The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-03

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them to strike up an inspiriting air; no
sooner did they strike the air than the
Highlanders were rallied. and helped
to win the day. Oh, We who have been
routed in the conflicts of life, try by
the force of music to rally your scat
tered battalions.
Still further: / commend, as worthy
of their support, the gymnasium. This
institution is gaining in favor every
year, and know of nothing more free
from dissipation, or more calculated
to recuperate the physical and mental
energies. While there are good many
people who have employed this insti-
tuition, there is a vast number who are
ignorant of it's excellence. There are
men with cramped chests and weak
sides and respondent spirits who
through the gymnasium might be
reused up to exuberance and exhilara-
ton of life. There are many Christian
people Respondent from year to year,
who might, through such an institu-
ton, be benefited in their spiritual re-
lations. There are Christian people
who seem to think that it is a good
sign to be poorly; and because Richard
Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids,
they think that by the same sickness
they may come to the same grandeur
Of character. want 70 tell the Chris
tian people of my congregation that
God will hold you responsible for your
invalidism If it is your fault, and when,
through sight exercise and prudence,
you might be athletic and well. The
effect of the body upon the soul you
acknowledge. Put man of mild dis
position upon the animal diet of which
the Indian partakes, and in . little
while his blood will change its chem
zeal proportions 1t will become like
unto the blood of the lion, or the tiger,
or the bear, while his disposition will
change, and become fierce and unre-
lenting. The body has powerful ef-
feet upon the soul.
Still further: l commend to you
large class of parlor games and recrea-
tions. There is way of making our
homes hundred-fold more attractive
than they are now. Those parents
cannot expect to keep their children
away from outside designations unless
they make the domestic circle brighter
than anything they can find outside of
it. Do not, then, sit in your home sur
ly and unsympathetic, and with a half
condemnatory look because of the
sportfulness of your children. You
were young once yourself; let your
children be young. Because your eyes
are dim and your ankles are stiff, do
not denounce sportfulness in those
upon whose eyes there is the first
luster, and in whose foot there is the
bounding Joy of robust health.
thank God that in our drawing-rooms
and in our parlors there are innumera-
BILE games and sports which have not
upon them the least faint of iniquity.
Light up all your homes with inno-
cent hilarities Do not sit down with
the rheumatism, wondering how chill
dren can go on so. Rather thank God
that their hearts are so light, and their
laughter is so free, and their cheeks
are so ruddy, and that their expecta-
tions are so radiant. The night will
come soon enough, and the heartbreak,
and the pang, and the desolation-it
will come soon enough for the dear
children. But when the storm actually
clouds the sky. it will be time enough
for you to haul out your reef tackles
Carry, then. into your homes
not only the innocent sports and
games which are the inventions of our
own day, but the games which come
down with the sportfulness of all the
past ages-chess and charades and tab
leaux and lawn tennis, and all those
amusements which the young people
IF our homes know so we'll how to con-
trive. Then there will be the parlor
socialities-groups of people assembled
in your homes, with wit and mimicry
and joviality, filling the room with Joy
from door to mantel, and from the
carpet to the ceiling. Oh, is there any
exhilaration like a score of genial souls
in one room, each one adding contri-
button of his own individual merri-
ment to the aggregation of general
hilarity?
Suppose you want to go abroad in
the city, then you will find the piano.
rama and the art gallery and the ex-
quisite collections of pictures You
will find the museum and the histor-
icsl society rooms full of rare curiosi-
ties, and scores of places which can
stand plainly the test of what is right
and wrong in amusements- You will
find the lecturing hall, which has been
honored by the name of Agassiz, in
natural history. Doremus in chemistry,
Boynton in geology. Mitchell in astron-
omy, John b Cough in moral reform,
and scores and hundreds of men who
have poured their wit and genius and
ingenuity through that particular
channel upon the hearts and con-
sciences and imaginations of men. set
ting this country so years farther in
advance than it would have been with
out the lecture platform.
rejoice in the popularization of out
door sports. hail the croquet ground
and the fisherman's rod and the sports
mans gun. In our cities life is so I'M
healthy and unnatural that when a
census taker represents city as hav-
ing 400, 600 inhabitants there are only
200, 600, since it takes at least two men
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