Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-05-19
T'Onics.

dren were sick or not; for was not the
ounce of prevention worth more than
the pound of cureP No one of us who
were brought up in New England can
perhaps calculate from how many
pounds Of sulphur we have been saved
by the economical wisdom of our ances-
tors. Spiritually, the purifying medicines
administered were few but eflicacious.
The preventive divisions were hard work,
few books tbut those of the best kind),
sturdy good example, and straighifor-
ward sermons. The corrective division
embraced being made to eat alone sup
per Of exactly the opposite kind from
that furnished by the nervously exhaust
ed .'oid woman who lived in shoe, y
followed, however, byprecisefy the same
treatment in other respects. And those
wbippings were real somewhats. from
which no amount of tears or entreaties
could beg us of. Through them we AZ
rived at our appreciation of the inexor-
able nature Of love and reverence for
pure Justice, which before our appren-
ticeship was over led us, from a sense of
our own self-respect, to accept the rich
ly deserved punishments without any
plea for mercy.
The practice both physical and men
tai of to-day differs widely from those
old-fashioned Puritan procedures. The
time of preventives has gone by. 1t is
enough now for ne to wait till the evil
comes before thinking of it. When we
have trained up our girls for IA years in
insufficient clothing, improper and ir-
seven or eight hours restless sleep in
bed with two or three occupants. we
are obliged 10 use the corrective means
at our disposal and the day of tonic has
begun. Now, instead Of sulphur in the
spring. and plenty of sleep. simple diet,
appropriate clothing all the year, we
use iron and stTychnine, quinine and
calisaya, and the pound of cure seems
TO be in the ascendant.
The Puritans were hard old race
They had no love of art and they crushed
out their love of Nature as sinful
When we mourn in Canterbury Cathe-
dral over the whitewashed ceilings and
the whitewashed exquisite oak carvings,
which no more careful cleaning can ever
restore 10 their original beauty, we
think irreverently that it was good
thin. for England in some WAYS that
they left her; and etthey brought with
them hither some opinions and prac-
tees so pefmeated with cle salt of simple
truth that the simple SAVIOR has preserved
us, even to the present, from utter de-
cay.
In their treatment of their children
selves. in their strength of manhood and
womaphood, were tonics all the time.
Now the object Of these words is not TO
find fault with tonics. They are excel
lent: but IL seems 10 some of us that they
are the parents and not the children who
need them. The little girl begs for the
rich food which she sees on the table.
and her mother 4" has not the heart to
refuse she cries 10 sit up and see her
mother when she returns from the ball
at 5 O'Clock in the morning, and the
mother Yields 10 her opportunities she
filings herself on the floor and tears her
hair because she does not want to wear
her rubbers ON damp dav, and her
mother. accusing herself of cruelty and |
fearing lest she should hurt herself. flies |
10 pick her up, to smooth her rumpled |
dress, and 10 assure her. rs she offers |
her piece Of candy 10 sweeten her
temper, that g she shall just do As she
pleaSes." When we teachers ask of the |
mother, very hesitatingly, ''Are you
sure that Mary takes exercise enough? ''
they answer us, Mary does not like to
go to walk. | can't make her GO
And Mary is, perhaps, seven years old.
We ask that Lizzie may bring her lunch
con every day, or else not bring it at ALL
Lizzie being eleven years old, pale and
thin with the exhausted look round the
eyes in the morning that is terrible
enough 10 see in an overworked man of
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