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THE WEST SHORE.
October, 1873.
HAPPY HOMES.
IUt. F.dwerd ' Hl UtW
opon th subject nf "happy hornet." Of
hundred novel, aaid the h-1k t, tricing the
fortune of a young life, 99 end in the establish -meut
of bapp) home. Hunted up Mid down,
through a thousand danger, young happy
huabaud aud hia young happy wife look their
but on the reader a they open the door which
ia to admit them into the untold blowing of a
happy bom. Thua preciaaly doe the novel
how what i th chiaf and central work and
duly of life the creation of a happy home.
Fj-skin' definition waa: "They will tell yon of
tin that deUil, but at bottom, th reaaon
men I-"" government, and the object for which
ovemment ia to b euatatiietl, ia that men may
iv la happy home." Tne prodigal ton after
hi waudrring returns home. We ahould And
plain lor more thorough atudy a to th duty of
malting bonin and niainuining them, a that
we may ehow th kingdom of (tod on earth
ii. -i distinctly and moat often. Wlnl you
peud year nf a boy life in teaching him a
tin til if "' 'he dead languages, miilit vou
not occupy hi mind with thought and hia life
with habit which would tend to make for him
a happy home when be (hall be a man? IV i
eon olio M" '"' "" 'r '"'"' toahow that women
ought not to have the utTmg, ay that it ia
woman' Uium-aa to make home happy. So u
ia. Hut it Jut a much mau'a business. To
Is.th It ia by far the moat important hmiim
thy have in hand. Stecial political dulu-a,
pecul tlutie aa church member, their niiccma
m iltoir aliopa or at the Itench, i a nothing
compared with th duty ami succeas in making
hum bright and bapp; as the very kingdom ol
the living 04,
There are many Uudenciea of modern life
which turn peraone away from their dutia
in regard to home. Ou tha tea Irnoy to
do thing on lrg aoale. Our pultlic chool
system, herua It I large), ia aakad m accept ami
diaoharga tluliaa which be) nig at bnniu. Pul
In ecli.ml toeohoi are expect-d t . tiaiu chil
dren in good manner, but the home ia die
graoetl which haa tent unmannerly children to
echool. Industrial aohool are formed to teach
boy diitine which they learned at Imme 100
year ago. College are prtitiird for women,
in which they abould I taught how to make
bread, how to broil a iteak, and aven how to
amuse a child ami how to et a table. A if
then were any place where a girl could Irani
any such thing nearly a well a li could, if
he i hoee, under the huiiildt st rn f in Amer
ica, l or euhalaalul inurement aa well aa fur
fundamental education there ia to place like
home. In the Haiae system of Matchmaking
the aorkatan dm hia trl at home, and the
iiaiu matli in .l.ll. it ol 1 are hmuiiht t.
the ahop ami lillrd. In the American at stem
the woikmau and the workwoman come to
the abop In work, leaving their child
In the thaiior of the district achool. The
American s slam may prove th beat
fur waUhea. but the Swtt syalrm i th
beat lor t l.il. lit ii It i tanl that in old fans
th arttaaua a ere erattrirsl tlirtuahnut the city.
living near their ahops; but that Kijtolenn'i
avenue and houhtvatda drove them lioin euch
homea and Inrved them to huddle together, and
to euch crowding waa due the eicreaee of the
I .mi. nine rn.oi u. Ii !. la, al.irmr I. no. I
euch a reault niual follow. I have no doubt
that the grealaat tolitical question of all will b
tie. I. led li relceelioe illltet t M the borne.
Oar American eiprrimenl in conceding the
uflrag toetery man ovarii ha not bean a
remarkably auccceelul one. I do nut believe
the auffrage i ti tie doled out by properly aa it
ut.il tu be in Kngland Tha suffrage brhmga
to llwae a ho haae a wlaJ Intemt in the in
ale n of the eot lal or organic life nf the Stale.
It belouga to prtiple who have fatabliahail
h..iina. an. I it it m Ulief that to a homeatoad
uftrw th free naUoet of the world will
ultimately recur. Children ahould be ao trained
that at 15 they will love home better than any
i-lt-n- r. I l-.p 1 rr...m,.T.t l.fK.I.I I... tt.ll
aa not to separate father from mother or child
ren from parent. Children ahould find in their
parent their beat companione, from whom they
nave no aecreta. Father and mother ahould
make home glad, cheerful and beautiful. The
original trinity ia the aacred trinity of the father,
the mother and the child. In the laat inter
view of the Saviour with the twelve, at the
moment when he drew furthest tho vail whiah
separatee thin world from the other, he did o
by aaying, "In my Father' bouae are many
homea. "Heaven, when we pa from earth,
will be a life of homea. We need not wait till
we die to enter that Heaven. The Kingdom of
Heaven i at hand; wherever faith and hope
and love combine ia Heaven.
kiiv innocently an Iriah newipaper con
cludea ita account of an impoaing ceremony :
"The procession waa very tine, being nearly two
mile InnK. aa waa alao the prayer of the Kev.
Mr. McKaddcn.
A ii i ii To Mtrrilln. If yon are ever to .
compliah aoiuething in life, it I becauae you are
accomplishing aoniethiug now. So many women
aay, after my house and ground are in perfect
order, after my wardrobe ia made exactly to
auit in.', after we have become rich, after I have
eecurcd perfect health, then I intend to give
more time to my huaband and children, to ao-
lety and philanthropy, and life rounda itaelf
hi., an inglorious nil. i math. It la a auicnliil
to postpone happiness and usefulness aa it ia for
mother to Nave her children to a nurae through
all their early years, mid expect to win their
del-pent love afterward. The present days, the
present nour is rich Willi glorioua opimrtuuity
lor women to render royal iervice to the home,
the State, and nation. There ia "blessed work
to be done, blessed work, with blessed wanes.'
and it I pitiful to tee women of education, of
experience, women who believe lu " immortal
ly, bending all their energies to shopping ex-
curaions and the matching nf ribbons, and saying
to an tne vaai inierrata that vitally affect tho
happiiicu of millinna, "bide Vour time, wait
1 know children are atarving and the hearta of
women are breaking, father and mother wail
in agony over dishonored aona and daughters ;
red-handed 'crime' ami 'slander' endanger alike
the innocent and guilty. Th world need help,
number me among the helper. I will go to
worn toon, nut men, you Know, l have not de.
ndtd upon the shade and ehane of mv fall
I.....--I H u it. L , i ,
ooiiut't. -.titn. tintitrrr, in rnarr-Utsjam
l't i -i 1 1 if i i- Peopli. Wa ehauld bear
th disagreeable people better and generally
with diugreeable people better and generally
Hud them more agreeable, probably if we were
aecuatomrd to look on their mental infirmities
with more of the pity with which we regard
their physical defnrmitie. We have only com
miseration for the man who ia born with club
feet, or ornate eyea, or St. Vitua' dance. Wedn
not bUme and berate him that his effort r
crippled by uch disadvantage. But the man ia
j.iat aa deserving nf pity who come into life
mtctetl with a club-footed erne of propriety,
or a cms eyed judgment, or an epileptic loin
par. At leaat the reflection that we might not
no near as well a he, were we in hia place
nouiti H-mt-r tuir criticism anil illt.ll K, i ,,Q
are pale, aaid nne aoltlier to another, aa they
wera waiting for the enemy's attack, in a tons
that implied aome queation of hia courage. "If
you wer aa afiaid aa 1 am you would run
away, waa me pat reply. -Wood Coaaaiay,
l via it a rule," aaid a wiaaacr to hia
irieua, to tell my wife everything that hap
peoe. In tbia way we manaire to avoid miaun
derstamlings , N nt to l nultlone in gt-nero
tjr. menu replied "WB, air, you are not
pn aMa ami irana. aa i am. lor tell my wife
great many things that neverappen.
Bnowx-'l'awi to braak ma a IS bill
NM 1 hould like to break it, batunfortu
naiaii i m taroae myaalL
LABOR, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL.
Ihe power oi laoor ta viatbla evervlir.
we need only look at improvement Heud us to
sco it. It 1 limited only by tha akill of tha
laborer. A good, well-cultivated brain ia vaatlj
more euential to tb power of labor than
good muscle, though the latter ia very ueceeaary
aa far a it goe ; but all the physical force of
men and animal could alone effect compara
tively little. Look at our great cities and aa '
hat an immense amount of labor it reauinan1
to build them ; but the labor itaelf ia small
compared with the skill required to manage
and apply that labor to advantam. A h,.r..
mav null a wairon. but he oattnot mtt . -
.' f - - C, ' -- . .....n,. ..I... , a
man who ia a akillfut mechanie can both make
ana pull a wagon. Ihe bootblaok and th
houe-pinter may apply the hruh a vigoroutly
and with much more ohvaical labor thn ... 3.
iat, yet never be able to produce a (treat re-
a t . .7 ...
una. n man may oe a giant pnyaicaiiy it he
ha no akill or mental power of applying bii
lalior oroiierlv. he ia no l,. t r. r fkan n n
the power of labor did not extend beyond mors
-.1 1 I mA . 1. .1 1 I I . ...
-ii i mi-Hi aarenijvn, we anouia nave no aplandld
Iiuildiuin. flue monument, oreat railtmtuta
ateamboata, and public improvement ; our do
meatio machinery and oouvenienoea would be
adly deflcient. The great Niagara has a power
in it own way inai cnauenge tne wonder and
the admiration of the umrl.l t hot -t,t ! ia
after all ? A great, noiay, turbulent bully of a
river tnai maaea me very earth tremble with It
tMiw-cr and filla the air with tl... mitt ,.f lim
lireatii, threatening to destroy everything that
1 1 . 1 1 1 1 n iii 1 1 it ruacn ; wnuo inoae quiet, unaaaum
ing little atreain that paaa through our meadow
and valley, are turning the griat mill, aaw mill,
woollen null, iron factory, and carrying heavy bur
deu of freight: theae (mall streams do this, whiU
the bl ii storing Niagara doe nothing but make a
in itonnu diaplay of power. The little treami
are adapted to the mental power of man, by
t-l-L V: . ,F , i, .. t
which i neir power oi uaeiuineas i limited only
by the age of men and the world ; while Niag
ara la a mum tin no nt .....,-..r ..t 1 t ti... iitilitt.
OK " 1
reminding u of a great many men and boy
i in. worm. i hey nave pnyaical or brute lore
Breat. iirnnrant nnisv. eonnttittd. nf no
earthly use beyond a natural curiosity. Labor
ia powerful nuly when accompanied by tbs
- I II . 1 ... n.. ' t n
icucsaary bkiu to direct ii. i lie lavage na an
the physical power of labor for constructing
rsilroatl. iteamihipa, machinery, but he lacks
the akill ; coneequeutly hi laoor has no con
structive or real power. Labor ha great power
wneu uacaea wun gnoa Drama, out mere
tibvsical labor, without akill ia nnmnarativelv
weak thing. Cultivator.
A Sixtikistal Flams. The Charlotte, N.
C , Obntrxxr tell of a oititen of that county,
who, having married in 1844, lighted a fire on
hia hearihatona a aoon aa he carried hi biid
to hia new borne, and haa kept it burning ever
an. -e. The citixen being qnetiooed about th
matter, aava th fir through all the 86 yean
haa never been allowed to go out. In reply te
a queation, he aaid that in summer weather,
when it waa n actuary for eomfort'a aak to keep
th tire burning very low, be bad to get up fre
quently at night to replenish it slightly, bet
that he counted tbia a nothing when he ooe
templated that fir going out. Ho had evi
dently formed (or it a auoog attachment, and
yet one would not take him for a sentimental
man. But tbia fir ia to him a constant re
minder of the day when he flret brought horn
hi bride. Around it hi children have IT"
up into manhood and womanhood, and their
children have gated into it light It waa the
laat light that fell upon the eye of hi wife,
and he hope that it will be the laat that will
fall apnn hie. Viewed tba, bit eeatirneate i
th matter can be understood, and ao etroeg
mi aentiment that with the old man n i
almoat to a paaaion.