Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-20

how poor are all human efforts TO pain
Ike him who made the light, arches G
LIQUIDS black as night, piles light an
tleecy AS the diifted snow, or glowing lik
anners on n battle field while here an,
here, through n long wind rift, the dee
,lue shows, like Gods great pity. Woul,
t not be well for us all to break away 70
few moments daily from the necessary
vocation of life that so weigh down th,
ou and learn to look for this art of seeing
too little psacticed if possessed? Ant
hose who have not cultivated this ar
'annot conceive the delight, peace ant
'omfort which it brings o the soul pressed
lown with many cares, and perhaps &
,eavy mortgage. Some indeed there are
Who realize that cheerfulness is
apial. And that it is the CHEEKY person
Who succeeds hest: 1t is as hard TO keel
such a person down as it would be to keeI
he sun from rising. Persons of true gri
tre no umblers cheerfulness and courage
lot whining will win the day. Time spent
n fretting might better be spent in
,dmiring the clouds and the landscape
Sometimes persons frailties, his health,
strength etc. are said te be his capital.
rhe thing must have been. .created; bu,
where the natural frailties have been cul
waited 10 a degree over and above their
first condition and are thereby capable Of
1eing made additional use of, their i'm
provement evidently constitutes capital in
me of its most valuable forms; capita
hat is in ourselves and cannot be taken
away from us. More valuable than real
estate or magnificent opportunities, and
although many times the life of the far
mers wife seems naught to her but one OF
| lrudgery, yet let us see if she is not really
| the all important factor in the machinery
of farm life. Many times in the past two
weeks have had occasion In noting the
self denial and faithfulness of this class OF
women to exclaim to myself, she is better
han gold. yes, her weight in gold could
| not buy such services as she daily per.
forms in her family. She, the real woman
is the patient loving mother, the substan.
tial fact Of the family. The toiling, watch
ing unwearied, dispenser of comforts and
| blessings to her household, and society
Not always accomplishing but never
| shrinking from the duties of her position
The real woman is the woman of resolute
purpose who boldly takes in her hand the
| late of human lives, and stands by her
self imposed duties with untlinching will.
No fallerng, no misgiving no matter what
he tide of events brings her, she breasts
he storm and shelters by her own care
md efforts those who depend upon her,
providing for the table while it is far from
constituting the whole duty of the farmer.
wife. certainly forms no unimportant fac
tor in her responsibilities.
| Ii seems very wonderful that half the
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ion that mankind may be fed, yet this is
quite true and confers some dignity. upon
What needs all the dignity it can muster;
| Tor do not some of our girls regard house
work as menial, even not respectable?
Even poor people who have hard work to
keep body and soul together are affected
" these same notions There is some
hing in the education of our youth, OF
something in the ideas which have beer
;mbihed in the cause of their education
which seem to unfit them for their work
which makes them discontented, which
islurbs them, and makes it we'll nlgl
impossible for them to accept the cond
lions Of the lot into which they are born,
md the empIoyments which have been
'oIlowed by their parents. 1t has indeed
b. come very serious matter, and
eservts the profound attention Of oul
.ducntors and political economists. If by
my study or any chance we could learn
he the causes of these great charges ano
bviate them, it would be a boon 10 tht
American people. AS it is to-day the
pennies to what are called genteel employ
nenls are choked with the crowds push
ing INTO them from our public schools.
Young men with good muscles and broao
backs are standing behil d counters who
ought 10 be engaged in more manly pur
suits, who would have better outlook
before them, and would have better life,
and more self respect if they were doing
a mans work behind plow or plane
There are women in large numbers striv-
ing for genteel employments, who would
be thousand times better in body and
mind if they were engaged in household
work.
I here are men and women even in
these hard times, when they hardly know
where their next meal is coming from
and have not the slightest idea how they
are to procure their next new garment:
they are still very difficult to please in tn.
matter of work. We feel that this is al
mistake. Heaven forbid that we should
seek to suppress any mans or woman
aspirations after excellence, or after i'm
provement Of personal position. But it Is
not possible that every lad who goes to a
district school can become president of the
Uuited States, although most of them have
been told more than once that the presi- |
dency is within their reach and thus our
youth drift away from the farm into some
of the centers of trade and manufactures, |
to become clerk in a store, or teacher |
in some school, or a practicer of some arr |
that relieves him from the drudeery of the |
farm, and has an air of greater respecta-
blity. And just here / will send an extract
from Burdette.
HINTS TO YOUNG MEN.
Remember, that the world is older than |
YOU are, by several years; that for thous.
ands of years it has been so full of smart |
er and better young men than yourself
that their feet stuck out of the dormer |
windows; and that when they died the
old globe went whirljpg on. and not one |
man out of ten millions went to the funer- |
al or even heard of their death.
Be as smart as you can, OF course; know |
as much as you can without blowing the
packing out of your cylinder heads; shed
the LIGHT of your wisdom abroad in the |
world but don't dazzle people with it, and
don t imagine thing is so simple because
YOU say it is. Don't you be too sorry for
YOUR father because he knows so much less
than you do. Remember the reply of Dr.
to the student of Brown Uuiver.
sity who said it was an easy enough thing
TO make proverbs such as Solomon wrote
..Makc q few," tersely replied the old
man. We never heard that the young
man made any; not more than two
or ,hree anyhow. The world has great
need of young men, but no greater need
han young men have of it. Your clothes
it YOU better than your fathers fit him
hey cost more money. and they are more
,,yIish; your mustache is neater; the cut
If your hair is better. and you are prettier,
,h, far prettier than "pa." But, young
nan, the old gentleman gets the biggest
,alary and his homely, ,scrambling sigma
ure on the business end OF check
will draw more money in five minutes
han YOU could get out of ream of paper
md copper-plate signature in six months.
Young men are useful and they are orna-
rent.l and we all love them, and we |