Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-28

TO make a loaf OF bread and mark the result.
She'll perspire and knead, and mead and per-
spire. and when done tbs no loaf ut all. IL is
altogether different, but what Is
difficult of decision. That 1t possesses ada
meantime qualities, however, Is beyond DIS
pute. The undying luminosity 1t betrays to-
wards the knife, the unyielding front IL pre-
sents to the blade. induces that sterdy instru-
ment to retire before II beating a cowardly re-
treat Indeed the lady, in Secret conclave
with her mother, gives II as her opinion that
a pickaxe alone would be found lit TO cope
with her obdurate piece OF dough. Generally
speaking, these girls belong to that class that
''toil not neither do they spin, yet Solomon in
all his glory was not arrayed like one OF
them"
No my country friends, you hold positions
of which you may nell be proud. Positions OF
honor. Positions won by honesty and true
manual labor; and SO far as bruins are con-
cened, IL requires as much brains TO make a
successful farmer as successful Governor
l do not mean TO say that all their sons and
daughters must spend their lives on the farm !:
there Is no reason in the world why they can
not Ill the positions OF Drs. Lawyers, PTois.,
Chemists, Operators. Ministers, and officials
OF euery character as productivity as the child
ren ofany other class of men and they are
doing IL every day. My object is simply to
convince you that you need necer be afraid or
ashamed 10 say 81 am lover OF the farm,
and believer in its rights"
The country has Its amusements as well as
the city. and though most of them arc OF less
sensational nature they are exciting enough
to be enjoyable. There is Croquet, Plcnics.
Lawn Tennis. Fishing. Boating. and Eques-
TRAN Parties for the summer. and Literary
Clubs, Sleighlng. and Coasting Parties, sing
ing Schools, and Social Entertainments for
the winter. And where can you md purer,
and more enjoyable, more instructive and
pleasurable an entertainment than the
country Lyceum or Singing school? Where
the young folks weekly meet and NIL the dear
Old Churches and School Houses of their fore
fathers with sacred and merry songs or ex-
change their ideas on some literary subject in
"a brilliant and animated debate? And who
Will not agree with me when | say their infiu-
"a "a
of dastardly shooting galleries and dlsgraceful
gaming parlors and drinking saloons with
which our cities and towns are becoming
thickly studded. and which are a curse TO ev-
cry civilized community
| Oh, the old-fashioned country home, with Its
! low caves aud long wings matted ivy and
| Virginia creepers How we point it out with
| pride as the birth place of many generations
| of our ancestors: and how our hearts swell
with love and gratitude for the dear old-fash-
Toned people within! Grand father who is 80
proud OF his potato crop the largest one this
side of Erin, and fondly boasts that he raised
| them down on the little rocky" later" patch
so we'll known as the lot where You clearly
remember your games of "Hide-and- GO
| seek " of younger and merrier days. Grand
mother who kisses your cheek and brow with
such fervor and hands around her genuine
old fashioned mince pies and Paradise apples,
True, her caps are tremendously rufiied and
her skirts enormously wide, but the sweet
smiles that never cease in their race over her
dear wrinkled countenance as she industri-
ously knits at that stocking which you never
bttlDB ntT WllnOut. HIS YOU Win
the idea that she is thinking of "A celestial
home beyond THIS mundane sphere.
Her beds are the softest and her blankets
the warmest you ever saw and that old lounge
behind The template stove is ia itself a COM
fort neper TO be forgotten.
Their heads are not crammed with rheto-
rical phrases, nor their tongues languishlng
to dispose of their orthoeptical lore; but
their voices are all the more musical for their
German or Scottish brogue. Let us reverence
these aged and honorable heads and never
allow yourself to speak of your father as 1.-THE
Governor" or "Old Man." The first reveals
falsehood in its very utterancs, for If your
dress them with more respect. You must re-
spect OtherS If you desire them to respect UOtG.
have neither the time or the inclination 10
test your patience with longer reading. My
recapitulation is simply this as we have been
taught to be patriotic let that patriotism be-
gin right at the home. Love your home and
pect its inmates as well as the profession
you follow. Thanking you for your attention
| bid yor adleu.