ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS IN FARMING. 15 



heartfelt love there is no lack. But of sympathy, of interest 

 in those little things which make the daily life of each member 

 of tlie family, there is a lack of expression which prevents the 

 members from fully entering into the enjoyments, or appreci- 

 ating those little perplexities of each other which, to say the 

 least, if it does not cool, renders less cordial the home relations. 

 Parents, perplexed with care and labor, are apt to forget that 

 amusements, wholesome and rational, are essential to the child, 

 as well as food and clothing ; that if amusements are refused 

 them in childhood and youth, dangerous follies will most 

 frequently be sought and explored in early manhood, when 

 paternal restrictions are removed. Let parents fully appreciate 

 all the necessary wants of their children ; enter into all their 

 little joys and griefs, participate in and give direction to their 

 innocent amusement, and they will find the child drawn to 

 them with bonds of the strongest sympathy ; and that these 

 amusements not only give pleasure for the hour, but elasticity 

 and strength to both mind and body for the labors of life. 



Let the husband, by little attentions, anticipate the wants of 

 the wife, and he will find a light in tlie house more cheerful 

 tlian the blaze of fire upon the hearth in a winter evening. Let 

 his garden be well stocked with the various fruits for his own 

 table, and his yard with flowers, he will find that it requires 

 but little to interest his boys and girls in their cultivation and 

 improvement, and tliat health and pleasure will more than pay 

 the cost. Let him look carefully to the education of his chil- 

 dren, not trusting to others' oversight alone those matters 

 which most concern their future welfare. 



Let him interest himself, personally, in all that pertains to 

 the household, not expecting that the house and its inmates 

 will provide for its social happiness without his supervising 

 care. Then will he appreciate the blessings of a dutiful family, 

 and as his children grow up he will enjoy the conscious satis- 

 faction that he is leading them in the path of usefulness, to 

 honor and res[>ect of their fellows. 



To our neighbors we owe reciprocal kindness, in word and 

 action. These duties are so various, and yet so patent, that 

 the words " good neighbor " cover them all. They require the 

 building of school-houses for the mental training of the young ; 

 of churches where the doctrines, precepts and religion of our 



