Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-27

S AiSSAAS punt
; ln regard to the daily and exclusive
use OF cold water, as beverage, ] do not
intend to argue the question, whether il
ought entirely to supersede tea and coffee,
among the adult members of our families,
might bring high authorities against both
the berry and the leaf. But allowing that
persons of .ull age, or in the decline of life,
who have always been indebted to China
and st. Domingo for their most palatable
drinks, may still continue to use tea and
coffee, with impunitv.* l am fully per-
Suaded, that our children ought to grow
up IN the total abstinence of them, as well
as from all intoxicating beverages. They
DO not need them. The appetite does
not naturally crave them. A tumbler of
cold water, at breakfast and at tea. as
well as at the dinner table, is better and
sweetes-yes sweeter when the frost is
spangled upon the windows, as we'll as
when they are thrown open TO WOO the
breezes of summer. am convinced that
# children were encouraged to keep on
he cold water level, for eight or ten of
the first years, but few would call for anv
thing stronger, in after life
.-. Tobacco.
Plgtail. cigars, pipes, chewing, smok-
ing, snuffing, splitting! If your children
ever banker after the vile weed, so as TO
form any of these slavish, disgusting hab-
its, it will, in nine cases out of ten, be your
own fault. you cling, even stealingly,
to the loathesome worm-leaf yourself they
will find 1t out, and you. cannot expect to
deter them, however gravely you may ad-
wise, or however loudly you may admon-
lsh them 10 abstain. But if you keep al
clear of it. as almost every creeping thing
does in the world; if you warn them
against the filthy seductlons of stripping
smokers and chewers; if you take care
10 detect the first transgresson and frown
upon it, and if you take suitable pains to
point out the Inconvenience and dirtiness
of the habit; to show how it leads 10 thirst
and drunkenness; and how il wastes the
health. by lceching off the fluids, which
are essential to a sound and vigorous state
of the body; there is but little danger, that
your son will suffer himselfto be befouled
and shared and taken" am sorry to
say that we have the credit abroad, of be-
ing the greatest smokers on this side of
| the Turkish Divan, and of being the most
lnveterately addicted to splitting, of any
people in the world. They love to tell a
story of a gawky American, who called
at gentleman's residence in London,
was introduced by the servant into the
parlor, upon the Brussels carpet of which,
he soon discharged the secretions of his
quld. The servant noticing it, instantly
brought in fine FURNISHED spit box, and
placed it by his side The stranger
pushed it away with his foot, and
again squirted the brown saliva from one
: corner Of his mouth upon the carpet. The
servant moved up the spit-box directly be-
tore him and still nearer; whereupon ou1
! Jonathan kicked it half across the room
f exclaiming at the same time, elf YOU don,
take that are plaguy thing away, I'll spi
: in il"
, Plain Diet.
S This is what children ought on ever,
e account to be accustomed to, from the very
/ first 1t is vastly more for their presen
r health and comfort, than those little nice
Il things, with which fond parents are s,
o apt to vitiate their appetites; and it will
d save them great deal of modification il
s. after lite. you make it point, to Civ
IT them the best of every thing; to pampe
e them with rich cakes, and sweet meats
n and sugar-p lumbs; if you allow them t
,e say with scowl, | don't like this, and
can't eat that and then go away and max
them little toast, or kill chicken 70
" their dainty palates, depend upon it yo
TO are doing them great injury; not onl
to on the score of denying them full mus
e, Gle and of rosy cheek but of formin
le one of the most announcement habits, tn;
of they can carry along with them into afte
1e life. Better, far, to put them upon wat,
V. Cruel. or brown bread, till their appeti
,ir comes, and they can be satifed with sue
to food as others eat at the same table.
it you learn your children to "eat what
" set before them asking no questions,
Ill they will always find some thing, anon
n whatever class of people they may afle
vn wards be thrown, upon which they CT
lis make comfortable meal whereas,
n you allow them to mince and find fault
os. your own table, when they come to lea
la. you, they will not, half the time, find al
in thing they can eat, and thus you will pl
or pare them to go chaing and grumbli'
ID, along through life, the veriest slaves,
ust most, in the world.
ms Plain Lodging
II If you inure your child from his inf;
rue cy, to sleep on hard bed, and away fro
ola the fire, where the blankets are sometln
as we'll frosted In the morning, he will
ing only be a stouter and more hardy boy.
len will learn to like his straw. or moss cou'
Gu better than any other. OF course. wi
al he roes abroad and meats with the m