St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-08-23


and are, locking ont for fighting tire lay
and 10y.
Children. Why the Noblest Die.
Make childrrn'> food :" plain and
simple that they will never eat to"
much "t it. aud they viii not have a
cold for u cold comes primarily from
indigestion show ing itself III Il dainty
appetite and Il GRAY i'll" for heating
meats and sweets, DAYS before ANY sud
den change of temperature. "r that
worst "f all immediate cauSc of Il cold
confinement in cr"Wdrd sitting on
>lcCplm" rooms induces Il chill. For
" hat We call Il ''dclicatc" child can no
more digest Il meal of >timulants with
out Oxygen than Il fire will bum with
the dampcr shut enclosed III lis own
c;lIhonic acid And thc>, ''dclicatc
children aII there's Il sad. >orrnwtul
lesson connected with them that We
seem only capable of learning III tears
city. they said. awatin" the over bun
drnci officers of burial in one day |
reckon We Ito no better in the country.
either. Doctors have no time to preach.
and preachers shrink from investigation,
even if it happens that they are Wiser
than To charge this worse than licrod
ian slaughter of the inmorcnt> upon
tod. in the old. drraIN. knnW-mnthimg
way. Philosophy shuts its eyes. nose
all its >cu~,> and talks of the apple
trees where ten buds and blasted fruit
fall Ia one apple matuIcd. and quotes
Malthu> on the dangers of oNer-popu-
lati"n. Common people Try t" comfort
their stricken com>cicncc> 10y saving
that tlI,.>, babes couldn't have lived,
Vet after losing two or three as We did
they begin to think the matter over
to some purpose Ii il IL mistake al
belt the lives of our progeny are grew
nII>lN attacked before birth as we'll as
afterwards to think that these delicate
children might not live to grow up.
grow To lie strong men and women.
capable of teaching the world things it
much needs t" know. Through their
superior >tuSitiNcursS To ills. such are
led to study the caII>e> ofthcm. Every
one who has lost children is disposed to
think and speak of them as if they were
finer and better than the living. We
may argue this feeling away a> Il human
and parental Partially for that which
I'll truth that the best the, moblcSt chill
lrcn die. and We unl \ succeed III rear
mg the mcanc>t.
might remind You of Il score of sun
day school biographies to prove it. but
You know how it is Yourself. 1t is pit
ititl this entrance into the world of
souls 81 perfect as not To find the con
dhti"nS of life fitted for Them and 81 are
thrust out again. This is the natural
selection of ignorance. We are fast
learning better things. thank God. But
tins paragraph l. running on altogether
10" long for du" days. Vet one Thought
more, You shall have. lou all know
how wn"dchuck> and some other ami
mails lie dormant in winter. Get fat.
crawl into their holes. and ''>uck their
CLAWS till warm Weather. How about
fresh and pure air. tol their digestion -
SAYS some one. >hrcWdlN seeking Il
hole III my logic. lcS YES but thc>,
creatures don't eat anything in their pc
Rod of Information. They live. uI rA-
isl. they can scarcely he said t. live
on the store of vitality got III the open
all "t Il long summer. and shut them
selves away from oxygen t" economic
ITS consumption. Some people are like
W""dchuck> in tins respect. They
don't feel the least oppression in close
room oT railway car We can raise IL
plenty of such. These can consume
carbon continually. like hast. burning
stoves. such children are stupid to he
sure. hut they get fat in the cumtime-
ment of close sleeping and school rooms.
on Il very little food, and grow up to br
useful beasts of burden of one sort on
another. But Il mother may have hall
Il dozen of this gro>ser. common sort
with her. and still always lament the
little spiritual cheruh which huttercd
awhile in her bosom and then flew sad
~ away is if the, earth were not Vet