| Show what will you do with your sons we find ill in the merican american 4 journal of education some thou thoughts 0 ats in relation to the agricultural profession to which we invite the earnest attention of our readers FARM farni live life A SCHOOL OF TRUE MANHOOD the men who have lef left t their mark upon the ages aes a es in which they have lived have done a gre great at and noble nolle work forthe race have been with few exceptions men of noble physical rn mould ld the foundation of their greatness and of their fame was laid in the patient training of their physical powers such a man was washington t and most of the wor thies who were associated a with him in inthe the struggle gle gie for our li Verties such were clay and aster webster and many of their contemporaries in our national senate their early days were spent upon the farm and the thoughts of 0 their years were given leven to the improvement ent and the cultivation and arid the embellishment in b lil ili hm nt of their respective homesteads ashland and marshfield will long be scenes of pilgrimage to the husbandman as well as the patriot the whole tendency of farm life is to develop the body healthfully and symmetrically the child is not pent up in the narrow back yard of a cit city dwelling nor turned into the thronged thron ged ani ant and filthy streets to pursue his sports ills his eyes open first upon green fields and fra fragrant rant meadows and his first footfall fog fop trall out of 91 doors is upon the matted grass grats be neath the shadowy trees of his rural home ile he drinks in health from every breeze and all the scenes around him call forth that playfulness which performs so important an office offlie in our eardy early training t so this leads us to speak of the influence of farm tarm life upon the home virtues no occupation can be more favorable to the cult cultivation V a t on of equalities thos which are arc the charm of the domestic circle the farmer is much more at home than is possible with any other men floii how many are there in incur our cities who only odly see their families at evenin evening or on sunday sanday the they live for their business and this from ita its location oca tion takes them from home early and late how many from the safrie same cause forsake housekeeping house keeping and huddle into boarding boas es and hotels where the charm and beauty of the family as god instituted institute dit it is eb entirely lost and children fall under a thousand unfriendly influences that would never ouch them at home 1 with the arrangements wealth could command in the city it is weil will nigh impossible to keep children under the in influence fl bence of the their I 1 r parents so snail hake have a distinct family character and bear the moral as they do tie vie tle ph physical image of their pro progenitors genitors meni geni tors parental influence Ingue nce is dissipated amid the varied social soc influences to which they are subjected from their earliest days what perplexities harrass the man marr of business in in the city his big capital often invested in profitless enterprises exposed to thede predations preda tlona tiona of dishonest men betrayed cheated and ruined by knaves and bankrupts from the jhb very character of his business he has to trust far more of his available means to the he integrity of ills his fellows than the cultivator his debts detts are often scattered over a wide wae extent of territory and collections are not only ei expensive pensive but exceedingly uncertain but his commercial credit depends upon this uncertainty and he is often compelled to fall back upon bothi nothing g a ruine ruined d marf man ninety fi five ve f failures allures in a hundred among most business men in the city tell a sad tale of the perplexity and sorrow the corroding cares and anguish of j mercantile life how can a father goaded with 4 these anxieties from tile the be beginning annin t to 0 th the end of the year do jus tice to fis ils his children even if his business allowed him to be with them a part of the time ile he is not in a frame of mind to superintend their education and to perform a fathers office tle the farm preserves the family in its ita int integrity the home has in it that tha charming word and that more charming thing the fireside around which parents and children gat gather gatier ler ier and where the bright and cheerful blaze upon the hearth is but a true type of the flame of love that glows in every heart the parents have been drawn together not by sordid motives of wealth or the ambitious desire de sire of social display but bythe by the personal qualities seen in each other the glory of the fireside to the husband ig is that the wife is there and to the wife that he is there who is head head of the woman and ahe band is that home circle here they gather at morning and evening and at noon their board is almost always surrounded with the same circle and here they spead the ion lon long iong 0 winter evenings together s |
