Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-08-24
MlsERlES or cEiLoEooD.

SG3AASDA4o0oeS
One of the greatest Of the petites
miseres of childhood arises fromdress.
A boy suffers dreadfuly ifshis% clothes
are OLA peculiar ca or q. shade finer
than his fellows. l have known q boy
made miserable because he was COM
PEELED to wears a collar OFT peculiar
and picturesque cut; and one of my
gloomiess.periods OF modification hangs
round sash that l was, required 10
wear, which was considered unreason
ably broad. The undying laughter of
b scornful schoolmate still rings in my
e:rs- When / came lieise auas CONS
ri aimed of it, / wass,rade to wear il, ito
show mi. that must be- indifferent 10
ridicule! As if child os ,seven' could
conquer and kill that emotional. The
decisions was. very unwise, for it simply
caasedme tosafer;. and took my mind
from. greater things Had the sash
been removed, should have forgotten
all about it ;;as it is, it has become the
shirt of Nessus, and lolings tightly TO m.
through life
A lady told rae, a few years ago, that
she felt she had made fatal mistake in
not allowing her daughter when little
girl to have hoop-skirt; all the other
children had them at the dancing
school, and looked, as she Thought,
ridiculously like ballet-girls, SO she sci
her child in among them in lanky
robe, which made her look very unlike
them. The child was thus rendered
conspicuous and unhappy. She wept,
and implored, and begged to stay a,
iieme, but. WIS. made by her strong.
minded parent to go and endure: AY
ter she had greatly suffered by this
process, her mother discovered his mis-.
take, and found that the subject of dress
was hereafter to be her daughters one
subject of thought and interest, while a
certain,bitterness had erepbin ,- TO the
great injury Of an originally amiable
character.
There is danger always, in thus. ask
ing of our children a virtue too great
for their years, that we create the very
vice we seek to cure. If children are
dressed like thei1. fellows, costume as
sumes its proper subordinate position
sit is the skin of the part. said fam
Gus tragedian and it should be like the
skin, fitting, and not otherwise.
If that lady who denied her little
daughter the hoop>skirt had been asks
ed herself to go down Broadway in the
Bloomer costume, she would have re-
belled decidedly; and yet she demand
&c. of her little daughter courage tel
times as great, and inflicted, suffering
immsasurabiy greater.
For children can suffer. There is II
intensity about it; like their appetites
ii has, not been. dulled by repetition
One OF the few privileges OF growing
old is, that we cannot suffer SO keenly
We know from repeated blows tina
time will cure us. We get not to care
but oh! the strength of youthful
grief! What enormous vitality it has
how protean its shapesl / am never as
tonished when l hear Of Youthful sui
cides. The absence of the fear of death
80 peculiar to youth, for we get &C.
eustomed " to the sweet habit of fy
ing and hate to change; but youth
has formed no such habit-the absence
Of this restraining principle and the
love Of change conspire to make suicide
possible. Then the vision of wha,
grief is; the terrible curtain that merci.
fully hides the FUTURE drawn all at once
the pang that rends the heart as We
recognize the friend untrue, the prom.
ise broken, the future yoid-no wonder
that the liver seems so mercitul, the
knife so kind, the poison so sweet
Youth has no philosophy~-Appletosss
Journal. IL,