The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-10-01

wander from home for better fare
or purer air, and when they do 60
sight seeing, a day or two will
furnish all The time required to take
in the objects of interest at the
average stopping place, and gather
food for mental reflection, that will
serve its purpose for years to come.
| haye tried both ways and feel
qualified to speak of which is the
better.
1t has been said, "The love of
change is weakness and impertec-
ton in our nature" and observation
corroborates this, and shows US that
those who succeed are those who
"stick." Stability and character
cannot be taught and thoroughly
grounded in those children who are
kept on the wing; who winter in
one place and summer in another,
always on the lookout for pleasure
and excitement.
He who can create his own hap
piness in the sphere in which he
finds himself has within him one of
the great elements OF success in VIM
ming happiness also.
Those concerned parents, who set
their children's welfare above ali
personal qualification of their own
will have no need to be told to spend
the years of the juvenility of their
precious ones mostly at home,
Time enough to wander abroad TO
see the world when the flock has
grown and flown, and you are left
lonely and with no important
mission at home needing attention.
1t is fashion more than anything
else that controls half the human
freight that loads the summer trains.
1t is not the pursuit of health alone,
for there is no place in which a sick
person can fare SO we'll as at home,
unless it is a home not worthy OF the
name. 1t cannot be for purer air,
for these who travel most are those
who live in the purest atmosphere,
have roomy and airy homes, and
have not the need for change, as
have those mechanics, laborers,
shop girls and sewing women whose
purses forbid them seeking more
invigorating surroundings. But
fashion DEGREES a summer outing,
and those who have money 60, and
those who have not, often borrow
and go too.
'Might as we'll be out of the world
as out of the fashion," but the prin-
ciple does not hold good to the end,
and it is far better to use the money
that can be spared in making the
home healthful and happy, and wait
until the pocketbook has surplus
of cash which can be spent in this
way without the fear of bringing on
a day when you may be burden
tor some one more provident than
| yourself to provide for.
The city and country would both
be benefited by more social com.
mingling; not in big boarding houses
and fashionable places, but in pri-
vate houses and home life. Let the
farm house doors be thrown open to
our city sisters, cousins and aunts,
and they in turn will welcome us to
their more elegant fresides. The
city should know by close contact
! where and how its bread and dinner
comes, and the country should learn
by seeing, what city tastes and
habits are, that it may be the better
able to supply them 1t would wear
off the rusticity and back woods
from the farmSsss.ssss..:..s =, So. ,;.,.,,, !;
refined, cultured city people, and
take some of the conceit out of those
same city folks to learn that we
have common sense equal to their
own, tor when our children are
educated side by side with theirs, or
engage in business contests with
them, they step right up to the
front as large as life, if not larger
Ma,y Sidney.