Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-02-19
A PARENTS LOVE.

Some there are, however, who know not how
TO appreciate the blessings with which Prov
ldence has filed their culver; who receive
with GOODNESS a sons greeting or daughters
kiss; who have principle enough properly TO
feed, and clothe, and educate their children,
to labor for their support and provision, but
possess not the affection which turns duty in
TO delight; who are surrounded with blossoms,
but know not the art of extracting their ex-
quisite sweets. How different is the effect of
true parental love, where nature. duty, habit
and feeling combine to constitute an affection
the purest, the deepest and the strongest, the
most enduring, the least exacting of any Of
which the human heart is capable!
The selfish bachelor may shudder when he
thinks of the consequences of a family, he
may picture TO himself Uttered rooms and in
jured furniture, imagine the noise and confu-
sion, the expense and the cares, from which
he is luckily free; hug himself in his solitude
and pity his unfortunate neighbor, who has
half dozen squalling children to torment and
impoverish him.
The unfortunate neighbor, however, returns
the compliment with interest sighs over the
loneliness of the wealthy bachelor, and can
never see, without feelings of regret, rooms
where no stray piaything tell of the OCCASION
al presence of child, gardens where no tiny
iootmark reminds him of his treasures at home.
He has listened to his heart, and learned from
it precious secret: he knows how to convert
noise into harmony, expense into self-gratif-
cation, and trouble into amusement; and he
reaps, in one days intercourse with his family,
harvest OF love and enjoyment rich enough
10 repay years of toll and care. He listens
eagerly on his threshold for the boisterous
greeting he is sure TO receive, feels refreshed
by the mere pattering sound of the darling's
feet, as they hurry to receive his kiss, and
cures, by noisy game at ronlps, the weari-
ness and headache which he gained in his in
tercourse with men.
Who has not occasionally when fondling
an infant, felt oppressed by the weight of
mystery which hangs over his fate? Perhaps
we hold in our arms an angel, kept but for a
few months from the heaven in which it is
to spend the rest of an immortal existence;
perhaps we see the germ of all that is hideous
and hateful in our nature. Thus looked and
TINS sported., thus calmly slumbered and
sweetiy smiled, the monsters OF our race in
their days of infancy. Where are the marks
to distinguish Nero from Trojan, an Abe
from a Cain? But it is not in this spirit thai
it is either wise or happy to contemplate any
thing. Better is it, when we behold the en-
lergy and animation of young children, thei
warm affections, their ready unsuspiclous con
fidence, their wild unwearied glee, their mirtl
so easily excited, their love so easily won, Il
enjoy unrestrained the pleasantness of life
morning; that morning so bright and joyous
and 10 teach us that nature intended US TO b.
happy, and usually gains her end till we ar
old enough TO discover how we may defeat il
Little girls are nv favorites. Boys, thoug
sufficiently interesting and amusing, are aP
to be infected, as soon as they assume III
manly garb, with a little of that masculin
violence and obstinacy, which, when the
grow up, they will call spirit and firmness; an
they loose, earlier in life, that docility, ten
derness and ignorance of evil, which are thei
sisters peculiar charms. In all the range {
the visible creation, there is no object to m
so attractive and delightful as lovely, INTEL
gent, gently little girl of eight or nine year
old. This is the point at which may be wi
messed the greatest improvement of intellet
compatible with that lily-like purity of mine
to which faint is ncomprehensible, DANCE
unsuspected, and which wants not only til
vocabulary. but the very idea of sin. Eve
the best and purest of woman would shrin
from displaying her heart TO our gaze, viii
lovely childhood allows us to read its vel
thought and fancy.
Children may teach US one blessed, and e.
viabIe art, the art of being easily happy
Kind nature has given to them that useful poN
er of accommodation to circumstances, whit
compensates for so many external advantag
and it is only by injurious management tn
it is lost. Give Linn but moderate Pc
ton of food and kindness, and the peasant
child is happier than the dukes; free from q
tifcial wants. unassisted by indulgence,
nature ministers to his pleasures; he can car
out felicity from bit of hazel twig, or Fl
for it successfully in puddle.
He who feels thus, cannot contemplate, U
moved, the joys and sports of childhood; a
he gazes, perhaps, on the care-iree brow a
rapture.beaming countenance with the mela
choly and awe, which the lovely victims
consumption inspire. when, unconscious
We danger, they talk cheerfully of the futu