Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-12-18
Home Sympathy with Children.

Mrs. Ill. B-Stowc has published an excellent
article on the treatment of young children
which ought to so to the hearts of parents
| throughout the land. In this money loving
and money making age-in this day of Gomalc
extravaganza and display-the father is often
disturbed in his calculations by tho noisy play
of his youngsters, and tho mother often scuds
them out to find amusement while she goes in
full dress to make calls If got rid of a few
hours III the day at school, they are more full
OF vitality and noise than ever whc. ,hey come
home; and "therc is 30 end to telling stories ="
to keep them quiet. Now to shirk the trouble
of such little responsibilities is often the
thought of tho too orderly progcnitor. Let
him or her listen:
Many hard, morosc, bitter man has come
from n Charley turned off and neglected ;
many parental heartachc has come from n
Charley left to run the streets, and mamma
and sisters might play on the piano and write
letters in peace.
"For to-doy he is at your feet, to-day YOU
can make him laugh, yon can make him cry
persuade, coax, and turn him to your pleasure ;
you can make his eyes fill and his bosom swell
with rccitals of good and noble deeds; in
short youcan mould him if you will take the
trouble.
:" But look ahead some years, when that
voice shall ring in deep bass tones; when that
small foot shall have a boys weight and tramp {;
when II rough beard shall cover that little
round chin, and the willful strength of man
hood fill out that little form. Then you would
give, worlds for the key to his heart, to
he able to turn and guide him TO your will :
but if you will lose that key now he is little
you may search for it carefully, with tears, some
othcr day, and never f,id it,"
Children do not love to play alone: they
ycarn for the talk of the family; and this in
stinct teaches parents their duty
Depend upon it, if it is too much trouble
n how it,,, ~
places found for him-wnrmod and lighted
with no friendly fires whore he who finds some
mischief for idle hands to do will care for him.
if you donot. You may put out n tree and it
Will grow while you sleep, but n son you can
not-you must take trouble for him, either
littlc now or great deal by-and-by.
"of all you give your Charley, if you nre
good man or woman, your presence is the beat
and safest thing. God never meant him to do
without You any more than chickens were
meant to grow without being brooded
" Then LET him have some place in your house
where it will be no sin to hammer and pound.
and make all thc litter his heart desires and
his various schemes require, Even if You can
i'll afford TO spare the ROOM weigh well between
that safe asylum and one which, if denied, he
may make for himself in the street
All these things make trouble--io be sure
they debut Charley is to make trouble, thnt
is the nature of the institution you are only
to choose between safe and wholesome trouble
and the trouble that comes mt last like n whirl-
wind. God bless the little fellow, and send us
all the grace to know what TO do with him."
D
To THE GIRLs.-lIcrc is paragraph of
plain talk to the girls, by an anonymous au-
thor, which is worth n library of Young
Ladies' Books, or young Ladies' Friends, or
whatever may be the title Of the wishy-
washy compounds that are sold for the bcne-
fit OF that interesting portion Of the commu-
nifty; i,, ,,.,,. -. .,,,
for their wives. A bundle of gewgaws
bound with string Of flats and quavcrs,
sprinklcd with cologne, and set in carminc
| saucer-this is no help for man who expects
to raise family on veritable bread and
meat Tho piano and lace frame arc good
Ill their places, and so arc ribbons, frills
aud tinsels, but you cannot make dinner
l.of tho former nor bed blanket of the lat
ter. And, awful as the idea may seem to
you, both dinner and bed blankets are ne
cossory to domestic happiness. Life has it's
realities as well as tancies; but you make it
all n matter Of decoration, remembering the
tassc and curtains, but forgetting the bed
stead. Suppose q man of good sense, and of
course good prospects, to po looking Tor II
wife, what chance have You to be chosen {?
You may cap him, or you may trap him, or
you may catch him, but how much better to
make it an object for him to catch you.
Render yourself worth catching; and you
will need no shrowd mother or brother to
find market.
EGYrTiAS MUMMY RAGS IS YANKEE PAPER
MLL-A correspondent of the Journal of
Commerce, writing of the paper mills at Gard
ner, Me-, says:
Yesterday visited in company with May
or Wood, of Gardner, the two principal paper
factories, and / was astouished in looking Mt
the millions of pounds of rags piled up in
warehouses or spread over acres of ground, to
find that a portion of them hqd rcceatly arriyed
from Akcramdrid, in EgHpt They were the
most disagrecably odiferous old clothes that l
had ever had the bad fortune to smell. This,
doubtless, was owing to the fact that part of
them were in damaged state. The Egyptian
rags had been collected from all the corners of
The Pacha's dominions-from the living and
the dead How many cast-of garments of
iiowaIis and lladjis how many tons of big,
loose Turkish ragged brccches; and how many
hcad-pleccs in the shape of old, doifed turbnns
TINS dcponent saith not But the most singoi-
lar and the cleanest division of the whole fltbv
mass, came not from the limbs of the present
generation of travelcrs--pilgrims peasants,
soldiers and sailors Of Egypt--but wore tie
plrndcred wrappings of men, bulls, crocodiles
anu cats, torn from the respectable defunct
members of the same What n scene to call
up the grim past! And what n desecration.
loo to take the garments of the pharoahs,
hameses, and of sacred bulls, holy crocodiles
ana pious cats, and, mingling them with The
yulgar unmentionablos of the shaved -pated
heads OF modern Egyptians, to ship them to
the other side Of the world; to o land whicl,
rtelemy's map had no room for; there to