The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-07

there seems to be no place in heaven above,
or earth beneath, exactly safe and suitable.
except the bed While he is asleep there,
our souls have rest-we know where he is,
and what he is about, and sleep is gra-
cions state but then he wakes up bright
and early, and begins toothing, 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 do
with MIN. 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 lead
id the new saucepan If he goes into the
wood shed, he is sure to pull the wood-pile
down upon his head. If he is sent into the
garret, you think for while that you have
settled the proklem, till You find what a
bonndless field for activity is at once open
ed, amid all the packages, boxes, bags, bar
fels, aud cast-off rubbish there. Old letters,
newspapers, trunks of miscellaneous con-
tents, are all rummaged, and the very reign
of chaos and old night is insinuated. He
sees endless capacities in all, and he is
always hammering something, or knocking
something apart, or saving, or planning, or
drawing boxes or barrels in all directions
to build cities or lay railroad tracks, till
everybody's head aches quite down to the
lower floor, and everybody declares that
Charley must be kept out of the garret.
Then you send Charley to school, and
hope Won arc fairls-ria-5f nm for a few
hours at least But he comes home noisier
and more breezy than ever, having learned
of some twenty other Charles every sepa-
l-oo
that the superabundant vitality of each can
originate. He can dance like Jim Smith
he has learned to smack his lips like Joe
Brown-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 valorous he has
learned that he is a boy, and has general
impression that he is growing immensely
strong and knowing, and despises more than
ever an interruption in the way of decent
folks who want to be quiet.
II is true, that if entertaining persons
viii devote themselves exclusively to him,
reading and telling stories, he may be kept
quiet; but then this is discouraging work,
for he swallows a story as Rover does
piece of meat, aud looks at you for another
and another, without the slightest consider
alton, so that this resource is of short du-
ration, and then the old question comes
back: What is to be done with him 7ssssSs
But, after all, Charley cannot be wholly
shirked, for he is an institution-a solemn
and awful fact and on the answer to the
question, What is to be done with him
depends future.
Many bad, morose, bitter man, has
come from Charley turned off and neglect
ed, many a parental heartache has come
from Charley left to run the streets, that
mama and sisters might play on the piano
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that. He is a spirit that can be promptly
laid, but if not laid Alright, will come back
by-and-by, a strong man armed, when you
cannot send him off at pleasure.
Mama and sisters had better pay little
tax to Charley now, then terrible one by
and-by. lThere is something significant in
the old English phrase, with which our
scriptures render US familiar-a man child
"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 Charley?
= For to-day N is at your feet; to-day you
caA make him laugh, you can make him
to your pleasure you can make his eyes fill
and his bosom swell with reeitals of good
and noble deeds; in short, you can mould
him, if you will take the trouble. ss
But look ahead some years, when that
small foot shall have a mans weight and
tramp; when a rough beard shall cover that
little round chin, ami the wilful strength
of manhood fill ont that little form. Then
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heart to be able to turn and guide it to your
will; but if you will lose that key when he
is little, you may search for it carefully with
tears, some other day, and never find it,
Old housekeepers have a 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 Charley
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 house
hold are. A room ever so well adapted for
play cannot charm him at the hour when
the family is in reunion, he hears the
/ voices in the parlor, and his play-room seems
desolate. 1t may be warmed with furnace
andlighted with gas, but it is human warmth
! and light he shivers for, he yearns for the
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comprehends, and he longs to take his play
things down and play by you, and he is in
cessantly promising of the fifty improper
things which he is liable to do in the parlor
/ he will not commit one if you will let him
stay there. -
The instinct of the little one is natures
warning plea--God's admonition. Oh how
many a mother who has neglected it be-
cause it was irksome to have the child about
has longed at twenty-five to keep her sor
by her side, and he would not Shut ou
as a little Arab; constantly told that he il
noisy, that he is awkward and meddlesome
and plague in general, the boy has found
at last that his own company in the street
in the highways and hedges, where he runs
till the day comes when The parents wan
their son, and the sisters their brother, anC
j then they are scared at the face he bring
back to them, as he comes foul and smutt]
from the companionship to which they hav'
doomed him. Depend upon it, if tits to-
much trouble to keep your son in your so
ciety, there will be places found for him
warmed and lighted with no friendly FIRE
where he who "fnds some mischief still
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