Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-09-30
GETTING CHILDREN OUT OF THE WAY.

Possibly there may be some mother frank e =
nough TO say My children must 20 10 school il
is such relief 10 have them out Of the tUay" So
n mother thought, who took her lille girl from the
nursery, and babe her scarce older brother lead
her with him TO school, There she sat upon the
hard benck her tiny feet swinging above the floor
III the ieebly-srung muscles were weary and in
patti She looked, in her wondering innocence,
upon the ways of naughty children, and inbibed
more OF the evil, than The goodness which rebuk.
ed it. She opened her ears wide ut the SOUND of
improper words and adopted their use without
knowing their meaning. So she, who was sent
from home because Of the noise OF her lively play
Or The interruptions of her curious quesoning'
brought deeper care, by becoming subject OF
moral discipline.
She was once proceeding homeward, more de-
murely ihah when she first attended school, for
the consciousness of wrong conduct had found
It's way 10 her heart, and quelled lis buuyant han.
phess. II was touching 10 see little one SO sad.
Her brother left her for a moment, to slide down
an lce-coyered hill. lie charged her to wait for
nm III The spot where he placed her But soon
she attempted TO run to him. A pair of gay hor-
Sos threw her down. and loaded sleigh passing
over her, literally divided her breast She was
taken up GREATNESS, crushed and broken lower
She tcas out Of The 'ody.
A mother in one of our smaller country.towns
had large aE1ily Of daughters. She thought il
would be u reIief TO her, il but one of them were
om o. NE W1y SO she selected The widest TO be
sent 10 n boarding school, She had been aceus-
toned TO rural sports and employments, and tree
exercise about her fathers grounds. The impure
atmosphere OF u crowded city in summer, the
close stoves IN winter, the comparative and encr
vatng stiffness Of the whole year. induced
change Of habits, and declension OF health. Long
sIIlng at the piano, and The rigid compression Of
corsets troubled the seal of life. When she re-
turned home on vacations, it was exuliingly re-
marked by the parents, how lady-like she had
grown, and how much more delicate than her
ruddy sisters Indeed, she was ms pale as iily.
ana inactive 10 a remarkable degree. Ii was not
long ere the spinal disease revealed itself; aud
muscular energy, and pure animal spirits were
lost. She indeed existed, but the wreck of her
former self Debility and confinement cut her off
from society, and from the joys Of life. She was
out Of the tOay.
There is yet another form of putting children
out Of The way, which, though by no means COM
mon "a our country Is still visible, with certain
modlications in fashionable lie. 1t consists in
conslgning their Infancy too exclusively TO the
charge OF hlrellngs, ana TO the hounds of The nur-
sery. young mother complained that her chill.
dren were so numerous, and so near of an ase
that she had neither repose nor comfort. She
found it impossible TO nurse them. Her husband
also thought that ii would hurt her FORM and make
her ol,,' before her time. BY this philosophy she
reserved ~ herself all the suffering Of Introducing
infancy into tie world, and excluded that heart
felt and haow.'i intercourse, which gives to pain
IAN overr'paymen, Of delight"
She placed her nur. 'ery in the highest story of
her ioly house, that she need not be disturbed by
Its NOISE She said she went up there ms often
as possible, though it was exec Ssively fagung to
climb those endless stairs" But sue always pro-
cured an ample number of nurses. " 'ilhoul refer
ence to expense and was satisfied ,ha, she had
me most excellent care. One day she was .'forn-
cd that her youngest was sick She wen, m il, |
but thought The nurse was unnecessarily alarmed. |