Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-12-21

'wnrigst noisy, happy, good f.r n.,th
ing' whoiesosnr. oking children - With
y es uanciug like sunshine n Gear % ,ols
oil water--wifh hair all toss a ~ the
wind--with every L,"k alive, aud every
outbreak Of childha,.l. chuck full " uu.
appeal TO yon, na. ann you that ar-.
dressing mp yoar eldest horn boy of
six-or Your youngest, q girl OF four
ai'sr the style ofthe pictures you sea IN
our fashionable magazines or in the
likeness Of what You fad staring at you
through the windows ola barber shop
what right have you TO make such 70 !
OF yourself-or Of your offs )ringf " hat
are they to be good Tor, with their boots
and straps and frocks and furb ows x
bishops aud so-forths, after you have had
the dressing OF them for iwelvenonthl
And appeal 10 you sir: the falher-a
foolish father, To be sure, but what OF
thai --maybe the hoy is your only child,
or the girl, legacy wouldn't you ra-,
Their see 1 ere both tunbling about heels
over bead, with the house-dog. or the
ponies, or the littlc egroes, or padding
with their trowsers rolled up Il their
knces--trowsers OF both sexes mean:
IA that puddle Of water yonder--the nois-
Sest AMI djrtiest plavfellow they can find,
and the most delightful because il most
rose nb'es the.nsetves--woalda't You
nowf there's man, speak outf never
mind your wife speak out and make a
clean breast for Yourself. We know il
weighs hard upon your conscience, we
know that yoi know; that after the dear
little creatures lessons are over, after
they have once been thoroughly scraped
and washed and sousef and csrnbed and
scrubbed and brushed they ought to have
uothing in this world To do but to make
themselves dirty and comfortable lust as
they like, every day Of their lives. The
little, warsn-cheekei |, lamp hal red dirty
hstcd' noisy, romp,ng wrelches! How
can yon have the heart 10 make dolls OF
tnem, helpless aud hopeless monsters
miniature men aud wsmeni Do you not
know have you no bowels, no misguv-
ings-do you not know that the sures,
way in the world Of dwarfiny mind and
soul-ay, and the affections too, is by
dwarf.ng the bodies Of your little onesi
Would you have them, when they got
their growth. nothing more thaa nina
ture men AMI w1nenf idle popin Jays
slckly, nervous, pale, and peevish, over
shadoweJ by all the true men and wo-
men about them, who have been lell to
grow up in the winds and sunshiue!-
Would you have them drop, wiihered
and bIighted, one after another, in to a
most unilnely gravel Yet thIs is their
unavoidable, their certain fate, if you
hurry their groth; il you drive the bios
som-if you overhead the bud, in try>
ing to force these plants inlo an early
fruiiage.
There are sensible people enough, al
why's at your elbow--jod help us-who
seem 70 have no idea OF children, or ba-
bies. From their birth, all these types
OF the cherubIm-theseg limpses Of an
other world, these embodied instincts.
these imperiskable blossoms, are looked
upon by them as neither more no less
than as 50 many little gentlemen and Ia.
dies. They will not even consent to re.
gard them as seed'iRg men and women.
but as gentlemen and ladies in full dress
with all their founces and Turbelows.
dickies and moustaches in full feath
er, seen through the wrong end Of
spy glass.
Just carry their notions ut, and VIVA.
q precious world this would be at the
cnd OF two or three generations. Lnck
NY Tor mankind, however, and still more
luckily Tor womaakind-since they have
oil the trouble aud hardly a 1.-THE of the
comforts vouchsafed to fathers and mo
theirs by the present arrangements ofso
c'ety--there ure always children e.
nouah, downright children, blossoming
about the hedges and byways, out among
the poor oppressed, 10 keep the stock
good. But for them the word itself would
have gone Out long ago; and the last Of
our race would have been but a genera
lion OF prettily dressed and pret;ily he.
haved Pigmies, born, for Rught we koow
TO the contrary, with wigs and hoop pet
icoats, false whiskers and false hair. TO
distinguish the sexes.
Your ssusible people mover talk baby
you know. II is so sillyl They are
above it-they set their faces aga nst Il
And what is the consequences! Not be,
ing able to talk baby, they are not abe
10 talk babies-and all arc babies who
do not talk their language, the Language
Of grown up men and women. Look
about Sous call 10 mind all hose YOU hap
pen 20 be acquainted with. who are a.
be 70 inik b4by, my life on Il YOU find
thnm IA Proporlion On hundred female,
70 one male--an6 always without a SIN.
gle exception, afD.sng tho kind hearted
remarkable everywhere, and esery
where beloved, because Of their .swee,
ohesfiol iemPer--whiie Of those who
cannot talk baby, nor bear chlIdrsn
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