The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-11-17

The ssPrOfoes0r or the bf0akfaSt Table, -
in bis talk 10 the readers Of the Atlantic for
August, offers some pungent suggestions oon-
corning good children and their memoirs:
La early years, while the child ssfeels ito
life in every limb" it lives in the body and
for the body toA very great extent. Bought
TO be 90. There have bean many very inter-
ssting children Who have shows wonderful
Indifference 70 things Of earth, and sxtraor-
binary Developments Of tbs spiritual nature.
There 10 perfect literature OF their biogra-
phiss, oil aliks in. their sssensials; the same
GENERALIZATION to the usual amusements OF
childhood -, the same remarkable sensibiAsy;
the Same docility; the ssme conscientiousness;
In shert, IN almost uniform character, mark.
ed BY beautiful traits, which We look ct with
painful admiration. II will be found that
most Of these children are the subjects OF
some constitutional un6tness for living, the
most frequent of which | need not mention.
They are like the beautiful, biushing, half
grown fruit that falls before its time, be-
cause its core 10 gnawed out. They have
their msaning-they do not live in vain but
they are windfalls. | am convinced that
many healthy children are injured morally BY
being forced TO read too much about those
little meek sufferers and their spiritual exsr-
cises.
Here is boy that loves to run, swim, kick
football, turn somersetts, make faces, whit
tie, 6sh, tear his clothes, coast, skate, are
crackers, blow squash sstooters," cut HE name
on fences, read about Robinson Orusoe and
Sinbad the Sailor, eat the widest-aDgled sli-
ces Of pie and untold cakes and candies, craek
nuts with his back teeth, and bite out the
better part of another boys apple with this
front ones, turn up coppers, "stick" knives,
call names, throw stones, knock OF hats, set
mouse traps, chalk or-steps, "cut behind"
any thing on wheels or runners, whistle
through his teeth, "holler" FIRE on slight ev-
idence, run after soldiers, patronizs an en-
CINE company, or, in bis own words, elbow
for tub No. H." or whatever it may be-
Isn't that pretty nice sort OF boy, though
be has not got anything the matter with him
that takes the taste OF this world ont i? Nov,
when you put into such q hot FLOODED, hard
listed, round checked little rogue's hand Q
sad-looking volume, or pamphlet, with the
portrait OF thin, white-faced child, whose
life is really a. much . training for death -
the last month Of condemned criminals ex :
isteDce, what does he find in common between
bis own overlooking and exalting sense OF
vitality, and the experience Of the doomed
offspring of invalid parents 1t 10 not until
be has worked his way through the period Of
honest, hearty animal existence, which every
robust child should make the most of--noi
until he has learned the use Of his faculties
which 10 his first duty--that boy OF oo1r
age and animal vigor 10 in proper state to
read these fearful records Of premature de-
Gay. Ishavs no doubt that disgust 10 implant.
cd 10 the minds Of many healthy children b.
early surfeits OF pathological piety. DC
verify believe that He who took children II
his Arms and blessed them, loysd the health.
lost and most playful of them just - we'll u
those who were richest in the tubsrculoui
virtues.