Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-12

OUR SCHOOL CHILDRKN.-Every after
noon between the hours of half past foul
and i've O'Clock, in all parts Of the town
there may be seen troops Of children, boyl
and girls, trudging along with great piles
OF books under their arms, or held by 9
strap. These books the children are taking
nome to study, after having spent at leas
SIX hours during the day in the close all
and confinement of their school rooms
For PHYS sake, are our children not fast
enough in their precocious maturity, that
they must be driven in this way? Study
worry and fret all day (the condition o
children in most schools), would seem to be
tax enough upon their young minds and
growing bodies, without keeping up the
strain of anxiety, If not of work, during the
hours that should be given to rest, recrea-
tion, exercise and fun Too often, indeed,
these home tasks rob them even of needed
sleep. And yet we wonder that our men
grow up nervous, restless and excitable
that bald heads and sharp face
lines appear unwontedly early-thst
our young girls grow up slender.
delicate, and destined to fade at an age
when English women are beginning to as
sumo the mature strength of womanhood.
The truth is, many do not grow up at all,
but like over-pushed thorough breds,
spring gallantly at the voice of the
thoughtless driver, and, while winning
foolish praise for the wonders they are do
ing, suddenly fall, and faint and die. Many
think that because ''boys will be boys"
they are not in any danger of hurting
themselves with over study. But this is
very flimsy reasoning. Even boys who
dislike study are injured by the excessive
confinement-and there are, be.ides, thou
sands of sensitive, nervous, ambitious boys,
are overtasked in mind and body--while
the wearing effect of constant anxiety is
even more destructive to health than the
mental effort and physical pressure, and if
this is true of boys, how much more appli-
cable are the same remarks to girls.
SECURITY LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY
publish elsewhere in this
issue an abstract of the statement of the
Security Life Insurance and Annuity Com
pany of New York, filed in the Ohio Audit
Or of States office on the 29th ultimo. This
company is one of the stable institutions OF
the country. Its assets on the first of JAN
lary, 1868, reached the respectable sum of
81, 2S6, ,30O.24. This, considering the length
'f time the company has been in existence,
8 most favorable showing. The pumbt r
if new policies issued during the year 1867,
vas 4,l10, amounting to 80 235,775 and its
business is constantly on the Increase
the incompatible growth
If the "Security," it always retains
o an eminent degree, the conservative
elements of safety and solid security justly
,rized by the old school. Its directors and
tockholders are comprised of the most es-
Unable and substantial citizens of the
country, and its officers were chosen not
'nly for their experience, enterprise and
kill, but also for their well known pru-
lence, carefulness and probity.
From the statement it will be seen that
he Security has complied with the laws or
ohio controlling insurance companies, as
an also be verified by application to the
everal County Auditors throughout the
state. The interests of the company in
ohio are under the control of Mr.. j. NJ. |
Newkirk, General Agent for the State, No.
Opera House, Columbus, who conducts
IFS business with signal success. Mr.. New
;irk is not only endowed with ability, ex-
'erience, industry and perseverance, but
lso possesses gentlemanly address, which
enders him one of the most popular men
n his vocation.