The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-25

warning to every parent in the land, and
especially to all wealthy parents, to sur
round their darlings with every barrier Of
safety; but, on the contrary, it seems to
have made but very little serious impress
sion, children still being frequently
trusted to themselves with mysterious
faith in Providence.
Those parents who are poor in this
worlds goods, as the saying goes. run
| very little risk Of this nature, as it is but
rarely that the attempt is made to steal
child simply to use it in the work Of beg
gary, and their children may usually play
about the door and in the parks and
squares with impunity. But let father
be VIGOROUSLY wealthy man, it is ten to
one but desperate characters in desperate
need have him more or less in mind; and
it he is able to pay 4 good ransom for re-
covery, he is very unwise to run the risk
of being obliged to do it, or of giving the
rascals Il chance to try whether he Will or
no. '..-,a. .
| We have seen parents whose wealth
was counted by the million send their lit
tie bevy Of babies out to play in the
square alone, Or perhaps with only one of
the nurses, and she very likely with a
novel to fill the gaps of her Irritation with
the roundsman, when, in view Of the op-
portunities afforded, it seemed to us a
question whether they ever saw the whole
number again or not
| We have only to consider the reckless
lives of such black hearted men as those
| 10 1> ~.
outrage of this sort which has made the
hearts of so many mothers the world
over beat with pity and fear, to see the
possibilities, if not the probabilities, of a
repetition Of the outrage wherever it can
be made profitable, and to feel the necess-
lty OF every precaution that can be taken
We do not mean, of course, that the
children Of cities and their neighborhood
are thus to be refused their out door life
and sports, but only that they are not to
be unobserved during any moment of it,
and that nurses are to be fully impressed
with the responsibilities of their position,
and be shown all the horror resulting
from unfaithfulness or negligence, not
merely in that of the loss Of the child's
fate among the rut1ians, the effect of the
degradinga influences upon its own
nature and the terrible uncertainty al
ways to hang over the family thencefort tn
as long as they live.
One is often obliged to wonder why the
mothers Of children have them SO little
with them In public; why it has become
almost matter of caste to send a child
out with nurse, and 50 seldom to go out
with it ones self. It is only the mothers
among the poor who can not have their
children always with them. One would
think it would be luxury in which the
mothers among the rich might be glad to
indulge themselves. Certainly, as a
merely ornamental luxury, they light
allow it, for there is no sight so attractive
not even that of a young and lovely
single woman, with her damask cheeks
and glowing eyes-as that Of a mother
with her flock of rosy cherubs about her;
and the greatest ornament that any plea
sure-carriage can have, it is admit
ted, is a group Of children, or even one
gayly dressad little darling, ON one Of
the seats, for the bright colors, -dimples.
floating locks, sweet voices, and general
sense of accompanying innocence and
helplessness, make the thing lovely as
if the carriage were overlooking with
flowers
Still, even the idlest Of mothers has
social duties in which she will be obliged
to absent herself from her children; and
their stout little legs can do an amount
OF running and endure an amount of
fatigue that would put most mothers
under the sod if they undertook to keep
up with them at all and it is to no bond
age Of this sort that we would advise
them, but merely to the weighty instruc-
ton of servants, to the intelligent enforce
ment of a rule that their nurses shall
never lose sight of the children for one
instant when outside of the hall door, and
to their own recognition Of the danger
which they run in community where so
many wretches go at large, if they fall
into any habit that may be observed of
leaving their children unprotected.
Among parents there is no father but
would offer his whole fortune to the last
| dollar for their redemption, no mother of
them all, rich or poor, but would give
their hearts blood I'd save them, since
love of children is the strongest trait in
all human nature; but in the meantime,
a little precaution, little thought, a lit
tie more care in the selection Of nurses, a
little more insistence in their training,
would obviate the necessity of any such
sacrifice or suffering.
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