The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-05-11
SHORT MAyIMs FOR YOUNG MOTHERS.

II is impossible for present our readers with abs ct
from many excellent publications which come immediately
under our eye II is sometime since have enriche su
columns with anything from the Mothers Monthly Journal
published al Utica by Bennett and Bright and edited by
Mrs. Conant 1t is an excellent work will be seen BY
the following extracts Chr Wafchmsn.
Rise early in the morning that you may be able to
least half and hour for reading the Scripture and
prayer before your domestic concerns require your attention
will find this exercise admirably adapted to prepare and
strengthen you to encounter with becoming temper and
spirt the trials and vexatons OF the day.
Accusom your children TO make pray and praise to God
the gver and preserer of life the first employment in the
morning and the last at night
Remember that the duties Of mother untranscrable
therefore, except of navodable necessity
suffer the devotional exercise children TO be supern
tended by another.
See that your daughters early and that they employ
themselves about such domestic affairs suited to their
years and capacities
which they can perform for themselves strict observance
of this rule will be Of ncacuabe advantage to them through
every period of life.
Let all the young members of your family be regularly
washed and combed before breakfasts permit them to
treat you with much disespect appear at your ia
BILE in soveny condition 1t should ever be remembered
that the highest respect which child can pay 10 due Its
rent This respect may be insured by forming habits
"Resst in time-al medicine is but play, #
When the disease is strengthened by delay"
Never overload either the plates stomachs of your chill
dren give them sufficient and suitable food. Recoect
'mik is for babes" and "streng meat for men .
Watch against the practice Of leaving portions of food
the plates throwing them about which begets habit Of
is a good proverb and should be kept in mind
Be yourself the Judge both of the quantity and quality
the food your children should eat There many things
which may appear to the eye of child peasent and good
for food which nevertheless contain the seed of disease
and death. Entirely refuse them sweet and rich cake.
then you insist with proprety that your children have
place for everything and that everything be kept in its
place. s#
Read TO your children as often practicable familiar
sores and explain and illustrate what you read This plan
will both amuse and improve them.
Encourage the natural curiosity of your children This
WILL at very early age, develope the peculiar traits of their
character 1. . #
Always take care to blend instruction with amusement
so that there be instruction without amusement-no
amusement without instruction #.ag H@&
Be methodcal in all your domestic arrangements. This
adds most essentially to the comforts Of family.
Let the hours devoted in family devotion be held sacred
suffer no visiter company to put them aside
Never allow your authority parent to be disputed
be hrm dignifed, mild, and composed.
Be careful to decide justly between your Children when
disputes and difficulties Remember the many col
ored coat of Joseph Ab
Never compel your children to commit portions of Scrip
ure to memory punishment This unreasonable prac-
tce has ruined many YOUTH
Always impress the minds OF your children with this
truth that allowing them to learn is favor.
Never treat matter of indifference disposition to
practice cunning equvocation, which is the first devel
opment of disposition that if uncontrolled will form
most degraded character
Never threaten without Furnishing never promise with
out performing.
IMAeISATIoN.-We commend to our ssnce" ssparticu-
lar friends the following anecdote, which displays in
striking light the power of imagination and suggests
he importance of controlling it.