The Newtown bee., 1892-07-08
THE BEE BUZZ.

The long vacation, with the children at home, suggests the importance of household education; which, after all, the year round, must in the nature of the case be the most vital and essential ele- ment of all human training. Next to that which is born in the child, the char acter is formed by the nurture of the home, in early years, more than by any other influence. ''The way the twig is bent, the tree inclines." Like begets like not only in procreation, but in the daily round of living. Order, system, indus try and faithfulness in the home tend to culture the same in the children. Edu- cation is not the learning of books, but the training of the body, soul and spirit. If the parents and older members of the family have no convictions of right and wrong and no deep sense of duty to God and man, it cannot be expected that that home will give the children very strong moral direction and discipline. The ex- perienced teacher can readily discover the character of the home in the conduct of the child at school. It has been we'll put that, if parents would bring up their children in the way they should go, they must go that way themselves.
 No doubt many people, who go and come during the heated term, enjoy less comfort and convenience than they would if they remained at their pleasant homes. Nevertheless, there is certain economy in this wandering wasteful Summer liv- ing, with all it's discomforts and seeming inconsistencies. People travel most when it is most inconvenient and uncomfort- able to go and come. People go long ways often at great expense, to enjoy a kind of living they would ordinarily de- spise at home. And yet there is wise philosophy in it. There is craving for change which needs must be satisfied. And the desire to go somewhere, and see new things, and do differently, gives a necessary momentum to overcome the in- evitable inertia of dog days and weari- ness.
 How to take vacation is question of growing importance to many people. The principle of the thing is recognized more and more by the thoughtful, and so the art of making the most and best of Summers rest and change has become study. Labor is necessary to rest and rest is necessary to labor. Monotony tends to stagnation and death. Nothing wearies like the ceaseless, changeless task. Change we must have and change is rest. The question is, what sort of change will best suit the individual case? The science of vacation is offsettlng the kind of routine life we have been living the most of the year. In order to have a vacation, we must vacate the treadmill and leave it behind us. But that is not all. The mind and heart must not be va cant because we have left the old work a-day life. There must be motive and purpose in the change of scene and oc- cupation. Change of place of itself will naturally change the current of life in some measure. But there must also be occupation. We are never so healthy and happy as when all our powers are ener- SiLco "iIh SouaS pui PoSO' All ioiSs aiui less life of pleasure is not very pleasur- able life to live, anywhere. Not that we must always have our set task, but that we must have some kind of activity. The mill of life does not cease. We go on liv- ing and our energies will run to one thing or another. Our vacation ought to be an improvement, as we'll as change and rest.
 Speaking of household education, it embraces not only the training of the children, but the culture of the parents. The family is school for all who are in- cluded within it's sacred circle. The rear ing of children often educates the par ents quite as much as the parents edu- cate the children. The parental relation involves the highest grade of culture in this life. Every natural relation is cal culated to develop the powers of the soul and to form and perfect the character. Therefore, whoever most perfectly fulffls all the natural relations of life must be in the right way to attain the most com plete culture this world can give. From this point of view, for married people not to have children must be either great misfortune or great folly. We cannot eat our cake and keep it, too. He who is not able or unwilling to assume the cares and responsibilities of family has no right to expect that he can enjoy the highest pleasures and benefits of domes-