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


from exhausted ccrcbrum and mus
cleS. We have all experienced the
transforming, refreshing, renewing,
reJuvenating power Of good, whole.
some fun.
From business and cconoNical
standpoints alone, to say nothing Of
increased health and happiness, even
a good deal of time spent in play IS
time well spent, and is an essential
part Of the slmcwdcst, most profitable
business policy YOU can adopt.
The man too absorbed in his bust
ness or vocation, too busy to take
care of his health, to preserve it by
whoscomc recreation, is like a work
man who is too busy to sharpen his
tools.
You may never be able to accumu-
late a large fortune, but whether YOU
arc Il big lawyer or small one,
large merchant or Il little one, YOU
can cultivate the capacity for enjoy-
mcnt and fun, and can get great
deal more out Of life than many who
are perhaps far above you in wealth
and position.
Take your fun every day rs 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
ave going to make your home the
happicst place on carth--so happy
and so attractive that your children
will prefer spending an evening there
to going anywhere else. Make bust.
ness of having a good time after din
nor or after supper, and during your
holidays. Let your presence in the
home be Il signal to the children for
a r"mn and Il play and good time
generally. Do not be afraid Of a lit
tie noise, or of 4 little scratched or
broken furniture now and then. This
Is infinitely better than siunicd child
hood. dyspepsia, and doctors bills.
The growth Of many child has been
1rvcd and stuntcd to save a little
| fn h,.io l.fl
The first duty we owe Il child is to
teach it TO film" out its Unborn glad
ness and JOY with The same freedom
and abandon as The bobnlink does
when it makes The meadow joyous
with its song. Suppression Of the
fun-loving nature Of child means
the suppression of its mental and
moral faculties. JOY will 60 out Of the
heart of child after a while if il is
continually suppressed. Mothers who
are constantly cautioning the little
ones not to do this or not to do that,
tcllln" them not to laugh or make Il
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. "Childrcn
without hilarity will never amount to
much. Trees without blossoms will
never bear fruit.'
There is an irrcprcssiblc longing
for amusement, for rollicking fun, in
young people. and if these longincs
we're more fully met in the home if
( would not be so difficult to keep the
boy and girl under the parental roof.
| 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 90 off
"somcwhcrc" where they will have
a good time. A happy, joyous home
is powerful magnet 70 child and
man. The sacred memory Of ii has
kept many n person from losing his
sclf-respcct, and from the commits
sion Of crime.
Fun is the cheapest and best mcdi-
cine in the world for your children as
well rs for YOURSELF Give it to them
in good large doses. It will not only
save you doctors bills. but ii will
also help to make your children hap
pier. and will improve their chances
in lif' W orlh ~. need half :,
many prisons, insane asylums, and
almshonscs if all childrc, had ha"
py childhood.
The very fact that the instinct in