The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
Having q Hobby.

lNev York Journal of commerse.I
 Every man ought to hase hobby something b enjoy in suenl distinction
 Fcm his work Every woman should have one. Women need hobbies more than men. h how masv ssstems of ed- ucation. loaded with the tdeA of making the studeuf fif for labor, does the all-irn- pogtant consideration en1er cf teaching him Aos to he happy uhen hs $ not at wsrk where and how to fnd what will surely be the great neo1 of his Kfe, rest.
 Here and there 6 the world are rare exceptions to the elneral rule. There is sometimes . fani1 in which the father and mother know bow to enjoy life sensi- bly, in its houu ef play or rest and around them grow - boys and girls it to live, fit to d all the duties of life. fi, to make their own lives happy and use ful. From childhood they have known that life is surrounded by thousands of wonders, whet,ser of mans making or of Gods creation Nature and art alike furnish them with sources of knowledge and pleasure You don't see those chil- dren dawdling around hotel drawing rooms when the family are travelling. The boys may go fishing and the girls 20 hunting flowers, or both may 20 together and each share the others enjoyment.
 l met two of such a family the other day in the pine woods in Florida, mile from the hotel. did not know them, nor they me. l was digging up the bulb of plant. and, as II came out of the ground, heard an exclamation "It is bulbous, after all, Tom" Then saw the bright and pleasant countenance of seventeen-year-old girl who had come near. She had the same curiosity about the flower which 1 had. Then, for a while, she and her brother Tom rambled along with me. They were out for a walk. That to them meant keen enjoyment of pretty much all they saw. Trees, flowers, animals, the very skies and clouds, were more or less subjects of intelligent ob- servation 10 them. She caught half a dozen lizards as we walked along, hanaied them gently, examined them carefully, and let them go unharmed. He talked of fishing. He had seen me going or coming in. He knew all about the fishing in his own part of the country, and great deal about the habits of the hsa. The two. brother and sister, dis ~~~~os SA~ "iAu onotAet, tuC IOWCIS anu animals. Clearly. they had been brought up from childhood to take a keen inter- est in the ordinary environments ofcoun- try life. And l was no, surprised, when she caught sight Of an engraved gem in my ring, 10 find that at seventeen, and at fifteen he, knew enough about art to talk ard without blunders. We had pleasant chat as we strolled hither and thither in the old pine woods, and they two were very happy children. doubt not that they confer a great deal of happiness and do great deal of good in the circle in which they live. We met ia the woods and they lef, me in the woods, and did not see them again. In the hotel, looked around at some hundreds of faces and tailed to sec those Nor was there any other young girls face there which seemed to have any ideas beyond the circle described on the floor by the edge of skirt.
 The moral of this somewhat rambling letter is this: Teach your young people how to be happy, how to enjoy life, how to make others happy. Give them inter- est in the things which surround life. Don't send them to Europe till they have some worthy tastes and desires to be in- telligently gratiied by their going. If they cannot find pleasure in studying nature and its products, don't take them 10 Florida.