The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-11-27
Gle family Cire!r.
What is to be done with our Charley /!

state but then he wakes up bright and early.
and higgins footing, pounding, hanmering.
SINGING mcddne, and asking questions i'll
snort, ofeiturning the E"acr OF society Eencr-
ally for about thrtccn hours out of every
twenty. four.
Everybody wants to know what to do with
him-every body is quite sure that he can't
stay whore they are. Tie cook can't have
INN IN the kitchen, where he infests the
pantry to get flour to make paste for bis kites.
OF melt laid in the nrw sauce. Jan. If he
goes INTO the wood shed hc is sure to pull
the wood-Pile down upon his head r. he is
sent up TO the garrett. yon think for while
that you have settled the problem, till YOU
find whata boundcss field for activity is at
once opened. amid nil the packages. boxes,
bags, barrels, and cast off rubbish there
oid letters, newspapers, trunks Of miscrlla-
neous contents, are all runmagcd and the
very reign of chaos and old night Instituted -
lie sees endless capacities in all. and he is
always hamneling something or knocking
something apart, or saving or planning, or
drawing boxes and barrels in al! directions to
build cities or lay railroad tracks, Till every
BODY head aches quite down to the lower
floor, and everybody declares that Charley
must be kept olt of the garrett
Then you send Charley to school, and hope
You are fairly rid of him for few hours al
least. But he comes home noisicr and more
breezy than ever, having learned of some
twenty other Challcys every separate resource
Tor Keeping up CONJUNCTION that the super
abundant vitality Of each Can originate He
can dance like Jim Smi,h-he has learned to
smack his lips like Joe Brown-and VIII
Briggs has shown him how to new like cat,
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whoop, learned from Tom Evans. lie feels
large and various: he has learned that he is
BOY, and has general impression that he
Is growing Immensely strong and knowing,
and dcspSes more than ever the conventional
lists of parlor life: IN fact he is more than
ever an interruption in the way of decent
folks who want tn be quiet.
1t is true, that if entertaining pcrsons will
dew tie Themselves exclusively to him, reading
AID t'lilng stories, he may be kept quiet :
but then this is di>couraging work, for he
S"aIlowsa story as Rover does a piece ofmcat,
and looks at you for another and another,
without the slightest consideration, 50 that
this resource is of short d,llat ton. and then
the old question comes back. Mat is 10 be
done with him
But after all, Charley cannot Wholly
>hilkcd, for he is an instItution-a solemn
and awful fact and the on answer to the 1ucs-
lion. What is TO be done with him E? depends
a future.
Many hard. noroSe, bitter man has come
from a Charley turned off and NEGLECTED
many parental heart ache has come from a
Charley left To run the streets, that mamma
and sisters might play on the piano and write
letters in peace. 1t is easy to get rid of him;
there are fifty ways of doing that. He is A
spirit that can he promptly laid. but if not
laid Alright will come back. by and i,y. a
strong man armed, when YOU cannot send
him off at pleasure.
Mamma and sisters had better nav n r;u1e
tax to Charley now. than terrible ono nv
and by There is some hing significant in the
old Eugl; sh phrase with winch onr s .rinturcs
render US familiar, MAN child There vo,,
have the word that should mako you th;nl.
more than twire bpror, Won ,ns,rcr tho or,..
ton. . What shalt we do with Charley T.,
Fur to-day he is nt vopr feet . to.any Won
can make him laugh. Won can mako him cr,.
Won can rc,suadc- cony and tur, him to
yonr pleasure Won can make his cvos IN ,r1
his hos, m swc,l with ,nc;,,i, 81 ra III a,'J
noble deeds: in short Won can mold hin, r.
Won will take the trouble.
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