Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-17

70 lake any shape you wish to give them
And what greater pleasure can there be-
IN parents leisure moments, than to see
healthy and active child, going through
with It's infantle gambols. upon its hands
and feet with all the glee and sportiveness
OF young kitten? | am aware, that in
these times, there is one great objection
to my doctrine; and when mother asks
me, who is to wash so many slips and
blbs for my favorite young creeper, l am
brought to dead stand The factories
have voracousl y swallowed up all that
class of helps, as believe Ms. Trolope
would call them; but helps or no helps. J
would still let bin creep on 10 his hearts
content. --.-s ..r-. -
When children become older, nature
prompts them TO more vigorous action,
and you must let your boys, and your
girls too, have some such range as lambs
enjoy in bright May morning or just in
the soft evening twilights, if you wish 10
sec them blooming and chubby. | know
all this froic, and sliding down hill, and
eOnjuring, las some of our good Saxon
mothers used to call it,) about the house
and barns and lots, makes plenty of work
for the seamstress; and the laughing lit
tie cherry cheeks may think that their
aprons and frocks tore themselves; but
we can scarcely enjoy any advantage in
this world, wl!l.out some drawback
Certainly. children ought to be checked
and restrained, when they go too far
They should be kept under as perfect
control, all the while, as a we'll btted colt.
But they were born to run and laugh.
and breathe the fresh air, and bound over
the hills, as well as to work and study,
and sit up perpendic ularly by their grand
mothers rocking chairs; and although.
from what | said last week, they might
naturally enough expect me to be fter
them with the witch-hazel | love them so
dearly, that if they keep anywhere within.
bounds, they need to he under no serious
apprehension. ~e
In discussing the subject of domestic
physical educatio.,, it will save me some
trouble. ii 1 may be allowed, for once, to
quote from myself; an authority, of which
"a writer is likely TO have quite as coed
an opinion as anybody else.
"That is undoubtedly the wisest and
best regimen, which takes the infant from
his cradle, and conducts him along thro'
childhood and youth, up to maturity, in
such manner as to give strength to his
arm, swifness to his feet, soldity TO his
muscles, symmetry to his frame, and alac-
rity to all his vital functions. 1t is obvi-
Gus that this branch of education compre.
bends not only food and clothing, but air
exercise, lodging, earl Y rising, and what.
eve, else may contribute to the full devel-
opment of the physical system.
IF, then. you would see the son of voul
prayers and hope, blooming with health
and rejoicing daily in the sparkling It'd,
Of youthful buoyancy; if you would max,
him strong and athletic, and careless O
fatigue; if you would fit him for hare
labor and safe exposure in. winter anC
summer; or if you would prepare him t,
sit down twelve hours day, over Euclid
Enfield, or Newton, and still preserve hi
health, you must lay the foundation &C
cordingly. Beware Of too much restrain
in the management OF your darling bow
Never suffer yourself to- be discompose
by his snow-forts in February, nor by hi
mud dams in April, nor BY his sportin
along with the waterfowl in an Augu.
shower. If you would make him hard
f and ,enterprizing, let HIM 60 abroad Wi.
perfect freedom, in his early boyhood, an
amuse himself by the hour together, O
the ice and in the snow-drifs. Instead
keeping him shut up all day, and sra,
? uatlng his sleeping room by Fahrenhei
+, let him face the keen edge Of the mort
J wind, when the mercury is below cyphe
0 and instead of minding little shiverin
e when he returns, applaud his resolutio
8 and send him out again. | love Il
J. youth, who turns not back from the how
o ing wintry blast, nor withers under Il
u blaze of summer; who never magnif
$ smole hills into mountains but who
Y daring eyes scales the eagles highe
!. crag, and who is ready to undertake ar
h thing that is lawful. within the range
o possibility.
to who would think Of planting Il
S royal oak in greenhouse. or of rearir
IN the cedar of Lebanon in lady's flow
It pot! Who does not know, that to alta
their mighty Strength or majestic form
they must freely enjoy the rain and t
st sunshine, and must feel the roaring
e the tempest? Who would think of n,
er turing up band of Indian warriors up
N, cakes and jeIlies, and amid all the otf
re i.luxuries of wealth and carefulness2 I
AL attempt would be highly prepos,ero
= not to say Supremacy ridiculous. 1t is
on plain ami scanty fare of these sons of
ny forest-their hard and cold lodging-th
is long marches-aud fastings-and their c
OIL slant exposure to all the hardships of