The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-03-30
VOLUME 2S-NUMBER 26.
5FanlIy Journal.

Ia oertain f4rm-houss twenty
years ago p gTsst bank b lOS was kept.
snd labeled Home Journal. Every
night somehIiy 70 81 II entry IN it.
Father set down tie sale Of the calves,
or m other the cutting % the bsby's
eye-tOOth or, peT1sDs, Jenny wrote
a full account OF t1s sleighing party
last night ; or Blh, the proceedings OF
the Phi Bsta Club or Ton scrawIed
Tried my new gun. Bl'iy Shot
into the fence ard Jphns11's old
cat"
On toward the mid sla Os the book
there was an entry OF Jsnnie's r11r-
risge, and one o. the y1Il ar girls
mad aided 3 dsscripti n af ths b-iI -
maids dresses. and llnE after EArd
there was written, "Fhis day father
died." in BIb's trembling hand.
There wAs bank 90 many mn-tls
afssr that.
i 1t nothing lui ! hGvs served bat
ter :, bind that family Of headstrong
Boys aud girls together than the keep
ing Of this bl,k- Tray eDns back to
tie Old hO nssi=a nav, 10 en- and vo-
men with grizz'ei hair, to see their
mother who ia still living, and turn
over its pages reverently with many
a hearty laugh, or the tears coming
into their eyes. It is their childhood
coma back again in visible shapa.
Tdere are many other practical ways
10 which home ties cIn be strength
ene1 and made more enduring for
ehiliren, an surely this is as nsees-
sary AMI imp0rtInt matter ia the
management ola hOusebald as the
furnishing OF ths Iib-lry or chambers
in good taste, or the accumulation OF
bric-sbr3e- Ons N Ist direct way is
the keeping of anniversaries not
Clristm ~, Il Istsr, nDr the Fourth OF
Julg alone, bat tl)5s waicl b dong to
that one home al lne. Tde c1iidren's
birthdays, their mothers welding
day, the day wlen they all cane iGtO
the new home. There are hundred
cheerful, happy little events which
some cheerful AMI h tppy little esre-
mOny will make a lifelong pleasure.
The Germans keep alive their strong
domestic attach nents by Just such
means IS these ii seems ltural aud
right 20 their children that all the
house should bs turned top4y-turvy
with jIy at Water or Mutter's
Gsburtst ", while to the American
boy or girl it is a matter Of indifer-
encs when his father aud mother were
born. We know a house in which it
is the habit to give t1 each servant a
trifling gift on the anniversary
OF their eDminy int1 thu fam
iiy and. as might be expected, these
anniversaries return for many years.
Much Of ths SINE s0'tening. humani-
Zing effect may o. Or Iiussl by re-
membering aud hun0ring the innO-
cent Whims and psculiarities OF chill
dren. Among hard-wOrxiug people
1t Is too often the custom t. bring up
q whole family in plat9Ous aud to
marshal them thrOug CHILDHOOD by
the same general, inhaxible rules.
Fney must eat the same dis hes, wear
the same clothes, work, play, talk
according tt the prescribed notions of
father or mDther. When right or
wrong is concerned, let the rule be
inexOrabie; but when taste, eharae-
ter, or stomach only is involved, hu-
NOR the boy. Be to TNm's red eravat
little blind; make Will the pudding
that he likes, while the others choose
pie. They will bs surer Of your af-
feetiOn than IL you sentimentalized
about a mothers love for an hour. Fur
tbermOre, do not grow old yourself too
soon. Buy ehess-bD1rds. dOminOes,
bagatelle learn to play games with
the boys and girls encourage them
to ask their friends II dinner aud tea,
and take care that your dress and the
table be pretty and attractive. that the
children may be ashamed Of neither.
"Why should I stay at home In the
evening ?n said a lad the other day.
"MOther sits and dsrns stockings or
reads jays DsvOtiOns father dOzss,
and Magsy. writes tD her lover. I'll
go where TcRn have fun" Mean
while father and mother were broken
hearted because Joe WIS 'gOing TO
ruin" which was undoubtedly the
fset.-SeribneT' Monthly.