Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-06-01
WHISPER TO A SEwLr-MARRIED PAIR.
A Whisper to the Vile.
Ctsptcr TX
On tie Management and Education 81
Chudyen

| What AN incentive TO tendernesss LIves
there man who Can look at The mo
her Of his pretty babe, and not feel
MS heart irreslstabiy drawn toward~
her? While the simple reflection
srhis is the iaiher OF my chiidn shout
make the husband TO his wife the dear
est object il The world
Thus for the parents sake, the child !. des
And deater is the parent for the child"
A little child is an uncommonly IN
teresling object An immortal sou.
con6n d in such a fairy form; lii'lt
being for whom the blood of Jesus was
shed; al epitome OF Gods greatest no
bIest wsfk; "a mintture pledge" as tht
great pet; Gods nth says who may -,
one dayihe guardian ofthe liberties tn,
world, The bulwark < honour OF bis
! ged parents "And when mother sees
divine faculty OF reason spsrkingln lis
ltllr eyes, and issuing III iispug ac
cents from its ruby lips, how fervently
ought she to implore that Christ woud
e the Shepherd of her little lamb, That
he would carry it in his bosom that
he would, in this life shelter II in his
! field, and after death place it among tn
cherublm which surround the thronei
The first duty which nature points
on to d mother IS, to be herself the nurse
OF her infant Let ne motive, gentle
lady, except want of health, induce You
TO surrender this endearing office to
| stranger The custom of sending
baby to distant hut TO be nmsed. is
now SO much exploded, that it is almost
unnecessary to dwell on the subject
What. TO send the pretty baby, from
your nome & our bosom, from all The
love and "alchtulness its helplessuess
strongly calls for; to send il TO be nurs
ed & Graded among strangers; to al ow
the first dawnlngs OF its reason to beam
IN the atmosphere OF vu!garity, mean
ness, and even vice! Forbid it, mothers.
Should circumstances render it incon-
venient 10 bring ~eiDurse into the
house. sooner thousand times, would
| rear the pretty babe, in nursery
phrase with the spoon, than treat it with
such unkindness and injustic, and no"
after the lapse of a year or two, the
poor baby i'll reared, and alienated
from its family, is brought home -
HIS lite heart plnes, and saddens; and
he cares not for any body, nor any
thing, inthe fine house he has got into.
;ils nurse, and foster father, and Billy,
aud Peggy, and the cat, and Beauty, |
the dog are all The world to him And
the hawthorn tree which grows a, the
cottage door, and the clear stream
which runs in the adjoining field; hath
more charms IL his eyes, than his faith
er's fine spreading chesnuts and cuItiva
ted grounds. lie is pet wlti, no one,
and NO one IS a pet with HIM. His
more fortunate brothers and sisters are
all preferred before him, and, un;u ured
and neglected. no pretty ways endear
him to his family no pretty woI Dis issue
from his little untaught lips. But will
>uppose better things OF yott, and drop
Tie subject for the present.
DO not, # it can be avoided, wean
your child ill it is twelve months old,
aud when compelled to ntlics on it this
its first misfortune, do it with mercy;
not suddenly nor decidedly, but slowly
and by degrees; giving it for the first
week suck only twice or thrice a DAY;
then only once; and then dropping it
entirely in the day, bat continuing it at
night for some time And thus will the
pretty babe he spared an anguish
which even The Almighty seems to
wish to awaken he mind to, when IN
his holy book we find those words
My soul is brought, low even as
weaned child.'* | really do not well
under.tand Why people remark 1t is
best 10 wean a child at eight or nine
months old. when experience so deci.
Iedly coniI adicts them Look at The
children of the peasantry. Mark the
health which sparkles in their eyes and
the strength which gives activity to their
little limbs; and yet those children arc
seldom weaned even so early as twelve
months OLD. 81 never knew a childor
mother Injured" said clever and hu.
name physician, "by a late weaving"
have often thought man could learn
from an infant sweet lesson of love
and gratitude In the act OF weaving,
has any one observed its cOunteance
ia all the eagerness of hope and ankle.
"a ecal;po ruund for the beloved lace of