Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-06-02
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NUMBER II.
MEDDLEsoOIE INQUIsITIvE CHILDREN.
BY LADY GAY.

MEDDLESONIE INQUIsITIvE CHILDREN.
I WONDER if children all over the
world are alike, or if it has just "been
my luck, " to live in community where
people seem totally blind to the disa-
greeable traits their offspring possess. It
was only the other day that two little girls
We're sent to UisH me. True, they were
dressed in style, with nice cloaks trim
med with ermine, and cunning hats with
plUmes, and gay ribbons; but their fine
ry did not prevent them from asking in
Vulnerable questions, or deter them from
handling almost every article in the
room. I was engaged in a particular
piece of work, when they entered, (for
they had reached the door of my sitting
room, accompanied by their nurse, which
precluded me from escaping through the
fashionable safety valve, mot at home,D
and 1 was compelled to put the delicate
fabric aside, out of reach of their med
ding little fingers. All the fOTmaIity I
could assume, without absolute rudeness,
had no effect upon them, as they remain
ed until they were perfectly satisfied,
plying me, all the time with the most
annoying inteTrOgatiOns. They finally
concluded to go, but by this time the
sun was almost down, and, 1 had to
postpone finishing the work, until the
next morning, which disarranged my
plans for that day. Some one Cperhaps
an indulgent mother y will perhaps say.
"What a spiteful woman. ," Ibeg leave
to contradict this assertion. 1 am not
spiteful; and I love children, good
children in their places; but do not
think any parent ought to bore other
people with their children, for rest as
sUred a child must be very interesting to
be a welcome guest at odd hours, any
where, and all the gewgaws that can be
piled upon one little form, are not suffi-
cient to hide i'll manners in an over in
dulged child. I had very handsome
set of fUrs and the first winter I wore
them, the "tabs" were actually naHEcd
off ( 1 cannot express it better by the
children of the ladies I called on; indeed, !
the victOrine was so mutiIated that I i
sent it to the city to be renovated this !
cost S15) and the very first visit I paid, !
to lady acquaintance, was celebrated |
by a daughter of my hostess ( a little
girl of six years old bouncing upon nv
lap with sOiled hands grasping the mink
tails, Juggling with all her strength. I !
gently disengaged her hands and said.
" Nary y have just paid to have these
furs renovated and cleaned, and indeed |
L cannot permit you to pull them to
Peices. She jumped from my knee, and
ran sobbing to her mother, who passed (
her fingers through the uncOmbed hair
of her darling, at the same time whisp-
ering (consOlative I presume J in the
child's ear. noticed decided change
in the parents manner, which, when I
first entered was cordial. She never re-
turned my call, and though I frequent
ly meet her when am shopping, or at
church, she never sees me. mention-
ed'the circumstance to another lady ac-
qudlHIillce, ana when l concluded she
said
81 guess she didnT return your call,
and don't see you, for if you had said
that to child of mine, you may de-
pend, Inever would have spoken to YOU
again."
Well L may take a mistaken view.
butt have six.chiIdren, and know very
well, that either one Of them know bet
ter than to touch any part of a lady's
dress who makes a call in my parIOr, in
deed they are trained to keep out of the
parlor unless they are called for. Peo-
pie may call it spite, but do detest i'll
behaved children, and I am still further
OF the opinion, that, as a general thing
mothers allow their children to take too