Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1848-01-27

daughters. The best schools in the
world will not, in and of themselves,
make fine women. The tone Of tamily
'ducotion, and Of society, needs to be
aised. This can never be done til
greater value is set ON the cultivated
female intellect. Young ladies must
be inspired with high moral principles,
noble aims, and spirit of selfimprcvc-
tnerd 10 become what they ought to be.
Maternal instruction is the purest and
safest means of opening the fountain
of knowledge to the young mind.
RULES FOR GOVERNING CHILDREN.
l. Exercise your authority as seldom
as possible, and instead of it employ
kind persuasion and deliberate reason
ing, but when you exercise il, make i.
irresistible.
2. BE careful how you threaten, but
never lie Threaten seldom, but new
or fail to execute. The parent who is
open mouthed to threaten, and threat
ems hastily, is irresolute 10 punish. and
when the child is not subdued by the
first threat, repeats it half dozen
times, with voice of increased VIC
lence, and with many shakes and
twitches of the little culprit, will Ger
tainlypossess no authority.
3. Avoid tones and gestures express
sive Of agitation for trivial matters, in
dicative of no depravity, and exhibit
ing only heedIessness Or forge!fulness
of ehildren, for nothing is more common
to all young animals, :han TO love to
use their limbs. In such cases, the
tones should be kind and persuasive,
rather than authoritative ande the
gravity Of authority should be reserved
exclusively for cases of disobedience
or depravrly, or for the prevention OF
serious evil. A perpetual frettng at
children fcr little things, will inevitably
harden their hearts, and totally destroy
parental authority and influence. There
never was fret,ing parent, who often
threatened and seldom performed, that
had particle Of efficien: government.
EDUCATION is not power lodged
IN the head, as has often been suppos-
ed, but in The heart. On this account
a child is often educated directly op.
posite to its teachings. A mother, for
example, nigh: teach her child humil-
lty, and teach it correctly-yet, if she
were proud herself, the child would be
educated in pride, owing to the law Of
the sympathy Of spirit.
Dexter, Me. S. BAKER.
49,
No man can learn when he has not
preparation for Tearing, however neal
to his eyes is the object. A chemis,
may tell his most precious secrets 10 a
carpenter, and he shall never be the
wiser; the secrets he would not utter
to chemist for an estate. God screens
us evermore from premature ideas.-
Our eyes are holden that we canno,
see things that stare us in the face, I'M
til the hour arrives that the mind is en-.
lIghtened :; then we behold them, and
the time when we saw them aot, is like
a dream.
Horace Greedy, in speaking of the
progress often made by judicious
course Of mental self culture, says
"a single fact now occurs to me, which
| havo never seen recorded. | have
worshipped in a Baptist meeting house
in Vermont, whereon at its construc-
ton, some thirty years since, a studi-
Gus and exemplary young man was for
some time employed as a carpenter,
who afterwards qualified himself, and
entered upon the responsibilities of the
Christian ministry. The young man
was JARED SPARKS, editor ofthe North
American Review, of Washington's
Voluminous Writings, &C., and now
recognised as one ofthe foremos: scho-
lars, historians, and critics in Ameri-
ca.o