Show EVILS OF IDLENESS f i laae ady cook ccok treats this subject interestingly te 11 is somewhat ein singular ular that idle III and gentility should Z be naovu novu ir lurly synonymous the bu butcher icher the baker the cand le stick slick maker a d bottier dottier ther tin desmen as well as aa lit he upper ranks ot ol business in rheu ell gerter generally dily look forward to the day the happy day as aa they fondly dream when they shall have wade made enough ellough money to retire from ivik and can enjoy their otil cum there is some something thim D about this they are then self brit p pensioned tensioned ensio ned they have bave earn eared e d the the r right ight to repol e they have IOU loughl ht the battle of life arid and have come out victorious in a pecuniary oen oene nene e whether they can ca cast s t aide a ide their old habits with ease and find enjoyment iu in new is f r their own or n consideration only anyhow they are entitled to make the experiment and were the matter to rest here little or no cu mib mia chief would ensue unfortunately however the abo success cei s of the parents usually begets a particular ambition in ia the minds of the children the daughters desires to be ladies the be soil sous s to be gerit gentlemen lemen this of course would be praiseworthy praire worthy if connected with iome come useful career when however as is ia too often the case cabe it means simply to live in ill idle life iffe squatting lazily upon the hird hard er e earned r ed fortunes of their it becomes a calamity for MI all 0 on 1 berned but when it al also alo o leads beads them to be ashamed of tl ti t tir air ir ori aiu and odthe of the honest met ho J by which their affluence ha ba bc beis n secured it is little short of dpra d pra vity mean despicable cepul nr e false views of life aul and of what is u becoming must needam lead to disaster be because e a r e to up oi tor for n want ant of birth bird i or r breeding thi y launch out into vulgar eliva g gance ce endeavoring to dazzle ni where here they cannot convince yachts racers and hounds eapen expensive ive es gambling 0 and li livin are a few by the carefully care lully ga bothered t hered wealth of successful merc mere balits or r professional men is disi dissipated by their heirs hi arg very few of care to walk in the steps of their fathers or to engage in the occupation which made them rich and probably the first lessons in wid expenditure on the part of these prodigal sons were learned at our universities where for a long period generations of vain or weak minded youth hae been hoDel horie eBly lessly corrupted it is sad to relied reflect how often the method by which a successful man endeavors to advance the position of his children become tile the means of their ruin lie ile reflects reflect it may be on his own scanty education or other disadvantages in early life arid and determines that his son shall fare better they shall go 0 to some great public school or to oxford or to cambridge they shall learn all that may be learned in these bou es of the muses they abey shall mix with gentlemen and noble men make superior acquaintances and catch their tone and that they may not be prejudiced by his status he supplies them most liberally wilh wib pocket money looney and encourages them to t kiriti in the display of wealth after a long course durin during 1 which I parental hopeb have been excited they often return to the old roof with only a thin veneer of scholastic acquirement but deeply engrained with ill all the vices which vilich it is well known these seminaries are able to teach their ostentation while there is ridiculed by their comi companions anions their morals are ruined and they come back with appetites whetted for profligacy despising business averse to use useful ful occupation arid and impatient of their family and home surroundings in those cases however where these evils have been niini minimized minimised sed or even avoided where they have re ally studied and their habits and conduct have been fairly decent they are still as averse as the for mer to the occupations of their parents and are occasionally prompted to endeavor to diet distinguish 1 el ff themselves in fabbio fashionable 11 able so city this is often very difficult nevertheless youth money and perseverance arance ca can accomplish ace much in time and if they succeed what is tile the result A more reputable mode of squandering than thet that of others but a life of greater u se anil and the mistakes of I 1 both oth classes classes arise through the fault of the parents for all true education begins at home correct habits and thoughts musti must not only or originate there bit bat b it must there be quickened into ae ac and there be trained to stealy steady discipline As the tree is is so eo are its fruits and as the home i is so eo are its children in an at mop bere of honor they will be honorable liono rable surrounded by deceit will be deceitful where wealth is worshipped wor shipped they will bow alko alho where idleness is 13 tolerated they will despise work it is worse than vain it is criminal to send youths with unformed or badly formed firmed characters into great schools and colleges and expect them to profit by tile the experience nothing less leas than deeply rooted Fenti sentiments ments of polity and habits strong from daily use and correct from conviction can enable them to escape the contamination inseparable se from these establishments the devout anselm said that idleness is the sepulchre of a living man lie ile who does dobs nothing is nothing he is engulfed a wallowed swallowed up and obliterated by the tenure of his existence he is worse off than if he had never been lor he neglects the opportunities opportunity s which god and his age have given him the old pro verbi say pay idle nebb and eustare lust are sworn friends idle men are the devils playful lows idleness is the greatest prodigality in the world the moralists mora lists from solomon to dr watts atts have not only vented their strictures on idleness idle ceass but on sluggishness gish ness as well to be dilatory or perfunctory is to be partially idle to be irn improvident provide t is the lame bame we are invited to consult nature and amit imitate ate herb her foresight and NV whatsoever hat thy hand lindeth to do said the prapee Pra hr do it with thy mighty tf t f r idle and addle have hav athe the same meaning arid and with all are derived from the same word which signified 6 to be sick corrupt void an idl idle e person is is an ailing person sick in body and mind corrupt in morals void of understanding der standing an idle life is an addled life noxious unproductive no and dead to all goodness yet this is the lile life which so go many covet and others are proud to possess and that is the individual dual who is allowed precedence over tile the industrious nature fits all her children with something to do I 1 said the poet and truly there isso 4 much to be done in this world physically mentally morally that thai it befits none to be idle there are augean stables to be cleaned ancient and mighty wrongs to be rectified grave abuses to be redressed and dense clouds of agnor ignorance ance to be dispelled the world mourns from croul want and mise ryland crime ind and the dark places odthe of the earth are full of cruelty blower and injustice trample upon the weak and the innocent nation is arming against nation and 11 a mans foes aro are they of his own household poverty prays in vain for its it daily bread we see ahe I 1 he industrious idle from frolli compulsion find and the wicked criminal from want of knowledge our boasted brothe brotherhood rhoid is a poetic dream each rights fights for his ow own hand regardless of others and the end no man irian can forsee buthi 0 1 makiv gilds oil ot ids ds so co ilo do so little ilone lone stich things to I 1 lie e 11 surely humanity requires the best efforts of all itse its members this thi is no place for idlers or lovers of false gentility theis is work to be done serious patient and persistent work not them the service of the slave lave but the cheerful labor of the freeman free man full of ioan kind nesa less the world is still yol young ang and noble duties lie before it ft As it gialis wiser it will grow happier until love supplants hellishness and becomes ther universal law or of its being A a sweetly sang to the great worker our little systems lia giai a 0 their day they hai hae their jay and cease to ie aliey are but broken 11 lights of and thou 0 lord art more than they we have but faith we ne cannot 1 now for knoN knowledge ledge ie iff of ne ere and yet ne ine trim it from rom thee A beam in dill dai knee let it grow let knowledge grow front more to more iut hut more of iee rence in us dell that mind slid soul ae cording mell ell mity make one music fig before |