Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-12

KEEP Your BEST FOR HOME Keep
you" bes for home. You will never have
any company that will appreciate the
choice thing, of the table us your own
family. Il is in excellent form to place
before visitors the daintiest fare, with all
the tasteful furnishings at your command
but II refined influence is wholly wanting
IN that home where they are put out oi
SIGHT wh n company are gone, where
course diet makes ,hs daily fare, and the
refinement that lift qating and drinking
INTO social enjoy ment, s omitted, 1t may
not be economical or desirable to use the
best at all times, but here are many
homes whose choice things are kept in
the closest seclusion, only brought out Oh
state occasions, when the childrel gaze in
wonder and awe of fine linen ana china.
and are in state of delight at the pros.
pecl of good things when there is ctnpa
nv. There are the farm houses whee the
turkeys and chickens are sold, the mney
put in the bank, and the children nver
know what it is to "keep Christmas" nd
birthd rvs are unmarked in the family
calendar. Children RENE mber such thbs s
long, aud Il happy home with share n
he best the house affords without regal
to company, educales IL lad to the ease {
polite society, to II loving respect for hi
early home that is worth to him mo:
than bank stock accumulated by close
economy. Keep the bes manner. fol
home. 1t is instructive with most popl,
to put on the best appearance wh'n II
society. There is a woful ignoring If the
simple rules of etiquette and common
poIiteness in the several relations home
life. Members of family will init !,
morning salutation that they accrd the
humbest servant; they will cOLradlcl
and deny the assertions of each other
with acrmony they would be anamed
to use to an inferior, and they refuse
favors to one another that they void not
deny stranger There is noplactwhere
good manners and punctlious etiqette is
of more value than in the home clre, 1t
is the MOI al agent of good bpedlns it is
the law that governs the manifestations
of kindness and good feeling, ard ao the
law that reslrtins unklnd and lgOble
traits Of human nature from eXpreson.
Keep your best temper Tor home. In
society, on the streets, in business eVry-
where, it is easier to control that attrIbte,
if we guard the hasty word, the peeTh
tone, the irritating action in the hole
circle, and study to wound none OF
inmates. Keep your bestspirits for home
Nowhere do gloomy and depressed spirit
tell so disasIr Jusly as at home. Th
parents may have just cause for anxiet
and care, but it is wrong and unjust t
shadow the young life OF children wit
anxieties they cannot appreciate, an
cares they cannot understand. The ten
dency to brood over trouble or historian
increases with its indulgence. So, also
does the disposition to be cheerful an
happy at all times increase with cultiva
ZION. This is by far the most admrabl
trait. Those who are sunshiny and cheer
full in character always have the mo!
friends, and where are friends so true an
loyal, and so de irable to prrpetuate 4
those of home and family? The oil
comparison of the bent twig is as true
this case as any other, and children wh
grow up in an atmosphere of forebodin
OF the future, anxletles about the presen
and cynical reflections on the motives an
actions of people about them, are trainin
tendency to he miserable and sad an
in their turn cast shadows, instead I
sunshine, on the path OF all about them.