Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-27

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make him laugh. you can make him cry. you can
persuade. COAX, aud turn hin. to- your pleasure
you can make his eyes fill and his bosom swell
with recitals Of good and noble deeds; in short,
can mould him IL you will take the trouble.
But look ahead some years. when that little
voice shall ring in deep bass tones when that
small! SCOT shall have a mans weight and tramp
when a rough beard shall cover that little, round
chin, and the wiitul strength Of manhood fill out
that little form. Then you would give worlds Tor
the key to his heart, 10 be able to turn aud guide
him ut your will but if you will lose that Ike,
now he is little. you mag search for itcarelul!y,
With tears, some other day and nerer find it.
Old housekeepers have n proverb, that one hour
lost in the morning lie never found all day, IL has
a Significance in this case.
One thing is to be noticed about Charley, that
rude, and busy. and noisy ~ he is, and irksome
as carpet rules and parlor ways are to him. be is
still a social little creature. aud wants to he where
the rest Of the household are. A room ever SO
we'll adapted for play. cannot charm him at the
hour when the family is in re- uninn' he hears the
vuices 10 the parlor, and his play room seems des'
ola.e.
1t may be warmed by q furnace and lighted
with gas, but it is human warmth and light be
shivers for; he yearns Tor the talk of the family
which he 30 perfectly eomprehends and be longs
to take his playthinss down and play by you. and
is incessently promising that of the City improper
things which he is liable to do in the parlor, he will
not commit one il you let him stay there.
This instinct Of the little one is Natures warn
ing plea-God's sdmobition. o, how many II
mother who hss neglected it because it was irkaomo
to have the child about has longed at twenty-five
10 keep her son by her side, and he would not
Shut out as a little Arab constantly told that he
is noisy, that be is awkward and meddlesome. and
q plague in general. the boy has found at last his
own company in the streets, in the highways and
hedges, where he runs till the day comes when
the parents want their son, and the sisters their
brother, and then they are scared at the face he
brings back to them as he comes all foul and
smutty from the com partnership to which they have
doomed him.
Depend upon it, il it is too much trouble to
keep your boy in your society, there will be places
found for ~him-warmed and lighted with no
frien lly fres-Nhere he who finds some mischief
siill iug He hapis TO 10, will care for him if you
do not. You may put out a tree. and it will grow
while you sleep, but a son you cannot-you must
take trouble for him. either a little now or a great
deal by and.by Let him stay with you at least
some portion Of every day; bear his noise and his
ignorant ways. Put aside your book or work to
tell him a story, or show him a picture devise
still parlor plays for him, for he gains nothing
10y being allowed to spoil the comfort of the whole
circle. A pencil. a sheet of paper and a few pat
terns'will sometimes keep him quiet by you for n
hour, while you are talking, or in a corner he
may build a block-house annoying nobody. II he
does now and then disturb you, and it costs YOU
more thought and care to regulate him there, bal
ance which is the greatest evil-to be disturbed
by him now, or whel he is q man.
h Of all you can give your Charley, if you are
good man or woman, your presen, e is the best AM
= safest thing. God never meant him to do withou
, you, any mure than chickens we're meant to grow
!, without being brooded.
Then let him have some place in your hous
:. where il shall be no sin to hammer and pound
and make all the litter his heart desires. AMI hi
various schemes require. Even if you can i'll al
ford the room, weigh we'll between that safe asy
= lum, and one which, if denied. he may make 70
himself in the street.
Q OF all devices for Charley which we have. q fe,
shelves which he may dignity with the name of
e cabinet. is one of the best. lie picks up shell
G and pebbles and stones, all odds and ends-notl
{ ing comes amiss; and if you give him a par
d scissors and a little gum, there is no end Of tn
labels he will paste on, and the hours he may ii
nocently spend. sorting and arranging.
A bottle of liquid gum is an Invaluable r.
source of various purposes, nor must You min
d though he varnish his nose and fingers and clotht
n (which he will do of courseI if he does nothin
worse. A cheap paint box. and some engraving
to color, is another; and if you will give hi
some real paint and putty to paint and putty h
boats aud cars, he ia a made man.
All these things make trouble-to be sure tht
Ut debut Charley is to make trouble. that is II
nature Of the institution you are only to choo
~ hetween safe and ~holesome trouble, and Il
trouble that comes at last like a w%hirlwind. G.
". bless the little fellow. and send US oil grace
know what to do witbhim.
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