Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-04-10
HINTS FOR THE NJ URSERY.

HINTS FOR i HE y hSEhl
The natural faculties of each thild are
MS plain to careful observation as the sun
at noon-day and it is only necessary to
know the mental bias Of a child to which
his or her powers are best adapted.
Let every father, every mother, and all
who hope to call themselves parents, for
ever bear this in mind Watch the child
at its play. Suffer it to play as it WILL and
note what sport attracts it, md wherein
les the chief pleasure.
Away with these hcwors, infant pheno
mcna. Let nature alorc, and do you, ig-
norant man, keep your great, coare finger
out Of the delicate machinery, which,
working by and through nature, will, at
the proper moment, indicate the course
to be pursued, the deyelopement which is
sought. Permit childhood to guide you
in the treatment thereof. Nature is wise
teacher
Atinfanoy, the healthy body, incapable
of progresrve motion, demands rest; give
then perfect quiet. Mans early life ia a
mere vegetative existence; the brain
gently pulsatiug beneath the uniformed
bone, is not yet the seat of reason, but of
instinct; while nature then demands en- e.
tire repose, or at the most, passive action,
why should barbarouse nurse andignor-
ant mother array the little form in thick
embroidery; display it TO the admiring
multitude; handle it with humping vi
bration, or spin it like Il boomerang IN the
airH Why seek the most noisy promenade
to confuse it with the uproar? Why
pound it up and down over hundreds Of
miles in the mids! Of smoke, afiiuvia, and
all the rattle, noise and screams incident
to railroad travel? Avoid those abe min
ations called cradles flee from the rock
ing of the crib, and all those swinging
motions which cannot fail to produce, in a
minor degree, those very agreeable scnsa-
tions, that pleasant lethargy, which seizes
upon one whea he is taking his first less
SONS in drunkenness. What q renown
would that agricul,urist win for himself
who should first invent a patent, portable,
double action, sef-rocking cradle for suck
ing calves what an advant sc to the boz
vine race
When by pure air and its natural nour-
ishment, the pure milk of COW, or a
goat, is far better than that Of feeble,
passionate or drunken nurse, when the
mother cannot nurse her offspring the
child has become old enough TO creep
about, down Oh the floor with it and let
it 90 give it ball or something to creep
after, and rest fully content that when
tired the child will cease its play.
Don't hurry the little one to walk; do
not encourage it to stand alone, lest bow
legs and weak ankles be the penalty Of
your too assiduous care Of your selfish de-
sire to see your child walk before nature
has decreed ii. When TIE proper tms
arrives the little hands wi seek the tops
of chair seats, the little body will sway to
and fro, erect for the first time soon the
first step is taken, and then all is pain.
Keep your books, your illuminated -
phabet, your intellectual blocks, and your
abortions of toys-charcatures upon ma
turo-toys which il is ro harm TO fall down
and worship, since the like thereof exists
neither in heaven above, nor in the earth
beneath, nor in the water which is under
the earth. Let the child play one, two,
three; what, says some one-tour years
and not know a letter. Yea, my good
madam, until it reacheth the age of seven
years, would we have the little mind Tree
and unpuzzled at liberty to observe, to
desire, to construct, to play, to make out
its own individuality. This is the great
attribute of man-ploy; this divides him
from the brute creation; man alone can
laugh. Remember that the longer the
period of youth. the period of formation
the better, the more healthful, enduring
and longer-lived the man. Of all created
beings, man is the most helpless ot infan-
cy.-Scalpel.
FARMERS PREPARED GLUE.-Put quon