Year: 1864

Many are deferred from marriage for fear
of the expense of supporting a family. 1t is a
great mistake, A single man spends more
money in support of cigars than would sup
port wife. Few men lay by much until
they have an object to lay by for, and thus ii
comes to pass that family is now, as ancient
ly, the best of hostages to fortune, and none
are so much to be trusted as those who have
the largest families. Still as family increases
around a man he is very apt to feel as If five or
six children were constant drain upon his
Efforts at accumulation, and that children
we're poverty instead of wealth. But it is not
so. at least in every respect, or even on the
largest and broadest of scales. Thus, for in
stance, in a national point Of view, our first
method of estimating the greatness Of States
| is by the number and rapid increase of iDhab-
itanIs. Every child born in the United States
makes the nation so much the more respected
abroad and powerful at home, so much more
wealthy and Intelligent, for on the average
each citizen produces more wealth than he
consumes, and in some department or other
adds to the accumulating stock of human
wisdom and experience. Now nation is but
great family, and as we may best learn what
is good for a nation by what is good for a
family, so may we best test our views of what
| is good for a nation.


Children are weak and need support when
the parents are strong to support them, IN Or
der that they may be strong when pareuts are
weak and unable to protect them, and thus Is
made up that bundle of strength which
large family ever. generates. Each wisely
brought up and educated child is the best OF
all investments Of parents wealth of mon
ey, of affection and of effort. Happy still is
he man who has his quiver full of them
They are the arrows in the hands OF the
mighty.


Children keep man young. He who min
giles only with those older than himself soon
grows old; but he who accustoms himself to
mingle largely and freely with those younger
than he al surprisingly retains bis youth. II
Is the remark of Bnlwer, certainly one OF the
closest and best observers of human nature,
lhat 1t Is good sign for young man 10 love
the society of men who are older than him.
SELF and for an old man to love the company
of those younger. 1t is thus that youth ac-
quires the experience and wisdom of age, and
age retains the vigor, freshness and elasticity



of wealth in the overlooking affections which
God has given them, which they imPart to all
who come near and have much to do with
them. If they call out the energies Of man
aud make him work hard in the hours ol
business, they relax and refresh him with
their warmth and geniality and absence Of
care in the hours of relaxation and of throw
ling of:


There is many father fearful be shall not
be able to give his son SO good an education
or so good start in life as he had or as be
could desire, if there is large family TO share
his savings. But there is the best of all sorts
of education in the attrition of large family
Franklin bids young man who would mar.
ry well, to avoid only daughters, but select his
wife out of large family, because there are
, thousand rough edges of temper that ge
rubbed off by the natural action OF number
, of Young people on each other. Each leans tt
wealth. For they make a man economical
Just at that period of life when he is most dis
posed to branch out in extravaganza. From
the full possession of conscious powers, making
money very easily, he is apt to spend it a
, fast. If be does this as his strength declines
poverty must overtake him, and disappoint
!. ment or dependence cloud his latter years


but by pinching when money is coming il
fast, when his children are grown, he has q


retrenchments to make, but rather power I
q expand, and take the world more easily whil
he is surrounded by protectors who love him


because he has been their protector Phi
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