The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-12-07
WATCHING CHILDREN,
nn Arp Goes or on a Familiar subject.
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i'iil Arp Goet or on % Familiar subject,
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Ii takes two or three sticks Of worI tn
make fire aud jesse it take, two or three
boys to get up big lot of fun and make
mischief always feel sorry Cor fan,i
ly that has but one child for the parents
live III contirual fear that sunie,lii;;s will
happen aud the child is apt to grow up
selfish aud don't know how TO take the
world as it comes. Children have To rub
against one another Just like grown folks.
they must have their little fuses and
tights, their trials and troubles or else
they won! ta prepared for the ru,,r., .:::,!
tumble life that is sure To cOme when
they get grown. heard a man say tha,
he and his wife were perfectly miserable
when they had but one child aud watch.
ed the little fellow all the time for fear
he would fall in the we'll or get run over
oy wagon or get sick and die, but after
awhile another one came along and they
didn't worry so much and by aud by thev
kept coming along until they had ten and
they were just turned loose like cattle i'm
range and you couldn't hurt, EN- and
they fell in no well. and never got drown.
ed in the river nor took tho small pox
nor got run over by the cars and they
knew everybody and everybody's bust.
ness and waa always hunting up mischief
and fun and having good time. Large
families are happier than small ones, and
alter while they have more influence in
society for the children get married and
settle down to business of one sort or
another and TINT unites q good many
families into one, and thcy ali stand up
TO one another and help one another and
weed q vide row in society. was rum.
mating over this "a I WAS watching the
niue chaps perambulate around. Our
little children and our grandchildren are
about OF size and when they get togeth.
or ii is hard tn tell tother from which.
uncles from uephews and nobody's chill.
dren can, beat EN- in continuance and
Invention aud new found ways to have a
good time and keep their material ances.
tors in state of cOmmotion and alarm.
Their mothers say that they arc uncom.
mon good looking and uncommon smart
and think they will all be presidents or
governors or United States senator's some
day if they are not cheated out of their
rights, but still these little chaps worry
them no little.
Last Sunday they were all taken to
church and they looked no meek and
innocent and were dressed 30 nice that
Mrs. Arp WAS proud of her promising
posteriiy. When the long prayer begun
she leaned forward in an attitude Of de.
votion and 80 the little chaps leaned for.
ward too and we're doing very well until
some stylish girls came along with rib.
bons flying and fans futtering and ear.
rings bobbing around and took seats in
the next pew in front and one Of the
girls had long tailed feather in her hat
and it hung away down behind and sorter
tickled Carl on the heud, and he pointed
at it and grinned, and then Linton put
his hand up and felt Of it and grinued,
and Carl gave 1t little pull and smo,h.
cred giggle with his handkerchief, and
Linton gave it another pull and smother
ed gigsle, and Jessie was watching 'em
with one eye and she had to squirt out
little, and then Carl gave it little har.
der pull and liked to have pulled it out,
and the young lady felt it and looked
around, and the boys were looking down
as Solemn as funeral; but Jessie
cackled out little, because she couldn't
help 1t, and Linton went to coughing, and
Carl blowed his nose, and the young
men who were in the pew behind got in
a litter, and Mrs. Arp woke up to the
with her parasol he whispered out pretty
loud: GRANDMA, didn't do it!' and
now Mrs. Arp says she can't take 'em to
meeting any more, and l was going to
whip em all around little but Lizzie
said it was all because the young lady'a
feather was too long and Mrs. Arp said
they behaved very bad, but abe didn't
think they meant any harm by it, and
when they got older they would know
better and 80 that settled it. and the next
thing knew the boys had the old Tom
cat shut up in one side of my valise with
little Of his tail out, and the puppy
dog in the other side and the cat was
meowing and scratching, and the puppy
d barking, and ali iour OF the little chaps
we're dancing around with delight.
sent the boys of to bed, the other
night, il iittie room that has boogers in
1t, they say, and they frolicked and tum.
bled in the bed until the fire died out and
we had all retired, and here they all
como running like psssei of skeered
sheep, and declared they heard somebody
under the bed, so had to get up an
strike light aud show 'em that there
wasn't and then put 'em all back to bed
again with spank. That's not 80 uu.
reasonable for children for Napoleon
said that everybody was coward In the
dark and know grown folks who look
! under the bed every night before they
blow out the candle. But it has always
been my opinion that we old people got
big scare in our youth from the old
darkiea who used TO tell US about ghosts
and witches and jack o'lanterns and
rave-yards, and we would listen to EN-
By the Pickering cabin lights until we
didn't dare to look round, and we
wouldn't have gone 10 the big house alone
for world full of gold, but those good
ole times are gone and the children grow.
ing up now have no such excuse for be.
ing cowards. When used to go court.
ing I had TO pass graveyard in the su.
burbs Of the little village, and it was a
test Of my 1--we and my devotion that I
braved its terrors in the darkest night,
and set at defiance the wandering spirits
that haunted my. path. But as I tell
Mrs. Arp, don't know nary other girl
that could have made me 80 brave and go
! reckless. Jsssa. n!L!. ARR.