Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-02-18

all. and he is always hammering something
apart, or saving, or planning, or drawing
boxes and barrels in all directions TO build
cities or railroad tracks, til every body's
head aches quite down TO the lower floor,
and everybody declares that Charley must
be kept out 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 noisier
7 and more breezy than ever, having learned
; OF some twenty other Charleys every sepa-
. rate resource of keeping up commoton
that the superabundant vitality of each can
a originate. He can dance like Jim Smith
he has learned to smack his lips like Joe
Brown-and Will Briggs has shown him
how TO new like cat, and he enters the
premises with a new war-whoop, learned
from Tom Evans. He feels large and va
lorous he has learned that he is a boy, and
has general impression that he is growing
immensely strong and knowing, and de-
) spses more than ever the conventionalities
OF parlor life; in fact, he is more than ever
an interruption in the way Of decent folks
who want 10 be quiet
, Is true, that if entertaining persons will
devote themselves exclusively to him, read
} ing and telling stories, be may be kept
quiet; but then this is discouraging work,
tor he swallows story as Rover does a
piece of meat. and looks at you for another
and another, without the slightest consider
alton, SO that this resource is of short dura-
iion, and then the old question comes back
What Is TO be done with him?
Bot after all, Charley cannot be wholly
Shiiked, for he is an institutional solemn
and awful fac and on the answer to the
question: What is 10 be done with him de-
pends future.
Many hard, morose, bitter man has
come from Charley turned off and neg
lected; many personal heart-ache has
come from Charley left to run the streets, |
that mamma and sisters might play on the |
piano and write letters in peace. 1t is easy
/ 70 get rid OF him; there are fifty ways Of
doing that. He is spirit that can be |
promptly laid, but if not laid Alright win /
/ come back, by and by, strong man armed, |
when you cannot send him off at pleasure
AIa nma and sisters had better pay Il lit /
tie tax TO Charley now. than a terrible one
by-andby. There is something significant
IN tie cd English phrase, with which our
Scriptures render Us familiar, a MAN child
"a NAN child, There you have the word
that should make you think more than twice
before you answer the question: "Nyhat
shall We do with Charley r.
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 4
and his bosom swell with recifals of gool!
al p,.hI IL
him if you will take the trouble.
But look ahead scme years, when that
little voice shall ring in deep bass tones
when that little foot shall have mans
weight and tramp; when a rough beard
shall cover that little, round chin, and the
wIlful strength of manhood fill out that lii
tle 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 will
l2se that key now he is little, you may
search for il carefully with tears, some other
day, and nerer find it.
Old housekeepers have proverb, that
one hour lost in the morning is never found
all day. 1t has significance in this case.
One thing is to be 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 social little creature,
and wants to be where the rest of the
household are. A room ever so well adapt
ed for play cannot charm him at the hour
when the family is in reunion; be hears
the voices in the parlor, and his play room 9
seems desolate. IL may be warmed by a {
furnace and lighted with gas. but il is hu- c
man warmth and light he shivers for; he !
f,p ~ 1., -
so impeHecly comprehends, and he longs {
to take bis playthngs doxn aud play by
you, and is necessarily promising that OF !
The fifty improper things which he is liable /
to do in the parior he will not commit one }
if you will let linn stay there.
This instinct of the little one is Natures o
warning plea-God's admonition. o. how 5
many a mother who has neglected it be- I
cause 1t was irksome to have the child Z
al out, has longed to keep her son by her L
side, and would not Shut cut MS a little Z
Arab; constantly told that he is noisy, that =
he is awkward and meddlesome and plague d
in general, the boy has found at last his own "
company in the streets, IN the highways and u
hedges, where he runs till the day comes 0
wien the parents want their son and the
sisters their brother, and then they are a
scared at the face he brings back 10 them, o
as be comes all foul and smutty from the q
companionship 10 which they have doomed u
him. Depend upon it, if it is too much c'
trouble TO keep your boy in your society. o.
there will be places found for him-warIn-
ed and lighted by no friendly fires-where N
he who finds some mischief still for idle
hands 10 do will care for him, if oa do not. :,
You may put cut tree aud it will grow u
while you sleep; but son you cannul- u
you must take trouble for him +; either lit SC
tie now or a great deal by-and-by.
Let him stay with youat least some por- u
tion of every day /; bear his noise and ig- y
norant ways. Put aside your book or work th
to tell him story or show him picture as
devise stil parlor plays for him, for lie gains
nothing by being allowed to spoil the COM &C
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