Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-03-09
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TO PARENTS.
Would farmer take a heautifai horse TO b
shod to an unskiiiIiIi blacksmith, thata penny g
two may be saved? lie would not, ior he says
'ho naii.may bes0 driven INTO the loot As to MAZE
j. lame, and shall lose my horse. no, hac
rather pay few cents more, than run ;hc risk 2
losing my Charlie"
Two teachers apply for the school in MS dis
trict The one is ignorant. bat offers q teach
for s O per month; the other is experienced, 6n
asks $50 per month. The parents meet, ana IaS
$40 man is employed. That the young mind IS
4 more delicate thing 10 handle than horses
foot Is not perceived; aud that the child IS much
more easily ruined by want Of ski! Is never
dreamed If.
A farmer sits IN his door and secs stranger
coming in through the gate. The traveller ap-
proaches and asks The farmer if he does not want
10 hi.c-t hand Tho farmer answers, Yes, II
can find one to suit me- And ,hen he puts the
Z following questions 10 the stranger. Can Yen
drive team? Can y"n cradle? Can You fuo"
&c. &c. lie is catechised most thoroughly.
| immediately alter another stranger asks hini
if chs school does not want % hire a teacher"
/ The ONLY question whicl the farmer asks is
''How much do you ask month, Sir?' We ask
/ the reader 70 romar, the difference ~ tae exam
nation Of the TWO applicants.
B Again the parent wall esther work with the
hired man, or get his 10 Goso, 10 prevent the
iaborer from sighting his work, OF from wasting
a moments time. .. he Will get his neghoor
to peep over the fence occasonay,fo see that the
hired man does not sit down the plough too
often But the same watchiiii parent will pat
man over his children in the school house, an!
nerer goes near him tor gears !. For the above
facts have never been able to account
2ndIy. Parents wall labor had all sheIr lives
to give their children ss;nft in tho world, as It
is called But setting young man afoat with
money left him, is like tying ladders under the
arms uf one who cannot swim Ten chances TO
one that he will lose his biaddes and 90 the bot
Icdch hiHs to Slcl"I, and lie vail neFer need
the blaGdcrs Give a child :, sous. education and
YOU have then given him start that will en-
sure happiness ADD victory in the race
"a good education IS yong mans best ca
pital," was truly AMI beautifully said by Miss
Sedgwick. -Apd farm rs listen 10 Gov Everett,
for he has spoken the following:
''IIDIsban5mep, sow tho seed OF instruction IL
vour sons and daughters minds. 1t will grow VI,
and bear fruit though the driving storms seattle:
The blossoms. Plant the germ OF truth in the IN
FAINT understanding Of Your chIldren-s1ve-stin
-sparc-scrape--,Io anything blt stcat-in order
to uourish that growth and 1T is little 10 say that
1t will flourish when your sfrvc stones, crumbic
into dust, snail mlnglc with the dust they cover
ed it will flourish when the over arching heay-
en- shall pass away like scroll, and the eternal
sun which lightens il shall set in blood
Il a backsut IN should put Up tho sign, <vatch-
es mended cheap, wauld You take your gold le-
yer to hm9 Ii YOU shonld, the quack, having
heard, that the siiversmjth rubbed, and pinced,
and hammered the watch would do the same.-
Bat ,couid gous ac1tc5 keep time? 50 with the
cheap teacher, he takes the children, and rubs.
and pinches, and hammers thern,--but do they
keep time?
Ii parent could stand on the shore OF the AT
lanti. an with one blow knock out all the light
houses would he not he accountable for all the ship
wrecks made during the darkness2 And if the
parent through avaricc negligence, wlthhoIds
from his child tbs light of TRUTH he moi respon-
sihIe foc the crimes he commits.
The parent, that at any rate, pTocures has child
a good mind, we'll principcd aud tempered, makes
A better purchase for hun, thtn 10 lay out the
new To enlarge his farm
Spare the child in mich nacI1s toys and play
things, iii silks and rb5ons,as much you please:
ne not soaring in his education. 1t is not good
lusbandry TO make his fortune rich and his mind
}0or.