The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-06-15


The Maa who Mars.
This evening while walking
home from the Office, We saw q
little curiy-haired boy, about nine
years old, standing in an alley
way between two old carts, crying
bitterly. No one was near him
He was sobbing as though his heart
was tortured with grief Men and
women passed by. only turning
their heads to: see. Said an ele-
gsntly dressed lady ahead Of us to
her gentleman companion, when he
proposed to stop ana see what
allied the little fellow: aois8p
No you shan't It is only SONS
dirty little brat not worth mind
ing.
The two passed on. The wo>
man q snob; the man, not even
dog, for dogs do not desert the
poor. 49,
What is the matter lNAe fell
low?' sl.i.J-.sEo G4
81 'Please-please-please, Sir-I
don't want to tell' ~zs9ae.5
Why, not?' r.
Tm-I'm ashamed to. 4e4
/ Ashams d to2 Itcaa't be that q
little fellow with snch q good face
as yours have done something you
are ashamed Of. Tell me what
the trouble is. All little boys and
big boys, and menatoo, get in
trouble and have to be helped out
It's my father sir. He scolds
me all the time. He don't love me
and scolds me. and always speaks
cross to me- The boy who lives
next door is never scolded by his
iather. and amt no bigger than I
| am, and he amt no better thanI
try to be. E!'fET id sd ~
What does your mother say2
She is good to me, but father
| scolds her too. He don't love any
of rs. and I am ashamed to live.
| Indeed / be sir a9G Z Ia
i The world 10 only too full of
such children and of such fathers
Men who mar the beautiful?
Supposeswe should 60 into the
house Of q neighbor IS he was
moving in new furniture to fill up
and make beautiful his place Of
residence. To help him put things
in place would be manly and right,
But would it be right to find fault
with him-to pics at this, TO scratch
at that2 10 mark the piano little,
then to scratch, even. with the point
of . pin, the chairs. tables, stands,
and all the furniture he was trying
to make part and parcel of him
self. 50 AZ to speak. just think
how little time must elapse before
that man would dislike Us, then
hate US. Marring constantly mar
ring. Spelling and defaeingg the
beautiful, breaking little shrubs,
pinching little buds to kill the
flower behind them Making marks
letters, figures. scratches and dis
fgurings on all there was Of the
beautiful.
| One man in this way could de-
spoil hundred homes. Could live
to much evil. Could do more harm
than an hundred men always a
work could do good, could spoi
beautiful furniture faster than al
army OF men could make or fin-
ish. 4a
II this scratching and marin,
were done by the man in his owl
b ome, what sense for his wife an,
children to try to make beautiful
What the use of having 3 hom
when it 10 not attractive?
So with children. They are il
oLc sense but bits of furniture
easily kept in order. easily spoile
and made cross, ugly, peevish i'll
natured; very easily taught ths
brutality and manhood are til
same thing, when true manhoo
and real loveabledignity are show
by love, kindness, thoughtful car
and q growing disposition to MAKE
every one about you happy, bettel
more gentle of heart and beautifl
in disposition.
The world is full of men wi,
mar, and drive back, and tramp
under foot all that is budding [
the beautiful in the hearts of wiv,
and children. The heartis a gal
den. Plant it with kind words an
gently spoken requests, and 9,
: how choisest flowers and most d
, licious fruit of careful love wi
!, reward the considerate husband
man. Austerity is not manhood
Gruff, harsh, hastily spoken wore
chill hearts and drive back in
l cold dark corners the tendriIs
affection which If helped to gro
60 down with a man to his gray
bearing him gently in their en-
Q brace, to live and bloom with hi
> over Yonder in the Garden of r
, newed Life.
: 1t is easy to ole when the FL
that hi1es earth from life closes O
all of pain and sorrow, to rcge
all the kind words spoken in Il
t past, living like schrubs laden wi
i, choicest flowers, to be borne
D hand 10 the Loving. Waiting On
in the Land Of the LeaI, in pro
that yen lived not in vain, and th
9 you Come Home with lasting r
. wards To live in q house whe
9 orders, gruff commands and selfi
/ love for sacred obedience mar
: the head of the family, is like Sc
ing the corpse Of little child tai
en- to its little grave in q great b
rough, jolting wagon in which it
q brown and tossed and bruised ii