Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-27
COME IN, TOM BECK s COMING. -

COME IN, TOM BECK s COMING. -
Passing house yesterday on Main street. we
observed very sweet little child of perhaps
hileen months old, sitting down in tie sand
by the door steps. Ii looked up towards us
with pure blue eve that seemed the avenue
TO soul III the enjoyment of the spring of
lpe' innocent and full of the bright happiness
oil unsuspecting love and confidence Just as
we pissed, its mother called il To- come m.-|
1t did not obey, or notice the call, and the
mother, an instant after, came TO the door and
called hurriedly, Come in, come I'M, Tom
Beckts coming We did not look round for
we did not care whether the child obeyed.
Whether that little thing had already learned
to know that its mother lied or not Ii mat
tiers not whether it learned it few months
later or earier--learn it it will. and the fac,
VIII DE- IKE an invisible ulcer in its heart, that
Will never heal in time, perhaps not in eterni
ty.
woman, you bore that child in fear and az
ony, you clasped it TO your breast in deep
thankiulnsss to your God; you have pressed it
closer AMI closer, as day by day sign of in
creasing knowledge beamed from its eve or
CURED It's lip, or brought the dimple to its
cheek fpu have sought its comfort by all
those little cares and attentions which n moth
or alone can pay. When it was hurt Won
have wept over it, when it was weary or fret
iul you have soothed it, by day and BY
night you have been its guardan,-it has
drawn from.you the pearly draught that. has
been to it life, and food, and happiness-when
it has been sick you have sat by its cradle the
live long night nor felt even thought Of wea-
rness-for months it has been your sole care
The husband of your choice, he whom YOU
selected from The whole world as your hearts
idol, and companion for time and for eternity,
has been measrreably forgotten in the allah
sorbing love ofa mother. Day by day. as he
returned to his fireside from his daily toll
you have recounted all that that child has done
or said,-how itlay upon your lap, looked up
in your face with a heavenly smile and Good
like the fond d9ve,-how it rrltlled at its
play,-how fast it crept or walked,-how
it called mamma" or cried for pa when he
was gone.
All these and aye thousand more of those
acts that speak TO the holy tenderness of a
mothers heart have you seen and in the full
ness of a mothers joy, daily recounted yet
you are fast as possible sowing the seeds that
will send that child into the world liar and
a coward, who will bring sorrow on your grey
hairs and neglect and despise while il initiates
you You have often told that child that Tom
Beck would come and carry it of; but he has
never done il. You knew he would not. You
was equally guilty Of falsehood as though you
iiad tod similar untruth in the ordinary in !
'ercourse OF life, and the more guilty that Won
nave impressed ir,spo,. enc who ,-l,,o,,- ,..,,
good from evil; but was in the image of God.
pure 1t soon discovers.the deception: 1t re-
ceives all its happiness from you: 1t is prone
10 believe you iniallible. it believes you do
iio"''ng wrong: hut pben il has becn deceiy-
ed few times-even before it can cor,nro
bend the meaning oftroth or falsehood il ire,s
the untruth, and that if its good mother lied
ii may do so TO.
As 1t grows upyou will catch il in falsehoods
and chastise t;but think you you will reiormit?
No. twill not meekly submit to the rod: 1t
will be angry at your severity and inconsist-
ency, and strive but the more sedulously to
hide the ialsehood by another.
If boy, mark as he goes on to manhood;
you will not know when to believe him; his
teacher VIII discredit him; and in the world
men will hold him in doubt You wonder il
should be so. You remember the admoni-
lions you have given him; but you forget the
seed OF the evil, the. bad example you gave him
IN his infancy, from which it all grew. We
tell you. woman, it were better for you and
INN that you suffered that child to hunger UNI
I'll 1t gnawed the flesh from its arms, and that
you put it in bed with rattlesnakes than tell
1t an untruth in any form, or practice decep
ton TO it or before it in any manner.
II youare fashionable and have an urrwel-
come visiter we suppose you must tell the
servant to say you are "not at home;" but
don't let your child hear you. Ifyou would
SANDER an absent neighbor whom you design
to meet tomorrow with a kiss, send your
child from the room. In fine, if you would
practice deception in any way, do it not in
the presence of your child.
~fom Beck is an aged negro, made the scare
crow OF children here, when mothers or nurses
are so reckless ss to have one.
The Washington Union of Saturday, pub
fishes the letter Of Henry Bruce, ESD. Com.