The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1847-03-09
MANAGING CHILDREN.

"Don't break il JOSIE" said the fond mother as
she gave the darling little boy the looking glass.
Little Jos G, as his mother called him, notwith-
standing he had toys enough to satisfy any reas-
enable child, one day took it into his head that he
should be quite happy if he could have the look
ing-glas' added to the number. "The looking
glass, said his mother, "why, child, who ever
heard OF such thing" Jose straightway be-
gan TO be imporiunate, "ma ma, | want the
glass. Poh, poh, said his mother, edo You
thlnk am goinS to give you the looking glass to
play with You would break it, and cut your
fingers with it, and the we should have to send
tor the doctor !" 81 shan't b elk it; / won't
cut my fingers; III me have it," and then he
laid hold OF hi mothers gown in good earnest -
Alter being dragged across the room few times,
Jose began to cry; and his mothers patience
being quite exhausted, she took him off, saving.
"Joe, you shan't have the looking gla 8, thrre!
now go about your business This would have
been death blow TO Joe's hopes, if he had not
endured such trials before, and come off conuuer
or He was not therefore, disheartened He
laid himself therefore, right down upon the aoor.
and began TO roar as il he would raise the neiyh
bors
Hereupon his mothers wrath was kindled: she
called Joe naughty boy, and threatened to tell
his father of him, and he would take stick 70
him, and shut him up IN the dark hole AT this
Joe took pitch one note higher, las we music.
lans say,) and trilled away a most lamentabIe So
To- His mother, who had no ear for music be-
came alarmed. She feared he would burst a
biood-vessel, or die with rage, and Just at this
moment sundry stories of such accidents fitted
across her mind with fearful reality. Joe7s hlnps
held out wonderfully, and after every bars rest.
ne raised his voice Senli-tOne, until he scream.
ed terrific in the space above. What was TO be
done! Hall crazy with noise and apprehension.
no ffapn tod to ls.Al-
MIN the pincushion, the story book the little tea
set-but all would not do his heart was upon the
looking glass, and he would cry his eyes out, If
ne could not have it. AT last his afflicted moth
er yielded. She took down the looking glass and
gave II TO him, saying, "Ihers, declare YOU are
the beat dH-take it an you lCiI, but don't break
II, Jos e." Now the reader may be curious 10
know what became Of jose and the looking.
glass 1t is no matter. | suppose he broke it
and cut his fingers into the bargain; but wish
70 turn ms attention TO the mother rather than to
the child. In the first place, she was faulty in
not refusing to grant JOe's request in the begin
ming. In the second place, she was faulty in en-
deavoring to terriiy him by the doctor and the
dark hole. And in the third place, she was
tclcked in telling him downright falsehood -
Many mothers, and fathers too, who would not
tell lie for their right hands, are guilty. OF such
conduct, almost every day, with their intercourse
win their children. No wonder that so many
children grow up to lie and steal and 90 10 the
house OF correction and the state prison. Take a
tenant Of the state prison and 60 back to his early
history, and, ten to one, his mother gaze him the
looking gl1ss to play Nth.
Lying is one OF the crying sins of the times
II Is one Of those sins winch rests with iremend-
Gus weight upon the heads OF parents. Look VI
the merchant, determined TO amass fortune AT
all hazards, count up the lies he will tell in order
to secure an advantageous bargain. / dare saw
his father, when he was child, never subdued
his temper, and his mother gave him the looking
glass to play with, because she could think Of
nothing else to pacily him. See the politician
who does not scruple TO circulate the most bare
faced ialsehoods, in order to secure the election
Of his favorite candidate, not however without
the hope OF reward. | mistrust that his mother
gave him the looking-glas to play with. If our
country is well nigh ruined by lying politicians.
ana lying lawyers, and lying teachers, let the
mothers look to Il. They bare strange as the
doctrine may SCENE, the ark Of our liberties. and
i they give looking-glasses to their children
little longer, we shall go into captivity. 57