Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-10-29
Ghuiee Mistellaug.
IFrom Halls Journal Of Health.l
Parental Corrections.

That man commits crime, and go does
the wothan who will send child to bed
With wounded spirit, or who shall allow
any vindictiveness of feeling to exist in con
sequence Of any thing the child may have
done. Sharp-p0inted memories have often
driven men mad; multitudes are there who
are more dead than alive, from the ailings
Of the mind which is wasting itself away in
vain remUrses for the irrevocable past The
fault of most parents is over-harsh reproofs
Of their children; reproots that are hasty,
unproportioned to the offence, and hence as
to ones own child, helpless and unresisting,
are cruelty as well as aniijustice. Thrice
happy is that parent who has no child IN
in the grave which can be wished buck, only
II for brief spaeefso as to afford some OPP
portunity for retIlring some unmerited un-
kisa~sss- -to$sasds shc dead darling Fafents
have been many times urged in these pages
to make persistent efforts to arrange two
things in domestic intercourse, and to spare
no pains and no amount of moral courage
and determination, III order that they should
be brought about. 1t may require a thous-
and efforts, and there may be,a thousand
failures. Us distoGraging as they are sad:
still let the high resolve 60 out, "it shall be
doue!" and the priekliug Of many thorn
will be spared im after years and in old age.
The two points to be daily aimed at are:
First Let the family table be always
meeting. place Of pteasantness and affection
and peace, and for the exhibition of all the
sweeter feelings tf domestic life.
Second. Let every child be sent to bed
with kisses of affection, especially those un
der ten years ofage.
All that is on this globe could not hire me
to be put in the place of either the father or
the mother in the following narrative OF the
former editor of a monthly of deserved re
pute in its time. The occurrence took place
in Boston, about the year 1850 aud pevery
detail is minutely and accurately true:7
A few weeks before, l.. H. b wrote
to me that he had buried his eldest son, o
fine, manly little fellow OF eight years of
age, who had never known q days illness
until that which finally removed him hence
To be here no more. His death occurred
under circumstances which were peculiarly
painful to his parents. A Ayounger brother,
a delicate, sickly child from its birth, the
next in age to him, had been down for near
ly fortnight with an epidemic fever. In
consequence of the nature Of the disease,
every precaution had been adopted that
prudence suggested to guard the other mem
bers of the family against it. But Of this
one, the fathers eldest, he said he had lit
tie fear, so rugged was he and so generally
healthy. Still, however, he kept vigilant
eye upon him, and especially forbade his
going into the pools and docks near his
school, which il was his custom sometimes
to visit; for he was but boy, and boys will
be boys" apd We ought more frequently to
think that it is their nature to be. OF all
Unnatural things, rsproach almost to
childish trankness and innocenUe, save me
from . Hboy-mauP' Butto' the story. '.a
One evening this unhappy father came
home, wearied with long days hard labor,
and vexedH at some little disappointment
which had soured his naturally kind dispo-
sision, aud rendered HIM peculiarly suscept-
ible to the smallest annoyance. While be
was sitting by the FIRE, in this unhappy
mood OF mind, his wife entered the apart
ment and said tlafaic1 moIi dl'd l1l
Henry has just come in, aud he isa' per-
feet fright He is covered from head to
foot with dock mud, and is as wet as a
drowned ratl'' ~ lrH %" 1v's'''P p" ,uN
"Where is hep" asked the father sternly.
He is shivering over the kitchen fire.
He was afraid to come up here when the
girl told him you had come home" dT
''Tell Jane to toll him to come here this
Instant" was the. brief reply 10 this informa'
tion. .isai 4uh F1n. unf asod ti bsia3
Presently the poor boy entered, half per
ished with alright and cold. lis father
glanced at his sad plight, roproached him
bitterly for his disobedience, tspoke Of the
pnnishment which awaited him in the morn.
ing as the just penalty for his Offences, and
in harsh voice concluded with: N'iya
"Now, sir, go to your bed" NIl mai :
'But, father, "lsaid the little fellow, 81
want 10 tell you-----.p1 s8i .UdW
njINot ., word, sir, 90 to bedip ! llJsd.i
II only wanted to say, father, that ---r--.'
With peremptery stamp, an imperative
wave of his hand toward the door, and Q
ftDwn upon his brow, did that father with
out other speech again close tbe door. Of ex