The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-17

n ll)os'r Box THE CRiLpREH's E+Es.1CMu, W.,
Ilier,s cars ought never TO be boXeu. v"
have seen that the passage OF JUG oai
closed bv thin membrane, csl" y,
. n,ad IN no influenced by every impulse VI
,ha az. and with nothing but the ar 10 SUI
.u - az = n.rr,nllv. What, then, can DC moe
',,,ai, m ,ni,Irc this membrane than slldd'
and i,rciblc compression OF the mir III 'front.'
',r ~ II any one designed to break or over
st,rtch the membrane. he could scarcely de-
,i.e q moro effective means than TO bring the
hund suddenly and iorcbly down UPON Tie
1assagc of the ear, thus driving the air Vio'
ien,Iy before it, with no possibility for i's
escape but by the membrane giving way
And lar too often it does give way, cSpecl-
ally if from any previous disease ii has been
weakened. Many children arc made deaf
bv boxes on The ear in thi, way. Nor l. This
the only way: il tllcreis one thing which does
the nerve Of hearing more harm than al
most any other. II Is sudden Jar OF
| shock. Children and crown persons a''he
| may DC entirely deafcned by falls or heaFl
| blows upon the head: and boxing the ears
produces similar effect. though more slowly
and in less degree. 1t tends 10 dull the scnsi.
| bility of the nerve even if it does mol hurt
| the membrane. knew pitiful case once OF
| Il poor youth who died from terrible DIS
ease of the ear. He had had discharge
from it since he was child. OF course III,
hearing had been dull; and wha! happened
was that his father had often borcd ms ear
for inaiteut,0n Most likely that boxing on
the ear. diseased as it was, had much TO do
| with his diving. And this brings me to the
second point: Children should never he
! blamed for being inattcntivc until 1t has been
| fhar hnr M
This is easily done ly placing them at few
wards distance, and trying whether they
can understand what is said to them III IL
rather low tone of voice. Each ear
should be tried while the other Is stop
rcd hy The finger. | do not say that
children are never guilty Of inattentlon,
especially to that which they do not wrficll-
larlv wish to hear: but do SAY that very
many children are blamed and punished for
im;tention when they really ito not hear:
| And there is nothing at once more cruel ana
more hurtful TO the character OF children
than to be found fault with for what Is really
their misfortune. Three things should he
remembered here: /. That slight degrees OF
| deafness, often lasting only for time, are
very common among children, especially dll-
ring or after colds. =. That slight DEAL
| ness, which does not prevent person from
bearing when he is expecting to be spoken
to, will make him very dull to what he is not
expecting and, 3. That there is Il kind OF
deafness in which person can hear pretty
| well while listening. but Is really very hard
of hearing when not lisening.- Dr.. H':to",
IN Populor Science Monthly for JH"'.
4 poetic Hibernian explains that love /,
commonly spoken Of he " flame because
| 1t !, tinder sentiment.
The bone of contention is said to DC the
iaw-bone.
The husbandnan SONS wheat while his
wife sows tares.'
"Eyclse haste and i bad pep: ~ the pig
said when he broke out.
Query Are the Michi2'rd'rS anr r"f'l!"i!
to III" Portuguese.
State Of affairs in Ctah-Harenl sea- llm'
Il i Il lad sign to J." skilful in apologies