The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-09-11
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ls2a From Codoy's Lady's Eook.
GOSSIP ABOUT CHILDREN.
IN AFAMlLIAR EPISTLE TO THE LDITOR,
by LEWIS GAYLORD CLARKE.


MY DEAR ConEy: | love children.
fused 10 think when was a bachelor (ii IS
good many years ago now) that there wa:
,someihng rather presuming in the manner
! IN which dotjpg fathers and mothers wouIc
bring their "@ee things" around them. and
for The especial edficatlou Of fius single fel'
( lows, cause them 10 msspeak -haliutlereC
words, and 50 through with divers little les.
snns in manners and eloculion. But those
parents aud children were made so appar,
Iemtls Enppy by it, tha, never could think
as Gernin Of my irreverent companions were
wnn' 20 think, and TO say, that il was 81
bore" No, never thought or said that 1u
| did think, remember, as have said, tha
there was little bad taste, and not little
pc upVtion in such a course.
| don't think so now,
! When Il faIier--and how much more
/ mo her sees FOR The fist time the geam o
affection illuminating with whit he German:
I call an 'lnlerior light" the eyes and feature,
of his infant child; when that innocent soul
fresh from heaven, Ioaks for the first irae
into yours and YOU feel yours is an answering
( 10 TX TO that new born Inteligence-then
say, cill you expe'inuce sensation " ;ch is
not ''of the earlhjv," but belongs TO lho '.cor
re$pondence'' Of a higher and hoIier sphore
! wish to gossip u little with you concern
ing children. You are fail growl mar
nov, friend Cooley, quite full grown; yet yor
we're once a boy; aud | am we'll assure,
that you will feel interested in a lev incidents
which am going to relate in Illustration o
my theme, incidents which | hope yon vii
Judge 10 be nos unfruilfuI of npntory lessons
( to 'chiidren Of larger growth than mere gr
and boys
Don't you think we parents, sometimes, il
)momenis of annoyance, through pressure u
business or other circumstances, forbid lha
which was but innocent aud reasonable, AM
perfectly natural to be asked fore And d,
not the best of parents freqnen;Iy muIlpI,
prohibitions until obedience becomes i:npos
sibIe. n..a
Excuse me; but all your re ders have beel
children; many of them are happy mnlhers
many more that ere not aUiN he in Gods gooC
time; and cannot but believe that many
who pursue these sentences will find some.
llling in them which he will remember here
a ter. laF
'rhe sorrNvs and tears of YOUTH say
Washington Irving, ARE as bitter as those o
ager, and he is right. They are soone
washed awny, it is rue; but oh! how keen i
tie present sensbility, how acute the passing
m,utal agony.
My twin brother Willis may his ashe
epose in peace in his carly, his untimely
grave !and myself when we were little boy
in the county, saw, one bright June day, ia
Eup in the blue sky, a paper kite, swaying 4
and fo, rising and sinking, diving aud cur
Eyeting, and flashing back the sunlight in
lmanher that was wonierlul TO behold. W.
I4ll our lule Tin vessels IN the M low wlier
wo were picking strawberries, and ran into
neighb Ting field TO get beneath it; AM
keeping our eyes continually upon il, gain
stead!aslIy towards heaven we prescnlI
found curse v}s besides that architect of iha
m gui6cent creation, and saw the line whic
Iheld il teaching into the skies, and ltd
EShiIe paper messengers gliding along upo
/, as it to hold communion with the gracefu
lart fetal 'bird Of the air. at the upper end.
I am describing this 10 you as d boy, an
III wish you TO think Of il as boy. +"
j Well, msny days afterwards, and uhe
/, various unsuccessful attempts, which not
Little discount ted us--lor we thought we ba
obtained the 'priacple' Of The kite-we SUI
ceeded III making one which we tho't woul
4 fly. Tho air, was TOO still, however, 4
] seyotaI, days; aBdsnever did a.becalmed naS
igator wall more impaliently for breeze
'lspeed his vessel on her voyage thnn did "
{ for wind that should send our paper me-
senger, bed zened with stars Of red aud ye
I low paper, dancing up The sky. ..3
: Al last il pleased lhe gentle aud volu6
spirit Of the air. 10 favor us. A mild soul
wind sprang up, and so deftly did we manal
= our machine, thali was presently reduced
i mere miniature kite in The blue ether abov
us. Such a triumph! Fulton, when lie 9
sayed his first experiments, felt no more e.
lultant than did we when that great eve
7 wns achieved! We Kept up until, 'lwixt ii
!, cleaning and lhe mark ,kwhen we drew
aown aud deposited it in'the bafn--hesit
|. Ting long tchere 10 place II, out Of sever