Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-25
HOME ADJUSTMENTS.
Some Healthtul Suggestions Which 1t
WouId be Well to OhserYe.

If mothers, who are ambitious for their
children, and want them TO live long and
distinguished lives of actual usefulness,
would but realize the great importance of
early home influence, how many more men
and women the world would be called to
honor. Children who are brought up
among pleasant and cheerful surroundings
are better morally. and physically and
mentally, than those who are not so
brought up. Pleasant and cheerful sur
~roundingsn does not mean luxury. Even
the poor may have This influence. Home
pastimes are the pleasures that develop in
%tellect, ingenuity and ability of every kind,
and call into use the different attributes OF
the mind, wit, humor or fancy, imagina-
ton and reason, and give a readiness of
comprehension and a facility of expression
that can be acquired in no other way so
easily. "PastimeS' include outdoor
exercises as well as indoor amusements,
and outdoor exercise, as a means
of health, we seem to almost ignore.
The English understand it better,
and they are a healthful and contented
class of people. Such outdoor exercises as
boating, sailing, swimming, riding, driving,
games of ball, cricket, croquet, lawn tennis,
and archery, all come under the head OF
heathful amusements when not carried TO
extremes, and anything carried to ex-
tremes is injurious in some way. Indoor
amusements, such as charades, tableaux,
chess, backgammon, checkers, bagatelIe
and billiards, are pleasure-giving. Some
of them give scope to a variety of inven-
tons; they cultivate taste and refinement,
as well as fancy and ingenuity. Scenic dis
plays of all kinds for indoor entertainment
are excellent. No other recreations COM
bine SO much literary culture and artistic
taste with p~leasurable enjoyment. Inge-
nuity, skill, invention and judgment, de-
veloping taste and talent, are called into
exercise, and the social feelings are har-
monized and improved by the good temper
and good manners each one is required to
bring to the general enjoyment.
All such pleasures have an influence,
and a good influence. A hearty laugh is
often more beneficial and necessary than
medicine, and everything that creates
harmless enjoyment has an important
bearing on the young. We would espe-
cially urge parents to encourage these pas
times for the sake of promoting atthe same
time the moral and physical health OF
their children, and keeping their hearts
centered III the enjoyment of domestic life.
| The body must and will right itself, for the
great law of compensation run all through
life. No one can violate the duty of pre-
| serving bodily health for the sake of ac-
quiring wealth, or wen fer mental attain
mert, without Neutrality-suspicious. too late
| his error in so doing. What does it matter
if, to promote children's health and to in
crease their happiness, the house does moi
look so orderly or if chairs are out Of
place, and tables filed with childrenis toys
and materials ? There is nothing so pleas
ant in maturity as to be able to look back
upon a happy childhood, wherein "lots OF
fun was combined with profit. Happy
| children generally make good men and
women, and parents, in bringing up their
children, should do SO with the hope that
when they are gone the children /" will
want and wish their presence still."-Er-
| chance.