The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-22
Our Saturday Night.

IueIe Is place IN IDls city where q
hundred thousand men, women and
children meet every Sunday when the
day is pleasant-where the people, rich
and poor, meet together and enjoy
themselves in the sunlight, the fresh
air, the perfume of flowers, and in con-
temptation of the beautiful. This place
is the Park-Central Park, it is called.
To-day we were in a workshop, and
heard the following conversation be-
tween two wOrkmen. Said one:
LET US go down town tonight, and
have some sport"
az cannot afford it.n
"Whati Can you not afford few
dollars, when your wages are the same
as mine ~
at is not a question of wages, but /
cannot afford to 60"
"Why not? Don't a man need relax
alton from labor once in a while? Come,
let US go out to-night?"
mo, ! cannot afford it. If it is pleas
ant tomorrow, 1 wish to go with nv
wife and children to the Park, and +
had rather spend what spare money
have on those love than on myself"
''Oh, get out with your twaddle. /
have wife and children. / work to
support them, and when want 10 spend
q few dollars on myself, it is none of
their business"
Which of these men was the noblest
We know which was the best looking
the finest looking man. 1t was the one
who had in his heart a love and q care
for the home ones. 1t was the man who
did not care TO spend his earnings in
sport and dissipation, but who wanted
TO make his wife and little ones happy.
A man has the right TO do with HIM
self and his own as he will. But the
question is, what is all his own? The
man who took upon himself certain
responsibilities is not all his own. He
expects Others to make him happy, no
matter how he does by them. The man
who lives the best life is of the most use.
The one who would make others happy
builds for himself or herself home in |
heaven, while the one who is selfish, I
and who lives more for self than for
Others is not growing or reaching out to /
grasp and retain q hold upon the de- /
lights of the future.
We like the man who wanted to give /
his home ones a holidays day Of rest. /
He could not afford TO spend his money |
Tor selfish sport. He preferred to use il /
TO beautify hearts and home. Such
men are workers with God. This land |
IS full Of homes where weary, over 4
worked wives are waiting for death, /
where little children are never cared for /
by fathersi homes, where the wolf of
want and the example of selfishness are
never from the door or window; homes /
which are not homes. Many a wife
works beyond her strength all the days 1
OF the week. She wears her vitality TO 1
shreds in the hub-bub of house duties, /
waiting upon husband and children. |
All her life she toils-week day and |
sunday, winter and summer; for her I.
work begun at the altar, is never ended /
MI death. Many husbands work in the |
store the Office, the shop or the field, |
ana never think that their wives need /
relaxation. The husband can take a
night out, or day in, or Sunday to
feast, but the poor wife must be the |
patient slave TO drudge her life away. |
Good husbands are none too plenty
good wives would be more plenty would
men use them better. The good work
man is he who seeks to beautify all
about him. So the good husband is the
one who builds himself Out-who en-
larges his heart-whO piles the sunshine
in and about his home, and so lives that
all who stay for the time within its /
sacred walls are the happiest when he is /
there. Ii is this that makes men glori- /
Gus, and when we see or hear r man 1
brave enough to be liberal first 10 his /
own, and more anxious TO surround his |
loved ones with comforts and to lead |
Them to pleasures, we honor him above
All Others, no matter what his creed,
nation or politics.
But the Park. 1t is beautiful place.
Men Of genius have left their intel
ngence there. Men Of labor have for
Ian years worked there. Every week some
iSnlng beautiful is added. There are
i5aAesI cascades, fountains. birds. trees
hO"eIs anu attractions almost witbouf
NUMBER. The walks are smootb Tbo
fough, unsightly things have baan
bSkeh away, that the beautiful sIooa
might grow. As men have IshoroS ttie
Park has increased in beantv n tle
heaven OF rest thousands upon tbonss
ands go-menr women and cbiIdTen.
servants and masters: rich and 49,,
Christians of all denominations. bIooIl
and white; old and young; the we'll and
the invalid. They go there to rest-to
enjoy the fruits of their labors during
the week-to see the beautiful. Those
who go are attired in their best. There
is no fighting or quarreling there, as in |
the haunts of vice down town, for those
who have good impulses are the ones /
who work during the week, TO obtain |
the means TO reach the beautiful, after /
the Saturday Night has taken the rec