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hright. There should be time for work and time for play, but as the former is usually out of the question, that very moment our should-be-home instructors are guilty of moral crime. Work strengthens the body as well as the mind and a useful exercise should be the most preferable one. If you wish to rear a good boy, teach him how to work. If you wish your son to become an ideal young man, preach to him that the most valuable time lost, is, when he is neglecting to build up his storage of common sense. Plod along quietly, but with determination. Promotion will surely follow. We are none of us perfect; try to do right as nearly as you possibly can and you will profit. To neglect means disappointments. If you wish to bring up a good girl, teach her to be useful. If you wish to be the possessor of a model daughter, teach her the value of work; all other accomplishments should be subordinate issues, but are very commendable features if connected with common sense ideas. Common sense should be the first principle in the make-up of a young woman, and it is only obtained while learning the rudiments and duties to manage a home; and a home of contentment is only where such a supreme being, commonly called wife, predominates. Teach your daughters to be deserving, have them learn to appreciate, to be sincere and you will encourage a better class of young men. Let them grow up in idleness, teach them to despise labor, let them depend upon someone for a continuously happy time, and you will cultivate the good-for-nothing young man. Do not let them expect to marry a worthy man unless they show themselves to be worthy. The laws of nature will not permit otherwise. Honor the man of toil. To snub him shows ignorance and bad breeding. Neither good looks nor fortune should figure as a drawing card. Nothing but virtues embodied in the knowledge of common sense will conquer. Virtue prevails Where beauty fails. Nor will riches easily won maintain comforts and satisfaction which only true merit will reward. To be occupied encourages health and thrift; with self-denial--self-respect and happiness. To be idle invites ills of many kinds; it breeds discontent, engenders poverty and brings misery--and as the wheels of commerce are continuously turning around, the rich becoming poor and the poor becoming rich, the importance of acquiring the knowledge of common sense should not be so woefully negle
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