Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-03

cusable in a grown up person, like m
amlable neighbor Simpkins, who live
from May to November on 8 farm O
sixty acres, in a beautiful, woode
country, not to know maple from
beech, or a bobolink from q cat-bird
lie once handed me bunch of pan
sizes, and called them violets, and o.
another occasion he mistook sweet pea
TOR geraniums. What right has hu
man being, while the air is full of Dir,
music, to be wholly ignorant of the per
formers name? When we go to tn,
opera, we are fully posted UP with re
gard to all the principal singers, ant
why should we know nothing of tn,
owners of voices that far transcend tn,
vocal powers of Jenny Lind and Chris
tine Nilsson. A boy ought also to be 8
nome IN barn, and learn how to har
ness horse, tinker up q wagon, feec
the animals, and do hundred usefu
things, the experience of which may
De OF special service to him in after
LIE as al explorer or traveller, when
unlooked-for emergencies befall him
Ii were boy again, I would learn
how to row q boat and handle g sail
and above all, how to become proof
against ea-sickness; I would CONQUER
that malady before I grew to be fifteen
years old. 1t can be done, and ought
to be done in youth, for all of us are
more or less inclined to visit foreign
countries, either in the way of bust
ness or mental improvement, to say
nothing. of pleasure. Fight the sea-
sick malady long enough, and it can be
conquered at very early age. OF
course every young person nowadays,
male or female, learns to swim, and so
no advice on that score need be prof.
fered; but if l were a boy again, |
would learn to float half day, if neces-
sary, IN as rough bit of water as I
could find on our beautiful coast. A
boy of fifteen who cannot keep his
head and legs all right in stiff sea
ought TORY until he can. No lad in
these days ought to drown-if he can
help it!
would keep "better hours" if were
boy again; that is, would go to bed
earlier than most boys do. Nothing
gives us more mental and bodily vigor
than sound rest when properly applied.
Sleep Is our greatreplenisher, and if we
neglect to take it naturally in childhood
all the worse for us when We grow up.
If we go to bed early, we ripen; if we
SIT up late, we decay, and sooner or
later we contract disease called i,asona-
naa, allowing it to be permanently fixed
upon us; and then we begin to decay,
l..
from the grave.
If were a boy again, would have q
blank book in which [ could record, be-
fore going to bed, every days events
just as they happened to me personal
ly. If l began by writing only two
lines day in my diary, I would start
my little book, and faithfully put down
what happened to interest me. On it.
pages l would note down the habits of
birds and animals as 1 saw them, and if
the horse fell i'll, down should 90 his
malady in my book, and what cured
him should go there too. If the cat or
the dog showed any peculiar traits, they
should all be chronicled in my diary,
and nothing worth recording should
escape me.
There are hundreds of things would
correct in my life if I were a boy
again, and among them in this especial
case; | would be more careful of my
teeth. Seeing since / have grown up
how much suffering is induced by the
bad habit of constantly eating candies
and other sweet nuisances. I would
shut my mouth to all allurements of
that sort. Very hot and very cold sub
stances [ would studiously avoid.
Toothache in our country is one of the
national crimes. Half the people we
meet have swollen faces. The dentist
thrives here as he does in no other land
on the planet, and it is because we be.
gin to spoil our teeth at the age of five
or six years. A Child, eight years old,
asked me not long ago if I could rec
ommend him to dentist "who didn't
hurtP l pitied him, but was unac-
quainted with such an artist. They all
hurt, and they cannot help it, poor,
hard-working gentlemen, charging as
they do, like Chester.
l would have no dealings with tobac
co, IN any form, is were boz again
My friend Pipes tells me he is such a
ulaICyI W ClSaT-DOXeS tnat MS lie Is q
burden, The habit Of smoking has
become such tyrant over
him that he carries a tobac-
co bowsprit at his damp, discolored lips
every hour of the day, and he begs me
to warn all the boys of my AGO uaint-
anoe, and say to them emphatically.
" Don't learn to smoked! He tells me,
sadly, that his head is in such a dizzy
whirl, and his brain 80 foul from long
habits of smoking he cannot break of,
that he is compelled to forego much
that is pleasant in existence, and live a
tobacco-tortured life from year to year,
Poor Pipes! he is q sad warning to
young fellows who are just learning to
use the dirty, unmannerly weed.
Those Friendly Tunnels.
Tunnel Hill, Ga. The train on the
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