The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09
4 Good Word for RompIng Girls.

Most women have a dread Of these.
Mothers would rather their little daugh-
ters were called anything csc than
rornps.l pley say to them, "Lc very
quiet now, my dcars, don't run or Jump,
try and be little ladies'" As - healthy
child could be still; as if it could take
time to walk, or step over what came in
its way; az if it could fold It's hands in
its lap, when it's little heart is so brimful
Of tickle. 1t is absurd and wrong, be-
cause it is,upnntnral. Children, girls as
we'll us boys, need exercise indeed they
must have it, to be kept healthy con
dition. They need it to expand their
chests, strengthen their muscles, tone
their nerves, develop themselves general
ly. And this exercise must be ont of
doors, too. 1t is not enough TO have
calisthcnics in the nursery or parl0r.
They need to be out in the sunshine, out
in the wind, out in the grass, out in the
woods, out of doors somewhere, ii it be
no bigger place than the common or
park. Suppose they do tan their pretty
faces. Better be rs brown as n berry,
and have the pulse quick and strong,
than white as lily and complain of cold
feet and headache. Suppose they do
tear their clothes suppose they do wear
out their shoes; it don't try u mothers
patience and strength half so much to
watch and mend as it does to watch night
aEer night - querulous sick child, and it
don't drain Il fathers pocket book half as
quitk 70 buy shoes rs it does to pay doe
tors bills.
Indeed, we don't believe there is a
prctticr picture in all tho wide world
than that of little girl balancing hcrsclf
on the topmost rail of IN Cl.l z;.zng fence,
her bonnet on one arm and basket of
on the other, her curls
streaming ont in the wind. or ripplinp
over her flushed checks, her apron half
torn from her waist, and dangling to her
feet, her fingers stained with the berries
she had picked, and hcr lips with tilcsc
sine mad eaten. Mother, mci:.cr don't
scold that little creature wher she comes
and puts her basket on the table and
looks ruefully at the rent in the new
ginghams apron, and at the little bare
toes sticking out of tho lust pair of shoes.
Wash off her hot facc and soilcd hands.
and give her bowl of cool milk and
light bread, and when she has eaten her
I'LL and got rested, make her sit down be-
side you and tell what she has seen off
in these meadows and woods.
ssiley heart wall be full. Of bcaatifu
SiErss94ea s4a 1.-The sound OF the wind, tho fall Of
tho LEAVES, the music Of the wild birds
and the laugh of wild flowers, the rip
pling of streams and the color of pebbles,
the shade, Of the clouds and the hue of
the.sunbeaais-all those will have woven
their spell over he. innocent thoughts.
and made her q poet in feeling, if not in
expression.
No, mothers, don't nurse up your little
girls like housc-plants. The daughters
of this generation are to be the mothers
Of next, and if you would have them,
heal..iy, in body and gentle in temper,
free from nervous affections, fldgets and
blues; ifyou would fit them for life-its
Joys, its cares, and its trials-let them
have good romp every day while they
are growing. it's Natures own specific,
and, if taken in season, warranted to
cure ails Of the girl and the woman.
---Aaon.