The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-16
A Family Journal.

In a certain farmhouse twenty years
ago great blank book was kept, and la
beled Home Journal Every night some
body made an entry in il. Father set
down the sales OF the calves, or mother
the cutting OF the 5aby's eye-tooth; or.
perhaps, Jenny wrote a full account OF
sleighing party last night or Bob the
proceedings of the Phi Beta Club; or
Tom scrawled Tried my new gun. Bull
ly. Shot into the fence and Johnson's
old cat"
On toward the middle of the book
there was an entry of Jenny's marriage.
and one OF the younger girls had added
description OF the bridesmaids dress
es, and long afterward there was written,
This day father died." i'm Bobs trem-
bling hand. There was blank Of many
months after that
But nothing could have served better
to bind that family of headstrong boys
and girls together than the keeping OF
this book. They come back to the old
homestead now, men and women with
grizzled hair, to see their mother who is
still living, and turn over its pages reve-
rently with many a hearty laugh. or the
tears coming into their eyes. 1t il their
childhood come back again in visible
shepe.
There are many other practical ways
in which home ties can be strengthened
and made more enduring for children,
and surely this is as necessary and i'm.
portant matter in the management of
household AS the furnishing Of the H.
brary or chambers in good taste, or the
accumulation OF brio -a-brac. One most
direct way Is the keeping of anniversa-
ries; not Christmas. Easter, nor the
Fourth OF July alone, but those which
belong to that home alone The chill.
dren's birthdays, their mothers wedding
day, the day when they all came into
the new home. There are a hundred
cheerful, happy little events which some
cheerful and happy little ceremony will
make life long pleasure. The Germans
Keep alive their strong domestic attach
ments by just such means as these: il
seems natural and right TO their children
that all the house should be turned ton.
sy'turvy with JOY at Water or Mutters
Geburtstag while 10 the American boy
or girl It is a matter OF indifference when
his iather and mother were born. We
know house in which it is the habit to
give to each servant trifiing gift on the
anniversary of their coming into the
farlIily; and, as might be expected, these
anniversaries return for many years
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effect may be produced by remembering
and huIoring the innocent whims and
peculiarities OF children Among hard.
working people it is the custom too often
to bring up a whole family in platoons
and to marshal them through childhood
by the same general, inhezible rules
They must eat the same dishes, wear the
same clothes, work, play; talk, according
to the prescribed notions OF father or
mother. When right or wrong is con.
cerned. let the rule be inexorable; but
when taste, character or stomach only
Is involved, hui-Ior the boy. Be TO Tom 3
red cravat a1ittle blind; make Will the
pudding that he likes, while the Others
choose pie. They will be surer of your
affection than il you sentimentalized
about mothers love for an hour Fur
thermore, do not grow old too soon.
Buy chess-boards, dominocs, bagateIle /;
learn to play games with the boys and
girls; encourage them to invite their
friends hotle to dinner and tea, and take
care that your table and dress be pretty
and attractive, that the children NAV be
ashamed OF neither.
why should | stay at home in the
EVENING" said a lad the other day.
Mother sits and darns stockings or
reads jays devotions; father dozes, and
Maggie writes 10 her lover. I'll go where
l can have fun" Meanwhile father and
mother were broken-hearted because Joe
was going to ruin" which was undoubt-
edly the fact Scribners Monthly.