Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-10-02

and most often. While you spend years of es
life in teaching him a smattering OF Il
the dead languages, might you not occupy g
his mind with thoughts and his life with Ell
habits which would tend to make for him a le
happy home when he shall be q man Per- c.
sons who spend their time to show that wo- h
men ought not to have the suffrage, say p
that it is woman's business to make home S
happy. So it is. But it is just as much 3
mans business. To both it is by far the t.
most important business they have in hand. d
Special political duties, special duties as |
church members, their success in their shops {
or at the bench, liz as nothing compared t
with the duty and success in making home !
bright and happy as the very kingdom OF ;
the living God.
There are many tendencies of modern life
which turn persons away from their duties
in regard to home. One is the tendency to
do things ON a large scale. Our public
school system, because it is large, is. asked
to accept and discharge duties which belong
at home. Public school teachers are ex-
pected to train children in good manners,
but the nome is disgraced which has sent
unmannerly children to school. Industrial
schools are formed to teach boys duties
which they learned at home, one hundred
years ago. Colleges are proposed for Wo-
men, in which they should be taught how
to make bread, how to broil a steak and
even how to amuse child and how to set a
table. AS if there were any place where'a
girl could learn any such thing nearly as
! we'll as. she could, if she chose, under the
humblest roof in America. For substantial
amusement as we'll as for fundamental edut-
cation there is no place like home. In. the.
! Swiss system'of matchmaking the Workmaff
does his part at home, and the parts made
in different homes are brought to the shop
and fitted. Tn the American system the
workman and the workwoman come to the
o shop to work, leaving their children to the
e chances of the district school,. The Ameri-
d can system may prove the bestfor watches,
but the Swiss system is the best for children
1t is said thattin old Paris the artisans were
it scattered throughout the city, living neal
at their shops; but that Napoleon's avenues
at and houlevards drove them from such homes
and forced them to hudd1e together, and K
p, such crowding was due the excuses of thu
III Commune. From such facts, wherever
an found. such a result must follow. | havt
at no doubt thatfthe greatest political question
q of all will be decided by reference direct K
s. the home.
!, Our American experiment in conceuins
- the suffrage to every man over q has no
been a remarkably successful one. | do no
81 believe the suffrage is to be doied OUT b,
., property as it used to be in England. Th
suffrage belongs to those who have a Vita
IN interest in the preservation of the sociafo
~ organic life of the State. 1t belongs to pet
: pie who have established homes, and 1t.
nv Belief that to a homestead suffrage tn
~ tree nations of the world will ultinatel
- recur. Children should be so trained thf
- at Is they will love home better than an
- other place. Our amusements should
-. such as not to separate father from mothe
-, or children from parents. Children shout
tod find in their parents their best companion
from whom they have no secrets. Fathe'
and mothers should make home glad, chez
full and beautiful. The original trinity
the sacred trinity of the father. The moth
and the child. In the last interview OF Il
Savior with the twelve, at the momen Wht
Sc j he drew furthest the vail which separat
this world from the other, he did so by sa
the ing, "1n my Fathers house are MAJ
I'M homes.n Heaven. when we pass from cart
= will be a life Of homes. We need not W;
ppy TILL we o.e 10 ei'ef 'nae ii."'sn 81. -;
pen dom OF Iieave' IS a' a.'' $3.50
thp and hope and love combine is Heaven
'hus TIE DEATH OF A GENERATION.
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