The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-01
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yiN'hSu w tlit llpcl NlSuDn, as we Term
it, of maturer years, and the harsh
and often cynical unbeIicf, which contact
with the worll so often cngenders within
U.s.
The little ones must have stories. and
not only the little ones, but the children OF
a larger growth as well. There is plenty
OF good literature of this class as of all
others The great thing is to disciimin.
ale between what is good and what is bad
am inclined to think that there is M
halfway ground to be taken that a book
cannot be simply passive, but must. from
the nature of the case be wholly good or
wholly bad, for the time spent in perusa
must be taken into consideration.
Open the doors Of home and LET ,oo1
generous stream of the best, and purcst
literature of the day flow in. Take away
from your children the unhealthy novelette,
and Wild improbable romance, but beware
of leaving them empty-handed. The
poisoned sweets, you harshly deny them
will be eaten in secret with all the relish of
stolen bread. But by treating the child,
not as an unrcasOnng dumb animal, who il
to know other will but yours, but as a
reasonable human being, showing him
candidy and kindly your reasons for wish
lug him to give up this trashy reading, you
will win him to your views, and he will be
prepared to take the good, healthy substitute
you put in his hands, and thus the taste
shall be moulded for better things
II parents thought more of what their
children read, and strove from earliest
childhood to direct their eager, hungcring
minds into paths where are found the
choicest fruits in literature we should be
hundred fold nober, and purcr, a. nation
to-day.
rhere is mlny and many a home where
nothing is ever seen from week to week,
in the line Of reading matter, save the dai-
~ or weekly newspaper, and perhaps, It
chance novelette,. The newspaper has its
mission in educating the people and no.
bic one it is too, just as far as its ends are
pure and its purpose single for the public
good and that alone When it is prosttu-
ted to serve corrupt legislation or high
handed mOnOpoies. which stand in con
slant antagonsm to the people, or to pan
der to morbid and debased views of morals
or unblushing records of hideous crimes.
whose blackness or horrible details, so far
from poisoning the light of day, should be
condemned to hide their damning proper
tons in the courts of justice and the pri-
sons Of the land then, say the newspaper
is the most dangerous, as it is the most
powerful organ of which the enemy of all
good, makes use. Thank Cod the news.
papers of this class are comparatively few
For the most part, the press of the land is.
in the main, right and fears not to call
crime a crime, whether the criminal is a
rough from the dregs of humanity.or per-
fumed exquisite from the splendid salons of
fashion, The newspaper cannot he spared
from the household and the children
should be encouraged to read it only look
out that its tone be not that of the panderer
to crime, but that its morals and its princi-
pies be above reproach. So shall you place
a strong element in the education OF your
children, to train their supple minds in the
direction of Il straight and comely growth.
But the newspaper should be but a very
small portion of that tide of letters that
finds its way over your threshold.
There are numerous periodicals of the
day, of the first class, which bring together
in small compass, at a small charge to the
reader, choice bits of history, glimpses of
far off lands, and strange peoples we have
never seen, often times gems of poetry, and
anon spicy, well written story and these
with thoughtful criticisms and genial ESSAYS
on various themes by the best authors of
the day, constitute feast to him who can
discern their eXcelences and discard their
faults, which is little appreciated by those
who have meyer partaken of it, or who have
no relish for such things.
Bring into the household periodicals OF
this el3ss and begin early to interest the
childrc in them, and you will fluid that, "a
they gr,w older There will be no longing
after the wishy-washy, sentimental school
of literature, but you will be laying in their
minds the foundations for healthy. vigor-
Gus taste to guide them in after life, in their
choice of reading.
Fathers and mother, isn't better to feed
or children with wholesome bread even
at the cost of scf-dcnia on your part. than
to leave them to shift for themselves, and
pick up here and there, miserable, indges-
tible scraps, which shall entail upon them
a mental DYSPEPSIA, which shall render their
l. l 1
the attractions of home gooGly supply OF
the very best reading just as much as you
can afford if you would see your children
grow up worthy, upright and intelligent
citizens Of our mighty commonwealth.
The nation wants men and women, men
with souls above miserable dollar women
with souls above the vanity Of dress or the
tnsel OF display, and home is the place to
make them. The homes of the nation are
the index of its character. Bar the doors
then against impure and mischeyous litcra-
ture and throw them open wide to the good
and the true, and the pure of any class,
and one great step in the right direction
will he taken toward the elevation and
purifying of the people.
The readers of 1nE GLOBE will perhaps
recall an article which appeared in Il recent
number, taken from Georgia paper en-
titled, "A boys suicide" wherein the story
is told of two lads of about sixteen, who
ran away from home, intending to make
their way to the wids Of Texas Their
plans were frustrated, however, and them
selves arrested and, the officer had started
with them on the return home, when che
of the boys took up "A pistol which the
{ off
placed it against his own temple and fired
''He was a bright, promising boy, close
student, and an earnest and constant
! rnnlnr I-nGnItlmn1nlu fnl him, Lis 1rnne-