The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-08-09

0n:h crime against the law, can ind in
labor only the detestable means Of pro-
. lIing then. bread and clothes
Since man is 80 constituted that he
must labor considerable share Of his
time II order to enjoy leisnres = is . pity
ut ne cannot 80 interest himself In such
labor = TO render it also . source OF en-
joyment. What we call pleasure Is. alter
all, only the privilege Of selecting our Ia
Dor and of disseminating it when we
choose. As soon, therefore, e person
is assured that his occupation ID not suit
ed to his tastes or capacities, let him
hasten to change It at almost any present
sacrif1ce. The first and earliest sacrifice
viii be found, in the end, to be the least.
We need not ever hope TO pursue bust
meas - an amusement land amusement
pl1xu1ed = 4 business, is fatal to every
manly Impulse But No need not, there
fore, conclude that the vigorous employ
ment Of our hands or brains is inimicaa to
enjoyment. Our first concern should be
10 perform si0oTonsly the task which is
before Us, and in order TO accomplish this,
we must be interested in the work. This
faculty of interesting ourselves in the work
before us depends, in great measure,
upon early education. :
Children can well comprehend why
they should 60 to school or study hard
for few. hours at home. They know
that nobody else can studyOr acquire ed
ucation for them. If reluctant 10 learn,
their daily lessons, they should sternly be
obliged to do SO. They should be taught
alike, that from this there Is no possible
escspe-and that beyond it, nothing is re-
quired of them. The rest OF the day is
theirs, and they should be permitted, in
all innocent ways, TO pass 1t as they list
TO frOlic and to play, the prerogative and.
necessity OF youth, whether in the lower
or higher animal creation.
But through fear of creating habits of
lazinessv parents too often exact labor Of
their children after study hours, and thus,
while yearning for play and needed rec
reation; while yearning for absolute free
dom which children hold so dear, they
are tied TO tasks in which thew can feel no
interest-which are sometimes beyond
their feeble powers OF endurance, and
which are the more repugnapt in that
they consume the precious hours Of their
liberty. This is the way to make Jack
dull lad, and to establish the very habits
that it was intended to avoid-for boy
who works reluctantly is only happy
when that work is finished, and he is thus
tempted to slight and skim it over, that
he may the sooner be released. In this
way not only are habits of laziness created,
but of negligence and of a deep-seated
dislike of work which often clings
through life and. form the several classes
to which, in the beginning, We have re-
ferred.
The educatiol Of. children, if properly
conducted, is not, in after life, valuable
alone as a reservoir of sisolated facts, but
as a nucleus of mental power, ever incit-
ing to original investigations and conclu-
sions, rendering the humblest labor not
destitute Of an interest which the undis-
ciplined, uncultivated mind that plods on
like horse or an OK, with little other as
piration than that of eating and sleeping,
can but imperfectly experience.--Rural
New Yorker.