Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — Sing More. [ARTICLE]

Sing More.

Cultivate singing in the family. Begin when the child is not yet three years old. The songs and hymns your mother sang, bring them all back to your memory and teach them to your little ones; mix them all together, to meet the similar moods, as in after life they come over us so mysteriously sometimes. Many a time and oft, in the very whirl of business; in the sunshine and gayety of Fifth avenue and amid the splendor of the drives in Central Park, some little thing wakes up the memories of early youth—the old mill; the cool spring; the shady tree by the little school-house — and the next instant we almost see again the ruddy cheeks,, the smiling faces, and the merry eyes of schoolmates, some grayheaded now, most “ lie moldering in the grave.” And anon “ the song my mother sang” springs unbidden to the lips and soothes and sweetens all these memories. At other times, amid the crushing mishaps of business, a merry ditty of the olden time pops up its little head, breaks in upon the ugly train of thought, throw’s the mind into another channel; light breaks in from behind the cloud in the sky and a new courage is given to us. The honest man goes singing to his work; and when the day’s labor is done, his tools laid aside, and he is on his way home, where wife and child and tidy table and cheery*fireside await him, he cannot help but whistle or sing. The burglar never Bings. Moody silence, not the merry song, weighs down the dishonest tradesman, the perfidious blerk, the unfaithful servant, the perjured partner.— HalVs Journal of Health. The flame of the gladiolus in our dooryards has nearly biyned out. The lady’s slipper is getting much run down at the heel. The portulaccas find it hard work to make up fire earlv -in the morning. The china asters, with a star on their vest, do police duty at the funeral of flowers.— New York Commercial Advertiser. An Alabama girl slid doWq a rope ladder, Stole a horse, rode twelve qiiles and paid the parson’s fee, rather than not have the marriage ceremony come off. It has been discovered that the moon’s diameter is 156 feet longer at one point than at others.