Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-01
Family Government.

''Seek not in Mammon's worship pleasure
But find your richest dearest treasure
In books. friends, musics polished leisure
The mind not sense
Make the sole scale of which to measure
Your opulence.
Avoid in youth luxurious diet.
Restrain the passions lawless riot,
Be wisely gay.
SO shall We spite of Ages fiat
Resist decay.
This is the solace, this the science.
LIES ,purest. sweetest, best appliance,
That disappoints not mans reliance,
What e'er his state,
But challenges with calm defiance,
Time, fortune, fate" -
The family relation is the most i'm
portant association in all the various di.
visions and sub divisions in our national
government.
BY mutual consent, by legal enact
ment. aud by the decree of jehovah pa
reuts are the natural legal and moral
guardians of their children, and no stu
alton in life can relieve them from this
responsibility, but must educate them
either for good or evil. 1t is therefore of
the utmost importance that par ents
should know their responsibilities, and it
is no less important that they should per-
form them. Natures laws are inexora
BILE, and no beauty nor love can avert the
penalty for their transg ression-
The child placed in unhealthy condi-
tons, dies, though long life is its birth
right. The young girl over stimulated
with studies and accomplishments, or
bowed down with cares, withers in her
carly bloom. The young mother, fragile
as q flower, too feeble for her privileges
or her duties, is wrenched from her or
phan children or nks into queruous
invalid. There is an order in nature
that must be observed in education, in
life, and by that order the physical takes
precedence of tho mental. -,sa e-ogf
1t is more import Mt that a young
lady should possess a strong, active,
graceful body, clear healthy skin, a
bright eye and a cheerful disposition, than
that she should be mistress of many ac-
complishments. 1T is of greater moment
to the young matron to know how to
manage her household with intelligence
than to speak French or play on tie pi-
ano. One branch does not exclude the
Other, but the latter should never ex dude
the former. If she knew land would do
IT'D how to ventilate her house in whit err
as well as in summer, to look upon stag
nant air as deadly enemy by night as
well as by day. If she can select a
healthy and nutritious diet for her family
and insure its proper preparation; vary
it in quality and quantity according TO
the needs of each member If she un
derstands she proper use of water, the
moral as we'll as physical advantages of
exercise, the importance of dress with due
regard to warmth and health. In short
if she is what she should b., her children
will not die of fevers nor be tainted by
scrofula. She will keep her household in
cool temper from he oldest to the
youngest and she y i'll reach good old
age, surrounded by her childrer's chill
dren and her memory will be cherished
long after sheis gone. oAo
Surelya knowledge possessing such
power for good and bearing so directly
upon the noblest work of woman is
worthy of time and care and jealous cul-
ture. 1t may be safely said that if the
present generation of American women
understood the laws of health as well as
they understand the toilet, and expended
the same interest in putting them into
practice that they devote to dress, they
might save one half of the children who
are in the next generation, and advance
tho standard of morality one hundred
per cent. In what other way could they
make an equal contribution to the nation
al welfare! REFoRMER.