A Good Plan | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1882

A Good Plan.

A CORRESPONDENT from Connecticut to the Manchester Mirror says: When I moved from New York to my small farm, everything was new to the children. It was away from noise and bustle, and I thought they would soon get tired of farm life. I purchased a flock of hens, and as most of my time was occupied away from home, I wanted the children to take care of them. They did well for a time, but soon grew weary. The thought came to me that I could get them interested by giving them a part of the profits. We made a stock company of it. I became President, and my wife Vice-President, my son the Treasurer, and my daughter the Secretary. The book was kept in a regular business form. The meetings of the company were called to order by the President and reports submitted, and important questions discussed, such as "How to break up setting hens," and "Would the company be able to pay quarterly dividends?" We all became very much interested in our company, and it was very successful. The children purchased all the stock of myself and wife and ran the company themselves, they taking the whole management of the hens, and disposing of the eggs. It occupied their leisure hours when not at school, it gave them a start for a business education, and now that the children are grown up and away from our home, I look back and feel a satisfaction in the little trouble we were to, and the amount of pleasure it conferred on our household. And this leads me to say that it is our first duty as parents to make our homes so pleasant that our children will not want to go away until they start for themselves in the battle of life.—Republican.