Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-11-13
ASHTABULA, o. SATURDAY, MORNING, NOYEMBER ID. ISIS.

that should make you think more than twice
before you answer the question. 'What
shall we do with Charley ~
For to-day he is at your feet; to-day you
can make him laugh, You can make him
cry, you can persuade, coax, and turn him
to your pleasure; you can make his eyes
fill and his bosom swell with rectuls of good
and noble deeds; in short, yon can mould
him if you will take the trouble. fr
But look ahead some years, when that
little voice shall ring in deep bass tones /;
when that small foot shall have a mans
weight aud tramp; when rough beard
shall cover that little, round chin, and all
the wiliul strength of manhood Gll out that
little form. Then you would give worlds
for the key to his heart, to be able to turn
and guide him TO your will; but if you lose
that key now he is little, you may search
for it carefully, with tears, some other day.
and aerer find it.
Old housekeepers have a proverb, that
one honr lost in the morning is never found
all day. 1t has significance in this case.
One thing is to lie noticed about Char.
ley, that rude and busy and noisy as he is,
and irksome as carpet rules and parlor ways
are to him, he is still a social little creature,
and wants to be where the rest of the
household are A room ever so well adap.
ted for play, cannot charm him at the hour
when the family is in reunion; he hears the
voices in the parlor and his play-room
seems desolate, 1t may be warmed by
furnace and lighted with gas, but it is hu-
man warmth and light he shivers for; he
yearns for the talk of the family, which he
so imperfectly comprehends, and he longs
to take his playthings down and play by
you, and is necessarily promising that of
the fifty improper things which he is liable
to do in the paTlor, he will not commit one
if yon will let him stay there. fIHy
This instinct of the little one is Natures
warning plea--God's admOnition O. how
many mother who has neglected it be,
cause it was rksome to have the child a.
bout, has longed at twenty-five to keep her
son by her side, and he would not. Sbut
out as tie Arab; constantly told that
h. is noisy, that he is awkward and meddle-
some and 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 broth
er, and then they are scared at the face he
brings back to them, as he comes all foul
and smntty from the compaRionship to
which they have doomed him. Depend
upon it, if it is too much trouble to keep
vour boy in your society, there will be pla-
ces found for him-warmed and lighted
with no friendly fires, where he who finds
some mischief still for idle hands to do,
will care for him, if you do not. You may
put out tree and it will grow while you
Sleep but son you cannot-you must take
trouble for him, either little now or,
great deal by-and-by.
Let him stay with you at least some por-
ton of every day; bear his noise and his
ignorant ways. Put aside your book or
work to tell him story, or show him
picture; devise still parlor plays for him,
for he gains nothing by being allowed to
spoil the comfort of the whole circle
A pencil, a sheet Of paper, and a few
patterns will sometimes keep him quiet by
you for 40 hour while you are talking, or
IN corner he may build block-house, an
lOying nobody. If he does now aud then
disturb you, and it costs you more thought !
md care to regulate him there, balance
WHICH is the greatest evil--to be disturbed |
by him now, or when he is a man.
Of all you can give your Charley, if you
are a good man or women, yoGr presence is
he best and safest thing God never
meant him 10 do without you any more
han chickens were meant to grow with
,ut heing brooded. ....
Then let him have some place in your
louSe where it shall | g no sin to hammer
md pound, and make all the litter his heart
iesres, and bis various schemes require
Even If you can i'll afford the room, weigh
veil between that safe asylum and one
which, if denied, he may make for himself
II the street . ~ aT
OF all devices for Charley which we
AVE, few shelves which he may dignity
With the name of cabinet, is one of the
'est. He picks up shells and pebbles and
tones, all odds and erdS, nothing comes
miss; and if you give him pair of scis-
ors aud little gum, there is no end of the
abels he will paste on, and the hours lie
nay innocently spend sorting and arraDg-
ng. raiv
A bottle of liquid gum is an invaluable
esouree for various purposes, nor must
'ou mind though he varnsh his nose and
ingers aud clothes, (Which he will do of
.onrse) if he does nothing A cheap paint
'ox, and some engravngs to color, is ano-
her; and If you will give him some real
'aint and putty TO paint and putty his
,oats and cars, he is n made man. a'
All these things make trouble-to be
ure they do-but Charley is to make
rouble, that is the nature of the institu-
ioni you are only to choose between safe |
md wholesome trouble, and the trouble
hat comes at last like whirIwind. God |
Hess the little fellow, and send us all grace |
o know what to do with him. HES.
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