Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-05-04
MAKE HOME PLEASANT.

MAKE HOME PLEASANT.
0, We fathers and mothers, who
nave sons and daughters growing up
around you, do ye ever think of your
responsibility in this regard-your
responsibility for keeping alive the
home sentiment in the hearts of your
children? Within the limit Of your
means, remember that the obligation
rests upon you TO make their home
the pleasantest place upon the roll
ing earlh; to make the word "home'
othem the synonym for happiness.
! would not have you import the
vices Of the outside world into your
homes for any purpose; but | would
have you 90 to the utmost verge of
what is moral to provide at home
those things which entice young and
growing persons away from home.
And let me assure you that you bad
better spend your money in doing
this than ostentation and luxury;
and far, far better to spend it thus
than to amass fortune for your
children to squandor in the future.
And not only rs regards amusements,
but also comfort and refinement
for children have 2 keen apprecia-
tion Of these thing-this' is much
the best policy. Don't send your
boys to school with i'll fitting gar
mynts collars all awry and chaing
his neck, buttons missing, and shoes
down at the heel. Don't make a
warehouse or clothes-press Of his
bedroom. Don't feed him ON sour
bread, and tough meat, and burnt
coffee. Don't let noise, and dissen-
sion, and misrule, spoil the hours
he spends at home, Don't do any
of these things, if possibly you can
avoidit; especially don't do them for
the purpose oflayingupmoney for his
future use. The richest legacy you
canleave him is a life long, ineXtin.
guishable, and fragrant recollection
Of his home, when time and death
hayeEforeyer dissolved the enchant-
ment,- Chicago Pulpit
FINE HOSPITALITY
l pray you; OH excellent wife, cum
Der not yourself and me to get a Gu
riously rich dinner for this man and
woman that have aHghtod at our
gate, or bed-chamber made ready
at too great q cost; rhese things, if
they are curious in them, they can
get for few shilhngs in n village;
but rather let this stranger see, if he
will, in your looks, accents and be-
haviour, your heart and carnestncss,
your thought and will, what he can
not BUY at any price in any city;
what he may well travel twenty miles
and dine sparely, and s.eep hardly,
to behold. Let not the emphasis of
hospitality be in bed and board; but
let truth, and love, and honor, and
courtesy flow in all thy deeds. -
Emerson.
HOME CONVERSATION
Children hunger perpetually for
new ideas. They viii learn with
pleasure from the lips of their pa
rents what they deem it drudgery to
study in books and even il they have
the misfortune to be deprived cf
II amy educational advantages, then
grow up intelligent ii they enjoy in
childhood the privilege of listening
daily to the conversation of intelli-
gent people. We sometimes see
parents, who arc the life of every
company which they enter, dull, 81
lent and uninteresting at home
among their own children. If they
have nc5 mental activity and mental
stores sufficiently for both, let them
first usewhat they have for their
own household. A silent house is a
dull place for young people, q place
from which they will escape if they
can. How much useful information,
on the other hand, is often given in
pleasant family conversation, and
what unconscious, but excellent men,
tai training in lively social argu-
ment. Cultivate to the utmost, all
the graces of home conversation
Good Health.
TRUST.
Iknow not II or dark Cr bright
Shall be my let;
II that within my hopes delight
be best or not
4. ,lsn a. A,ac, Nnu