The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-02-26
Vow no TREAT nARIEs.

A great part Of the children that
are born nowadays are not sgood,
average healthy cbndren. They |
are children Of deficient brain pow
er. of diseased nervous systems
children begotton Of tobacco smoke,
late hours, tight lacing, and dys-
pept:o stomachs. Tbe father has
put his sons brain into his nicer.
schGum and smoked IL OUT the
mother has dribbIod and dribbled
1T away in balls and operas. Two
Goung people come together, both
Of them In n state Of half nervous
derangoment. She cannot live
witbou. strong coffee; her hand
trombles, and she has a sinking at
her stomach, when sho first rises in
the morning, tillshe has taken a
cup of strong coffee, when she is
primsd for tho day. He cannot
study or read or perform any real
mental labor, without tobacco =
Both are burning liie's candlo- at
both ends; both are wakeful and
nervous, with weak muscles and vi
bratng nerves.
Two such persons Nrlte in giving
existence 70 poor, hapless baby;
who is born in state of such
diseased nervous sensibility that
all the forces of nature are tor
ture toit. "Tho fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and tho chlldeon's g
teeth are set on edge" What
such children cry for is Mother
cold or hunger, but IrrcpressiblO
nervous ugony-somotimes from
fear, sometimes because everything
IN life is too strong for them, and
jars on their poor weakened nerves,
just ms il does on those OF on Inva.
I'D IN low. nervous fovcr.
Now, the directions about putting
a child away alone to sleep, with
out rocking or soothing, ia good
ouly for robast or healthy children.
For tho delicate, nervous kind |
have spoken Of, it Is cruel and it is
dangerous. We know ono anthem
tic instance Of u mother who was
trained to believe it her duty to put
her infant to bod in lonely cham.
Der and leave IL. Not daring 10
trust herself in the ordeal, she put
or her bonnet and, positively for
bidding her servants to 90 near the
child, went out for n walk, When
she returned, tho chilli was stlll,
and had bsen so for son.o time
She went up TO examine, The child
had struggled violently, thrown
itself over on its face, and a pillow
had fallen over It, and 1t was dead
from suffocation.
Nervous children suffer untold
agonies from fear when put to bee
alone. No tongue can tell the hor-
rors of lonely room to such chill
dreu. A little, delicate boy, whom
his parcats were drilling TO sloeI
alone, uscn to scream violently CIV
cry night, and his father would
cont in and whip him. lie mistooI
: the pertlnacity for obstinacy, an,
| thought il his duty to Conquer tn
child's will. One night no sand
"Why do you always scream 81
3 when yon know yon shall bo pun
. ishedf' 20 father, father" sal,
0 the little follow, 81 don't mind you
: whipping me, if you'll only sta,
: with me-" That.fathor's eyes wer,
! opened from that moment. He saw
that human being cannot be gov
erned bp dead rules, Ike a plan
: or an animal. ri
: No, mother; before you make n
plan of operation for your baby
o look at it and see what it is, anC
Q use yonr own common sense as +
what it needs.
+ Look at YOURSELF look at yon
: husband; look at your own physi
4 cal habits--at his, and ask wha
8 your child is likely to be-
8 The caution of our friondw;th re
gard to not suffering the child
s sleep between the parents ls impor
= tant, for many reasons. There
$ scarcely a man that docs not us
!, tobacooS and if nan uses tobacco
o there is constant emanation of
: from his body. Now, however b
: may justify the use of 1T himself, h
: can hardly think that stale tobacc
: offuvlum ls a healthy agent to l
carried into the lungs OF a dellcat
II infhnt. Children of smoking &
r theirs often have their brains an
Q and nervous systems entirely in
:, pregnaIed with tho poison of nice
!. tine u The helpless age Of infanvN