Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-17

How TO BE A GENTLEMAN.-We want
IA few private words with the boys. The
truth is we have IL great idea of boys. We
used to think that men were made boys.
We begin to think now these were old
fashioned notions-that they are all out of
date. We look around and see great
many persons grow up, with mems clothes
on, who are called men. But they act and
behave so that we feel certain that they
were never made out of boys. If they
had been they would know how to behave
better. Where they came from we do not
know. But what we wish to put into the
ears of the boys is this-be gentlemen.
IN this country every boy may grow up to
he gentleman if he will 1t is not nee
ossary that he should become rich-and
m ost boys think il is-nor is it necessary
he should become distinguished man.
But some impatient ones are asking
g How can we become gentlemen? How
Gun II boy 90 about making himself oneP
Can he work for it?'' Yes he can. And the
harder he works in the right way the bet
ter. But he must study with his eyes
and his ears. Reading books and news
papers is not enough. He must think and
feel as well us speak and act. Can
he buy it? No, he cannot. Money
will buy great many things, but it
will not buy what makes Il gentleman.
If you have money, you can go to shop
and buy clothes But hat, coat, pants and
boots, do not make q gentleman. They
make flop, and sometimes come near
making Il fool. Money will buy dogs and
horses, but how mrny dogs and horses dc
you think it will take to make gentle
man! Let no boy, therefore, think he is
to be made gentleman by the clothes he
wears. the horse he rides, the stick he Car.
ries, the dog that trots'afler him, the house
he lives in, or the money he spends. Not
one of all these things do it-and yet
every boy may be u gentleman. He may
wear IN old hat, cheap clothes, have nc
horses, live in II poor house and spend
but little money, and still be II gentleman
But how? BY being true, manly, honora'
bic. BY keeping himself neat and respec
table. By being civil and courteous. By
respecting himself and respecting others
BY doing the best he knows how. Ans
finally, and above all, by fearing God anC
keeping His commandments. - PartSl
E'SitJr.
DEATH IN THE BABY's WAGON.-Sun
dry German newspapers have called at
lenlion TO the danger to the health anC
even the life of little children in the en-
ameled cloth (called everywhere in Eu
rope american cIoth'') used in upholster
ING childrens carriages. A Geneva ply.
stefan has summed up and verified these
observations US follows: The gray anC
drab shades of this American cloth, now
much in vogue, are due to that very pois
onous substance, carbonate of lead. The
introduction of this in minute doses, wheth
er through the digestive or through thu
respiratory organs, may produce in tint
grave disorder, resulting sometimes ever
in death. Now numerous cases of lead
poisoning have been observed this season
in different parts of Germany, in children
that had been in sound health, but wht
had been accustomed to the use of car
ringes finished in these light colored cloths
The central sanitary bureau of the German
Empire instituted u scientific inquiry int
these facts, which left no doubt rs to tn
cause of them.
The gray enamel examined at Berlin
contained 42.7 per cent in weight of metal
lie lead piece of the cloth, burnel il
II candle, showed little drops of meltet
lead to the naked eye. The cloth so en-
ameled may be safe enough when new an,
fresh, but after IL certain amount of wea
it becomes hurtful. What with exposure
to weather, and to friction and folding, thu
coat of lead paint by-and-by begins tt
come off in particles, which get into tn,
chld's food or into his lungs, with tn
chance of producing the symptoms OF lea,
poisoning. Ofcourse the danger is all tn
more serious when the carriage is ais
used rs II cradle.
In order to settle the question, chemis
of Geneva Analysed several samples of en-
ameled cloth, procured from factory @
childrens wagons, and found for ever
square decimeter of gray cloth, gramm
and 349 milligrammes Of metallic lead
The brown cloth was found to contain
nothing dangerous.-S, s. Times.