Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-07-27


way down the hill a. / went TO recita-
tion, and wish that it was one big inince
pie for halt mile, and / had 10 eat
through 1t, as worm eats into an apple
eat and go! And have sccn boys
start TO eat up candy cakee But before
they had chewed and sucked up half of
1t, they were sick enough of It. The
confectioners understand this. And so,
when they take new boy into the shop
to work, they tell him to eat all the can
dy he wants. lie never eats much but
once. He gets sick of sweats and hate 8
them as fly does the molassps in which
he is stuck aud drowning. Here is ia
Bile.
a man in the min: was told that he
might take away one pocket full of gold
II he would run straight home with it,
and not stop on the way or touch his
pocket. So he filed his largest pocket
full of gold, and started for home. But
as he was running down a little hill, the
gold hung heavy, tore off his pocket,
and Tell down in the road. When he got
home and found his gold and pocket
gone altogether, "alas ~ said he, "had /
taken less, | should have morer
All the real fun that we ever get we
must take in by little, temperate pock-
ets-fnll. II we overload once or twice,
that ends the matter. The pockets will
never more hold fun at ali.
sit is such fun when the HOLIDAYS
come, and we don't have to go to school I!
Yes, that's SO. Bnt did you ever stop
TO think hat one good thing that school
does for you is TO make one hungry for
holidays and vacation? The hardest
work in the world is to do nothing all
the time. We never get good appe-
tite for dinner if we keep on nibbling
cookies and eating apples all the morn
ing-just for fun!
think that, if l could find long,
long hill-say one hundred miles long,
and covered with snow, packed and sh
ny from top to bottom, and start lot of
boys on sleds TO coast down hill all day
all down and no up-they would get
their pockets full OF coasting very soon.
Pulling the sled up the hill makes US
hungry for the sled down. Work first
and then play. Earn it and then enjoy
it. Get hungry and then eat. Get tired
and then sleep.
Sometimes when girl has grown
woman, aud the right man has come.
and they are married, the rich aud loving
father gives her n splendid new house
and conservatory, and stables with
horses aud carriages. There is new fur
niture in every room; there are pictures
on The walls, piles of household linen in
the presses, and tableware in the closets.
No rent to pay; nothing to do but just
be happy. Dear, fond old father, what
has been the happiness OF your own life :?
Has it been the having, or rather the
wanting, the earning, the expecting, and
at last the having? Why then deny TO
your child all that has enabled and re-
warded your own life and labor?
What men really enjoy, is not that
which is stuffed into them of sweetness
growing sweeter to a surfeit, but what
they really need, and then 90 out to find,
win or earn by labor and well deserving.
See those pale-iaccd children huddlirg
round the stove, or over the fu,ning reg
lister to get warn. in the m, rling. See
those other boys who have been out in
the barn and fed the cattle and hens or
those girls who have stirred round and
set the table, and swept off the snow
from the stoop and steps of the house
Which are the warm oues? Those who
are soaking mp warmth into their lazy
bones and bodies, or those who are max
ing the fire of health to burn inside
Which is best, a little pleasure daily,
lasting as long as our lives, or few
years uf surteit and a lifetime of quer-
rulous dyspepsia
He who aims to do all his duties per-
teclly, will surely find all the pleasures
that he can enjoy. The duty shall whet
his appetite for pleasure, and the pleas
ure rest and recreate the man Tor duty.
Enough's enough.-E Il. Beecher.