St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1861-03-28
REARING CHILDREN.


REARING CHILDREN.
|. Children should not 90 to school tall
six years old.
2. Should nos learn at home. during
tina, time, more than the alphabet. reli-
gious teachings excepted.
3. Sh"uhl i.s fell With plain. substan-
tial food. ut regular intervals vi not less
than four hours.
4. Should not be allowed to eat any
thing within two hours of bed time.
.. Should have n"thing for supper but
q single cup If warm drink, such as very
weak tea of some kind. or cambria tea. or
warm milk and water, with one. slice of
cold bread and bu,ter-no,hing else.
s. Should sleep in separate beds, Oh
hair mattresses, without caps, feet first
we'll warmed by the fire, or rubbed with
the hands till perfectly dry: extra COW
ering Oh the lower limbs, but little Oh the
body.
:. Should BE- compelled to be out of
doors fur the greater part of daylight.
from after breakfast till half an hous be-
fore shutdown, unless in damp. raw
weather, when they should not be allow
ell TO 60 outside Of the door.
8. Never limit healthy child as to
sleeping Or eating. except at supper. but
compel regularly as TO both: it is Of great
Importance.
Q. Never compel child to keep still,
nor interfere with its enjoyment. as long
as it is not actually injurious to person or
property, or agains, good morals.
ID. Never threaten child; it is cruel,
unjust and dangerous. What you have to
do, do it and he done with it,
III. Never speak harslly or angrily.
but mildly. kindly. aud when really ueed-
cd, firnly--no h,ure
II. by all means arrange it so that the
last words between you and your children
at bedtime, especially the younger oncs,
shall be words OF uHmixe,l l'vingness aud
s:ftection.-Juar"ot cf iieDtth.
TnR GARNET AND ruE QrgsrroS or
PEACE OK WAR.-lt has leaked Out
through scu.i-o!.ii,il channels, that the
administration is. and has been for some
days, occupied IN arranging or drvi>ing
some plan whereby u solution If the diff
cul,irS Impending over the country may
BE- solved without Resort to arms Ii was
fur this purp 'sc, il is said that III arn,is-
tic'. of ten days Or tvs" weeks was asked
for and assented TO by the Commissioners
from the Confederate States
It is extremely prollcnlatical whether
the administration will be able to accom-.
r'i>h anything tangible. Th"rc arc some
impracticablc men in the Cabinet, who
hold to the doctrine chunciated by Senator
Chandler. that little blood letting is th,:
only effectunl method of settling til. diff
culties which menace the country. There
are others however. in the Cabinet, who
take vastly different view of AFFAIR.".
Both Mr. Seward AMI Mr.. Chase d., no:
hesitate t" state that the moro practicable,
way would he for Peaceful s.parati"n
They believe suc., solution preferable.
far more SO, than nuc Of force
This is the question that occupies tn,
attention of the administration. They
cannot postpone it much longer. Thu
time is nearly up when they are to render
a decision. The Confederate States arc
watching the issue. and are DESTROYS to
know whether it is to be peace or war.
Virginia and the other border States are
anxously watching the course Of events.
SELFIsuNEss-Livc for some purpos"
i'll the world. Act your part well. Fill
up the measure Of duty to others. Con.
duct yourselves So that you shall be missed
with SORROW when you are gone. Multi
tudrs of our species are living in such a
selfish manner that they are not likely tn
he remembered after their disappcaraRcc.
They leave behind them scarcely any tra-
ccs Of their existence. and are forgotten
almost has though they had never been.
They are. while they live, like one pebble
lying un"bscrvcd among million OH the
shore; sind when they die. they arc like
that same pebble thrown into the sea.
which just rufiics the surface, sinks. and
is forgotten, without bling missed from
the beach. They are neither regretted BY
the rich. wanted by the poor. nor cclrbra-
ted by the learned Who has been the
better for their life? Who has been the
worse for their death? Whose tears have
they dried up'-whose wants supplied !
Whose miserics have they healed? Who
would unbar the gate of life, to rc-admi,
them to existence! Or, what face would
greet them back to our world with smile!
Wretched, unproIuctiye mode cfexi.tence
Scl6shness is its own curse; it Is starving
vice. The man who docs no good gets
none. He is like the heath in the desert,
neither yielding fruit nor seeing when
good cometh-a stunted. dwarfish, miscra-
Die shrub.