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Fun At Home

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
October
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Do not be afraid of a littlc fun at houie, good people. Do not shut up your house, lest the sun should fade you carpets ; and your hearts, lest a laugh should shake down a few of the musty cob-webs that are lianging there. If you want to ruin your sons, let theni tliink that all the mirth and social enjoyuient must be left at the threshold without, whon thcy come home at night. Whcn once a home is rogarded as only a place to eat, drink and sleep in, the work is bcgun that oods in garabling houses and degredation. Young people must have fun androlaxation souiowbere; iftheydonotfind it at their own hearthstones, they will scek it at other and less profitable places. There ¦ forc, let the firc burn brightly at night in winter, and let the doors and windows bc cheerfully tlirown open in nummer, and niake the bomestead delightful with all those little arts that pareuts so well understand. Do not repres.n the buoyant spirits of your children. Half an hour of merrimont witliin doors, and tho uierrimcnt of a homo, blota out tho remembranco of many a uare and annoyance during the day , and the best safeguard that they cm takc with t In ui iuto thu world is the unscen DÜuence

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News