The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-11-14


good, and every one agreed with her.
rHE OLD FoLISs Ar uoMr.
DIR. Aiknan, 10 his Life al Home, urges
children uot 10 forget the old folks al
home. Tie ssys-Thore Is alwaYss liabil.
ity, when the sons aud daughters have
gone away from the home Of their child
hood, aud have formed homes Of their
own, gradually to lose the old attach
menis aud cease TO pay those attentions
to their parents which were so easy and
natural Ia the olden time. New sss0cia'
lions, new thoughts, new cares, ell come
in, filling the mind and heart, and, II spe'
cial pains be not taken, they crowd out
the old loves. This ought never to be. You
should remember that the change Is with
you, and not with those you left behind
You have everything new, much that IL
attractive Ia the present and bright 10 tho
future; their hearts cling TO the past, they
have most IN memory. When YOU went
away, you knew not, and will never
know TIL you experience it, what II cost
them to give you up, nor what q vacancy
you lett behind. They have not, II you
have, any new loves to take place OF the
old. Do not, then, tearllessly deprive
them OF what you still can give of atteu'
tion aud love.
PfSa your parents. II you live IN The
same place, let your step be, perhaps dai'
ly familiar one in the old home; ifyou
are miles, yea, many miles away, make u
your business TO 90 TO them. In this
matter do not regard time nor expense
the one is well spent and the other will
be fully, yea, a hundredfold repaid. When
some day the word reaches You, flashed
over the telegraph, that father or mother
has gone, you will not think them much
those hours of travel which last bore you
to their side.
Write TO gou, parents. have known
father aud mother to wait wllhsiek heart:
through weary months, longing that some
word might reach them from an absent
son. Thcy have watched the mails Ill
in despair they have ceased to expect any
more, and while they may not have the
grief Of great bereavement, they have
what is almost as bad. The bitter con.
sciousness that they are not 10 mind
enough TO call out few poor lines from
one whose infancy and carly years they
watched with sleepless love. Sons are
often guilty of this crime cannot call i
less from sheer neglect or indolence
While an hour, perhaps a few moments
would suffice TO write letter whict
would give unspeskable satisfaction, theS
let months and even years slip away IL
utter indifference to all the pain they arr
causing. Oh, how full ia many mothers
heart OF sorrow and forebodlng, wber
just a few words from an absent sor
would ill II with joy and praise Such
indifference and neglect is shameful ant
wicked. One need not wonder that SON
guilty Of II are not prospered, that thel
waitin vain for those turns Of fortune
which will send them home, as thel
dream, to surprise the whole neighbor
hood with their wealth. Their thought
lessness has been prod uctive only Of dis
sster.
Keep UP your Intercourse with fsthc
or mother; do not deem il sufficient 4
write when there is something imponan
to be told; do not say, No news Is gooC
news II Il be but few lines, writ
them write II " be only 10 ray, an
well; II IL be only 10 send the salulstioI
that says they are dear, or the farewell
that tells them that YOU are aiieciionai'
sill. The little messengers shall be lik'
caskets Of jewels, aud the tears that ial
fondly over them will be treasures 70
YOU. Say, with warm hearted son:
I The hills may tower, the waves may rise
! And roll between my home and me,
Yet shall nly quenehiess memories
Turn with undying love 10 thee