The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-11-23
EDUCATING CHILDREN.

sensitive to the slightest impression. TIE
unwritteu lessons of home and home infu
encc have far more effect in shaping char.
acter, than the drill and study Of the school
room What father does, what mother says,
is full license in the minds of the young to
do and say likewise. No school can prop.
erly train child whose home associations
arc positively bad. IIealthful children are
full of l:ie, buoyancy, steam. Don't de-
press tho youthful mind don't discourage
the boy who thinks he can roll snow ball,
gathering size at every revolution, until it
shall be as large as hogshcad Let him
try his powers and learn his Weakness
His failure will set him to thinking, reason
ing, knowing. The little fellows education
is well advanced when he has commenced
to think, reason and argue for himself
Parents are too chary Of their confidence
The natural instinct Of most children is to
do right. They nee encouragement and
explanation, rather than rcbuke and fault
finding Their little steam engines need
| regulators rather than collisions they need
to keep the track more than they need
smash-ups. The instinct Of industry is
natural to children; if you don't find en-
plocyment for their activity, it develops it
SELF into pencil:arawing Oh paint and walls,
or destruction OF cane. seat chairs. The
| perpetual motion Of hands and feet and
tongue, so wonderful to the adult mind
may become Niagara Of power when bal
anccd and controlled.
The impulse of curiosity throbs in the
little fellows brain he is full of new dis.
covcrcs and searching inquiries If you
I,,nf ntf, I, IL, Al
and satisfy his mental cravings at home, he
seeks the servant, the hostler, the corner
loatcr. and from them gains his first ru,li.
mcnts of morals, his first knowledge Of
facts, and his first lessons in living and
| thinking.
Mothers, did the thought ever occur to
you that your Indifference TO their many
questions would drive your little ones to
questionable sources of information. to
impure fountains Of inspiration, to low stan,
dards of manhood and womanhood? Did
you ever reflect that the little mind and
heart that ycarns for your care and love.
that is SO susceptible to your shaping and
moulding in its youthful days, will soon
pass on into the cold world without, beyond
your reach, beyond the gentle hand the
loving heart that would fain obiiteratc some
ugly feature in the once beautiful image.
whose lines have now grown too cold, too
hard, too sordid, ever again to be warmed
and moulded and fashioned by a mother S
love or fathers hope ?-Ecchongc.
TIE TRuE GENTLEMAN.-"IIeis is above
low act. lie cannot stoop to commit :,
fraud. He invad.s no secret in the keep.
! in. ,,t IL I. I
Of no mans mistakes lie is ashamed of
innucndocS. lie uses no ignoblc weapons
IN controversy. He never Stabs in the
dark. lie is not one thing to a mans face
and another to his back If by accident he
comes into possession of his ncShb2r's coun
sc!s, he passes them into instant oblivion
Tie bears scaled packages without tampcr-
ins with the WAX. Papers not meant inr
his eye, whether they futtcr in at his win
dow, or lie open before him in unrcgar,lcd
exposure, arc secret tu him. He protancs
10 privacy of another however the sentry
sleeps Bolts and bars. locks and keys.
bonds and securities, notices to trcspas>ers
are not Tor him. He may be trusted out o.!
slght-ncar the thinncst partition-any
where. He buys no oi'icc, he sells none.
ntrigues for none. He would rather fail!
nf his rights then win'thcm through dfs.
honor. He will eat honest bread lie
tramplcs on no sensitive feelings. He in
suits no man. If he has rcbukc for
another he is straightforward, open, and
manly. He cannot descend to scurrillity.-
Biimsyatc doc, not lie on his track. or
woman, and to her, he speaks with deccncv
and respect. In short, whatever he judges