Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-05-04

member, think that can say that new
er, in single instance, was benefited by
such punishment, but always greatly in4
iured. looked on my governor as ty-I
rant, and upoa those strokes as crueltes.
Neither should punisemrnt ever be the
result of anger. There are some persons
who can never bring themselves to infict
pain upon child until their anger makes
them blind; and then most certainly they
are not fit to NEEDLE with child Our
temper never corrects but always kndles a
like feeling. A child thus disciplined bear.
up under it, plumes itself for endurance,
and mentally defes you.
Whatever may be thought of employing
the rod at all, it may be laid down as an
axicm among those who employ it, that it
should never be put into the hands of an
ger but That if welded, it should be wielled
always by the hand Of indulgent kindness.
Ny father used TO make mo believe that
the end of the rod which he held in his
hands, was great deal more painful to him
than the end which l felt was to me. 1t
was strange mystery to me but did be-
lieve it; and it seemed great deal worse
to me to be whipped on that account. ]
used to think that if he would not talk to
me, but would whip me, could stand it
great deal better. So could have
stood it better, and not been benefited,
For child is not whipped till the sensa-
ton goes to the heart, and touches the feel
ing. But when my father made me cry by
talking to me, and then whipped me, and
then made me cry by talking to me again,
| thought it was too bad. And yet it was
tie right way.
have but single ahep thought TO pre-
sent. Where there is one extreme there
are always two. Where some are found
who will not govern at all, some will push
government beyond all bounds. Home be.
comes prison. The children are slaves
The buoyant freedom ofchildhod is tutored
and talked, and whipped into the dull pro.
priety of doll. Gay laughter Is hushed
To run and fling their arms is ungraceful
To show heart of glee, running over witt
wild but blameless language, is not befttine
the child Of solemn parents. So all The
bloom of childhood is rubbed off; and it
elasticity is extracted; and that the chile
may be prodigy, early lessons are forced
upon it and it is brought up as God never
meant it should be, and as only foolish meI
wish it to bean infant mannerst-a an in
) fant hypocrite-an infant student- an in
fant man; in Short prodigy--a monsirqs
ity.
Make the bridge from the cradle to man
hood just as long as you can. Leave you
child a child just as long as you canes
pecally if you live in city. BE not il
haste to force your child into premature de
velopment by intelligence, or by anything
else. Let it be a child, and not little ap,
of a man running about the town. Low,
the the child in its childhood for its child
ishness. 1t would be better for US if w
had more childishness, about ourselves
Masons know that the work is never goo,
that sets too quick. If manhood sets to-
quick it is apt to be stiff and brittle. AM
the more there is in you of childhood th
better you will be fitted TO understand you
children, to rear them intelligibly, to bea
with them, to prepare them for this life an
the life which Is to come.