Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-20
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aid and comfort, and there are other
households that have been stricken by
death, where duty seems to say you must
90 and Irofier your sympathy. There
are church meetings and prayer meetings
and society meetings of various sorts
where your presence will both benefit
yourself and encourage others, not to men
ton lectures and readings and varied en-
tertainments of which your hungry mind
needs the stimulus. You ought to read
several hours every day in order to keep
up with the general news; and there are
all the fresh, new books, whose freshness
and newness is quite apt to be thing of
the remote past before you find time to
read them. For your own sake and that
of your family do not let your ideas grow
rusty.
Don't fail to 80 TO singing school when
ever there is one within reach. 1t is sad
to look back to your girlish days, and your
almost endless musical repertoire, and to
think that now you can sing nothing but
Balerna and " liush-a-by, baby, on the
Tree top" And you must keep up your
knowledge OF instrumental music, so that
you can play the organ for the children on
evenings and Sundays, when they gather
around you to sing the songs they love so
we'll. And you must spend Il great deal of
time with those precious children, instruct
ing them, listening 10 their childish plans
and childish grievances, entering into their
plays and winning their full confidence by
interesting yourself in whatever interests
them. Give them your evenings, when
possible, to pop corn and crack nuts with
them, make molasses candy, play games
and tell riddles. 1t will make their men,
oaies of childhood sweet and pleasant all
their days.
| People interested in education say that
parents do not visit schools enough, and 1t
is very true. As the mother of those
bonny boys and girls you ought to 60 in
to the schoo-room often, thus melting the
teacher to do well by your children, and
also showing the children the interest you
feel in their progress. The old adage that
duties never clash" has been so often
quoted and is so religiously believed, that
many have come to consider it of scrip
tural origin. but think it would be as
hard to find it between the sacred lids as
it is to fully believe it when duties, honest,
unmistakable duties, call US in so many
directions ut once. You must make your
home as cheerful and pleasant as possible,
and to that end be sure and cultivate flow
ers and house plants, but remember that,
like children, they will never thrive on
neglect. You 90 into the house of an
acquaintance blest with plenty of leisure,
or with II goodly number of friends to
make her tasteful presents and your eyes
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Li'Ieht t'lehI IMAM we possess we may
icci cohhdehV tIlat we are anIe 10 n.y. bat
II we never nave ',lhe 10 spread our
wings, We at ieast, 40 not ANONYMOUSLY
i,'Ii. IL IS sou tllae Mrs. stowe wrote
Ohcle lom Cao'h IN the itmlly circle
on WINTER evenings when the children
were clustered around hcr studying their
school lessons ana III the midst OF her
WrltlhS she "o'ld soiVe Il problem In
arithmetic LOT one ana pick Out knotty
sentence IN parslng Tor another. But no
one VIII deny That MIS-. Stowe is one OF a
thousand with natural ability to do W1h-
om opportunity Tor better than we could do
'0eth' and where one woman goes on after
marriage cultlvatlng her natural talent,
ana mt length gives to the world an " I'm
Gle Tom CABIN, or volume OF genuine
poetry, nine nun lred and nlnety-nlne CON
tlnuallY retrograde. From sheer lack oil