
ers, it is true, live in towns, and
have recreation at command which
cannot be reached in isolated coun-
try life: but even those that do offer
TO farmers are yielded to, if at all, in
a grudging and 'surly manner that
takes half the pleasure from them by
boyish enthusiasm with sordid cal
cGtations of time and money wasted.
Ii fathers could only remember their
own boyhood, and make up to their
sons the privileges and pleasures that
were denied to themselves, there
would be much gained to each sue
cessiye generation,
First of all then, parents should
not prevent Nature to make farmers
Of tHeir boys when she intended
them for something else. But hav-
ing once settled the fact that they
are to be farmers, or, at least, that
their early Years are to be spent on
the farm, let the home they there
help to make be theirs jointly with
othermembers of the family, to adorn
to enjoy, to honor, and to look back
upon'from the distance of years With
pleasant memories. Here is where
the true woman's rights movement
should have begun, and must begin;
IN educating and training up race
of men attached to home, and loving
aud hOnCring woman in her relations
as mother and sister. The most tvs
ranic and illiberal men are those who
have once been tyrannized over, and
debarred from the enjoyments and
privileges that Nature told them
should be theirs. When power does
come into their hands they arc in
clineq to use it to excess. Their
rights have been disregarded, their
pleasures abridged, their desires
made light of why should they con-
sqit the wishes. pleasures, or rights
Of others.
Begin, then, by making home hap
Ply for the boys. If it is a happy,
happy home for them, it will be for
all. Mothers and sisters hold the
destinies of men in their hands, and
through them the de2tinics Of future
wives, mothers and sisters also. BY
the sweet influences they nay throw
around the fireside and the homestead,
they may begin and carry to perfec-
ton grander scheme of moral re-
form than has ever Yet originated in
the brains of the loudest- mouthed
and strongest minded women Of the
age. Woman at home is the true re-
former, end boy, the incipient man,
is the starting point, from which, if
she turns her face in the right direc-
ton, she may read success in bright
er and not very distant future.