Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-01-21

enjoyed, and weaken the tie that binds
them to you, and the home life on the
farm.
Then sometimes there is too much
work aAd too little amusement provided
for the farmers sons and daughters, and
too little tine for amusenent-ths farm.
er sometimes forgetting his own youth
full days, may think they take a.
much, or even more time than he deems
proper for amusemsnts. but he does not
realize perhaps, that often in Gnding
that time, they must either neglect or
slight their work, or by over exsrtion
crowd the work of several hours into q
few. Farmers children have love for
amusement and recreation as well as
others, and if the innocent and harmless
is not provided for them at home where
the parents can influence them in a
choice of associates, they will seek some
kind elsewhere, and choose their own
companions. All boys, though reared
on farm are not given the capacity and
talent for becoming successful farmers.
Their tastes and inclinations are con-
stantly drawing them to some ether
calling for which they are much better
adapted. But we would say, endeavor
to make the farm life so pleasant and
attractive that there will be no desire
to get away from it, until they are thor
oughly convinced their life work is not
there; and in that time, let the home
training be such, that when they do go
forth into the world to engage in that
work for which they are best fitted, they
will be able to readily distinguish the
right from the wrong, and will rise above
temptations and snares that are as pit
falls to many feet There is much said
in regard to the tendency of the youth to
leave the farm, but are they not
more to be pitied than blam+
ed? Judging from past experience,
they look only to whst they feel to be
the same monotonous round of drudgery,
because there is ne time to spare, or
pains taken to put life and interest into
it for them, and but little to develop
their higher natures. and make their
homes congenial; and thus they leave
more for the purpose of escaping what
is unpleasant than otherwise, and the
parents find when 1t is too late they have
to spare the children whether they can
afford it or not-while THEY, out in the
world, often with no fixed aim or pur-
pose, drift from one thing to another,
and with few tender rscolleotiOns Of the
home they have left to restrain them
from paths that lead astray, are some
times drawn into, and go down in the
vortex of utter ruin. In what has been
said, we do not wish to be understood as
encouraging extravagance; let the idea
be impressed that spending more than
is earned is extravaganza; spending
for that which brings no good to any
one Is extravaganza, and spending time
and money in learning TO drink, gamble,
and other bad habits, is the most reck'
less extravaganza that can be INDUCED
10. Let economy be taught as one of
the prevailing virtues, and that no ave-
cation will be success without ii, but the
of all means that brings
and sunshine into home
is not economy. 1t IS said, ''intemper
snce rarely pushes its way into pleas
ant and attractive country home"
Life on the farm with its many cares
and duties which require unwearied at
tention, must be watched or it will run
too much to the selfish, at the ex-
pense of undevelopsd social qualities.
The farmer and his family should never
forget they have social natures to eulti-
vate and social duties to perform, which
should not be neglected. The coming
together and mingling of congenial
friends and neighbors, both in public
and around cheerful 6resides, exchang-
ing progressive views on topics OF inter-
est to the farm, the home and humanity
at large, interspersed with amusements,
which tend to lighten the weight of care,
should be one of the pleasant features
of farm life. Because man is farm
or, and tilis the soil, let him not feel that
be is one of Natures clods." but rather
that he is made of refined earth, or clay,
and as such take prominent position
among men, and by right of merit main
tain it. Let him be not such that the in
terest he manifests in outside affairs,
and the space he occupies in the estima-
ten of the world about him, can be
to that of the mud men
made by the Juveniles and set up in the
sun to dry. The husband, as the ac'
knowledged head of the family, should
prove himself worthy of the place, and
feel that he has responsibilities resting
upon him which he should endeaVer to
meet with a high sense of duty, while
the wife. if she fully realizes her high
and holy calling. will strive for those
attributes which place her at the head OF
her home; for in great measure does it
rest with her whether that home shall
be merely place to stay, amid confu-
sion and general dissatisfaction, or
whether it shall be haven of rest. of
trust, of order, and domestic love. And
around the hearthstones of the farm
home, removed in measure from temp
tatisn and sin, and with the influence of
Nature around and about them, are
grand opportunities for inculcating true
principles, and correct views of life, for
to these Same farm homes will the fu-
turs depend for very many Of her noble.
honest men and true women.
ELY's CREAM BALM is an article of undoubt-
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