The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-07
FOR THE LADIES.
KeeDsakes.

could not tell you all about
If should try year.
He creeps so fast to catch his TOYS,
And then he sets up such "A noise
bus horse and dog and book and bell
he throws them all about pell NELL
On, Mother Goose, ii you could see
This little boy, so full of glee,
Your sides woulu ache, fear.
He watches with a rueful face
The baby who usurps his place.
Had to be broke / suppose.
Twas very odd sometimes the way
You love your "bubberr in your play,
And bring smile or tear.
In hammock low, among the trees,
Rocked back and forth by passing breeze,
The baby swings and coos to see
The gentle rustic of the tree,
The lights and shades, the leaves that fall;
The sunshine brooding over all
lis Indian summer here.
Way overhead, in the blue sky,
The downy clouds float softly BY,
lullaby fair Nature sings,
And through the air its music rings;
My little one falls fast asleep,
AS sun and shadow DER him creep,
His mother watching near.
Two baby boys! a Godof love
Sends as gift from heaven above;
And like the.shifting rainbow bright.
Tinging the drifting clouds with light
Their SOULS SO fine and sweet, shine out.
Breaking through mists of grief and doubt
And make my pathway clear.
Boston Transcript.
You must take your baby Just where he is
now, not much more than little animal,
and educate his physical nature, so rapidly
developing. For instance, he has lust
reached the climbing age; everH chair and
stool is worry to you, and pdff of stairs
is perpetual terror. Now show him how
to get up and down the stairs how to place
his feet in climbing up into the chair. Let
him tumble little; il will only make him
more careful. 1t is but foretaste of the
hard schooling which experience gives us all
our lives. Better little fall with YOU close
by to stop at the right place, than a great
one when you are ''off guard" some day.
Remember that, too, when he is in his
teens.) But beg of you if you want to see
him grow up active, strong-limbed and
agile, do not keep his white dresses too
clean, nor tie his sashes after the present
uncomfortable fashion, so that he isn't con-
scious of any legs above his knees Then,
let him feed himself. He'll make a misera-
bic mess of it at first, but protect him well
with bib and tin tray, and he'll soon teach
his spoon the way TO his mouth. Let him
burn his fingers little some day when the
stove is not very hot; he won't touch it
when it would be dangerous
In many of our communities there is get
Llng 10 De no SI1dil OccsiSlOn concern with
reference to the future wOmanhood of our
girls. They are thrown at the very outset
into the very rabble of the mixed
school. Little restraint is thrown
about them in their association with the
boys Little proper girlhood guidance and
instruction is given them. The text book
and tie recitation are everything. The man.
ners and the modesty of the girl are nothing
If she had been selicately guarded at home
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neglect has made her hoyden, she becomes
brazen In society and the home, foolish
talk, and love-goSsip or scandal; precocious
petty novel reading, and newspaper sensa-
tionalism with that crowning evil unseason-
able and insane child parties, quicken into
premature life the passion for beau seeking,
until the minikin miss and the
monakin master must have their con-
fidential notes and arm-in-arm prom
enades a Ia Abelard and Heloise in dis
gusting miniature. Arrived at her greenest
teens the promiscous intermingling of the
evening party and the corrupting familiarity
of the kissing-be the undisguised pairing
off of the popular lecture and the evening
service, the dancing club, the evening prom
enade and the night ride, make the false
child-fancy headstrong passion that is alike
regardless of parental restraint and womanly
self-respect.
As the result of all this premature associ-
ton and false sex training we see the girl,
in her own practical estimation, nothing as a
true pure, self sustained, home blessing
woman; but filled out complete, and for
the first and only time, something, when she
has a fellow at her side; and, as a natural
consequence, without much regard to any
thing touching his education character. po-
sition and prospects; practically, everything
being summed in his one sole virtue of being
simply a male human animal.
In our smaller communities this Is be-
coming so painfully common that the mod
est, self-controlled young woman, at once
the pride of the home, the pure influence in
society, and the domestic foundation and
hope for the future, is the exception, not the
rule And so we are fast swinging loose
from the old Saxon anchorage of true domes-
tic virtue, and drifting broadside into the
over-mastering currents of mere Partisan
friyolity and sex dissipation.
Now, we are no prudish conservatives or
timid alarmists, when We urge that the
times call for prompt and vigorous attention
to the checking and correcting of this evil
by proper womanly training of
our girls. We can not leave things to the
general tone and drift of society, as might
have beer safely done under the old, but
alas. now by-gone, staid and chaste pre-
caution and yigor of New England life
and character. In the midst of over
growing laxity of manners the multi
piled stimulants to precocious passion, and
the increasing facilities afforded by devilish
art for the indulgence of Illicit qualification,
we can not safely trust it to take care of it
self Observant fathers and sensible moth
ers are painfully conscious of the growing
evil, and alarmed fer the prospective purity
and happiness of their children and the