Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-01-04
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lures warning plea - Gods admopition
., how many mother who has neglect.
ed il because it was irksome 10 have the
| child about, has longed at twenty-five to
keep her son by her side, and he would
not. Shut out as little Arab; constant
ly told that he. IS noisy, that he is awk-
ward and meddIesome, and a plague in
general, the boy has found at last his own
company In the streets, III the highway
and hedges, where he runs ill the day
comes when the parents want their son,
aud the sisters their brother, and then
they are scared al the face he brings back
to them, as he comes all foul aad smu,tv
from the companionship to which they
have doomed hin. 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 some
mischief still for idle hands to do, will
care for him, if you do not You may
put out tree and j. will grow while you
sleep, bat son you cannot you mus,
take trouble for him, either little now
or 4 great deal by-and-by.
Let him stay with you at least some
portion of every day; bear his noise and
ignorant ways. Put aside your book or
work to tell him story, or show him a
story, or show him picture; devise still
parlor plays for him, for he gains noth-
ing by being allowed 20 spoil the comfort
of the whole cirele. A pencil, a sheet of
paper, and few patterns will sometimes
keep HIM quiet by you for an hour while
you are talking, or in q corner he NAV
bulid block-house, annoying nobody
1t he does now and then disturb YOU, and
It costs you more thought and care 10 reg
ulate him there, 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 good man or woman, your pres
ence is the best and safest thing. God
never meant him to do without you any
more than chickens were meant to grow
without icing brooted.
Then let HIM have some place in YOUR
house where it shall be no sin to hammer
and pound and make all The liter his
heart desires, and his various schemes
require. Even if you can i'll afford the
room, weigh well between that safe
asylum 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 dgni-
fly with the name of 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 a little gum, there is no
end of the labels he will paste on, and
the hours he may lnnocently spend sort
ing and arranging.
A bottle of liquid gum is ali invaluable
resource for various purposes, nor must
you mind though he varnish bis nose and
fingers and clothes (Which he will DO of
course if he does nothing worse. A
cheap palnt-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 cars, he is made
man.
All these things make trouble = 10 be
sure they do bat Charley is TO make
trouble, that is the nature of the instilu-
tion; you are only to choose between safe
and wholesome trouble, and the trouble
that comes at last like a whirlwind. Cog
bless the httle fellow, and send US ali
grace TO know what TO do with him In
dependent.