Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-15
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MONDAY MORNING.

ToUGHENING INFANTS "A writer on physiol-
ogieal subjects, in BlaekOood, gives the follow
ing advice 70 mothers on the above subject;
maternal instinct has, in all ages and in all
climates, taught women to keep their infants
warm Philosophers have, at various times
tried by logic and rhetoric, to thwart this M
stinct. Philosophy has been eloquent on the vir.
tue OF making infants hardy and has declared
that cold baths and slight clothing must be as
Strengthening to the infant as to the adult Lis.
ten to none of these philosophers, ye mothers
They are TO be suspected when they are TALK ing
physiology, for, under the circumstances thev
are the worst of guides, deceiving themselves ard
you by that fatal facility which intellectual pow.
er gives them of making ignorance look like
knowledge. and of SO speciously arrayng absurd
ity that it looks like plain common sense. 1t is
bad, very bad, to listen to grandmothers, moth
ers'i1-law, and nurses, for their heads are mostly
mere lumber rooms Of Gro tchets and absurditiee
but it is better sometimes to listen to them than
to philosophers who inspire more respect and
cannot iTreverently be treated as 'old women
Maternal instinct must not be perverted by such
unphysoogica teaching that of hardening
infants 1t is true that strong infants can en-.
dHre this process but it is certain that in all cases
it is more or less injurious; for the universal law
Is, that the younger the animal, the feebler its
power of resisting cold. in spite of its possessing
a higher temperature than the adult"
A WIRES INPLUENcE.-Judge o'Neal, in
the YorkviIle Inquirer, tells the following of
Judge William Smith of South Carolina 10 81
He had the rare blessing to win the love
of one of the puFest, mildest, and best of wo-
men, whose character has over been present
to the writer. He married Margaret Duff.
In his worst days she never upraded him BY
word, look, or gesture, but always met him
as if he had been one OF the kindest and best
IS L
bled hun, and made him weep like child.
This sentence, it is hoped, will be remember
ed, was the language of Judge Smith to the
friend already named, and to those who knew
the stern, unbending public character OF the
Judge, It will teach lesson of how much
patient woman's love can accomplish. He
was at last reformed by an instance of her
patient love and devotion, as he himself told
it: aas aa0aI
Tho evening before the Return Day of the
Court Of Common Pleas for ork District, a
client called with Fifty notes to be put it suit.
Mr.. Smith was not his ofFice-.he was on
what Is now fsshionaDly called spree, then
trolc. Mrs. Smith received the notes and
sat down in the office to the work of issuing
the writs and processes. She spent the night
at work-Mr. Smith in riotous living. At
daylight, on his way home from his carousals,
he saw light in his office, and stepped in,
aud to his great surprise saw his smiable wife,
who had just completed what ought to have
been his work, with her head on the table.
and asleep. His entry woke her. She told
him what she had done, and showed HIM her
nights work - fifty writs aud processes.
This bowed the strong man he fell on his
knees, implored her pardon, and then and
there faithfully promised her never to drink
another drop while he lived This prom
ise,' says my friend Col. Williams, he faith
fully kept, and, said the Judge to him, from
that day, everything which touched turned
to gold, His entire success in life,' SAYS
Col. Williams, he set down to his faithful
Observance OF his noble PROMISE.
NO better eulogy could DO pronounced on