Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-05-19
Susie is twelve, nervous and excitable,

easily made SICK. She Is Just recover
! ing from an attack of measles, and he
dearest friend has party. This is th'
one occasion of the child's whole life
Nothing in all the after years can com
pensate for this one lost delight. Susi'
goes to the party, dances, eats ice-crean
and candy, and goes TO bed. but not t.
sleep, at half-past eleven. Her mother
saws: at seemed so hard. could no
refuse her, Are not tonics needed tc
correct this appalling weakness?
beg pardon of the mothers, for it Is
no: alone they who need the tonics
And am telling the simple, unvarnish
ed truth?
Ella is seven years old, nervous, high
ly excitable. She must not, so says the
physician, stay in school during the
whole session. She is over nervous. A
friend has private theatricals, and she is
just the one to act the part of the page
There is no one so slight and trim, SO
quick to learn, so swift and light OF
foot. Mother says no: but father says
"Oh, yes. Once won't hurt her Let
the child have some pleasure. And SO
Ella goes through with the rehearsals
and, finally, on the browning last two
evenings, antid glaring lights without
and a nervous excitement within which
will not be quieted for hours, and which
keeps the great blue eyes open till toward
morning, She succeeds and is applauded.
Jenny begs for cake or candy at all
limes-before breakfast, after dinner
Mother says: 4" No You must eat at your
regular meals, and only them But
father says: a. call that cruel. now
Yes, fathers darling shall not be starved
as long as there is any thing in the
house" And the physician soon begins
to be asked what can be the reason that
Jenny has no appetite for her breakfast.
nay, will not even drink the coffee which
papa kindly allows her to take from his
cup.
Mothers and fathers. we. the teachers,
have read article after article on the
''murder OF the innocents,' on the
examining system " of our schools, on
the unattended-to. ventilation of school
rooms, on the unreasonable demands.
the cruel, tboughtless requisition of the
members of the teaching profession.
Has not the time come when we may
ask if there is not another side to the
question? Are we so wholly and al
WAYS to blame when the children are
sick? Is it quite fair to us to send us no
fresh, rosy, happy, healthy children, but
broken, pale, nervous, sickly little ones?
Can we do for them what we ought?
Can we do ourselves or you justice under
such circumstances? Can we do any
thing of real valae for the children, for
the girls who are to be our women, il,
while We work toward law, order and
regularity, with the aids of fresh air,
plenty of sunshine, and moderate,
healthful, necessary education of the
thinking power, you give us a, the other
end of the line indulgence, caprice. and
irregularity, and do not enforce the
physiological laws relating TO sleep and
diet and clothing? Should we not be
working hand in hand? Are we not
both DESTROYS of the same thing? We
can not do our part unless you do yours
They are the schools and the teachers now
who ask of the parents that the health of
the children be not overlooked in homes
which should he the abode of laws
framed by wisdom and carried out 10y
firmness. and regard for the future real
good, rather than the present pleasure
Of the little ones. Are the teachers ask
ing too much? We have borne the I'M
divided weight of responsibility long
enough.
VIII You not forgive us if we seem too
persistent, because we venture 10 speak
for the sake of the children whom God
has given you?-Anna G. Braekett, in the
New York independent.