Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-08-10

M p a LITTLE true story OF some work
III lTA men and bird struck the fancy o
lH&SS4N great many people, and is gOinl
lD4AhKlAazk the r0und' Of the papers and per
NNAl iodicals from Maine to California
"A w. The masOns and carpenters engaged
lUf 49, in the erection Of a building in On'
ASSN ~ OF New YOrks's suburban village
- - had raised the walls to the second
story, when it appeared that large trees, with
overhanging branches, must come down in orde
that the work might proceed with less inconvenience
just as they about to cut down the trees one
men discovered that robin had built nest in one
the branches. The wOrkmen all took a look a
Madam Robin, who was sitting on her eggs, aDC
they decided chat they would 60 on with the wOrl
and subject themselves to a good deal of ineonven
fence from the branches which got in their faces
rather than break up promising family Thes
we're rather rough kind Of men, no Doubt, littl
given to extreme sentimentaity, and not at all de
voted to the fantastic notions current In mOderl
nature books about bird and beast; but they paid
tribute to motherhood, and does the whole healthy
world.
A very severe mOralist has laid down the max
inns, 10 opposition to those who contend that it i
the first duty Of family to raise children that is
deep and grave moral Oftense first, to bring child
rem into the world unless there is sound reason Il
believe that they will be without intellectual ant
physical blemish, and, second, that it is almos
equally wrong to bring children into this sphere o
woe with no prospect of being able to provide 70
them. These great questions may be passed by, bu
there is one question which will not be seriously de
bated, which is that those people who dislike child
rem, and the state of society," be it never refined
on the surface, which rather frOwns on children ant
regards them as a nuisance aud bother, and, a
best, as enoumbTances to be tolerated. are in an IN
natural, and therefore unsOund and unhealthy con
dition. There is no greater phrase Of condemnation
no greatef Indictment, than ''the ehildess rich,
descriptive Of class. Jeremy Taylor in one Of hi
rhapsodies On the married state, SAYS:
marriage is q school and exercise of virtue; mar
rage is the proper ecene OF piety and patience, 0
the duty Of paTents here kindness is spyead abroad
and love is united and made firm as q center; mar
rage is the nursery Of heaveD the state of marliag
fills up the numbers Of the elect, and hath in It th
labor Of love, the blessings OF society and the uuio
OF hands and hearts. Marriage Is the mother OF th
world, and preserves kingdoms and fills cities AM
churches and heaven itself; marriage keeps order
exercises many virtues and promotes the interest
mankind, and is that state Of good things to whic
God bath designed the present constitution Of tn
word''
Tt is not supposed that he was thus eloouen
about those people who have reached the deliberat
conclusion that children do not belong to the pres
emf scheme OF the universe; that they are nuisance
and that their laughter and noise in household
are an annoyance not to be tolerated In ell oil
civilizations there are strains OF weak races and fam
that they are not to be classed with the vigorOu
and sound life, but it is en- 0minOus sign when th
wealthy or the wellto do who are healthy and strOn
begin to look upon children asa burden as an Obstac
to their pleasure, Gin the wayn
How these people are cheating themselves they
never know. They are 10 the rapid race for hap
piness, aud vet some Of the most fortunate in th
world, like Goethe, blessed with every gift Of for
tune and nature, have testified that, search thei
memories as they might, they could never coun
more than score Of minutes when they had attain
cd to that supreme happiness to which they be,
aspired; It is, however, the testimony Of the human
race that there s one great happiness on earth an
that happiness is in the guiding and guarding 0
and TIE labor for the children Of the home. Char
lotte Cushman said:
''No artist work is SO high, so noble so grand, 8
enduring so important for Ell time as the making
OF character in e child.n
The rearing and the education OF children are "a,
supreme educators and cVilizing influences for th
human race. Victor Hugo was won't 10 sag tha
the most sublime psalm that can be heard on thi
earth is the lisplng Of human soul from the lips o
childhood and it is the pity and love and s0lici
tudo o. parents for their children which are th,
parents Of the finest virtues IL the whole world
The people Who dislike children are to be pitisS
themselves, for they know not love, which Is rh
grand purifier Of the nature OF man and Of society
Robert South spoke Of It thus:
Ihis ls the great engine and instrument % nature
the bond and cement Of society, the spring ans
spirit Of the universe Z s Of that active ana rest
less nature, that il must Of necessity exert itself
s0that It VIII iasten upon al inferior, unsuitahl.
object rather than none Sc all The soul may sooner
leave ou 70 subaist than TO love; and like the vine
L "itners and dies i i hes nothing 70 embrace.
Whatever We may think e. the little yellow MAJ
#stI "A A. "a ra