Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-04-07

OF this9 How will he feel when he
learns that his little boy and girl have
been angry with one another? 1t
makes me sick and sad to think that
my children should act so wickedly'
} Very little of right impression did
the mothers censure make upon the
minds of her unhappy children. the
sunshine of whose pleasant day her
own darkening anger had clouded.-
They stood with partly averted faces;
silent, moody, and with unkindncss
in their hearts. Their apparent want
of penitence fretted their weak moth
er's mind. She looked for or at lcas,
required an obedient yielding on their
part. She expected them to kiss and
be friends again, at her word, as il
love and kindness were vassals that
came and went at another's bidding
But she could not command the sun
Of love to shine, nor scatter, with a
breath of her lip. the shadows that
were around their young spirits.
i must separate you!' she at length
said, with sternness of voice and
manner that showed more of angry in
dignation than love. Amy, do you
go over into my room, and stay there
alone, until l call you; and you, John,
60 off to the garret, and don't let me
see your face until your father comes
home. | shall tell him Of all this
AS if any place would be more
agreeable than that in which their
mothers presence smote them, the
two children, at this command, went
, quickly away; Amy into her mother
, room, and John up into the lonely
garrct. Both. the instant they were
entirely alone, abandoned themselves
, to tcars-Amy sobbing to herself as il
: her burdencd little heart would break
and John standing still in the center
of the garret floor, with scalding
drops falling rapidly over his burning
e checks. To the boy, there was a cruel
mystery in the sudden change toward
him which his sister had manifested
He understood that her mother had
refused to let her have pair of scis.
sors to cut out dresses for her pape,
I dolls, and he could understand how
this would fret her mind; but he was
) too young and unskilled in the phfos
Y ophy of mental transitions to compre'
hcnd how the disappointment should
! have wrought in her so great a change
of feeling toward himself, AMI caused
q her to act with selfish unkindness.
b If Johns mother had not punished
him, he could have forgiven Amy
Q But the blows, though felt only for
moment by his shrinking body, still
smarted on his spirit as painfully
as when they were given in suddel
). anger. In a little while, the boy,
tears ceased to flow. Sitting dowr
on an old chest. and in the shadow o
/ an unhappy mood, he brooded in lone
o liness and sorrow over the early mys
terry of life, and learned one of his frs
lessons of hate toward those by whom
: he felt that he had been wronSed. AL
evil seed had been sown in the eartl
n of his young heart, and already it
latent principle of life was moving
: with vital force.
1'll lock up all my picture books.
i he said to himself, spitefully. Am,
shan't look into one Of them again a
: long as she lives. wont play will
her any more, nor paint another doll'
dress for her. I'll throw her kittel
from the window, and let her canar,
$ out of the cage-and I'll burn every
one OF her playthings that can pu
my hands on!'
: Now. though John never execute,
any of these direful threats agains
:, his little sister, he vrs really in earn
est when he made them. so full of ba
feelings was his heart. And though
on the very next day, he passed hour
:, with her in sport, he did not feel righ
toward her, and was not so willing t
yield his wishes for her pleasure as h
= had been in times past.
. AS for Amy, poor child! She wa
wretched enough. alone in her moth
er's room, when, but for that mother
angry refusal to let her have pair G
= scissors, she might still have bee
, playing happily with her brother, VIII
. had been separated from her, and sen
:. away up into the garnet, where sh
was afraid to stay all by herself eve
for single moment.
: An hour after the mother had pur
y ished her children, she laid aside he
" work. and went over to see what Am
was doing.
y Into some mischief, I'll warrant
n she said to herself, as she thought no
very quiet the child had been. B,