The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-10-02
Treatment of Aged Parents.

lIGdIllGnU VI AbSu L IdlCuGo.
There is in most families that are not
under the strictest discipline of virtue,
a tendency to exclude the parent from
the domestic society as soon as he be,
gins to show the first weaknesses Of age.
The part which it is natural for him to
take in the intercourse of the household
is looked upon as an invasion of the
rights of the younger members and he
is felt to be intruding whore no privi-
lego has been granted him, when he
makes himself n part OF the company,
and enjoys the pleasantries Of the con-
versatiOn with the freedom from re-
straint to which his years entitle him.
When the anecdote is told, it is not
meant for him and he is rebuffed for
the meek parental interest that makes
him hang inquiringly upon the lips Of
the favorite son who relates it. The
laws of urbanity and politeness, which
they observe toward all the world are
suspended toward him aud in vain
does he look for one act of kindness,
swectened by obliging gentleness of
manner and the tenderness of filial af1ec-
ton.
The youth Of such families, changing
the maxim OF Scripture, are persuaded
that folly is bound mp in the heart of
age, and that, by incessant satire and
iscountcnunce, it is to be driven fal
from him. They mark his steps with
inquisitorial eye, and, if everything
done and said by him is not nodded
into the most sensible form that can be
imagined, it is marked with judicial
severity, or passed by in contemptuous
silence.
The natural infrmities that insensibly
grow upon age are regarded as volunta-
exercised gratuitOusly Y for
the annoyance Of all about him. The
beautiful mmpIlclteS, tine 8 aeeluI
SiacAenlng OF the meh'"l chord, 'hat
are the chief attraction of hoary hairs,
excite perpetual Indignation in the
minds of the young and they suppose
they are pay ing . tribute to wisdom and
to gooS SCI se, ny me"'illB 'hsm' wren
ever they oPpear' oy some marx oi dlS-
appreciation or contempt
There II no stronger proof ol the
ShalloWneSs oi human natule, ana tho
pr"Verblal ioIiy ol yoUth5 thah tpe tact
that children can discover anything III
the old age ol thor parents, calculated
to excite contempt; and that they do
not discover III them everything we are
accustomed TO cherish with 1ondeSt ven
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In perfect consistency with the manifest
fortitude, In every nght-hearted man.
the surviving life and presence OF tasher
or mother though in their feeblest age
is felt to be like a temple or an altar, a
place of sacred refuge, where danger
and misfortune will scarcely approach
him. What is calculated to fill the
heart with nobler or frmer sense of
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