The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-13

.other causes, tnat your correspondent her
self will perhaps admit to be q little
chimerical. I say to perfect, because OBJ
viously your correspondent demands hu-
man perfection. She insists upon our
knowing Merino from q Cotswold, and
on having personal acquaintance with
Thomas Carlyle. This l take to be fg-
urative, the sense Of it being that we
should be men of culture, and at the same
time practical farmers. Now young
farmers as class are lamentably devoid
of the opportunity of acquiring culture,
while thrown directly in the way Of such
causes as are apt 10 sap out all native del
icacy and refinement. This is not the
case so evidently with the sister, for the
coarseness and boorishness of the hired
help in the field is toned down or silenced
under the shadow of the roof. The sister
then is apart from this contagion-this
harmonious blending Of coarseness Of
speech and crudeness of grammar-and
yet IN many cases fails to csunteract an
evident tendency to boorishness in the
brother. The Refinement of home must
always centre in the mother and daugh-
ter, and it is God given mission to them
to lead in gentle ways son and brother
on to manliness, and all that manliness
implies, clipping and Graduating the
weeds, and nurturlng the better plants
with sweet arts and holypurpo,e.
Ycur correspondent asks q good deal
when she asks the culture from leisure,
and the experience and practice from
hard work, with comeliness and good
physique tackled on in addition. The
rarity OF the supply is only equaled BY
the rarity of the demand, for our prodigy
would 90 far and wide for wife sympa-
thetic and congenial. Better it would be
and you ask enough that we be man
ly, cultured, when culture is possible, but
sound and sure in all which underlies cul-
ture, purity of purpose and sweetness Of
heart, Do not turn from noble soul be-
cause il is roughcast. No doubt it is
"breathlng blows of circumstance" I'M
der which one of finer fibre would 20
down. His "evil star" has robbed him of
the means and opportunity ofculture.
But if he asserts manliness that is i'm
pressive, and follows purpose that is
pure, Ilb Is VI VI iONC
and the responsibility of children.
would gladly see culture and refine
ment introduced into the farmhouse-a
culture that is as ranging as knowledge
and as delicate as love. But can appre-
cate the difficulty of it now, when the
farmers son is on y u privileged hired
hand without pay. and when any culture
that is gained must be gained after the
going dewn on the sun.
THE BROTHER OF AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
The country girls generally have more
advantages than the boys, for the boys
are compelled to do rough work contin
ually, while the girls can finish the hard
drudgery, and engage in lighter employ
ments. The boys ought to have more
time while they are young, and their hard
work ought not to be crowded far into
the night. Let them cultivate Themselves.
There is no employment more honorable
than farming, and it takes something
more than simple labor, be it ever so con-
slant. 1t takes study, care and practice.
as it was the first, is the
most general occupation of man, and l
believe as little understood. Most per-
sons think, "Oh, any one can farm" and
if there is one among the children espe.
cially duh, they buy him farm, and he
settles down and never rises above GER
tain level. This is the reason why farm
ing seems SO repugnant to some persons.
1t takes education to till, prepare for
crops, to manure, pl0w, sow and reap, to
labor, to manage and TO improve farm.
In fact, the farmers should be of tho most
knowing and intelligent part of the
world We prepare young men, by
school and eollge, for professions and
trades; why not prepare young men for
the business Of farming by suitable study
also? And remember that the time of
youth is the time; for then the mind COM
prehends and the memory retains more
accurately than at any other time.
Give the farmers of the coming gener-
alton education, and then any girl, coun-
try or city, can find her equal. L will
wager that farmer, educated, thought
full and far-seeing, with hired help, will
advance rapidly, and in the end leave far
Oenlnu his na'u-"orhluS, uuInloi ueu
and the former is certainly
much to be preferred as husband. But
while this reformer is waiting for the
man, she can help the cause along
and thereby hurry the man.
Let her encourage her brothers, ifshe has
any, and her male friends, to read and
study, and help them in her selection Of
writers. Lot her try to make them gen.
tie and polite by example as we'll as pre-
cept. CLARA PRESTON.
Wayne County, Ind.