The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-02-06

' VI t"0Aty Ok WHICH, by the mere
turning OF screw, will eject the water in
large quantities, and in any direction, and
will continue the supply till tie river is ex-
hausted. BY attaching a hose to the pipe
OF either engine, the water can be conduct
ed, not only from one building to another,
put TO any portion of the village within the
extent OF tine hose, and below the elevation
of the fountain for its supply.
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CARE OF CHILDREN. "Children eurbt
not TO De, unnecessarily, thwarted in their
ooJectsi which, at very early age, thew
pursue with eagerness. Let them, if pos
slple' complete their projects without inter
ruptlon. A child, for example, before he
can speak, is trotting after ball; the nurse
snatches HIM up at the moment, to be wash
ed and dressed, and the poor child throws
himself into violent passion. Whereas.
had she first entered into his views. kindly
assisted him IN gaining his object. and then
gently taken him up, this trial would have
been spared, and his temper uninjured.
we should avoid keeping children in sus-
pense, WHICH is often done from a kind mo-
tive, though with very i'll effect. If child
ask his nurse for cake, and she can give it
him. let her tell him so at once, and assure
MN that he shall have it; but, should she
De unable to grant his request, or know IL
would he improper for him, do not let her
say will think of it, we shall see.n but
Kindly and decidedly refuse him.
II be sees his mother going cut, and peti-
tioh 10 accompany her, it will be better she
should say" No, or Yes,' at once. for he,
VIII receive with ease an immediate. but
Klnd refusal; when, probably, he would crv
bitterly at denial, after his expectations
had been raised by suspense.
When child is to go to bed, we ougbt
not to fret him for the last half hour. bv
saying every few minutes, a shall soon
send you to hed-Now. my dear. it IS time
TO go-Now, | hope you will 90 % but LET
him he told, that at such time he is to 90
TO bed, and when that arrives, no common
excuse should prevent it.
we ought also to be guarded against AFT.
tachng too much Importance to trifies; from
served "a nurse more disturbed, and a child
more alarmed and fretted, at a torn or dirty
trock, than at a breach of truth or want
of generosity. Here the lesser good is pre-
fered to the greater, and the primary object
of education forgotten.
BY such measures as have been recon-
mended, accompanied by quick sympathy
with the peculiar characters, and peculiar
intirmities of children, much may be done
towards forming among them habit of good
temper But such is the irratibility both of
mental and bodily constitution in childhood.
that with our best efforts, we must not ex-
pert unvarying success.
From some hidden cause, generally to be,
traced to their bodily state, many children,
orha nc Ill -
fretfulness or irritability, which will battle
every attempt to overcome it, and which,
therefore is rather to be borne with than
opposed-never to be humored, but to be-
received with unmoved serenity and pa
tience. In such cases. there appears to be
no Other method of proceeding. This, in
deed calls for great patience but without
patience, who can perform the duties requir-
ed towards children"
THE EAR. remember not great manp
years ago, there was paragraph in the
newspapers, about little child having COS
something into its ear, which could not be
got out The poor child was in great ago.
ny, and it was said that this foreign BODY
produced irritation in the child's brain, and
don't know what all AS the public are
very much alive to humanity, there were,
morning after morning, paragraphs, exhorse
| ing the friends of this family not to be afraid,
for the body would come out. To these
paragraphs, confess to you, | added one
myself, and it was to the following effect:
A child got bead from its mothers neck
lace it was large bead, and in playing
with it, put it into its ear. In trying to geb.
it out, she only poked it further down. In
others attempting to do the same thing, thew
only made bad worse in the same manner.
A surgeon was sent for, hut this large bead
had got so far down into the tube of the
ear, that the surgeon said at first he did not
believe it was there; being assured that Ii
was, he put down a probe and felt thae
there was something in it. The child was
good natured child, and the surgeon said
to IT. now | wish you would lie down upon
that ear; put your head upon this cushion.
1t was u large soft cushion belonging to a
fashionable sofa. The child did SO. Pie
took up another cushion, and put ii upon the
opposite ear. Now, said he, | will strike
the opposite one and tell me if il hurts you
The child said, No, it does not hurt me al
all. He therefore kept humping the cush
ion that was lying on the child's head, fo
eight OF ten times, and then he said, now lie
me look at your ear. He looked at it, ant
then said, now see it plainly enough. Oh
: repeating the operation, the bead came out