Show conversation among home amusements the best bast is the good old habit of conversation the talking over the events of the day in bright and quick play of wit and fancy the story which brings ohp laugh and the speaking the good and kind and true things which all havelin their hearts it is not so much buch by dwelling upon what hat members of the family have in in common as bringing ench each to the other something interesting and amusing that home life is to be made cheerful and joyous each one must do his part to make conversation genial and happy we are re too ready to converse with newspapers newspaper and sand books to seek some companion at the store hotel or clubroom club room and to forget that home hom e is anything any auy thing more than a place to sleep and eat in the revival of conversation the entertainment of one another as a roomful of people will entertain themselves is one secret pf af a happy home wherever it is wanting disease has struck into the root of the tree there is a want which is felt with increasing force as is time goes on conversation in many cases is just what prevents many luany people from relapsing into utter selfishness at fi resides this conversation should not simply occupy husband and wife wire and other older members of the family but extend itself to the children parents should be careful to talk with them to enter into their life to share their trifles to assist in their studies to meet them in the thoughts and feelings of their childhood it is a great step in education when around the evening lamp are gathered the different members of a large family sharing their occupations with one another the older assisting the younger each one contributing to the ahe entertainment of the other and ond and all feeling that the evening has passed only too rapidly away this is the truest and best amusement it is the health education of great and noble characters there is the freedom the breadth the j joyousness of f natural life the time spent thus by parents in the higher entertainment of their children bears a harvest of eternal blessings churchman ZA A correspondent of the philadelphia temes times terms the forty third C congress angress on gress the only idiotic congress s to which tho republic has bas given birth |