The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-10-12
How it Comes.

The vices and bad habits that are al
most Invariably associated with, and
largely responsible for, the poverty and
want thst one is trying to relieve, is the
discouraging feature in all private charity
There are the utterly unworthy persons
right in the same families with the inno-.
cont victims, who viii absorb the larger
part of all that can be done for both !;
and it is like trying to fill a bottomless
well TO attempt to make them comfort
able:
Faculty, or the gift of making a little
90 great way, and taking care that
things do not go to needless waste is
often entirely lacking in the homes OF
the destitute. The disposition to use up,
willfuIly waste, or destroy by reckless
use and careless neglect is inbora in
some families, and there is no such thing
as their getting ahead, by their own tact
They have neither industry, thrift. or fore
sight, and they will use the best of every
thing they can get hold Of every day and
every time, without regard to provision
for the morrow.
The extra steps, the prompt exertion,
the astitch in time, to make or save, to
prevent things getting worse. or going
to speedy and utter destruction, hey
will not take for any good that may
come of it. And when this "willful
waste" bears its legitimate fruit In
"woful want" the lack must be made up
to them by those who are prompt industri-
Gus, and prudent; and this help, which
often comes from some one who feels in
duty bound to supply their DEFICIENCIES, is
received as matter of course, with i'll
disguised ingratitude and dissatisfaction
that the gifts are not more and better. II
is so demoralizing unnecessarily and un-
worthily to reap the rewards of snother's
labor. The husband whose tobacco or
drink is as imperative as his bread, and
who don't believe in second-best suits for
any work, or in second-clsss fare for
himself, feels no sensitiveness over the
slavish life his wife is leading to keep the
extraordinarily clad. or in their lack OF
luxuries. There is no self respect in this
man of brutalized sensibilities, in the fact
that he and his are perpetual care to
his own or his wife's relatives. Some
times the lack is on the other side of the
house, and the wife has no ability to buy
judiciously. fritters away in useless
knick-knacks what would buy the sub
stantials, and by an indulgence in excess
of cheap ornaments has never enough left
to get really good material. Another
has no Faculty of cooking SO as to set
before her family table spread with
wholesome food, and sufficient variety,
without wasteful and extrayagant out
lay, and if the income is not large, this
too is great misfortune. In families
where either the father or mother have
this talent of shiftlessness that tends to
TO poveyy, there is sometimes enough OF
discomfort resulting to the children &c
open their eyes to the source of it, and
drive them prematurely from the parental
nest, and set them 'the solitary in fam
ilies" " of Opposite habit, where all thai
contributes to comfort and independence
-inculcated, and experienced, and new
end thriftier generation succeeds.
1t was not mark of commendable
filial affection and reverence in Charles
Dickens to lay bare his own fathers chro'
mic failures in the portrsiture of Mr.
Aicawber, or expose to ridicule his
mothers weakness in the character OF
Mistress Nickleby, and his home expert
ence must have been very painful one
to make him willing TO draw the curtain
and let the world see these peculiarites
In all their ludicrousness, over which II
must never cease to laugh. But every
one may determine for himself whether
he shall with ordinary good fortune be
clog and disgrace TO his family and gen.
erstion, or whether they and the world
shall be better off for what he has con.
4ributed 10 its comfort and wealth.
Whatever is done to teach child to
be seif-reliant and helpful is kindness
that sooner or later he may reap the fruit
of, If he does not appreciate the motive