Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30


| Lying all along our path :.
let US keep the wheat and roses,s
Casting out the thorns aud chsff;
Let us find eur sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to day,
With patient hand removing
All the the briers from our way.
The majority Of moth, RS finding their chill
dren more of an annoyance than comfort,
send them to school "to get them out of the
way. In this national blessing is turned i'm
to an individual curse our common schools are
but dyspepsia factories. There is kind OF
mania Gin the land for sending children to
school at an early age, regardless of the in
furious effects upon their health. From tor
| ~ to seventy children are collected in room
that cannot contain sufficient amount of
pure air to healtntully sustain half that num-
Der. The atmosphere is heated. especially
around the upper portion of the body, while
the feet are cold. In this condition the brain
is actively engaged. calling the blood there
in excess, which is the primary cause of con-
gestion OF that organ so prevalent at this time
When engaged in study, the breathing is
diminished, the blood is not properly aeratPd
and fitted to nourish the system. The diges-
tive organs for want of proper exercise, be-
come weak. Indigestion, with all its horrors,
liver complaint, consumption, ETC., follows.
Yet few parents ever think that their child
rcn are ever injured in this way. | am OF
opinion that if children never see the inside
OF one of these " hot beds" of instruction.
or more correctly deStraSetaoa until they have
developed a good physical constitution. they
are much better off every wav. Children
sent 10 school at so early an age are prena-
turely developed, and arc 81 united and
dwarfed in every faculty that is essential in a
good member of society.
Since our system of common schools has
been SO extensively established through the
land, the morality of inocents" has greatly
increased, and even the young men and wo-
men who complete ed their education: as they
term il has not physical strength sufficient TO
apply it to any useful pursuit in life, In the
words OF Horace Greeley, they are I" intellec-
tual ghosts, incompetent to mike a respect
able living. 1t is terrible mistake to edu-
cate the brain at the expense OF the body
Physical educ alton is Just as necessary as
mental, and should he attended TO first.
We would not have anyone infer from this
that the childs mind should not receive at
tention. We believe in implanting in early
childhood correct religious and moral princi-
pals, also in giving instructions in the rudi-
ments OF an education.
Teach it the laws of health, and teach il
such way that its mind may naturally be
led out to enquire about things from love
OF them.
Education is a drawing-out process, and
not exclusively a pouringin process Ev-
cry family should be a irst-clrss primary
school, where the great fundamental prInci-
pales of an education should be latd.
The mother is, or should be, one of the first
and best educators. What a position the
neither occupies, but how few realise the inn
pottant trust. And what we say of the
mother is true of the father I'M this respect
The proper education of child il the most
important and responsible work of parents,
And yet the majority of parents will send
their children away from home at the age of
four OF five years, to be taught by persons.
in many cases totally unfit.
But this is not ALL your children who may
be innocent, fall under the vicious influence of
other children, Who have no kind parents to
care for them. Few realize to what extent
pollution and vice, by which health and NOR
al character are destroyed, are practiced, yea.
generated in the comraOn school.
Heie opens subject. Qualified teachers),
which we will leave FOR future article, which
does not properly belong in this connections.
Our object at present is to show the Grimm
al neglect of parents in laying the proper
foundation on which tai build character suit
able f,s an American cifizen We say Amsri-
| ec,t. for Americans are the most criminal in
this respect Of any other civilized nation.
Kind words 10 not cost much They nev.
er blister the tongue or lips. anil wee have
never heard Of amy mental troubles arising
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