Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-03-10
Take Care.

There, | never did see such a-yoR
good.ior-Eolhng hateful boy; | believe
you are ihe greatest plague"
take care, Madam; what has the
liUle fellow done! Take care not 10 DIS
proportion the reprooi TO the oagnse.
Done! What has he not done! why
he has done nothing but torment me all
day. He walked me up this morning be-
fore daylight and with his jumpingS anu
screaming and scralchings there was M
peace until he was dressed. And then
couldn't enjoy my breakfast i'll peace; be-
cause his mouth musJbe full, or ,hesa 'r"o
a sad noise for an aching head; then since
breakfast he has done nothing but 10 tot
lle round to all kinds of conceivable ms
chief. lie has oversel my woIk-hASkci'
and tangled my Skeins and unwound my
spools, and lost my needles, and dropped
my scissors down the register,and thrown
my thimbie out of the window and tipped
over nearly all The chairs, and torn every
book he could get hold OF, and-here,
don't mean TO be cross 10 my baby, but
believe he is the uneaslest child that
ever did live, and know | never was
made to be mother, and have the care
Of children. haven't any tact or patience
ecu ! to it. don't know how these pat
tern mothers do it. but can't
This was the soliloquy Of our over
healirg ihat took place the other day IN
the presence OF great fat-iaced, hearty,
restless, looking lille fellow, who had
provoked lac same By his locomotive and
upselauye tendency.
Poor Mother, thought we; you havn't
learned the secret of managing children
vet Your lule boy must be active every
moment. If he did not perpetnally do
something TO exercise those little muscles,
and dcvciope that healthy frame he would
die. Don'l scold at him still, but avoid
! the Inconvenience which arise from his
misplaced activity. by keeping him ac-
live in the right place. The great recipe
that never fails for taking care Of children
pleasantly, comprises kindness in the
heart and ingenuity in the intellect to con-
trIve methods of perpetual activity. II
You put child into n room of ordinary
matters and do not give him all abundant
supply of matters which are his, YOU
need no more marvel that he should bo
mischeyousIy busy in touching what he
fought not, then that he should eat what
he ought not when he is starving, and
YOU put him where he can get hold Of on
I Iy improper viands.
Children have vast imaginaiions. II
is astonishing how easy a diIapidatcd
broomslck becomes horse, and any liz
tie bunch Of rags, a doll and how much
comfort eau be taken by the little folks
rom a full supply of play things Of hum
bic mechanlcle or artistic pretensions. But
something children must have. If they
cannot fill their hands honestly, if there's
not plenli!uGe of traps which are dis
tincly theirs, they will as a matter Of
course, for among the miscellanies Of their
adult relatives and friends; and scissors
and thimbles and spools and books will
suffer accordingly.
Mothers must not be too much disircs-
sed al having their nursery floor Uttered
up.'--Berler keep a cart-load of play
things in general circulation over the car
pet, than TO be under the necessity Of get
Ting bad-lempered and showing it to
short boys aud girls with long memories.
We know of boy who was made per
manently crusty by bis mothers insane
borrow OF anything loose about the room.
Nature would have rs way and as tho
little fellow could not satisfy nature in tho
ordinary methods, he took conlrivonces
which were slIgmalized as uuaccounrabIc
aud InloIerabIy mischevious, and was
scoldcd accordingly, until the sweet milk
of disposition gradually curdIed under
the influence Of chrome thunderstorm
Of illuminated celebrations to keep things
ught.' Things were kept 30 ferocioGs.y
TO rights that the thing Of most impor,
TO Tie l.lle immortal mind, was shaped
ITresIsahIy wrong.
Plenty OF patience and plenty Of play
lhI8gs Is, after all. the great motto for tho
nHrserye.--UeS eSfern RecOrder.