Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-01-11
THE SELFISH COUPLE.
Husbands and wives Who Refuse TO
MfngIc In Society


Selflsbness is the baue OF all life
IL cannot enter into life-individual.
family or social-without cursing II
Therefore II any married pair find
themselves inclined to confine them
selves TO one another's society. indis-
posed to go abroad and mingle with
the life around them. disturbed and ir-
ritated by the collection OF friends IN
their own dwelling or in any way NOV
cd TO regard thcir social duties as dis
agreeable. let them be alarmed at once
IL Is q bad symptom-an essentially
morbid symptom. They should insti-
tute means at once for removing this
feeling. and they can only remove II by
persistently going into society. persist
entity gathering II into their own dwell
ing and persistently endeavoring TO
learn TO love and feel an interest in all
with whom they meet. The pr ess OF
regeneration VIII not be tedious one.
FOR the rewards OF social life are i'm
mediate
The heart enlarges quickly with the
practice OF hospitality. The sympathies
run and take root from point TO point.
each root throwing up leaves and bear
ing flowers and fruit like strawberry
vines IL they are only allowed TO do
so.
IL is only sympathies and strawber-
ries that are cultivated in hills which
do otherwise. The human face is n
thing which should be able TO bring
the heart into blossom with n moments
shining. and will be such with YOU IL
you will meet it properly.
The penalties OF family isolation will
not, unhappily. fall entirely upon your
selves They will be visited with
double force upon your children. Chill
dren reared in the home with few or
no associations Will grow up either
boorish or sensitively timld.
IL IL cruel wrong TO children 10 rear
Shem without bringing them into con
tinued contact with polite social life
The ordeal through which children
thus reared are obliged TO pass in gain
ing the ease and assurance which will
make them ut home elsewhere than uu-
der the paternal roof is one Of the
severest, while those who are constant
ly accustomed 10 n social life from
N''NiA JUN are NNNC&leQ IN all It's
forms and graces without knowing IT,
Great mulutudes OF men and women
all over the country are now living Sc
Guided from social contact simply from
their sensitive consciousness OF igno-
rance Of the forms OF graceful inter
course.
They feel that they cannot break
through their reserve. There IS. doubt
less. much that is morbid in this feel
Ing, and yet IL IS mainly natural. From
all this modification and this deprIva-
ton every soul might have been saved
by education In n home where social
life was properly lived. 1t is cruel TO
deny 10 children the opportunity not
only TO become accustomed from their
first consciousness 10 the forms OF So
ciety. but 10 enjoy its influence upon
their developing life
Society is food 10 children. Contact
with other minds is the means bv
which they are educated, and the diff
/ ference in families OF children will
show at once TO the accustomed eve the
different social character OF their par
ents. But l have no space 10 follow
this subject further, and l leave II
with YOU. with the earnest wish that
you Will consider It and profit by the
suggestions / have given yOu.-"Tim-
othy Titcomb's Letters" in Boston
Globe.