The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-22
From Burlington Free Press.
CUILDREN'S COLUMN.
Thc Young Folks Temperance
Meeting.


Tho Citv Hall Mt burlington was filled
n, ySnndov n;oht almost whollv with
hovs and Urls A faw norents and adult
fr;ends came with the children. Int the
mass wore ssvouno folks" of various ages
and COMMUNICATIONS well dressed: some
Little "hoodlums. with their cans on some
bovs who would like 10 be little rowdyish;
others ouiet and orderly. On the whole
nil behaved pretty we'll. though some of the
iva nut rather unnecessary energy into
their annl,nse, The hall looked unusually
brirht and pleasant. thanks to the ladies of
the Womens Temperance society. who had
tastefully trimmed the platform and desk
with pvergrecns and autumn leaves. and
decorated The walls and window cans with
evergroons and small t,ogs with very nrettv
oIect A bononet of flowers prncrd the
dast A recd drsan was nrovided and a
choir of the Good Temnlars assisted bv
some of the SINGERS of the Hormoni, so.
ciniv furnished The music,
M r w. Smith presided. and the ex-
orc;ses onened win n Temnerance Glee NV
tho choir
President Ruckham WA next introduced
and smoke as follows:
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"h'iDNNi no
l would like to know how many OF you
boys have got watches. we used to read
HE that would wear watch tnese tninss
must do; pocket the watch and watch the
pocket too But you must DO more than
this; you must watch the watch. Ihose
who carry watches must be very careful OF
them. IL you get your watch 100 not or
too cold, 1t hurts it; II you lay 1t IN I'M
proper positions, 1t gets out OF ORDER. NOW
how long are your watches going TO keep
good! l. could tell something OF every BOY
if could see his watch, and see whether
he takes good care OF 1t or not,
think 1t is good thing Tor BOY II he
mas watch, don't you! ana II ooy
parents cannot anord TO ouy MN one ne
does well TO save up money ana Duy MN
self one. But there IS one thing that every
hoy has got, VINO hasn got watcn-some'
thing 1ar more dencate ana vaiuaoie' IL II
yonrseli-your body ana your nina. ;,
rake sharp razor ana shaVe OH smai,
piece Oh the SKIN OF your hanu-so shiail
you would hardly notice IL: place II unuei
microscope ana you Will see t,lat mere il
more Workmanship IN that niue piece ol
your skin than In the incest watch ever
made. lake your body, from your head 10
your 1eet, ana II Is 1ar nicer ana more uei-
/,
are great number OF little hoies, called
pores; and there are SO many OF these pores
IN man that II you were TO take them all
they would make twenty-eight mlles-twen-
ty-eight miles OF holes IN grown man
skin These form the sewers OF the body.
1t isn't long ago that we had hight III THIS
very room about making sewer-that
sewer down in the ravine, not three-qHar-
tiers OF mile long; and yet every one here
has sewerage enough to go from here to
Shelburn, at least, or perhaps to Vergennes,
or st. Adams. Prince Albert, the husband
of Queen Victoria, died because sewer
wasn't taken care of. He died of typhoid
fever, and when the matter was looked into
an old, choked-up sewer was found right
under the library where he studied and
read.
Then there are the eyes. They are won
derful things, and have sometimes thought
1t would be a good thing to ask physician
to come to this hall and tell you all abou
your eyes. There is a man in this city
who told me, the other day, that when hi
was boy at school there used to be grea
strife among the boys as to who could iool
steadily at the sun the longest time, anG hi
beat them all at this. He ought to have
good eyes, for he is strong and healthy
and that is all. And he attributes all th
to that foolish, wicked strife among tn
boys to look at the sun.
Your father gives you watch and tell
you to take good care of it; and just so w
must take care of the bodies that God give
us, or they will soon get out of order. Blu
we do not take care of them, We all ough
to have straight noses, but we seldom Sc
them straight. When tailors make Goa
for man it is very rare that they find hi
shoulders even; one or the other is highest
The physicians tell us that a straight spna
column is rare-and a straight spinal col
umn is one of the conditions of good health
When we start in life our two eyes ar
alike in power of vision but there are yer
few persons as old as l who havn't par
TALLY lost the use of one eye, or Of on
ear.
Take care fyourselves-that is what Go
says to us when he sends us into the world
If you are once injured you will neve
again be as good as you were at first. An
boys and girls, every wicked thing we d
tells on our bodies and makes them worse
Then there is the mind-that is far NOR
delicate than the body, and demands MOI
care. The strongest thing in the world
hat hah do