Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-25

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house Has the nervous baby at length !
after all manner of singings, trottings
and maternal bosom opiates, I
Just fallen asleep? Be sure an uHman- /
nerly boy will be on hand to bawl ont for
permission to do something Or other which /
he has been doing all day without dream
ing of leave.
Who shall describe the daily battle Of
the hair and the bath, the ordeal of aprons
for the table, the placing and moving up,
and the endless task Of good manners: If
there Is one saint that ought to stand
higher than another Oh the calender, it is
2 patient, sweet tempered children's
nurse ! Talk Of saintship, simply because
a manlived IN a cave, and was ab=temi-
Gus, or because he died bravely at the
stake, What are faggots Of fiery sticks,
for few hot moments, compared to
those animated faggots which consume
nurses and governesses for months and
years, to say nothing of the occasional
variety of parental Goals
Are We, then, not on the boys side !:
To be sure we are. It is not their fault
that they are boys, nor that older people
are not patient
The restless activity Of boys is their
necessity. To restrain it is to thwart
Nature. Weneed to provide for If. Not
to attempt to find amusement for them;
/ but to p ermit them find it themselves.
II. IS astonishing to see how little
! It requires to satisfy boy-nature.
First in the list, I put strings. What
grown-up people find in a thousand forms
! of business and society, boy secures in
a string. He ties up the door for the
exquisite pleasure Of untieing it again.
/ He harnesses chairs, ties up his own fn-
GERS. halters his neck, coaxes a lesser
urchia TO become a horse, and drives
stace-which, with boys is the top OF
human attainment. Strings are wanted
/ for snares. for bows and arrows. for Whips
/ for cats'-cradles, for kites, for fishing, and
hundred things more than I anrecol,
lect. ! knife Is more exciting than 9
string. but does not last so long, and ].
not so various. After short time it j
/ lost or brokan, or has cut the fingers. Blu
the string Is the instrument of endless de
vices. and within the management am
. ingenuity of a boy. The first article
F that parents should lay in, on going int,
the country, is a large ball Of taoine. Tn
boys must not know It. If they see
whole ball. the charm Is broken. Itmus
come forth mysteriously, unexpectedly
and as if there were no more!
For indoors, next, we should place up
on The list pencil and white paper. A
least one hour in every day Will be safe
Iy srcured by that. \ slate and penci
are very good. But as children a
ways aspire to do what men do, the
. account the unused half Of letter and
. bit Of pencil 10 be worth twice as muc
Z as any slate.
E Upon the whole, we think a safe strear
5 of water near by affords The greatest {
p mount Of enjoyment among all natur;
f objects. There Is wading and washing
n there Is throwing Of stones, and finding
pebbles there is engineering, of Ii
e most laJorious kind, by which stor
= and mud are made to dam up the waite
= or to change the channel. Besides thes
e things. boys are sensitive 10 that namele
d attraction Of beauty which specially ho'
IS ers about the sides Of streams and th
" they may not recognize the cause, the
il are persuaded Of the fact that they al
= very happy when there are stones wi
il g;rgling water around them, shady tre
: and succulent underground, moss al
Il water-cresz, insect. bird, and all the Pc
i ulation of cool water courses.
d But boys are not always boys. A
re that is in US in leaf, is in them in bud
Oh The very warnings, the imaginines, L
P musings, yea, the very questions, wifi
re occupy our later years as serious tas
are found in the occasional hours of DO
~ hood We have scarcely heard 0
re moral problem discussed in later life tn
IN is not questioned by children. The ere
81 ton of the world, the origin Of evil, divi
d foreknowledge, human liberty, the i
e mortality Of the soul, and various 9th
y of elaborate systems, belong to ehildhoc
w Men trace the connections of truths, a
n their ETHEREAL applications and relatio
1T but the simple elements OF the most
Cd condite truth seems to have gained
Is them very little by the progress at yea
W. Indeed, all truths whose root and life
IT. the Infinite are like the fixed stars, VIII
I'M become no larger under the most pow