Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — Good Advice. [ARTICLE]

Good Advice.

Don’t be afraid of a little fun at home, good people! Don’t shut up your houses, lest the sun should fade your carpet; and your hearts, lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of the musty old cobwebs there! If you want to ruin your sons, let them think that all mirth and social enjoyment must be left on the threshold without when they come home at night. When once a home is regarded as only a place to eat, drink, and sleep in, the work is begun that ends in gambling houses and reckless degredation. Young people must have fun and relaxation somewhere. If they do not find it at their own hearthstones, it will be sought in other, and, perhaps, less profitable places. Therefore let the fire burn brightly at night, and make the home-nest delightful with all those little arts that parents so perfectly understand. Don’t repress the buoyant spirit of your children ; half an hour of merriment round the lamp and firelight of home blots out the remembrance of many a care and annoyance during the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world is the unseen influence of a bright little domestic sanctum. (p)“Mr. Thompson presents his compliments to Mr. Simpson, and begs to request that he will keep his piggs from trespassing on his grounds. Mr. Simpson presents his compliments to Mr- Thompson and beggs to suggest that, in future, he will not spell pigs with two gees. Mr. Thompson’s respects to Mr. Simpson, and will feel obliged i! he adds the letter “e” to the last word in the note just received, so as to represent Mr. Simpson and lady. Mr. Simpson returns M'. Thompson’s letter unopened l —the impertinence it contains being only equaled by its vulgarity.