Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-10-16
Telling Children Lies

a beautiful young mother sat by ms
during q three hours ride in the cars,
the other day, and in her arms she
held what seems TO us the fairest or
nament Il mother ever wears, her beau
tiful baby. The little fellow was very
noble looking; somewhat near his
second birthday, we should fancy,
sturdy and strong, with great blue eyes
like wood violets, cunning lit tie white
teeth even as kernels of corn, and
rosy cheeks that kept dimpling into
smiles. Naturally the confinement OF
his position made him restless. He
grew tired of sitting still on his moth
er,s lap; the cake and apples she rath
er unwisely gave him lost their charm,
and the bright flowers lie kept begging
with the pretties pleading from the
stranger by his side at last grew wear
isom. Baby wanted to take a turn on
the floor. and mamma was afraid to
let him. What do you think she did.
gentle reader?
Why, she looked her little wide
awake boy straight in his innocent
face, and said gravely:
Harry, if you don't sit still, I'll
throw you out of the car windowr'
In the plainest manner possible she
gave her child Il lesson in lying. No
earthly power would have made her
throw him out, and nothing would
have been strong enough to tear him
from her had danger mcnaced him:
but she wanted to keep him quiet, and
so she rushed to the resort of the
weak-deception. If two or three
years hence Harry shall tell her a lie.
she will be exceedingly shocked and
panied, and he will be punished and
prayed for, and his mother will grieve
at his deficiency Of moral sense. quite
oh livious OF the fact that she has
sOwn, she is beginning to reap.
The fact is, that half the babies are
trained to tell falsehoods before they
are able to walk and talk. The thou
sands of poor little untortuna.es, who
are dressed in muslin and lace and
given over to the care and companion
ship of ignorant hirelings. so prac
tices upon and deceived and frightened
and, in short, lied to, that ISIS wander
that after all most of them grow up
tolerable truthful We think it speaks
well for that much maligncd thing,
human nature. But servants are not
the only nor the chief offenders. We
charge mothers and fathers with being
very culpable and wicked i'll their sins
of commission in this regard
Il have never deceived my child"
says Mrs. Laura Love, who is reading
this number beside her babys crib.
When you pretended, dear lady, the
other day that you were not going out
when yOu were, and when you tiptoed
off with your bonnet hidden behind
you, lest baby should cry to go, what
were you doing but deceiving him
When you pretended that the abomin
ably tasting stuff you were about to
give him out of a phial was good,
smacEng your lips as though you en-
joyed it, what were you doing but act
ing lie?
Children have very quick percep-
ton. Very young children learn to
see through the ways that are dark
and the tricks that are vain Of their
foolish elder companions. Still, as we
look into their soft eyes we seem to
| hear the solemn words that fell from
the tenderest lips that ever spoke to
man: Take heed that ye offend not
| one of these little ones"