Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-02-14

SMART CH1LDREN.-A child three years
of age, with book in its infant hand is a
fearful sight. 1t is too often the death war
rant, such as the condemned stupidity look
at-fatal yet beyond his comprehension
What should child three years old-nay
five or six years old-be taught ;-strong
meats for the weak digestions make not
bodibly strength. Let there be nursery
tales and rhymes. I would say to every
parent especially to every mother, sing to
your children; tell them pleasant stories if
in the country be not too careful least they
get little dirt upon their hands and clothes,
earth is very much akin to us all and chii-
dren's outdoor play soil them not inwardly.
There is in it a kind of consanguinity be-
tween all creatures by it we touch upon
the common sympathy of our first substance,
and beget kindness for our poor relations,
the brutes. Let the children have a free,
open air sport, and fear not though they
make acquaintance with the pigs, the don
keys and the chickens; they may form
worse acquaintance with wiser looking ones.
Encourage familiarity with all that love
them. There is language among them
which the worlds language obliterates in
the elders. tits Of more Importance that you
should make your children loving than that
you should make them WISE Above all
things make them loving and then, pa
rents, if you become old and poor, these
will be better than friends that will neglect
you. Children brought up livingly at your
knees will never shut their door upon you,
and point where they would have you 60.
scANDAL.-A disposition to scandal is
compound Of malignity and stimulation. It
never urges an opinion with the bold eonsci-
BUSINESS Of truth, but deals in monotonous
jargon of half-sentences, conveying its am
biguities by emphasis. Its propagators lay
a mighty stress upon the ''-Hgy Je's." and
"IH sag no more" ''Let US hope aos,"
"IHey do say" and :'T1me acU shou;"
thus confirming the evil they effect to de-
plore, more under the semblance Of pity and
prudential caution, than they possibly could
in any shape, short of demonstration. Oh
serve the greatest reserve with persons of
this description they are the hyenas of Sc
ciety, perpetually prowling over reputation,
which is their prey; lamenting, and at the
same time enjoying, the ruin they create
DR.. Kitto.
PERcHANcE- fashionable lady at
watering place, had favorite lap-dog, which
she called Perchance.
GA singular name for your beautiful pet,
madam where did you find it p
'Oh," drawled she, most exquisitely, ssit
was named for Byron's dog. You remem-
ber where he speaks of it, and says:
'Perchance, my dog will howl"
The Welch have saying that if wo-
man was as quick with her feet as she is with
her tongue, she would catch lightning e.
nough to kindle the fire in the morning.
Never jest with the sorrows and frailties
of men. Frailties are misfortunes, and the
most sacred thing on earth to each heart, is
its own sorrow.
To undertake to reason girl out of love
is as absurd as would be the attempt to ex-
tinguish Vesurvius with glass of water.
Family Prayer, it is said, serves as an
edge and border to preserve the web OF lifa
from unravelling.