Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-08

Fun in General Christmas We'd
diDgs, &C., &c.
ED. CHRONICLE. My communica-
tons recently have been rather far be-
tween, from the fact that we have so
much fun up here 1 have but little time
to write. 1 can't write when I am full
of oysters, and when,I am not in that
condition I am so busy preparing for the
next supper that I can't think Of writing.
I don't know how you are to become
posted in the important sffails of our
village, unless you come up. If you do
come, Mr.. Editor, come on the afternoon
train, for our streets do not assume their
usual activity until quite late, owing,
doubtless, to the fact that darkness does
not disappear so soon as formerly. We
think that when franklin, or somebody
else. said,
Early to bed and early TO rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"
he said a very foolish thing. We have
no idea of being fettered and held back
in our zeal for progress by any edict,
| dogma, or sentimentalism Of the men of
the past, or any other age. Ifyou should
come, you must prepare yourself to see
a community of the most efficient eat
lists and sleepists that you have seen for
some time.
Well, we had Christmas up here some
time ago, and ajolly time it There
was a motto on everybody's face, and
that motto read, "Peace on earth good
will to men," am always glad when
Christmas comes; not because 1 have
any idea that Christ was born on tina t
day, or within q month Of that day, but
becaue it is the only day of the year
wholly c~onsecrsted to joy. We have too
few holidays. We have too little relax
alton ; too little of that which calls up
good feeling and drives away care. There
is upon the most of us too much ankle
ty and re~stlessness, too much that chafes
and frets us too much constant nerve
tension, and too little of joyful JUNCTION
to smooth the ragged running of life's
machinery. AS a nation we are always
in a hurry. We eat as though we ex.
pected our neighbor would steal the
next mouthful, swallow it on the jump,
and digest it while driving a trade or
shaving a note. We sleep when we can
find no one who has a penny to spend,
and laugh when thereby we can win a
customer. Our brains are thus racked
and feverish; our pulses is humping
1 our life out at a double quick, and our
consciences-well twinkle, twinkle, lit
tie star, but they twinkle mighty feebly.
We are deficient in fun, except of low
er sort. One great bane of society is a
lack of c~heerfulness ; a lack Of social,
harmless and heightened amusements?
Do you tell me that through the amuse-
ments of the day much of vice comes D..
That through these channels flows much
of folly, much of shame, much of sin
and seas Of sorrow? Aye. and that is
my argument. Let parents, teachers
and guardians take warning. Would
Won correct these abuses? Then furnish
hedEthJuE recreation to all our faculties,
and sickly action and sinful play will
| diminish. Darkness is the absence OF
I light: sickness is the absence of health.
These are negative qualities. The way
to dispel darkness is to introduce light.
The Way to cure disease, be it mental or
physical, is to introduce healthy action.
But the manner in which some parents
treat their children is to choke down all
normal action, and then scold because
their is unnatural action, and pray for