Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-20
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notion of things is Indispensable. NOtlbnt
the world owes me living; not that the
highest aim should be to get through The
world as easily as possible; and that the
greatest pleasure is TO do AS others do, no
matter if their income is ten times rs
great, but that it is manly and womanly to
work, no matter how humble the occupa.
patton. that it is disgraceiul to be depend.
ent, that II plain dress paid for is better
han fine clothes on credit. In the rush
and struggle 10 have, are we not losing
sight of the old fashioned virtue which
resides in beingp
believe it is the home education that
makes the girls and boys despise the
farm. One lady told us ''My girls are as
good as apybody's girls"-a statement
which we deny, because they are not able
to make Their own dresses or cook their
own food. And the fact that her girls are
as good as any body's girls is regarded as
Il matter of pride, when they are helpless
ts babes even though they have spent four
years at n young ladies seminary.
Yet we are glad TO state that these are
notions that This country is fast outgrow-
ing. 1t is often SAID that The women of
10 day are growing effemipate, and lack
he sturdy herolsm of their grandmothers,
hat they are vacilating and lull of vanity.
But this is not true. One must admire the
stout hearted ploneer woman of IL hundred
years ago, but there is no truth in the i'm
putation of degeneracy, there is now and
hen one who shirks all duties and all
responsibilities, and if we take human life
in any earnestness at all, whether individ-
ually, as the passage to an eternal exist
e, the condition of which depends on
what we are here, or collectively, as the
highest thing we know. we can only look
in blank astonishnent at the idle woman
and her career. She is the one sole capable
member of the human family without
duties and without useful occupation; the
one sole being who might he swept out of
existence altogether, without deranging
the nice arrangement of things, or u pset-
ing The ordained balance. We know of
no other organic creation of which this
could he said, except the idle man, and he
is the only worthless p oduct of mature
civilization. DR.. Arnold says; there is
no esrthly thing more mean and des picable
IN my mind nan a rich man dt sttute of
all sense OF his responsibilities and oppor-
tunities, and only reveling in the luxures
Of our high civilization. and thinking him.
self a great person." Such a person would
benefit society just as much and we don't
know but more if lie were killed and
stuffed.
Dear sisters on the farm, work cheerfully
IN. Your homes are the pleasantest
nomes on earth Your lives are the most
Useful, and as rule the truest aud best.
You can train the eye to see all the bright
'laces in your life, and so slip over the
'ard ones with surprising ease. / have
'flen thought that if every person were
bring their misfortunes together in one
place, most of them would be glad to take
their own home again, rather than take
portion out of the common stock. Do not
rain the eye to rest on The glot my spots
IN utter forgetfulncss of all that is bright
md beautiful.
If your sons and daughters cannot have
he advantages of school and college that
some have, remember that this is not the
nest part of Il persons education, and that
t is not always the person who has these
advantages that proves to be of the most
service to the world. Life on the farm
Keeps your sons from thousand tempta.
lions. The necessity of earning all that he
nas, teaches him as only that process can,
he value of the dollars, and then he has
more ample means, he has with them the
schooling that enables him 10 employ them
wisely. There is Il magnificent horizon of
rope, in the country especially, for the
Young person who sets out in life with
pure motives, and a high object, and
determination 10 do their level best. When
we look at the temptation TO take life easily,
% excuse one's self from hardships, the
that beset the very best of
sons and daughters brought up in luxuri-
,us homes, we dare not say that the so.
,alled advantages of life for them, are
'eal. The poverty that braces Il person up,
Ind calls out all his energies, Is it not an
idvantage' The necessity that gives one
'nly the alternatives of work or want, the
responsibility of baving, perhaps, to sup
port others of the family, causing one 10
iisdain frivoliies, and think earnestly and
seriously OF life and its work, are not these
.dvantage-? They keep Il person 10 his
place, and they provide for him school,
ng he could obtain in no other way.
After this excellent paper DR.. Cutting
occupied the remainder of the afternoon in
several questions that had been
handed in.
EVENING SESSION.
DR.. Hiram A. Cutting gave an address
,pon Our Crops and how to Raise
rhem," whice was both instructive and
1t was listened too with great
and at the close the doctor was
Isked many questions which were we'll
The chairman, Mr.. Wikens,
hen spoke of the excellent series of lee
ures given before the institute, commend
ID them highly, and then offered resolu-
ion of thanks which was passed by
unanimous vote.
A GEORGIA PnILosopHER.-Judg