Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-08-23
PARENTS DEPARTMENT.
HINTS TO MOTHERS.


HEALTH.--Without health riches can.
not procure ease, much less happiness.
II would have been an unjust dispensatior
of Provipence. if gold had been permit
ted to purchase that which is the DOC,
mans chief wealth, and the want of W hict
reduces the affluent to worse than indi.
gence.
BEAuTY.-ls beauty inaccessible tc
sickness OF all the gifts which heaven
can bestow, the fortune of a face" (sc
anxiously implored by every "teeming
mother" at each successive birth, is the
most doubtful in value. 1t is a mark a,
which every malignant star directs its hos
tile influence light that leads both its
bearer and its followers more frequently
upon rocks and quicksands, than into The
haven Of repose. Between beauty and
disease, there is perpetual warfare. They
cannot co-exist for any length of time
and the latter is sure to be the victor in a
Protracted contest.
The Greeks taught, that a full expan-
sion of the corporal organs was essential
10 a complete development Of the mental
facultics-in other words, that strength of
mind results from, or was intimateI " as
sociated with, strength of body.
Gymnastic exercises, in youth, and sim
pie food, do more to nurture virtues of
man. than all the precepts of priests and
philosophers.
1t is during the first and second sep
tennIads, the first fourteen years of life, J
that the foundations of health and happi.
ness, OF physical force, intellectual acquire
ments, and moral rectitude, are laid. Its
while the wax is ductiIe that the model is
easily formed. In the early part of child
hood, and even in youth, every fibre is so
full-so exuberant Of vitality, that res, is
pain, and motion is pleasure.
Il has been shown, that the orcan of
the mind, in the first stages Of our exist
ence, is exclusively occupied with its ami
NAL functions.
FooD.-Errors in diet, in the first Sep.
first seven years of childhood,
do not consist so much in the quantity of
food, as in the provocative varietv with
which the infantile and unsophisticated
palate is daily stimulated. The rapid
growth Of infancy requires an abundant
supply Of plain nutritious aIiment; but it
is at this early period that simplicity in
kind, and regularity in the periods of
meals, would establish the foundation for
order and punctuality in manv other
Kings, and thus conduce to health and
happiness during life. In youth, and
particularly during the first septenniad
milk and farinaceous substances should
Iorm the major part of the diet, with ten
der animal food once day. As the teeth
multiply. the proportions OF the two kinds
81 sustenance ought gradually and pro-
yressiveIy to vary.
CLoTHING.-As to clothing during the
irst septenniad, shall say little more
han that it should be warm, light and
DOSE. 1t will be time enough-alas! too
oon,-to initiate the Egyptian mummy,
when girls become bellies, and BOYS beaux.
beg, for the first and second septenniads,
I least, full liberty for the lungs to take
lir, the stomach food, and limbs exercise,
'efore they are Acribb'd, cabin'd and con-
lned," by those destructive operatives, the
the tailor, and the boot-maker.
~Ds multis aiiis who rank high among
ne puryeyors or jackalIs to The doctor
nd undertaken.
MISUNDERSTANDING the first septen
lad, exercise may be left almost to the
IMPULSES OF nature. The great modcrn
rror is the prevention of bodily exercise,
y too early and prolonged culture of the
ind. In the first years OF life, exercise
Mould De play. and play should be exer-
sc. Towards the end of the first sep
nniad, some degree OF order or method
Jay be introduced into playful exercise.
ecause it will be essential to health il, the
,cond and third epochs. Even in the
rst epoch. exercise in the open air should
} enjoined.
Moral education of the first septenmiad
During the first, and even the second,
'ptenniad. the amount Of elementary ,
aiming required should be less, and the
- periods Of study shorter Sport aud !
srcise should be the regular and unfail-
g premium on prompt and Pa~ctHat ac- {
nirement Of the lessen prescribed. l ,
n adverse 20 the system of precocious
'ercise OF the intellect. but an advocate
z early moral culture Of mind. 1t is
ring the first years of our. existence +
at the foundation Of habits and manners r
laid; and these will be good or bad {
ierwards according to their foundations. r
ne best temper, or the purest intention. e
W not compensate for regularity, indus. c
and Punctualiy. Haba is the result Of :
lPressi0n, rather than Of reflections: and \
nth is the age for receiving impressions :
Their than Tor exercising the judgment Il
I'm the first seven years Of Childhood
. mother should be the sovereign. tho o
{ the despOt. She should know how to 5
ereiss authority. though she should be J
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