Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-12-10
.wuAr Is To BE DONE Win OrE Cn,ELEi.'
BY MRS. II. B. STOWE.

ABOVE, UT eattu peucaip, eA'"'J s1
and suitable, except the bed. While hi
is asleep, then our souls have rest-w'
know where he is, and what he is about
and sleep is gracious state but when hi
wakes up, bright and early, and Begin
. footing, pounding, hammering, singing
meddling, and asking questions; in short
overturning the peace of society generally
for about thirteen hours out OF every
twenty four.
Everybody wants to know what to dc
with him-every body is quite sure that
he can't stay where they are. The cook
can't have him in the kitchen, where he
infests the pantry to get -four to make
paste for his kites, or melt lard in the new
saucepan. If he goes into the wood shed,
he is sure to pull the wood pile down upon
his head. If he be sent up into the gar
ret, you think for while that you have
settled the problem, till you fnd that q
boundless field for activity is at once open
ed, amid all the packages, boxes, bags,
barrels, and cast-off rubbish there. Old
letters, newspapers, trunks Of miscellane-
Gus contents, are all rumaged, and the
very reign OF chaos and old night institu-
ted. He sees endless capacities in all,
aud he is always hammering something,
or knocking something apart, or saving,
or planning, or drawing boxes and barrels
in all directions to build cities or lay rail-
road tracks, till everybody's head aches
quite down to the lower floor, and every
body dsoiaras that Charley must be kept
out of the garret.
Then you send Charley to school, and
hope you are fairly rid of him for few
hours at least. But he comes home noisier
and more breezy than ever, having learned
Of some twenty other Charleys every sep
arate resource for keeping up commo,ion
that the superabundant vitality of each
can originate. He can dance like Jim
Smi;h-he has learned to smack his lips
like Joe Brown-aud vii. Briggs has
shown him how to new like cat, and be
enters the premises with new war-whoOp,
learned from Tom Evans. lie feels large
and various be has learned that he is q
boy, and has a general impression that be
and despises more than ever the con'eu-
tionalities of parlor life ; in fact, be is
more than ever an interruption in the way
of decent folks who want to be quiet
1t is true, that if entertaining persons
will devote themselves exclusively to him,
reading and telling stories, he may be Kept
quiet; bu. then this is discouraging
work, for he swallows story as Rover
does piece of meat, and looks at you for
another and another, without the slightest
consideration, SO that this resource Is OF
shor. duration, and then the old question
comes back: What is to be done with
him?
Bu, after all, Charley can not be wholly
shirked, for he is au institution-a solemn
and awful fact and on the answer to the
question, What is to bo done with him:
depends future.
Many a hard, morosc, bitter man has
come from q Charley turned off and ne
elected; many parental heart-ache has
come from Charley left to run the streets,
Il onl s;,tnrc ,pou p1av IN the
piano and write letters in peace. 1t is
easy to get rid of him there are fifty ways
of doing that. He is spirit that can be
promptly laid, bu. if not laid aright, will
come back, by and BY, strong man
armed, when you can not send him of at
pleasure.
Mamma and sisters had better pay o
little tax to Charley now, than terrible
one by and by. There is something sig
nificaut in the old English phrase, with
which our Scriptures render US familiar,
ga MAN ehild-a MAN child" There you
have the word that should make you think
more than twice before you answer the
question "What shall we do with our
Charley q"
For to-day be is at your feet; today
you can make him laugh, you can make
him cry, you can persuade, coax, and turn
him to your pleasure; you can make his
ewes fill and his bosom swell with recltals
of good and noble deeds; in short, you
can mould him if you will take the trou-
BILE. But look ahead some years, when
that little voice shall ring in deep bass
tones; when that small foot shall have a
mans weight and tramp; when a rough
beard shall cover that little, round chin, land
the willful strength Of manhood fill out
that little form. Then you would give
worlds for the key to bis heart, to be 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 other day, and nerer find it.
Old housekeepe.s have proverb, that
one hour lost in the morning is never
found all day. 1t has a significance in this
case.
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