The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-02-18

New Engloud people mqde excellent con.
vets but it took Amghty power to con.
vert them.
He believes IN fun laughter, enjoy
mcnt All created animals laugh. New
or saw but enc man Who did NOT. aud he
was thief. Dogs have the advantage
of US, aud laugh at both ends A. the same
time. A house without = dog is like q
circus withru % cIuwu. There is great
love of PLAY in all animals Bears dance,
Or try to horses play and laugh, and |
have seen twink lc oi humcr even in the
eye Of pig. All men can be tickled if
you find the right nerve. A socmn-faced
child is either fool or the result of our
Christian civilization. The first sign of
interest in child is smile, and that
smile is still more beautiful when the
child has grown to womanhood, and finds
the one she loves better than her parents.
Every man should be law unto him
self any other rule fosters tyranny and
slavish subsection. II Mr. A. thinks it
wrong to play chess, dominoes or whist
in his family, | hope he will not do it, it
would be wrong. If Mr. b. thinks it not
wrong to 10 these things in his family,
hope he will do them 1t is not the do
ing so much as the place and as ociations
where they are done. If your boys do
not learn such things at home they will
learn them elsewhere when you do not
know it.
The typical vice spoken Of by Christ
was hypocrisy "Wo unto you, hypo-
critics" Church members Of such ten
denotes were too mean TO enjoy sanctuary
privileges, and the only possible tcmpta-
ton for him to preach was that he might
give them good warming up occasion.
ally. No Christian has any right to die
tate to another what they shall do for
amusement or how they shall conduct
their families. We all have some faith
in human nature. In regard to the prop.
er amusoments for the young, the rule in
churches and Christian homes is toe
strict. There arc not games enough.
This country is she poorest in the world
in resources for amusement Seventeen
twcnticths Of the boys toys and colored
picture books used in the country arc
imported. If he had children they
should be taught to sing, dance, act ; he
would place Shakespeare away up next
to the Bible His boy would not want
to 90 to the theatre, because his own par.
lor should be his stage, and the boy
should be Hamlet himself. His girl
would not want to 60 to the opera as her
mother should teach her and she should
be the prima donna. Children should be
taught that everything they needed could
found with their parents. Guidance and
direction was needed, and not discipline.
Many fathers govern boys like dogs, with
a stamp Of the foot and command with
out explanation. Cruelty is hereditary.
Some men are polite to every mans wife
but their own, which is funny.
a part of his creed is that every
man and woman should have a perfect
physique. Now onc-half the persons you
meet are cripples, crippled in the stom-
ach. Dyspepsia has come to be fine
art, and rheumatism j. a luxury the poor
man cannot afford. A man orly pro-
fessional is but hall man.
The sum total Of his creed is Chart
ty, with right hand stretched forth to
show that it holds no stone; the left cx-
tended with fingers quick to cover a
brothers fault, with breast Of pearl and
heart Of snotless purity