The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-12-08

| Soost t0NS, ooN booy eAN oSASy
as he is, and irksome as carpet rules and
parlor ways are to him, he is still social
little creature, and wants to be where
the rest Of the household are. a room
ever so we'll adapted for play cannot
charm him at the hour when the family
is in Reunion; he hears the voices 10 the
parlOr. and his play room seems desolate.
1t may be warmed by a furnace and light
ed with gas, but in is human warmth
and light he shivers; for he yearns for
the talk of the family, which he SO i'm
perfectly comprehends, and he longes TO
take his playthings down and play BY
you. and is iucessantly promising that of
the fifty improper things which he is IL.
able to do in the parlor, he will not COM
NIT one if you will fet him stay there.
The instinct of the little one is Ma
ture's warning plea-God's admonition.
o, how many mother has neglected it
because it was irksome to have the child
about, has loDgod at twenty Eve to keep
her son BY her side. and he would not!
Shut out as a little Arab; constantly
told that he was noisy, that he was awk
ward and meddlesome, and plague in
general, the boy has found at last his
own company in the streets, in the bigh-
| ways and hedges, where he runs until
the day comes when the parents want
their son, and the sisters their brother,
and then they are scared at the face he
brings back to them, as he comes all
foul and smutty, from the companion
ship to which they have doomed him
Depend upon it, if it is too much trouble
to keep your boy in your society. there
will be places found for him-warmed
and lighted with no friendly fires-where
he who finds most mischief still for
some 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 caunot-you must take trouble
for him, either little now or great
deal by.and by.
Let him stay with you at least some
portion 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 bei gIallow-
ed to spoil the comfort of the whole
circle. A pencil, sheet of paper, and
few patterns will sometimes keep him
quiet by you an hour. while you are talk
ing, or in corner be may build block
house, annoying nobody. If he does
now and then disturb you, and it costs
you more thought and care to regulate
him then, 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 woman, your
presence is the best 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
HUuSo WueTo IL euail 10 uU BIZ W udm
mer and pound, and make all the litter
his heart desires aud bis various schemes
require. Even if you can i'll afford the
room, weigh well between that safe asy-
lum and one which, if denied, he may
make for himself in the street.
Of all devices for Charley which We
have, few shelves which he may dignity
with the name Of a cabinet is one of the
best. He picks up shells and pebbles
and stones, all odds and ends, nothing
comes amiss; and if you give him pair
of scissors and little gum, there is no
end of the labels he will paste on, and
the hours he may innocent!y spend sort
ing and arranging.
A bottle of liquid gum is an invalu-
able resource for various purposes, nor
must you mend though he varnish his
nose and fingers and clothes, (Which he
will do of course) if he docs nothing
worse. A cheap paint-box, and some
engravings to color, is another; and if
you will give him some real paint and
putty to paint and putty his boats and
oars, be is made man. @
| AL these things make trouble--to be
sure they debut Charley is to make
trouble, that is the nature of the insti-
tuition; you are only to choose between
safe and wholesome trouble, aud that
which comes at last like whirlwind.--
God bless the little fellow, and send us
all grace to know what to do with him.
PLAY1Ne "TAG" WITH A BEAR.-The
Detroit Advertiser tells the following
bear story: "Last Saturday morning,
while laborer residing at Fort Grstiot,
was proceeding in a boat to Port Huron,
he came up with a huge bear, swimming
across. He struck his bearship blow
over the head with his oar, when the en-
ragged animal made for him, and climbing
into the boat, compelled the man to take
to the water. The bear then followed
him, and tho man contrived to get into
the boat again. A neighbor seeing his
predicament came to his relief with an
) axe, and broke up this pleasant little
pame of tag between the man aud bear