The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-09-04

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cleS. We have all experienced the
transforming. refreshing, renewing,
rejuvenating power Of good, whole
some fun.
From business and econoNical
standpointS alone. to say nothing Of
increased health and happiness, even
a good deal Of time spent in play is
time we'll spent, and is an essential
part Of the shrewdest, most profitable
business policy you can adopt.
The man too absorbed in his busl-
ness or vocation, too busy to take
care Of his health, to preserve it by
whoseome recreation, is like work
man who is too busy to sharpen his
tools.
You may never be able to accunu-
late large fortune, but whether You
are big lawyer or small one,
large merchant or a little one, you
can cultivate the capacity for enjoy
ment and fun, and can get a great
deal more out Of life than many who
are perhaps far above You in wealth
and position.
Take your fun every day as you go
along. That is the only way to be
sure Of it. Do not postpone your
happiness; paradise is here or no
where
Do not drag your business home.
Lock it in your Office when you leave
there at night, and do not think Of
it until you return. The long, anx-
ious, sad face and the sour express
sion do not belong in the family cir
Gle.
Just make up your mind that you
are going to make your home the
happiest place on earth-so happy
and so attractive that your children
will prefer spending an evening there
to going anywhere else. Make busi'
ness of having a good time after din
ner or after supper, and during your
holidays. Let your presence in the
home be signal to the children for
a romp and a play and good time
generally. Do not be afraid of lit
tie noise. or Of little scratched or
broken furniture now and then. This
is infinitely better than st'lnted child
hood, dyspepsia, and dcctor's bills.
The growth Of many a child has been
-orved and stunted to save little
furniture, bric-a-brac,i or clothing.
The first duty we owe child is to
teach it to fling out its inborn glad
ness and joy with the same freedom
and abandon as the bobolink does
when it makes the meadow joyous
with its song: Suppression Of the
fun-loving nature Of a child means
the suppression of its mental and
moral FACULTIES. JOY will 60 out Of the
heart Of child after while if it is
continually suppressed. Mothers who
are constantly eautioning the little
ones not to do this or not to do that,
telling them not to laugh or make a
noise, until they lose their natural
ness and become little old men and
women, do>not realize the harm they
are doing.
An eminent writer says, "Children
without hilarity will never amount to
much. Trees without blossoms will
never bear fruit.'' .
There is an irrepressible longing
for amusement, for rollicking fun, in
young people, and if these longings
were more fully met in the home it
would not be so difficult to keep the
boy and girl under the parental roof.
I always think there is something
wrong when the father or the chill
dren are so very uneasy to get out of
the house at night and to 60 off
"somewhere" where they will have
a good time. A happy, joyous home
is a powerful magnet to child and
mal. The sacred memory Of it has
kept many a person from losing his
self-respect, and from the commits
sion Of crime.
Fun is the cheapest and best medi-
cine in the world for your children as
we'll as for yourself. Give it to them
in good large doses. It will not only
save you Doctors bills, but it will
also help to make your children hap.
pier, and will improve their chances
in lif, W g oril ~: need h:1f -,
many prisons, insane asylums, and
if all childre lad a ha"-
py childhood.