Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-11-14
rhc Proper Training of children.

Street, Philadelphia.
The Proper Training OF Children
A Discourse on the Proper Training q
CEilaren, BY Rer. JOSEPH Freeman
of ProetorScilie.
A pamphlet of some forty pages with the
above title, has recently fallen into our
hands, and we have been so much interest
ed in its perusal that we would earnestly
commend it to The notice of all parents.
There is not more common OF frequent
assertion than that this is an age OF inn
provemeut. We hear This boast wherever
we 90. 1t comes from the Lyceum lee
turer, from the Congressional orator, from
the stump demagogue, and even from the
pulpit. And in many respects, ii is truth
full claim. 1t is declaration that can be
readily vindicated. In almost every direc-
ton we may look with proud satisfaction al
the wonderful changes and impr yements
which distinguish the age in which it is our
lot to live. We may well felicitate our
selves upon our improved condition, COM
pared with that Of our ancestors.
But, as has been frequently remarked,
there are two sides to every picture; two
aspects. bright aud dark one. There is
one particular ia which the unpleasant con-
viction has been forced upon US that there
has been no Improvement. While in al
most everything else progress has been
made, it is 10 be feared that the manners
and department. Of the young, in our day,
form an exception to the general tide of i'm
provement. We shall not deny that the
young have made great progress in man
ners during the last forty or fifty years. but
feel constrained to deny that they have
made Improvement. 1t is unnecessary to
say that every change or innovation is by
no means of necessity an Improvement.
There are few who can include the last for
~ years within the compass and reach of
their memories, but will concur in the opn-
ion, that the progress of the youth in man
ners and department, during that time, has
been in the wrong direction.
We have class of youth that was wholly
unknown in the days OF our 5oyhood. 1t
Is class of decidedly modern origin, and
constituted no place among The orders Of
.nciaty a half century aga The ei..e~ -
which we refer, enjoy the designation of
Young America They are the fast boys
IF fast age. They assume the airs and
the lnien Of manhood before they are fairly
out of the nursery. An English traveller
recently said on his return to England, that
he was unable TO find any boys in all Amer-
ca; all being either children or men. He
doubtless found to his great surprise,
that those who. in his own country, bore
the humble name of boys, had here reached
a premature manhood. 1t seems then. thai
the fame Of the American youth Of our dag
has reached the old world. They enjoy the
distinction of being chronicled by a travel
er of high repute. Bot is the distinction
fatterng one to themselves or to the coun,
try of their birth And can the taunts o
a foreign journalist be successfully met anc
disproved ? We would rejoice if these wer,
mere gibes and ISLANDERS. We would tax,
pleasure in preclaiming their falsity and an
truthfulness. But what individual, who ha
passed the meridian of life. has not witness
ed with grief change in the conduct an,
manners of the young? Where now il
that respectful Difference to superiors tina
modest reserve, and that strict deeorun
that characterized the youth Of a forfnei
day Is il not true that as we have re
ceded from the good old paths of virtuou
ancestry, in the same proportion have in
creased the turbulence and disorders Of tht
times, and the rudeness and the ill-breedin,
Of the young Parents seem to be aban
doning the reins; and when once this shal
have become universal, we shall reap th
bitter fruit in the prevalence of rowdyism
and in the instructions and outbreaks whicl
will disturb and render useless all GU
schools and seminaries of learning.
But we cannot pursue this train Q
thought any farther. Our sole object wa
10 cali the attention OF parents aud Of a
who are charged with the education an
training of children, to the pamphlet who's
title stands at the head Of this article.
is an admirable treatise on the subject ar
nounced. No parent can read it withor
profit. 1t is strictly true, as Mr.. Freema
says, that parents "hasc no right to sen
into the world an uuiaught, ungovernet
unprincipled, immoral family Of children
scoarge and curse it." The pamphlet ma
} be obtained of the Rev. S. f. Brown ,
: Bellows Falls, or of the Rev. Mark Ca
! penier Of Brattleboro. We say 10 all it
terested, read ii. You owe it to your Chi
dren: you eve il 10 society.
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