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

farm home which would save much la
: Dor and many weary steps. Anothel
suggestion presents itself, which might
do something toward solving the diff
cult problem referred to, but would take
time to show it's effect; and that is the
education of all-not alone those who
see the necessity for it-but those who
do not, as well. Why have laws for
compulsory education, and not enforce
them? With knowledge comes broader
and clearer views of life and its duties,
and convinces that it is not the kind of
work that one does if it is honorable,
that brings credit or discredit, but more
the way in which it is done. Education,
refinement and intelligence will CON-
mand respect whether the hands be emr
ployed in dispensing the laws of the
Nation or splitting rails, skstching a
landscape, or washing dishes. And as
to doing nothing. l don't believe the ALI
wise Being ever made persons and
placed them upon this earth with the
idea theywere too good to work any. Ed
ucation and knowledge are an advan-
tage in household affairs as elsewhere,
whether possessed by the employer or
employed; and quote from lady who
in speaking of being at the home of a
celebrated suthoress, says: Her one do
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death of relative, and my hostess, with
her husbsnd, two children and company,
was cooking and washing dishes, just as
well, and . great deal better than if she
knew nothing beyond; for the greater a
woman's knowledge is the more she real
ICES the importance of q well-ordered
home. l had read this lady's books with
wild sort of ecstacy, but when l ate Of
her steak and biscuit, and drank such
tea, my soul was stirred to its depths,
and yielded involuntary homage" Where
there is hired help, whether on the farm
or in the home, necessarily in daily as
sociation with the farmers family, the
advantage Of the moral and intelligent
over that of the illiterate and the i'm
moral, cannot be estimated by dollars
and cents. LII speaking of the over
amount of labor that is often necessary
to be performed, We don't wish to up
hold the idea that is sometimes advanced,
| that farmers are all hard-hearted, and
the women all overworked. We know
| now and then a man feels that his i'm
proved implements that help to lessen
the out door labor, cost so much he can
not very well afford to hire help in the
house SO long as the good wife holds out
thinks, perhaps, sit ia better she should
wear out than rust out" Sometimes
theughtless or willful neglect in a man
is in a measure corrected by bringing
things to crisis. as it may be termed,
as was the case where the Weman told
her husband there was not 3 stick of
wsod with which to to cook the dinner,
what should she do?' and John answer
ed back, as be strobe off to his work, do
the best you can." But when he and his
men came in for their accustomed meal,
with sharpened appetites, and found the
dinner ready prepared, and placed where
the hot sunshine wsuld have the most
effect on it, and was gently reminded by
| the wife that she had taken his advice,
and had done the best she could, no doubt
John felt this was bringing things to a
crisis, and profted by the lesson. Some
times good practical illustration of a
particular state of affairs will do more
toward opening sensible mans eyes
than whole week of EcoldiRg. A pub
| lie lecturer has said, 81 hate man who
is an aristocrat in his family, and whose
wife is obliged to be begEar." Perhaps
there are cases of this kind to be met
with sometimes. where so far as the
work is concerned, the wife is very
important factor in the partnership, bat
when it comes to the distribution of the
profits she is not taken into considera'
tion. We have no patience with that
kind of man, who allows his wife to
humilfate herself. and humbly ask for a
portion Of what rightfully belongs to
her, and then ask what she had dene
with the fifty cents he had given her the
week or month bsfore-when, perhaps,
his money all being in large bills, he had
borrowed it himself to buy tobacco with.
That is the kind of a man that can never
afford anything but the honeliest Of the
necessaries of life, and the atmosphere
of such tome neurishes distrust, sell
fishness, and unjust principles. When
farmer cannot afford to hire any help to
relieve the everburdened inmates of his
home; cannot afford time and means to
plaat, prune, and cultivate that which
adorns and beauties the hOme surround
ings; can not afford pictures, good
books, papers, &C., which are valu-
able elements toward culture and refine
ment, and tend to relieve the monotony
of the daily routine.the farming doesn't
pay-it is not success with him-and
he had better seek some other avocatien,
for the influence of such ahoms cramps
and stunts the mental and moral growth
of its members, and the grand idea that
has been expressed, that "The pulses of
thought that move the universe proceed
from the bosom Of the household" dses
not apply to that one. But We would
urge to surround the hSms with the
tasteful and the beautiful; fail not to
spend portion Of the time and means
for this purpose, and then place within,
the ornamental, the attractive, the ele-
waiting, and the useful, that tend to bet>
ter the head, the heart, and the religion;
and thus are the wants of the different
natures of the family supplied, and there
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