Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-01
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
KILLING CHILDREN FASHEONABLY

Editors Of Telegroph:-I gladly saw
in the Telegraph of the 18th inst, an IN
raludJle trticle, on not covering the arms
and necks Of little children, as being the
cause of ofinnumerable deaths among them
By your permission 1 will add a little
to the same subject, Official statistics
show that large majority of children
die, in cities, long before they reach ten
years of age. This may be proved by
stating that during two healthy weeks
in the city of New York the aggregate
number Of deaths was one thousand and
one, of which Gas were children under
ten years ofage. being 65 children to ev-
cry one hundred deaths, or fifteen per
cent. more deaths among children than
adults. | have observed that about the
sar:o ratio holds good in other cities
There is cause for sending them pre-
maturely to the cemeteries, which is gen
orally blamed on the Almighty, who has
no more to do with their early dying,
than He is the author of their sins, which
arc only perverted goodness. Children
come into the world pure minded, and
evil influences cause their depravity
The cause of their dying prematurely, is
from improper treatment. Treat any of
the lower animals, while young, as chill
dren generally are, they would become
sickly, and deaths would occur as fre-
quently among them. This must be
obvious to every one who looks into the
book of nature and there reads the laws
which govern life These laws, if
rightly understood and obeyed would as
efectually prevent sickness and deaths
among human beings, as they do in the
lower animals, which live according to
their instincts. For the same causes
produce like results. One of the most
fatal causesIof sickness and deaths among
infants, and for running their constitu-
tions, is leaving their arms naked while
young. The writer of this, has been
an invalid for thirty years from this
cause alone. Thousands of infants die
annually by the criminal and absurd
practice of sweating them nightly in hot
rooms and beds, and then daily exposing
| their naked necks and arms to heat and
cold which alternate in rooms. Some
say that they can be toughened by such
exposure; but it cannot be done, unless
their arms are exposed at all times like
| their faces. When the arms are left ma
ked, they become coductors Of cold to
their lungs, and the result is croeps be-
fore morning, or Inflammation of those
tender organs, and premature death, un-
less they have iron constitutions, which
would then be more or less injured, il
they live through the killing process
Dressing infants fashionably, with low
necked dresses-without sleeves, would
be like building a high, strong fence
around flower garden; and then leav.
ing the gate open. Or like taking {
plant ont of the ground and laying it OF
the sidewalk for while and ther
transplanting it, and so repeat the kill
/ ing operation through the year. There
is no valid reason why children shoult
not live, grow, and be as healthy as th'
inferior animals. This would be so, i
infants and little children were dressed
uniformly warm and given simple diet
kept in rooms at go temperature il
winter, and allow plenty of exercise il
the open air at all seasons of the year
i Pon.eroy, o., Jan. 20, '61. NJ. D.
saPA young man, rather verdant
and sentimental, while making himscl
, interesting to young lady the othe
evening, by quoting from the poets, t
the other choice and rare extracts h
added:
''There is no place like home"
ado you really think so?' said tn
, lovely damsel.
"Oh, yes!'' was the reply. .
'Then, said calico, "why don't 20
stay thcrc?'