The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-29

fast with the children's shining morn
ing faces, and the influences of morn
ing prayers still lingering about us to
make every act of service e {
We begin the day at a w~ell-ordered
and cheerful breakfast table with love
and kindly jest and interchange OF
plans for the days work or recreation,
and all day long the work and the re
creation will be so much the better
and truer for it. Then comes the din
ner later in the day with the rest and
talk-each meal in it's turn a halt IN
the Journey resting place for the
mind as we'll IS for the body when
often the tired business man has his
only opportunity of acquaintance with
his children in the busy round OF our
modern life. [ know a case of exhaus-
ton, mental and physical, followed by
months of wearing illness, all Of which
might have been avoided had the man,
a conscientious but unwise worker.
taken the rest of a dinner daily at
home with observation-disclosures, instead
| of a few cold mouthfuls unwillingly
taken in an interval of work alone,
and no doubt even that sometimes for
gotten. Was this an economy OF
time ? Months of enforced idleness
and suffering answered that question
for him. ~
The p~oliteness and courtesy of a
table among well-bred people have
their civilizing influences, especially
on your people, whose characters and
manners are being made. It is well
for us to wait until some one else is
served, to learn to think of the small
needs of others, to remember each
others small preferences.
Our meals taken socially have a ten
dency to make us more habltually
cheerful. Melancholy persons dis
posed to brood morbidly yer imagi-
nary or real troubles, find nothing
worse for them than eating alone, or
in science. The best preventive OF
dyspepsia is a habit of cheerful and
kindly intercourse at meals, and
the habit of self-control, which all po-
likeness demands when we meet to-
gether, is invaluable, rs every physl'
clan can tell us, not only in keeping
us morally healthful, but also in help
ing to keep us physically beautiful and
sane.
One great temptation-we hear II
constantly-as a people, is to over
work: drive, push and haste, which
are neither good for the work or the
workmen, are our traits that strike
3. the ewes of more deliberate foreigners
Brain worry that comes from this hur
, ried and ~incessant turmoil Of business
and labor is at the bottom Of so many
> failures and wrecks. Every respect
full moment does so much to counter
act the wear and tear Of human life
e and just here our daily meals come II
r with their aid.
Between the life of the savage ane
l the civilized nan the marked ane
e significant difference is in the order I'M
|, regularity of the latter-the regulat
houses, the orderly meals, the daily IN
q tercourse. And the small DEATHS OF
0 happy home life have an influence
greater than we know. The spotles
linen, the clear glass, the dainty china
e the wholesome and we'll served dishes
the flowers beside the plate-each ha
o it's share in the impression of peac
e and kindness.
If If we would think of these thing
t, more we would be more willing t
take the trouble of our many "breaE
d fasts, dinners and teas. a"
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