The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-17

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necessary counter balance 10 meet fictitious
desires. The real income from capital in
business is over.estimated by the inexpe-
rienced because its constant, unforeseen
expenditures are not apparent. Buildings,
machinery, stock, waste and wear, break
age, progress In invention, changes in
STYLE, competition in trade, all mean in
creased outlay and Tin certainty about the
corresponding returns: while much capi.
tai Is borrowed, and its interest must be
met regularly and promptly, and its safety
guaranteed.
The spirit OF communism which recog-
nizes no law in the distribution and
ownership OF property, except tie law OF
seliishness; and the absurd and unjust
jealousy of the thriitless against those
who accumulate, mainly because they
work harder and spend less or
more wisely than those who seem less for
ate,-this spirit is at the bottom of la.
Dor strikes, incendiarism and all their
attendant evils; and whoever excites to
bitterness and discomfort, or puts mistaken
ideas into the minds of the uniformed,
calculated to prejudice the employed IT,
gainst the employer, labor against capital,
or ignorance against intelligence, is an
enemy of The artisan and laborer, and a
destroyer of social peace, and financial
stability upon which all classes depend
In considering The relation OF family
life to business integrity, it is plain that
woman can do more than simply to put
check upon her vanity. There are bound.
aries to her duty as there are limitations TO
her strength; and one only needs TO note
the weekly announcements from pulpit
and ress,-calls for meetings in the inter.
ests of religious, benevolent and reforma.
tory work,-to say nothing of social obi.
cations not TO be escaped, and attentions to
the sick and the stranger, TO see why It is
that trying 10 respond to every demand, so
many efficient, helpful women, well quail.
fed for usefulness anywhere, break down
under this ceaseless conscription for out
side work. Through mistaken and NOR.
bid conseientiousncss, fostered by the in
temperate urging of leaders, many a home
has lost its mother, and many another
been defrauded of that which rightly be.
longed to it, The great bulk of all this
religious and benevolent work is done by
those who also are the trusst ideals Of wo.
men in their own homes, and II is because
Of their largeness OF mind and heart, and
willingness to do, that their sympathies
grasp the wrongs and woes OF the whole
world, and they are ready to sacrifice them.
selves in their desire to relieve and bless
all human kind.
But parents, young people and children
spend too much time outside of home
look for happiness and diversion too much
away from it. II Is difficult TO maintain
what one believes 10 be right in ones own
family, so contagious and universal Is the
example OF children always playing in
crowds; girls perpetually over dressed, at
leisure, and promenading, or in company;
boys with nothing 10 do out of school but
to seek their own pleasure. With this
continual craving for society, and avoid.
ance OF repose, of quiet thought, OF
opportunity for study and undisturbcd
work, the physical energies are
dissipated, the mind is eneryated
and the heart is demoralized. II the home
life is characterized by perpetual hurry,
and made chiefly place in which to eat
and sleep, II can never reach very high
standard OF excellence. But how, II Is
asked, is all this to be helpedS The habits
and necessities Of business and profession.
al life demand all the fathers strength,
nearly all his time. The genius of inven.
tion has extended even into our homes the
anatomy of the great active world, whose
restless pulses beat on forever, whose
intrusive call has all hours for its own,
and we listen for messages that are too im.
Fortunate for the tardy mail, and too volum.
inous for the telegraph; but II is one more
element to break in upon the restful quiet
which tired brain and nerves seeks vainly
for in the modern home. We cannot turn
the wheels of progress. backward, but we
must begin a.process. OF elimination, reject.
ing the apparent duties. .reserving only the
real ones.
Family love and domestic virtues must
be more generally cultivated, and carefully
cherished, TO save the home from disiEte.
grafton. Women must honor the service
belonging to the home and family. Par
ents must set the example and children be
taught: that there Is dignity in simple.
ity; happiness in industry; virtue in genu.
ineness; that show and sham are ignoble;
that very much idleness, or luxury, or
amusement, or undergraduates the chill.
dren neither better or happier, hinders
them from becoming capable men and wo.
men, is the opposite Of the spirit Of Christ.
ianity, is unwholesome for individuals and
disastrous to any people. With every
good cause begging for cooperation. clam.