The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-19

<|fT moyle, as a burst of shrill
40 childish laughter sounded
90 from the nursery down the
hall stairs and into the sitting-roon
where he was making out some ac
counts. 81 wish these children
would be quietl Amt it almos
bedtime, TillieY
"They are probably undressing
Mrs. Turmoyle replied quietly
"Pll go and see if they are ready
Ter bed"
''Do keep them quiet until they
arer'
There was an interval OF prO
found silence, and in about half al
hour the mother returned.
The are all asleep now," shr
said, Tom had dressed the kitter
in Bessie's doll clothes"
Tue accounts finished, Mr.. Tur
moyIe leaned back in his chair.
81 wish you had some manage
ment with those children, Tillie,'
he said. Il went over to Stone:
on business last evening and yOr
would not know there was a chic
in the house, and Stone has five
while we have only three"
"Perhaps they were abed."
"They were all in the next room,
was the triumphant reply. "Stont
is proud of them, and well he may
be. There is Willie, just the age Of
our Tom, studying latin, instead oi
dressing a kitten in dolls clothesi
and Amy, who will not be fouI
years old for three months, reads
well and knows the multiplication
through. Look at our savagesr'
"They are getting along well al
school, dear. 1 think Mark is toe
young yet to study; the others did
not go t. school till they were five.
"And Tom just manages to write
a letter at twelve, while Willie is at
latin grammar. And as for man
ners, why Tom will make more
noise alone than all five of Stoue's
children together"
Mrs. Turmoyle, being a woman
gument, but mentally resolved to
see Mrs. Stone the next day aud
talk with her about the wonderful
secret of having five children and 8
quiet house.
81 am sure 1 cannot do it," the
gentle, loving mother thought, with
sigh.
Seated, next morning, in close
conversation, the ladies presented
contrast as marked as the atmos
phere of their two homes. The tiny
blue-eyed woman, who had no heart
to suppress Toms merry whistle ol
Bessie's laugh, had left a home
where constant care only secured
cleanliness, and where childish dis
order was manifest everywhere ex
cept in the best par!or. She look
ed at the tall, dark-haired woman
| opposite her, noted the exquisite
morning dress, faced with light silk
spotless and unrumpled, and sh'
thought regretfully of the marks o
ten chubby fingers upon her own
printed there when her baby boy
her darling Mark, had just succeed
ed in forcing a piece of his "sweet
est candy" into mammals mouth
She noted the dainty order of tn
sitting room, where every chai
stood primly in its appointed plac
and not even a thread rested upOl
the carpet, and remembered Mark
stable for his "press cart" an,
horse under the lounge, and Bessi
keeping house on the lower shelf o
the bookcase.
Visions haunted her, also, O
clippings of paper, bits of string
and odds and ends of dolls finer.
upon the table.
Drifting from one scrap of ms
tronly talk to another, the ladie
came naturally to the care an
management of children, and Mrs
Turmoyle complimented her neigh
Dor on the appearance of her hous
and the proficiency of her httl
ones.
81 cannot understand how yo
accomplish it," she said frankly.
by system" was The reply
"The education of my children bt
gins, l may say, in their cradle
As soon as they can walk they hav
their own proper place in their ow
room, and are trained to perfect S
lence when older persons are pre-
ent."
Mrs. Turmoyle thought of I'll
noisy chorus of shout, the eager II
cital of the days pleasures or acc
dents, that greeted papa, aun ties {
uncles, in her own nursery, an
wondered if Tom, Bessie and Mar
could be trained to sit quietly
one place for hours at time.
'At two years of age l teach N
children their letters, and after. thi
they are sent to school. All
them were entered in priva
school at three years of age and at
public school at five. In the inte
walls of school hours my boys ha'
geographical puzzles, spelling gam
e and problems and the girls a
taught to sew"
But when do they play|
! "Their games and puzzles a
sufficient amusement for the boy
and 1 allow the girls to cut and
clothing for a large wax doll"
"But do they not have any hou
for running, halls, kites and otht
outdoor play?"
Il disapprove entirely of out do
play; it ruins clothing and max
children rude. They have out do,
exercise in long walk to and fro
school,
As she spoke the hall door ope
ed quietly, and a fall of footste
, crossed the hall to tue sittingron
Five children, three girls and t'
: boys, came in with languid foo
steps and pale faces from which
childishness seemed stricken. Sp,
lessly clean, with shiny hair a
, polished boots, they followed in {
5 derly fashion the lead of the eide