The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-16
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
THE CHILD'S WISE

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Ring ting!' wish were primrose!
| A bright yellow primrose,
| Blooming in the spring
| The feeting clouds above me,
The little birds to love me,
| The fern and moss to creep across,
And the elm-tree for our king
| Oh, no wish were an elm-tree =
A great royal eInl-tree, with green leaves gay;
T. The wind would set them dancing;
| The and moonbeams glance in;
And birds would house among the boughs,
| And sweetly sing.
Nay, stay; wish were a robin =
A robin a little wren, everywhere to co.
Through forest, field, or garden,
| Aud ask no leave nor pardon,
Till winter comes with icy thumbs
To rut1ie up our wing.
Well tell whittier you would fly to?
Where would you tin forest or in dell?
Before day is over,
Home would come the rover
For mothers kiss,-fOr sweeter this
Than any other thing.
Hints to Nursing Mothers.-Wo-
men who are nursing babies should
never drink tea. If [ had time I could
tell you in plain terms the reasons for
this assertion. I do not believe in tea
for any one outside the countries where
it is raised, and I have no doubt that
there it is q national blessing. Ameri-
cans need no such astringents, no such
nerve-quickeners. That tea-drinking is
one great cause of nervousness among
our women, [ believe every thinking
man and woman will agree; and Cften
wish that our first row with our mother
country had been over something worth
fighting about, instead of an old tea
chest. Oat meal, indian, Cruel and CO.
Goa, or chocolate are the beverages to
be partaken of by women who nurse
their babies. These insure quality as
we'll as quantity, and, made of good
rich milk, can be freely partaken of.
There is no need of an ordinarily heal
thy woman growing thin because she is
nursing. Then, again, infants should
be held as little as possible, and trotted
and rocked, never. Accustom your baby
at once to the bed or crib, and insist,
whatever your nurse may say to the
contrary, upon its sleeping alone. Then
feed your baby regularl J, and disabuse
your mind of the impression that it is
hungry every time it makes a noise.
No woman should nurse her infant Oft
ener than twice in a night, and at six
months this should be stopped entirely,
in order to guard the mother against
the exhaustion which follows inevitably
upon the keeping up of this unnatural
night drag. Once in two or three hours
during the day is also quite often
enough. Bear in mind also that your
baby wants, and must have, cold water
to drink daily. Begin first, and imme-
diately. with a tea spoonful, allowing
the child to be its own judge as to the
quantity. Give your babies room
enough, and enough to eat of the right
kind, good air to breathe and plenty of
sunshine, and my word on it you will
have no trouble; and mothers can only
do this by taking proper care of them
selves. The present system of bring
ing up children is an abomination but
what more can be expected with so lit
tie preparation for life and its duties on
the part of our womenI?-HerGd of
Health.
The Religion of the Body.-Before
the child learns that verbs agree with
nominatives, it should be taught that
cleanliness, temperance, sweet temper,
simple food, agree with health. Before
it has learned one column of the multi
plication-t table, it should know the sum
of its physical powers. Its chemistry
should begin in the knowledge of the
elements that sustain the exquisite body
at its highest possibilities. Its mechan-
les should be based on the marvellous
perfection of the human framework.
Before it attempts to follow the course
of rivers, it should be able to follow
the intricate courses of the fine veins
and finer nerves. It should be taught
that sickness is as inevitable n conse-
quence of broken law of God as crime,
and that it is, in itself, as disgraceful
as crime, though there may be mitigat-
ing circumstances. A man who inher-
its consumption, for example, does not
sin if he does not live out the three
score years and ten which are the allot-
ted span. But, if 30 years be the limit
which the most conscientious bodily
care sets to his usefulness here, he does
sin In every excess, or carelessness, or
neglect, which dwindles his 30 years to
20. He is constructive suicide, so to
speak, if he die then. 1t should be
taught, also, that sickness is, of neces-
sity, selfish, because, willingly or un-
willingly, it must yoke health to its car,
sacrificing the higher to the lower.
Doubtless every invali1 devastates the
lives of three well persons, and deprives
the world of whatever productive value
these three might else have had. When
bad breath shall be held offensive as
evil-speaking, and weak lungs as certain
a legacy of ancestral sin as weak morals,
and the bodily insanity of dyspepsia as
dangerous to the worlds safety, as the
mental insanity of madness, the earth
will be peopled by higher race. Above
all, from the mothers lips ought chill
dren to learn the ever-new miracle of
creation. It is because they are kept
in cruel ignorance that they get from
hidden sources a crueler enlightenment.
Thus an ever-present danger to health
might be averted, boys and girls would
not be confused and overcome by the
strange new life of maturity, and men
and women would not need, by long
and costly and painful medical treat
ment, to make explanation for the ig-
norant sins of their youth. A commu-
nifty educated in the religion of the body
would need no defense against quack
doctors and patent medicines. 1t would
be a commudity so healthful, so intelli-
gent, so spiritually-minded, that their
occupation would be gone.-Heorth and
Home.
The Obedient Chickens. When I
was a little girl, had nice, great
Shanghai hen given to me. She soon
laid nest full of eggs; and then I let
her set on them, till, to my great Joy,
she brought out beautiful brood of
chickens. They were big fellows, even
at first, and had longer legs and fewer
feathers than the other little, yellow,
roly-poIy broods that lived in our barn
yard. But, although could see that
they were not quite so pretty as the
others. I made great pets of them.
They were lively, stirring family, and
used to go rowing all over the farm but
nev was there a better behaved or
more thoroughly trained set of chill
dren. If hawk, or even big robin,
went sailing overhead, how quickly they
scampered and hid themselves, at their
mothers dote of warningl and how
meekly they all trotted roost-ward at
the first sound of her brooding-calli I
wish all little folks were as ready to go
to bed at the right time. One day,
when the chickens were five or six weeks
old, l saw them all following their
mother into an old shed near the house.
She led them up into one corner, and
then, after talking to them for a few
11oiuIltaS in the hen laDouaoe went out