The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-01-14

thev want Is to get away from home
and the most of them have gone; gone
without education save the meagre
chance the village schools afforded them
gone without the memory of any bright
ness or pleasure in their lives, without
that culture of the heart and mind which
would be safeguard to them, and ena-
BILE them to hold their own with persons
whom they must meet in their journey
through life.
Already one, son, has mated with a
girl whom you dislike and consider
greatly his inferior in social position, be-
cause he had not the pluck to address
himself Ito young ladies, his natural
equals, on account of the superior advan-
tages they had enjoyed; and the chances
are that the future of the whole family
will be attuned to the low key at which
you have set it, your railroad stock and
money III the bank notwithstanding
Ii was not your fault? Perhaps not
altogether, but it was mainly You set
yourself to make money, and you dis
courased everything which had not
distinctly utilitarian object in your eyes.
You kept the money-bag, and you drew
the string so tight that it became a mis-
cry and modification to even hint at
wanting any for any purpose whatsoever.
Did this do you any good No. it only
your wife of the qualification of her most
innocent tastes, of society, of books, of
her favorite periodicals. She had no op-
portunity to pick up new ideas, and no
time to carry them out; little by little
she sank into the hard-worked, uncared-
for drudge that she is now
Birthdays, Christmas trees, have never
been known in your house; you would
have frowned upon all such ''senseless
doings." Turkeys and chickens were
fattened to be sold to 'fools that had more
money than brains, and you thought
yourself so wise in sitting down to salt
beef on Christmas Day, with the money
for the prize turkey in your pocket.
But do you know what will become of
your money? Have you any thought of
how it will be spent? You know you
will never spend it yourself; you care for
nothing but to scrape it together. So
long you live your wife cannot enjoy it,
and besides, poor woman, she has out
lived the power of enjoying anything. In
all probability it will enable your sons to
end their lives in drunkard's dishon-
ored grave. They have no knowledge of
how to put money to best uses; they have
not been taught to appreciate books, pic
lures, music-the delights of a refined
and intelligent life They have seen
their mother treated as drudge; they
will treat their wives so too. In spend
ing money they will think only of their
own selfish indulgence, and indulgence
with them takes its most depraved FORMS
for they have seen and known nothing
better, and abuse is the natural reaction
from restraint which defrauds of the
knowledge of rightful use. You have
asked all your life, What is the good of
this and that? What is now the good of
vOup T11ODav To Won Or aOvbOdU else
Suppose you had used it, or at least a
part of it, to put brightness aud color
into your life to keep the bloom in
your wife's cheek and the sparkle in her
eye, to make their home pleasant and at
tractive to your children, to give them
such an education as would have enabled
them to seek the society of their equals
at the same time throwing them upon
their own trained resources for a liveli-
hood. Would not this bee have better
than to ke-cf-i>@-e waiting like hun CRY rats
for tho chance Nu.-.. --ssss~.--leafh- will
affordf them to rush headlong to destruC-
tionE
cheerful, good-tempered, willing per-
SONS, who see always the happy side, are
,ynyaluable for the color which they put
into life; and such mistress of a house
II hold is blessing beyond all price.
A snatch of song, the game on a win
ter > eN6Alu9i Gl6 CEuIIDS lOf GuG IOOlI
outside the door, the hospitable welcomes,
the pleasant family surprises, are all bits
of bright color like the scarlet threads
in rag carpet, which illume the path
way of homely duties. Much depends
upon the mother, upon her talent for lit
: tie things, to render the home life lovely
and attractive; but much also depends
upon the mother, upon her talent for
little things, to render the home life
lovely and attractive but much also de-
pends upon the father, upon his sym
pathy and encouragement as well as sub
stantial aid in seconding her efforts.
Plenty of good papers and magazines
is the most important feature OF an intel
ligent home. They are the cheapest
and best of educators, the wisest and
truest of friends The very last thing a
wise man will relinquish is the silent
companion who comforts and consoles
. him in sorrow, insensibly leading him
away from its contemplation, and weaves
the brilliant colors and activities of the
outside world into the dull gray woof of
| his existence. VENI VIDI.