The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-07-16

must depend only upon its own resources
for success in the race of life. This con-
sciousness, in view of the mighty results
to be attained, inspires in the youth that
ambitious determination which is the
great secret of success. With this inspi.
ration he starts for a noble goal His
whole energies are enlisted, and whether
toiling upon the farm or engaged in a
more mental occupation his success, hui.
manly speaking, is certain. The very
obstacles in his way become his greatest
blessings, by the discipline which they
afford. He attans a full, symmetrical
development, and towers like al Abra-
ham Lincoln above his fellows, the real
ization of true ideal of manhood who,
like some giant oak which though brawny
and uncouth in trunk and limb it may
be, is nevertheless an oak, the giant Of
the forest.
The conditions which developed Lin.
coin were substantially the same that l
have pointed out the same by which all
of that long list of noble spirits to which
[ have referred have been developed
and if there is place on earth where
above all others these conditions exist,
where those divinely instituted laws of
mental, moral and physical growth can
most easily be obeyed, it is in the quiet
rural home Of the Vermont farmer. If
his means are small the probabilities Of
the ultimate success of his sons and
daughters will be greater. If they do
DOT develop properly, it will not be the
fault of his calling, but the want of a
proper pursuit Of it, and his own failure
to inspire in them that ambition which
hould lead them to properly improve
'hese opportunities which it should af.
ord them.
If ne would accomplish their ruin, let
aim allow them to be taught that labor
is dlsgraceiul; that their delicate hands
we're never made for vulgar toll. Guilt
vate in them false pride and spendthrift
habits. Send his sons thus equipped to
the city end his daughters to some fash
lonable city boarding school, where such
precepts and habits will be enforced and
confirmed by example, and he will surely
accomplish" in them "a stupendous fail
urc;" yet he may be unable to trace
their ruin to causes for which he himself
is responsible. He may even wonder
why his sons do not succeed in business /;
why it is that his daughters are pale, de-
spending and spiritless, while the domes.
tic in his kitchen possesses the rosy
checks Of health, and exhibits an exhu.
berance of life and vivacity. He may
never know that practically an education
founded upon such ideas and pursued, in
connection with such habits will legiti.
mately result in as complete failure for
all the noble purposes of life to those who
are thus educated, as the sons and daugh.
ters of Esquimaux and Hottentots. Yet
every effect is the result of cause,
and that system of education which is
founded upon false ideas of perfection
which violates these laws of God, only
by the observance of which success is pos
sible, must necessarily prove failure
just in proportion to the imperfection o.
the ideal and the extent of such viola
tions.
That ideal Of womanhood which de-
prives woman Of those noble powers O.
mind which can alone fit her to properly
Gil her true sphere, which degrades hel
nearly to level with the tinseled dol
or gaudy butterfly, confines her from 10
fancy within the narrow limits eff thu
drawing room and parlor, and excludes
her from that free, unrestrained out-doo
exercise so necessary to health, is dan
gerous one for the daughters of any elias
to adopt; and so also is that Fashionable
idea Of female beauty which ignores
healthy, physical development, and sub
stitutes deformity for natural symmetry
which, worse than Chinese barbarism
pinches the waist instead of the feet ,whicl
initiates the attitudes of the kangaroo an,
the humps Of the dromedary, rather thai
that divine model which the great Arch
itect himself has fashioned, and whicl
immortal genius in all ages has adore,
and proudly accepted as the standard O
perfection in its works Of art. Sue
senseless and perverted tastes are not tn
products of agricultural life.
The true ideal of womanhood is tina
only, which, when realized, results a
nearly as possible in perfect mental, MOI
al and physical development. Male an
female education should be conducted ur
on the same great principles, and oni
. varied in those details of knowledp
which fit each for their peculiar sphere
Farm life may present to our daug htel
as we'll as our sons, field for deveoI
ment unsurpassed by any other callinl
! where they may lay the foundation of
: mental and physical education, which
! when properly completed, will fit thel
! not only for usefulness, but for the Ell
: joyment of degree of happiness vi
d.. known to the superficial devotees of fasl
: ion.
2 Let the farmer teach his children
: honor their profession, and it will hont
e them. To apply to it that combine
b mental and physical labor which will
lone ennoble it and themselves also.
=. will thus elevate them to that positic
# from which they will not be ashamed
!. their occupation, or to attribute to i
a honest labor that true manhood and W
It manhood which it will have developed
y them
, How TO Make IA Farmer Poor.
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