The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-05-18
Farm, Garden and Household.
A Family Journal.

In ii certain farmhouse twenty wears
ago great blank book was kept, and la
bcled liome Journal, Every night some
body made an entry in it. Father set down
the sale OF the calves, or mother the cut
ting OF the baby's eyetooth; or, perhaps.
Jenny wrote a lull account Of the sleigh
ilg party last night; or Bob the proceed
Iugs of the Phi Beta Club or Tom scrawl-
od Tried my new gun. Bully. Shot into
tue fence aud Johuson's old cat"
On toward the middle of the book there
was an entry Of Jenny's marriage, and
tne OF the younger girls had added a de-
,crlption Of the bridesmaids dresses, and
ong atterWard there was written, This
lll father died, in Bob's trembling hand
There was a blank Of many months after
that
But nothing could have served better to
0.nd that family OF headstrong bows and
mis- together than the keeping of this
9aok. They come back to the old home
-tead now men and women with grizzled
Aair to see their mother who is still liv-
ug, and turn over its pages reverently
Allh many hearty laugh, or the tears
coming into their eyes. 1t is their child
loud come back again in visible shape
NAich home ties can be strengthened and
made more enduring for children, and
,ureiv this is AS necessary and important
j matter in the management OF house
aYld IS the furnishing Of the library or
hambers in good taste, or the accumula-
sur OF bric-a- brac One mOst direct way
5he keeping of anniversaries; not Christ
mas. Easter, nor the fourth of July alone
hal h<,n ~,
lhe chiIdren's birthdays, their mothers
Veding day, the day when they all came
ulo the new home. There are hundred
cheerful, happy little events which some
.ncertul and happy little ceremony will
eabe lifelong pleasure. The Germans
eecp alive their strong domestic attach
3uents by just such means as these; it
seems natural and right to their children
hat all the house should be turned topsy-
ulvy with Joy At Water OF Mutter's Ge-
.lrtstag while 10 the American boy or
r it is matter OF indifference when his
HuAer and mother We're born. We know
e house in which it IS the habit to give to
eael servant Il tritling gift on the anniver-
-..v nj their coming into the family; and,
a- might be expected these anniversaries
.,-rla I'D many years Much of the same
,4telHg. humanizing effect may be pro-
iuarI ly remembering and humoring the
aaa,ent WAims and peculiarities of child
.a Among herd-workng people it is
Ihe custom too often to bring up whole
4uilv III platoons and 10 marshal them
uough childhood by the same general,
.uheXible rules, They must eat the same
fishes. wear the same cloths, work, play,
.lk, according to the prescribed notions
j talher OF mother. When right or wrong
j. concerned, let the rule be inexorable
hut when taste, character, or stomach only
{. .inv0Ned, humor the boy. Be to Toms
ect crayat a little blind make VIII the
pudding that he likes, while the others
ehoose pie, They will be surer of your
affections than if You sentimentalized
about a mothers love for an hour Fur
raermore, do not grow old yourself too
soon. Buy chess-boards, dominoes, bag
.t=.!e learn TO play games with the boys
and girls; encourage them to ask their
trends TO dinner and tea, and take care
.aat Your dress and the table be pretty and
attractive, that the children may be asham-
81 of neither.
Why should | stay at home in the
-yeuing ?" SAID q lad the other day mo |
.aer sits and darns stockings or reads
Jaws Deyotons father dozes, and Maggy
writes to her lover. I'll 20 where can
nave fun" Meanwhile father and mother
were broken-hearted because Joe was
"roiDg to ruin, which was undoubtedly
ge i1ct. Scribner's monthly