The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26
The Winter Season.

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The naked trees, the cold winds, the
rough and frozen roads, and the white
mountain tops, that only few days ago
laid line of living green against the blue
sky, all warn us that the summer has in
deed gone, and it is time to prepare for
the long, hard, New England winter.
Now is the time when the jewellers in the
city purchase their warm furs and thick
winter clothes, and heap the coal bin, and
batten doors and windows And now the
farmer "banks" the house, and bat.en
the stables, and "gets up" his wood pile,
and kills the pig, and prepares in every
way to provide for the comfort OF his fam
lily and his stock, through the long harsh
season, which is before them. In this
latitude we live two kinds of lives one oil
the tropics, half the year the other of
the polar regions, the remainder. One
part OF the year we sport in the open sun.
shine doors and windows are vide open,
and we shrink from the close dwelling,
finding the outside so much more prefer
able. The scene changes-winter comes
bowling down from his icy kingdom about
the pole, and
Announced by all the trumpcts of the air,
arrives the snow, and driving Ger the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight."
We wrap our warm clothing closely about
US and fly for shelter from the cruel
breath OF the Ice King. Again the fire
roars up the chimney and sheds its wei.
come glow through the cozy rooms.
Again the family circle, scattered by the
warm sun Of summer, is reunited at the
hre-si6e.
All these changes we have spoken of,
in our manner of living during the differ.
ent seasons. are merely physical. But
can such great physical changes in our
condition and circumstances be undergone
by us without affecting us mentally and
Intellectually? They cannot. The books
we threw down last summer, lurrd away
by the lovely sky, the soft breeze, the
beautiful weather, we now take up again
when those inducements to leave the
house have disappeared. Cut off from
oil the summer resources tor physical and
sensual enjoyment, we turn more readily
to mental and intellectual sources to SUP.
ply the diversion we crave. Books, mag.
azlnes, newspapers, lectures, all WOO us, and
not In vain and periodicals that are neg.
lected IN the warm season, and lecture
rooms which are deserted, are the one
eagerly read, and the other crowded
Preachers, teachers, and parents. FIND
their golden opportunity during the
winter months.
Again, the family is never so much O
unit as 10 the winter, when, with the
bowling storms outside, and the bonn,
blink OF the freside within doors, the do.
nestle circle closes in about the home
center. When the tenderness of famii,
ties, the sacredness of home, become more
real. When is felt the influence of hon
est fathers aud chaste mothers, in mould
ing the minds of the boys and girls, who ar,
to make our laws just, our religion Chris
like our manners gentle aud humane. Now
those parents have it in their power tC
make home happy, pleasant place, from
which their children will not wilingl,
stray, and where they will imbibe no
lions OF purity, love and honor, that vii
in after years, make that father and moth
er proud and happy parents. Or they
may make home SO distasteful, that even
Ing will find the circle about the hearth
stone broken, and some away, registering
upon the street, or frequentirg ihos,
places where they acquire the way,
which take hold upon hell. Choose, pa