The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-17
MONEY WRLL SPENT.


accessions To his already ample acres, or
yielding 10 the wishes of devoted and
helpful wife, who has made many sacri-
fees in. the sustaining hope that close
economy would bring the means requi-
site TO the adornment of her home with
those comforts and little graces, without
which the abOdes of men are simply
barns, and the lives of women become
a weary grind and disheartening tread
mill, which renders the grave the covet-
ed goal Of the only attainable rest from
a cherries routine of dull drudgery.
The pleasant interest of our story is vast
ly enhanced by the fact that its hero choos-
es the better part, and the denoucment
shows us cheerful, pretty home, en-
bellished with the bright and wholesome
surroundings among which every wo-
man ought to live, and in the midst of
which the interests of humanity demand
that every family should be reared.
With the full knowledge that in so do
ing we incur the imputalion of indulg-
ing in sentiment, and at the possible risk
of even exciting the compassionate
scorn of that class of readers who are SO
absorbed in money getting and so fully
bent on what they regard the more i'm
portant and practical pursuits of materi-
al ACKNOWLEDGMENT, we feel disposed to
devote some little space to dwelling
briefly upon the moral of the story, our
purpose being to show that it so far
transcends the Pigment of dreamy fan
cy as TO reflect principle that is emf
nently practical in its nature; that it in
wolves u question that effects the most vi
tai interests of daily life, and that every
family man who ignores its teachings
turns a deaf ear to the demands OF
common justice, proves recreant to his
own sacred obligations, and commits an
offense against society which nothing
can ever atone for. We hold that the
basis of all discipline, the foundation for
the superstructure OF all future achieve
ments. should be laid in the family. There
Is really no estimating the influence
which the home training OF the children
has upon the future life of the men and
women who, in their generation, bear the
heat and burden of the day in which
they live. The tastes and inclinations
of the child are as plastic to its sur.
roundings as clay in the hands of the
potter, and even as the earth is fashion
ed by the artisan into vessels of honor OF
dishonor, so arc the susceptibilities ofthC
embryonic man shaped by the moulding
hand ofthe parent for noble achievement!
or base uses. Who will attempt to cal
culate the measure of present and future
influence for good or evil that may
spring from one single home. 1t is re
corded as a matter of authentic history
that family line of some hundreds o
the worst criminals in the annals O
human transgression, sprang from one
vile woman, who might have been saveC
had she been reared amid cnobling in
stead of debasing influences We mere
ly cite this extreme instance to EN-
phasize the point we desire to establish
and to impress more forcibly upon GU
readers the fearful and wonderful result
which take their rise in the home circle
and gather volume as they flow on {
the great and illimitable sea of huma
life.
Again, the mother is thenatural arch
tect of the character of her child. I
woman's world is such that nothing il
tervenes between the close companion
ship of herself and offspring during a
that susceptible period when the dawI
ing faculties of childhood arc taking CO
or from the prevailing hues of an atmo
phere which is tinged with gold OF darl
ened by clouds rs the home may be ha
, Ply and lifted above the contamination {
domestic miasma, or overshadowed by
sordid spirit which guards the thres
hold against the. admission of u
elevating tendencies and throw
: open the door only to the e
trance of sordid care, and mercena
anxiety. And yet. how many nurseri
for mental and moral dwarfs are beiI
established by men, well meanil
: enough in the main-but how culpab
thoughlless-all over the fertile swee
OF Kansas? How many patient wiz
: of husbands like Hiram Graham, b
fore his better impulses prevailed, clio
the hands which are extended for bre
. upon the sharp stones of silent disa
! pointment, and turning away from I
!, cherished dreams that may never
realities, take up the burden of tn,
dreary lives and bear them on till tn
= lay them down at the end of their thor
!, journey. How many jaded wom'
whose physical energies have brok
= under the strain of domestic drudge
and whose mental faculties have VI
= nigh persisted through utter staryati'
are rising up in judgment against Il
: blind policy and criminal faulty Il
leads men to care more for lands til
the happiness and peace OF their o
nc families, and to feel deeper pride
u the growth of fine stock than the pro
C enlightenment of immortal soulsI
n reasonably might men expect to gait
VI figs Of thorns or grapes of thistles as
nc demand nj the hands of mothers who
sunken in the slough of wretchedn
q. borne down by the weight Of griev,
ID burdens and bitter disappointments,
'e gift of sons and daughters to the wo
nc whose home training shall fit them
an intelligent solution of those pl
se lens which sooner or later demand
We consideration IF every Intelligent n
Irs and woman. Let our farmers, especia
&c who, by virtue Of their isolated resiC
IN ces, have less in the way of outside
All sources to draw from than people ,
81 live in towns, supplement this want
ey enlivening their homes with books,
An lures and all the attainable means 70
res better order of moral and mental cult
~ let them bring out all that Is noble
OF their wives by ministering to that in
ca ent refinement of taste which is pecu
IN to woman, and the world will soon
IL the influence Of a superior class of 20
'en men and women, whose value to hun
ed ity shalt be far above and beyond
In material possessions.
ur-
ak Mr.. C. c. Burnes, of AtchisoD,
-. 49,. ,.a-,ad Ia, the counnnif fasa ~