The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04

on the Senator for her place in the de-
partment to earn her own and her wild
owed mothers bread. Sophomore honor
in football is n fine sentiment; but so
is truth in tho monthly account drawn
on father, or regard for mothers
wishes in health or morals. Many u
lawn tennis player would perish before
he would cheat; yet the photographs
of actresses displayed on the mantle
up in that college room, lacking in de-
cency, suggest mind stenchful with
the foulest personal dishonor.
This delicate sensibility has to be
cultivated in an all-round development,
or q man will be caught mapping and
display his bn8eness of secret heart
Honor is clean thinking, pure imagina-
tions, untarnished day dreams, air cas-
| ties with spotless hero and chaste
heroine. Honor is refinement, illumin-
ated by the moral sense; it is culture
ruled by Gods Holy law of what is
right and wrong; it is good taste ex-
tended to matters ethical, to which
questions of dress and the fashion in
behavior are but the street gate and
outside door. Honor is the elegance of
justice, the grace and ornament of buy
ing and selling. 1t is so superb senti-
ment of the heart that no phrase de-
scribes ii. We arc most conscious of
honor in its wounding; we know we
are ashamed and suffering; we look far
up to the heights of the opposite de-
light, and wish we stood there again.
AS mountains are best revealed by
standing at their feet, so in the low
vale of disgrace do we most keenly ap-
preciate honor. One needs to con care
fully his moments of shame; how it
happened; what one did or said that
humiliated him; what unspeakable self
wrath and anguish one suffered. Then
resolve hereafter that honor leads in
just the opposite direction.
The child's honor should be par
ents earliest care. Whatever religious
training you may inculcate, there can
be no stcadfast character without a
sensitive and yet rigorous sense of per-
sonal honor. 1t is high, good breeding.
The neglect of this appeal is sure to
leave your child vulgar, though you
fairly plate him with wealth. The
ready response to the rights of others;
the beauty of self-denial; the quick,
keen appreciation of disgrace as per-
sonal DETACHMENT; the boys power to
blush, than which at eighteen nothing
under Gods sun is more beautifully and. |
above all, the vivid, lofty, yet humble |
that an Unseen Eye is |
ever on him. to approve the good and
despise the base in his childish soul, or |
hand or foot-these are the marks and |
tracings of the finest educational worl;
ever done on earth. If now u young
man or maiden can but preserve that
of pure childhood's home
amid the shock of the crowd in the
worlds broader ways; if, amid the
bribes Of the market and the tinsel caps
of Vanity Fair, youth can see all, hear
all, and yet possess his boyish ideals;
if, by attaching himself to men of
honor, he can strengthen his own; if,
by the memory of an honorable sire
and sweet, gracious woman, his
he can guide himself when
their voices are hushed forever; and,
above all, if by loving fear to offend
mans best of all friends. his God, he
,an carry his honor high" old farmer
Of the hills, will he not do well? Yes,
rich or poor, well.-Emory j. Haynes,