The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-07-02

Atlanta, dss-, Constitution.
This Is q most blessed land where
everything grows that man Is obleeged
to have, and q power of good things
throwd in just to administer to his
pleasure. The summer sun is now
ripening the fruits of the earth. and
when see children and grandchildren
and nefews and neeses rejoicing in their
over the fields and orchards
it carries me back to the blessed days
Of childhood. The old field plums
and the wild Strawberries and cherries.
mull,erries and blackberries were
worth more than gol.l. and it made
no difference VIII" WAS priest or Presi.
dent, or how rich Was Astor or Girard
or any IF the nabors. or whether Sal
Jackson bonnet Was purifier than
Melyann Thompson's or not. What a
glorious luxury it WASH 60 barefoot
ed and wade in the branch and 90
saining and climb trees and hunt birds
nests and carry the corn to mill and
leave it, just to get to run q horse
race home again. l know that those
DAYS were the hapDiest, and SO | won't
rob my posterity Of the same sort. If |
can help it. want them to love the
old homestead. and I want children
children to gather about it aud cherish
its memory. What a burlesque on
childhood's joy it must be to visit
grandma and grandpa in a crowded
city, penned up in brick walls with a
few sickly flowers in front and a
garden in the rear about as big rs q
wagon sheet. But that's the way the
thing is drifting. Them calculatin'
Yankees have long ago done away
with old back log and the blszin
hearthstone and substituted furnace
IN the basement and few iron pipes
running around the walls and hole
in the floor to let the heat in. All
that may be economy, but in my opin
ion a man can't raise good stock in nc
such way. They'll be picayunish and
nice and sharp-featured and gimiety
but they won't do to bet On like them
children that's been bro't up round 8
fire place ON a hundred-acre farm and
had plenty Of fresh air and latitude.
Mr.. Editur. pleasin' the children il
about all the majority Of mankind ar,
Twin for. Though they::don't know it
and if they did they wouldn't &C
knowledge it. 1t is emphatically tn,
great business Of life. We look ~
with wonder and amazement at tn,
busy crowds in a great city that ar
ever goin' to and fro like fiddler
elbow. and eight out Of ten Of 'em ar
workin' and strugglin' to please tn
children. Its the excuse for all tn
mad rush of business that hurries man
kind through the world. Its thu
apology for nearly all the cheating an,
stealing and lying in the land. In ;
heap Of such cases l have thought tn
good angels would drop tears enuf OF
the the big book to blot 'em out for
ever. The trouble is. Mr.. Editur
that most people are always Twin on
strain, tryin' to do a little too mucl
e.. their children. and scufiiing agains
of their Majors. Some of them won
let a ten-year old boy 60 to meetin' o
to Sunday-school, if he can't fix up a
fine as other Buys. They won't lie
him 60 barefoot nor wear q patch BIZ
hind or before nor ride bareback no
90 dirty, and SO the domestic pressur
for inery becomes tremendous. jess
with bonnets and parsols and XII,
gloves and silk dresses and chanywar
and carpets and winder curtains-an,
a thousand things that cost money an,
run up the Outgo heap bigger tina,
the incum. Generally speakin' thi
home pressure amt a noisy one. but
ON the contrary. is very silent and sa,
80 sad that a body would thinl
there was somebody dead in the house
and so after awhile sumhOw else tn
6nery comes and thus for awhile all
screen. But the collapse is sure +
cum sooner or later. and the childrel
amt to blame for it. Sumtimes whel
| ruminate upon the meanness Of man
kind 1 wish the children never 90
grown for they don't get mean o
foolish until they do. Just thinI
what a sweet time of it old mothe
Eve and Mrs. Commodore Noah an,
aunt Methusaler had with thirty o
forty OF 'em wearin' bibs and apern
until they were fifty years old, togeiu
along after their dadies until the
were a hundred. / don't think old
Father Woodruff could have stoo,
that. When a man who amt n,
yearlin' gets married. and ten or
dozen Of 'em cum right straight alon;
in a row, and by the time he gets Of
the piazza, tired and grunty. the,
begin to climb all over him and unde
him and betwixt him and on the bacl
Of his chair and top of his head, its
little more than his venerable natur,
can stand. On such occasions it ain
to he wondered at that he gentl,
shakes himself alOOse and exclaims
Lord have mercy upon me-" Blu
then, the like of this must be endured
Its part OF the bargin. implied If no
expressed. rs the lawyers saw. and n,
man ought to dodge it. Humor EN-
play boss and frOiic with 'em, wasl
'em, undress 'em tell 'em stories abou
Jack and the bean stalk. and wha
you done when you vas q little boy
scratch their backs and put EN- to bed
and if they can't sleep. get up with EN-
away in the night, and nod around i,
your night-gown until they can. LIE
'em trot after you a heap in week day.
and all day of . Sunday. and dom
try to shake off the trouble, and thu
responsibility on the good woman wh,
bore EN-. Solomon saws: "Childreu