The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-05-05


TAKE CARE.-"There, never did see
such a-you good-for nothing, hateful boy;
/ believe you are the greatest plague"
Take care, take care madam, what has the
little fellow donel Take care not to dlspro-
portion the reproof to the otfencei
"Done! why he has done nothing but tor
meut me all day. He walked me up win
his noise before light, and what with his
iumpings, and SCREENINGS, and scratchings'
there was no pc ice ill he was up and dress
ed. And then l couldn't enjoy my break
fast in peace, because his mouth must be
kept full, or there was u sad noise Tor an
aching head; and then since breakfast, he
has been doing nothing else but tottle round
into all conceivable mischief. He has over
set my work-basket, and tangled my skeins,
and unwound my spools,a and lost my needles,
anddropped my scissors down the register,
and thrown my thimble out of the window,
and tipped over nearly all the chairs, and
torn every book he could lay hold of, and
there, | don't mean to be cross with my
baby, but | do believe he's the unei siest
child that ever did live, and-I know ! was
never made TO be a mother, and have the
care of children. | haven't any tact or pa
thence equal to it. l don't know how these
pattern mothers do il, but / can't.
That was the colloquy ofour overhearingr
that took place the other day in the pres.
ence of a great fat-faced, hearty, restless
looking little fellow, who hud provoked the
same by his locomotive and upsetive ten
denotes.
Poor mother, thought we, you haven
learned the genuine secret Of managing
children yet. Your little boy must he Gctive
euery moment. If he didn't perpetually d
something to exercise those little muscles
and develope that healthy frame, he woull
die. Don't scold at him, and try to keel
him still, but avoid the Inconvenience which
arises from his misplaced activity by keeping
him active in the right place. The great re
ceipe that never fails for taking care o
children pleasantly, comprises kindness il
the voice, patience in the heart, and ingenu
ity in the intellect, to c~ontrive methods o
perpetual activity. II You pot your chill,
into a room full of ordinary matters, and d
not give him an abundant supply Of matter
which are his, you need no more marvel tina
} he should be mischievouSly busy in touching
what he ought not, than that he should ca
what he ought not when he is starving, an
you put him where he can get hold Of 0nl,
improper viands.
Children have vast imaginations. 1t
astonishing how easily a dilapidated broom
stick becomes q horse, and any little bVnc
of rags a doll, and how much comfort can b
taken by the little folks from a full suppl
of playthings, OF very humble mechanics
/, artistic pietensions. But something childre
must have. If they aDnot fill their hand
honestly, If there is not a plentitude {
"traps" which are distinctly theirs, they vii
as n matter Of course, foray among the mi;
cellaneous of their adult relatives an
friends; and scissors, and thimbles, an
spools, and books, will suffer accordingly.
Mothers must not be too much distresse
at having the nursery floor FILTERED up."-
Better keep a cart-load of playthings in ger
eral circulation over the carpet, than to b
under the necessity Of getting bad temperet
and showing it to the short boys and Cir
q with long memories.
, We know Of u boy that was made pei
I manently crusty, by his mothers insan
> horror of anything loose about the room.-
Nature would have its way, and as the lit
fellow could not satisfy nature in the ord
nary way, he took to contrivances whic
were s~tigrmatized as u~naccountable, and il
/, tolerably mischievous, and was scolded AZ
cordingly, untis the sweet mi k Of his dispI
%sition gradSally curdled under the inHuenc
ola chronic thunderstorm Of fulmirated e.
F. hortations To keep things to rights
c Things were kept 81 ferociously "to rights
. that the thing OF most import, the little in
Y mortal mind wss shaped irresistibiy
r wrong.
Plenty Of patience and plenty Of playthins
d is, after all, the great motto for the nurser.
- CORgreyati0nGiiSt.