Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-07-14
Gossip abanl Children.

I MY DEAR fRIEND: l love children
used to think when / was bach
eIor (it is a good many years ag,
now) that there was something rath
er presumlhg in which doating faith
ers and mothers would bring thei
':wee things" around them, and fo
the especial edifcation of us singl,
fellows, call Sc them to "mispeak half
uttered wo rds, and to go through
WI th divers little lessons in manner.
and elocutip on. But both parents anC
hiidren W ere made SO apparently
happy BY if, that | never could think
.as cert.lin pf my irreverent compan
ions were Won't to think, and to say
that it WAS "a bore. ? No, | ne, el
thought or said that; but l did think
| remember, is | have said, that
there WA 5 a little bad taste, and
not a little presumption in such 8
course.
don't think so now
When 4 father-and how much
more a mo ther, sees for the first time
into yours and you feel that yours is
an aas@pdug look to that newborn
Intelligence e-then, | say, will you
experience a sensation which is not
iof the e 3rth, earthly" but belongs
to the ECO frespondences' Of a higher
lnl hol olier sphere.
] wi4h to gossip a little with you
CONCERNING children. You are full
grown ma now, my friend, yet you
were once a boy; ant ! am quite GER
tain that You will feel interested in a
few incide nts which | am going to
relate, in ilIustration D Of my theme;
inciden Is which hope you will Judge
to be not unfruitful of monitory les
sons to "Ghildren of larger growth"
than n ier4 girls and boys.
Don t think that We parents some
times in moments of annoyance,
through PRESSURE Of business or 9TH
er circum stances, forbid that which
wis but Innocent and reasonable, and
perfectly natural to be asked for?
And do hot the best OF parents fre-
quently l multiply prohibitid ms until
ob edieI nee to them becomes impossi-
BIZ?
THE S prTows and tears Of youth
says Was 5hington Irving, 6; re as bit
ter as th3 of age and h@ is right.
They are sooner washed away, it is
true; but oh! how Ike en- is the present
selsibility how acute the passing
m mental agony!
Think, therefore, Q, ye parents!
G}Hags I'll ink of the acuteness Of Il
cliild's Sc nse of childish grief.
/ once saw an elder brother, the
son lof d metropolitan, neighbor, a
registering blade, in the
m merest "deyilment" cut off the foot
of Il little doll with which his infan-
THE 81 Ste was amusing herself A
of flesh and blood, ofbone
and sine w, in a beloved playmate,
could scarcely have affected the poor
clIiId mo Re painfully. 1t was to her
the vita current of a beautiful babe
which oozed from the bran leg of
til at stullld elfigy Of an infant; and
tHe m entail suileriAgs of the child
we're based upon the innocent faith
which it held, that all things were
really wi lat they seemed.
Gro wn people should have more
faith in, ;lnd more appreciation of, the
tItemeIts and feelings Of children.
When \ read, some months sin nce in
a telegraph despatch to one Of our
Journals. from Baltim ore, if
RENE ember rightly, of a mothd r who
nj punisHing a little boy for telling
lie which after all, it subsequently .
ranspired d that he did not tell, hit .
hin with a slight switch Owe his |
elnple and killed him instantly
mere accident, of course, but yet
IreadGll casualty, which droY e rea-
oh from the throne of the unhappy
Mother when | read this, | Thought
f what had occurred in my own
arpctum only week or two belore;
nd the lesson which | receive d was
good dne, and will remain with me
river.
Ny little boy, Il dark-eyed lngen- 4
obs. ali d fal5k hearted chlld as ever (
though perhaps q say it y
hp ought not to say it''-still | do /;
,y it bad been playing about my !;
lille, on leaving which for a moment,
found on my return, that my long
rcnpine-quill- handled pen was gone. 9