Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-10-24

I1oii, anu we are more indebted to this
art in developing real manhood than to
almost any other. The man whose ar
teries are filed with good, rich blood
made of good and well cooked food has
pluck, courage, endurance and noble
impulses. The man who invented a
good soup, did more for his race than
the inventor of any system of theology.
I on must remember that If you wish
your wife to cook well. she must have
the conyeniences to cook with. In old
en- times there would be eleven children
in the family and only one skillet, and
they generally depended upon what
few boards they could tear off the house
for kindling. See to it there is plenty
OF good wood, plenty of good coal, plen-
ty Of good klndling and plenty to cook.
There is no reason why farmers should
not have fresh meat all the year round.
There is no sense in stufing yourself
with salt meat every morning and max
ing well of yourself for the baance
of the day; and then wondering why you
don't enjoy good health. There is no
sen Sc in this. Every farmer should have
an iee-house. Upon nearly every farm
is some little stream from which plenty
of ice could be obtained; and an ice
house will fill every summer with JOY.
DR.. Draper, one of the greatest men in
the world. says that ice-water not only
is healthy, but that it has done away
with many low forms of fever in the
great cities. Every farmer should have
ice-water; and he can have it with an
expense so trifiing that the very poorest
could scarcely feel it.
HAPPY HOMES.
Make Your homes pleasant. Have
your houses warm and comfortable for
the winter. Do not build story
and halfhouse. The half story is an
oven, in which during the summer you
will bake every night, and feel in the
morning as though only the rind Of
yourself was left. Decorate your rooms,
even if you do 50 with cheap engrav-
ings; they are better than none. Have
books; have papers; read them. You
have more leisure than the jewellers in
cities. Beautify your grounds with plants,
with flowers. Have good gardens; and
recolect that everything Of beauty
tends to your elevation. Every little
morning glory whose purple heart is
thrilled with the light of the morning
sun tends to put a blossom in your
heart.
1 can emagine no condition that
carries with it such a proniss Of joy as
the farmer in the autumn, with his
cellar full, with every preparation made
for the winter with the prospect Of three
months Of comfort and rest, three
months Of freside and content, three
months of home and family, three
months Of pure, solid comfort. Make
your houses comfortable. Do not
hurdle together in little room around
a. red hot stove with every window
fastened down; do not live in this
poisoned air, then when one Of your
children dies put piece in the paper
commencing with Whereas it hath
pleased Providence to remove from our
midst" Have plenty of air and plenty
Of warmth. Let your children sleep.
Do not drag them from their beds in
the darkness Of night. Treat them with
infinite kindness. There is no happi-
ness IN house not filed with love
where the man hates the wife or the
wife hates the husbaud-where children
fear their parents-where parents dis
like their children. Every such home
is simply hell upon earth. There is
nothing in the cultivation of the soil to
make men cross, grabbed and unjust.
To leok upon the sunny slopes covered
with daisies does not tend to make men
cruel. Whoever labors for the happi-
ness of those he loves elevates himself,
no matter whether he works ia the
shop or plows in the perfumed fields.
IN CONCLUSION
I let me say to farmers, do all you can to
make your business attractive. Do not
90 in debt for land that you cannot
cultivate. Cultivate well and without
waste. See chat your houses are warm
in winter and cool. in summer. Plant
trees and vines and flowers; beautify
your homes. Occupy your leisure in
reading, in thinking, in improving your
minds, in devising ways and means to
make your business profitable. Have
bath rooms, ice houses, good gardens.
Treat your families with infinite kind
mess. Without love there is no happi-
ness in this world; and If you are not
happy you had far better be dead. Be
friends with your neighbors; build your
house near together; maintain the best
social relations possible. Make your
lives attractive, and your children will
grow up in love with the old fields and
the old home. Remember that you are
in partnership with all other labor; and
be ready at all times to join hands with
all other laberers for the protection of
honest industry. As for myself envy
the man who has lived upon the same
DrOau acres from MS pOyHoVu, VIM mas
: been familiar with the same scenes year
after year, who now lives upon the
same farm upon which he was born,
and occupies the home of his fathers.
l can imagine no happier way to end
ones life than in the quiet of the coun-
try, far from the demands of business,
out of the mad race for place and money
aud power. In this way, surrounded
: by pleasant fields and genial friends 1
f hope to end my days. And this hope
, will be the lot of all who hear my voice
to-day. hope you will end your lives
in the country, in houses covered with
i vines and clothed with flowers. L hope
[ that you, looking upon fields of corn
E and wheat, over which run the sun
shine and shadow, surrounded by friends
and crowned by honor will pass away
+. from earth serenely as the autumn
t dies.
Il If there is man who can eat his
bread at peace with heaven and man, is
: that man who has brought that bread