Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1833-10-31

ftctuTe OF We management or too
many Parents wih their Children at
the Ta6le.-The table is spread; suita-
bic and wholesome provisions are furn.
ished--one of the children begin to
whisper and say | don't want that
give me some of that other-I want
some of that Ma.'-'But my child
says the Mother, This is better for
you than that is--this is good enough. ,
The child now begins to bawl. my
child says the Mother what do you
mean, to cry so? The child increases
his roar-bawls louder and louder
MY child, it must be hard work to cry
so. Mother says Jane, you go and
get little Samuel piece of cake
Come here, my little son-there-
there--don't cry SO, my son--you shall
have a piece OF cake--then wipe up
his little eyes-Ma does love her little
son--Ma is sorry to hear little Samuel
cry SO hard So the sweet little crea.
ture wipes up his tears, and is as plea.
SAINT as the little innocent lamb that
skips upon the meadows. But what is
the result?-let us for u moment ana.
lyse his conduct, and every one may
sec the tendency of The principle.
1st. The child murmurs and com.
plains of what is right-"scholesome
d";this isa spirit of unrighteousness.
I'd. He thus manifests ingratitude-
his Mother, in love, has provided what
she saw for his best good-He has no
regard to his parents kindness-(and
so prominent in little child! Why
wonder at the prodigy of hardness and
ingratitude, in after lifeD
Sd. He makes little thing of great
consequence; the only hing-He cries.
That one thing he must have-every
hing else is thrown hither and thith.
er--this he must have. (Who cannot
see whence springs the stubbornncss
and will, of multitudes in ripper years?)
4th. The child is determined to de.
stroy the government Of the parent.
Contented he will not be, till the parent
submits. (To what result has this prin-
ciple led under civil government.
9th. The Mother sanctions and fos.
tiers all these corrupt passions and
principles in her chid's heart.
She states fact, 'this is better for
you than that The child cries-yet
the mother pities her child-says she
loves him'--and if true, would certain.
ly seek the child's good. But she con.
sents to give her child tout of her ten
der atfectlon) what she knows is for
his hurt and so is guilty-lst, of an
untruth-2d, of despising her own au.
thority-3d, of praising and comfort.
ing her child in rebellion-4th, ofcher.
ishing the basest passions of the human
mind, ingratitude and pride-and so
lays the foundation for all the com.
plants, and sorrows in after life, in
view of an undutiful, ungrateful, lying,
and unmanageable son.
Let those who wonder at the ungov.
ernable tempers, and passions and ac
tons, of their children, just look back
to their infant years, and see how they
themselves fed and nourished the seeds
and tender plants of vice, which now
have attained growth so prodigious
as TO cover the whole moral horizon
around them with the darkness of
their shade.-Fenpale Advocate.
A remedy for squirting has been in.
vented and patented by DR.. Scudder, of
New York, the well known manufactu. |
rer of artificial eyes. In proof of its |
efficacy, says the Commercial Adver-
User, we were shown on Saturday, a
lad about eleven years of age, who had
been operated on by DIR. s. and restor-
&c to sight, of which he had been de-
PrlVed about two years ago by the
bursting of gun, which inverted it in
its socket. The eye was replaced and |
vision restored.